Chiropractic Care What to Expect

Working Upwards from the Foundation: Achieving Total Health

Chiropractic care is quite similar to constructing a house.

Every step must be executed in a particular order to ensure that everything stands strong and works together as it should.

Building the walls of a house before having a solid foundation would result in weak walls and could possibly even result in those walls collapsing.

To take this a step further, building the roof without proper execution of the previous two steps would result in the same problems.

Chiropractic care is very much the same.

Your body's foundation must be addressed and attended to first and foremost before true health can be achieved elsewhere in your body.

A particular set of steps must be followed while receiving chiropractic treatment in order for the body to repair itself fully and correctly. The following is a list and explanation of each of those steps:

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.

Details: Finding Relief

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.

Details: Working Together to Achieve Optimal 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.

Details: Maintenance: The Key to Healthy Living

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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Chiropractic Care What to Expect

Working Upwards from the Foundation: Achieving Total Health

Step 1: Relief Care

Finding Relief

Step 2: Corrective/Restorative Care

Working Together to Achieve Optimal Health

Step 3: Wellness Care

Maintenance: The Key to Healthy Living

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