First of all, let's talk about SUBLUXATIONS and what they do to you.
What is a subluxation?
A subluxation is misaligned vertebrae causing interference to nerve messages that flow through your body and brain. It may involve your muscles, discs, ligaments, tendons and other body parts as well.
The Five Components Of The Vertebral Subluxation Complex:
1. JOINT DAMAGE -- Kinesiopathology
2. NERVE DAMAGE -- Neuropathology
3. TISSUE DAMAGE -- Histopathology
4. MUSCLE DAMAGE -- Myopathology
5. HEALTH DAMAGE -- Pathophysiology
Discover the benefits of CHIROPRACTIC
For over a hundred years, millions of people have benefited from the natural, drug-free chiropractic approach, observing physical and emotional improvements as their body functions are freed from vertebral subluxation stress.
What Is A Spinal Adjustment?
A spinal adjustment is a special procedure your chiropractor uses to correct or relieve your vertebral subluxation complex. It can be a very powerful procedure. At the moment that a chiropractor corrects your vertebral subluxation, the flow of nerve impulses over the spinal cord and spinal nerves is normalized and your body begins to renew and rebuild itself.
Chiropractic Adjusting Techniques
Not all chiropractors work alike. The chiropractic profession has developed nearly a hundred different methods used to analyze the spine for subluxations and adjust the subluxations away. These methods are referred to as "techniques". Most chiropractors are familiar with at least a few of the many available. Each chiropractor usually has a favourite one that he or she employs for the majority of patients. Why not ask your chiropractor what type of adjusting technique he or she uses and why?
The Same Goal
But all chiropractors have the same goal in common - the elimination or reduction of the subluxation.
How Should I Feel After An Adjustment?
After an adjustment you may experience a feeling of deepening peace and relaxation. This relaxed feeling may last for the rest of the day or the week and may lead to deep refreshing sleep. Others have at times felt a warm feeling flowing to various parts of their bodies that's very soothing. Some feel very energetic and do all their chores or business that day with a light, happy feeling.
Others may find that the problems that they came to the chiropractor for have begun to lessen and there are some people who feel no difference after an adjustment. That does not necessarily mean that they are not benefiting from their adjustments, it just means that they're not feeling any external reaction.
A small minority may feel discomfort or muscle soreness, or some other uncomfortable feeling; this is sometimes called an "adjustment reaction".
As You Continue Your Care
As you continue your chiropractic care and your spine and nervous system continue to release deep-seated stresses as part of your healing process, you may begin to notice.
Better balance, smoother movement, and as a result, more energy.
Increased awareness of your spine, its movements, areas of tightness and/or restrictions.
Increased ability to breathe more deeply and more awareness of your breathing.
Increased awareness of your body stress.
More emotional relaxation
You may spontaneously change your eating habits, feel an increased desire to exercise, go for walks or become more sensitive to your work and leisure.
Your doctor of chiropractic welcomes you to discuss your experiences as you begin to live a subluxation-free life.
Many of the changes chiropractors and patients have observed are shown on the following pages, but these pages are not the complete picture. More benefits of chiropractic are being discovered all the time. Perhaps you'll discover some for yourself.
1. JOINT DAMAGE -- Kinesiopathology
