Chiropractic Care What to Expect
Chiropractic care shares striking similarities with the process of constructing a house. Just as a house requires a methodical sequence of steps to ensure stability and coherence, chiropractic care demands a similar approach to the body's well-being.
Imagine building the walls of a house before establishing a sturdy foundation. This oversight would inevitably lead to weakened walls, potentially resulting in their collapse. Similarly, constructing the roof without first executing the foundational and structural groundwork would yield comparable issues, undermining the entire structure.
In the realm of chiropractic care, the analogy holds true. Prioritizing the body's foundational elements is imperative. Without addressing and nurturing this core foundation, achieving genuine and sustained health elsewhere in the body becomes a challenge.
Your body operates on a similar principle. To attain optimal health, the foundational aspects must be diligently attended to first. This principle forms the bedrock of chiropractic philosophy: establishing a robust foundation before progressing to comprehensive well-being.
Within chiropractic treatment, a systematic series of steps guide the process of restoring the body to its optimal state. Each step plays a crucial role in the body's self-healing mechanism.
- Assessment: A thorough examination identifies underlying issues and establishes a baseline for treatment.
- Adjustment: Targeted manipulations and corrections address misalignments, restoring proper function.
- Rehabilitation: Strengthening exercises and rehabilitative measures support long-term recovery and stability.
- Maintenance: Ongoing care and lifestyle adjustments foster sustained health and prevent recurrence.
Following this sequential framework facilitates the body's innate ability to heal itself fully and accurately. This systematic approach aligns with the fundamental principles of chiropractic care, emphasizing the interconnectedness of the body's systems and the significance of a strong foundation for overall health.
Much like constructing a sturdy house, achieving total health through chiropractic care necessitates a meticulous and ordered process, ensuring that every step fortifies the foundation, contributing to a resilient and harmonious whole.
Step 1: Relief Care
The first objective when you visit our office is to reduce any pain you may already be experiencing.
While the amount of visits per week and the longevity of these visits varies depending on the severity of the underlying condition, this step usually requires 2-3 visits per week for anywhere from 4 to 12 weeks.
Finding Relief
Often people visit their chiropractor because they are in pain. In this first step, the main goal is to reduce your pain symptoms. This can require frequent visits, typically anywhere from 2-3 times per week to daily visits.
People tend to think they are perfectly healthy if they are not experiencing any pain. In reality, lack of pain is a very poor indicator of health. Most diseases and other conditions don't show signs of pain until they in their advanced stages. For example, a cavity doesn't hurt while it is forming. A cavity causes pain only after it has already formed.
Visiting a chiropractor will cause most of the pain you may be experiencing to disappear. Although the pain may be gone, the underlying condition causing the pain is still there.
Step 2: Corrective/Restorative Care
The goal of this phase is to restore your body to 100% of its functioning capabilities.
It is during this phase that muscle and tissues are given time to heal more completely, thus preventing injuries in the future.
This phase requires visits for chiropractic care and/or adjustments around 4-8 times per month for anywhere from 6 to 24 months, depending on the severity of your initial problem and your overall health.
Working Together to Achieve Optimal Health
Eliminating pain is the first step in chiropractic care, but it certainly does not stop there. Most chiropractors consider eliminating pain the easiest part of chiropractic. If a patient stops receiving care just because their pain has stopped, the likelihood of the pain-causing condition to recur becomes greater. To prevent recurring conditions, it is important to make regularly scheduled trips to your chiropractor to ensure that the pain-causing condition stays gone.
Visits to your chiropractor become much less frequent during the correction/restorative phase of care than in the initial phase. In most circumstances, stretches and exercises may be performed at the center or at home to help accelerate the healing process.
It is normal to occasionally experience flare ups of your symptoms, do not let this worry you if it happens. These flare ups are bound to occur until the body has been fully healed. This phase can last anywhere from a few months to a few years depending on the severity of your condition and how long you have been suffering from it.
Step 3: Wellness Care
Once you are no longer experiencing pain and your body has fully healed, coming in for periodic chiropractic adjustments is important to ensure that you avoid any problems in the future.
Based on your lifestyle and goals, this final phase requires a quick visit to your chiropractor anywhere from 1 to 4 times per month.
Maintenance: The Key to Healthy Living
Even after your condition has been fully healed, routine visits to your chiropractor will help ensure that the condition does not occur again as well as ensure that your body stays in optimal form. Routinely visiting your chiropractor helps ensure that your musculoskeletal system stays in top form just the same way as routine diet and exercise benefits your body.
Routine chiropractic care ensures that your joints last longer and that you don't have to experience so much of the pain that many people go through. Live life to its fullest and engage in all of the activities that you love when you make routine chiropractic care part of your lifestyle.
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