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Filed under: Chiropractic FAQ
Once you’ve decided that your nervous system is worth taking care of and scheduled your first visit, there are a few things that you can expect from your first visit.
1) Expect to be in the office for about two hours: the first office visit is extremely important in introducing you to the principles of chiropractic and getting information about your spine. The doctor has probably seen thousands of spines but has never seen yours before. The more information that the doctor has, the better your spine can be cared for.
2) Your friends and family are always welcome to come with you: experience shows that the better the people you care about understand chiropractic, the better you do. Good communication is important in more than just your nervous system.
3) You won’t be treated like a number. There is a saying in chiropractic schools that spines don’t walk into your office, people do. You will be given the doctor’s undivided attention EVERY time that you visit and treated with the highest level of respect. As a result, please be understanding of any small delays you may experience.
Depending on your case, the doctor may take additional steps not listed here but this should give you a good idea of what your first visit is like. Congratulations on taking care of yourself and your family’s health and welcome to chiropractic!
Filed under: Chiropractic FAQ
A chiropractor needs to take x-rays of your spine to determine several things:
1) How your bones are shaped since this can change how you get adjusted
2) How your bones have misaligned and potentially effected your nervous system
3) How to correct the misalignment that you might have
Without being able to take x-rays of your spine, you’re missing out on at least a third of the information needed to properly adjust your spine. For example, the top two bones in your neck can misalign a combined 274 different ways. Which misalignment do you have? On which side? Would you rather “think” your adjustment is correct, or “know”? Without being able to see the bones, you are just guessing.
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Imagine that you are trying to call your mom on her birthday and invite her to dinner. You pick the restaurant, put on a clean shirt, and find your phone.
When you call, the message is full of static and you miss parts of the conversation but you hope for the best.
You go to the restaurant but nobody shows up. Your message was delayed so mom didn’t get the invitation until two days after her birthday, she thought you wanted to meet at a different time and place, in short, your message didn’t get through the way you wanted. Poor communication caused a problem.
What if your brain couldn’t communicate with your body? Do you think that is good or bad. What if information to your heart didn’t get through? Your lungs? What could you do to improve this communication?
Filed under: Chiropractic FAQ
It is a way of looking at the body that is based on a simple idea: that the nervous system controls every cell (all 75 trillion of them) and function in our body.
The easiest way of taking care of our nervous system is to maintain the integrity of the joints of the spine. Through detailed x-rays, postural analysis, and thermal scans around the spine we can tell how and when and where you may be misaligned.
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A lot is said about so-called “chiropractic miracle” cases involving patients that had some condition considered to be impossible to recover from but came back from it anyways.
The stories all tend to follow the same basic outline. Patient arrives, desperate for answers. ”Nobody knows what’s wrong with me, doc.” ”I’m out of options.” ”They told me its all in my head.” ”They gave me some pills and told me to live with it.”
The doctor’s side is even more predictable. They listen to the patient, do their office check, find neurological interference, take x-rays, and adjust.
Now all of a sudden, the patient sees the light at the end of the tunnel. They actually start to feel better, they actually start to get better. They experience less pain, they can sleep, they can live their life with less difficulty then ever before.
I say this not to poke fun at those suffering or to criticize the doctor’s procedure, but to ask about what a “chiropractic miracle” really is.
Chiropractic is based on the idea that the nervous system controls every function of the body. You’d be hard-pressed to find even the most skeptical neurologist dispute that. Far from being a “back cracker,” chiropractic at it’s highest level seeks to realign the spinal bones surrounding the most crucial part of the spinal cord to their correct position, removing the interference, and restore the nervous system to it’s proper function.
Simply stated, whoever/whatever created our bodies designed them to work and be able to heal itself. Otherwise we would still have every paper cut, bruise, and broken bone we ever got.
I’ve always felt that a “miracle” is something good that happened when it wasn’t supposed to. When there was no logical reason for an outcome to change.
But when I hear about someone that had some condition that they aren’t supposed to recover from, that they are running out of time, that walks through the door of a chiropractor and starts to heal, I don’t think that is a miracle. That’s what is supposed to happen.
You restore brain to body communication and over time you can expect health. To paraphrase my father, “You can be happy about it, but don’t be surprised.”
