Chiropractic Adjustments

Chiropractic Adjustments

Chiropractors use controlled forces called adjustments when there are restrictions around joints that the body is unable to overcome on its own. Such barriers include muscle spasms, swelling (edema), scar tissue and pain. Chiropractic examination identifies restricted joints whether they are painful or not.

Adjustments specifically applied to joints can restore motion when the body’s own muscles cannot. Adjustments help relieve pain, as well as restore and maintain normal movement, biomechanics, and function.

The controlled force of adjustments safely generates the energy needed to overcome such restrictions and take a joint back to its normal, full range of motion.

Chiropractic Promotes Health Naturally

The purpose of care is to restore and maintain the health of the whole person—not just treat isolated symptoms or disease.

Chiropractic personalizes care to help create well being and improve the quality of life, rather than just focusing on illness. Chiropractic care is aimed at restoring and maintaining normal structure, joint, muscle and nervous system function.

Benefits and Goals of Care

The benefits of chiropractic care include pain relief, tissue healing, and improved function. It may require different amounts of time to achieve each of these goals. Pain relief does not mean tissues have healed or that function is restored. It often takes more time for tissues to fully heal than for pain to subside.

Chiropractors carefully monitor pain, tissue healing and function using specific outcome measures to know when a patient has achieved maximum benefit and it is time to end care or shift to a prevention/ wellness program.

Restoring Function and Chiropractic Care

Function means the ability to perform everyday and work activities. Functions include range of motion, flexibility, stability, strength and coordination.

Improving function is the key to long term pain relief—failure to restore function means any pain relief is temporary, and increases the risk of chronic pain. Joints that function properly are pain-free, perform better, and are less likely to be injured or to degenerate.

Chiropractic, Motion and Nutrition of Discs and Joints

Maintaining good motion is critical to the survival of discs and joints. A joint that can’t move can’t nourish itself. A healthy exchange of nutrients and wastes only occurs by physically pumping fluids into and out of the disc via spinal motion because discs and cartilage have no blood supply.

Movement stirs fluid through joints, washing nutrients in and waste products out. Lack of motion may lead to poor nutrition and disc degeneration.