Most patients start with Initial Intensive Care. In the beginning, visits may be frequent. The first thing new paients want is to feel better. So, in the beginning, visits are usually frequent. Your chiropractic adjustments may be combined with other procedures to help relieve your symptoms. Depending upon your age, condition, and lifestyle, repeated visits over weeks or months may be needed to reduce your symptoms.
With your ache or pain reduced, the goal of Rehabilitative Care is for more complete healing to occur. Underlying muscle and soft tissue damage can remain, even after you feel better. At this stage, visit frequency is often reduced.
You may be urged to supplement your care with excercises, dietary changes, or other self-care procedures. Without complete healing, discontinuing care now can set the stage for relapse.
After the recovery of your original problem, regular chiropractic "checkups" can help preserve your progress. Periodic visits can help catch little problems before they become major concerns. Wellness-minded adults and their childrean choose Maintenance Care to look and feel their best. Like other preventative measures, a chiropractic lifestyle can save time and money by helping you stay well.
Automobile accidents, improper lifting, alocohol, emotional stress, chemical imbalances, and long periods of sitting are examples of what can cause the Vertebral Subluxation Complex. Instead of treating your symptoms, your chiropractor is primarily interested in detecting, reducing and preventing the VSC. It is the VSC that is the underlying cause of many health problems.
There are five parts to the VSC:
- Spinal Kinesiopathology: This is a fancy way of saying the bones of the spine have lost their normal motion and position. This can restrict your ability to turn and bend. It sets in motion the other four components.
- Neuropathophysiology: Improper spinal function can choke, stretch, or irritate delicate nerve tissue. The resulting scar tissue changes muscle tone, requiring repeated spinal adjustments.
- Myopathology: Muscles supporting the spine can weaken, atrophy, or become tight and go into spasm. The resulting scar tissue changes muscle tone, requiring repeated spinal adjustments.
- Histopathology: A rise in the temperature from an increase in blood and lymph supplies result in swelling and inflammation. Discs can bulge, herniate and tear or degenerate. Other soft tissues may suffer permanent damage.
- Pathophysiology: Bone spurs and other abnormal bony growths attempt to fuse malfunctioning spinal joints. This spinal decay, scar tissue, and long-term nerve dysfunction can cause other systems of the body to fail.
Improving Your Competitive Edge
Spinal injuries can restrict your rrange of motion, reduce strength, slow reflexes, shorten endurance, and decrease performance. Chiropractic care for these types of injuries has become increasingly popular. Professional sports teams, Olympic trainers, and competitive athletes are employing chiropractic doctors - because they demand results.
Chiropractic care helps restore function to spinal joints that are "locked up", fixated, and not moving properly. Besides helping to relieve pain, chiropractic care can also help reduce in flammation. Muscle, tendons, and ligaments depend upon proper joint movement for peak performance. Injuries to these tissues reduce range of motion, decrease blood supply, and can take you out of the game. Normalizing spinal function helps speed the healing of these soft tissues and reduce the deconditioning effect of being on the sidelines.
An aerobic excersive program or a plan of brisk walking can improve muscle tone and help you avoid strains, sprains and other activity-restricting health problems.
Whether you golf, play hurling, bicycle or bowl, the best treatment for sports injuries is prevention!
Ask at Advanced Chiropractic for a personalised program to help increase your competitive edge to prevent injuries.