About Chiropractic

What is Chiropractic?

Chiropractic care takes a holistic approach to healing and full body health by aligning the spine. At each level of our spine, or back bone, are vertebrae that release nerves to carry messages from our brain to our body. What chiropractic does is ensure those bones are aligned so that there is no interference in the carrying of the messages through the nerves. Nerves carry out functions that tells the body how to do it’s job, like increase your heart rate, digest food, and move your limbs. When those signals are interfered with, abnormalities occur and your body is put in a state of dysregulation, dysfunction, and dis-ease. With an adjustment your body is brought into alignment so your system can flow with the ease of a Balanced River.

Manual adjustments:

Manual adjustments are those done by hand that usually result in an audible cavitation that sounds like a “pop.” That sound is a result of pressure changes in the joints causing a release of gas, similarly to “cracking” your knuckles. There is no pain associated with an audible cavitation, and it is not directly correlated to a chiropractic adjustment. An adjustment can be made with or without an audible cavitation.

Thompson Technique:

Thompson is a chiropractic technique utilized with a Thompson board. This chiropractic method emphasizes high-velocity, low amplitude, low force adjustments. The technique is also known as the drop-table technique because it uses a special precision adjusting table that helps keep the patient comfortable during the procedure.

Activator:

The Activator Method is a chiropractic technique utilizing a handheld device for precise, gentle spinal adjustments. This technique is ideal for children, infants, and those that do not enjoy the sound of audible cavitations (the “pops”). This technique requires minimal movements and no turning or twisting of the neck or spine to deliver the adjustment.

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Network Spinal:

Network spinal is a technique that works through the body’s patterns to transform the nervous system enabling healing from the inside out. It works by gentle pressure contacts on specific areas along the spine based on the needs of the individual to promote reorganizational waves within the body. It is safe for all types of people, from babies and children all the way to people in their later adult phase of life. This is one of the most studied chiropractic techniques.

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Webster Technique:

The Webster technique is a specific chiropractic analysis and adjustment that reduces nervous system stress, balances the pelvic bones, muscles and ligaments, and optimizes the mother’s pelvic function in pregnancy and birth.

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Tonal Cranial adjustments:

This technique is done with light sustained touches to the skull to balance the bones of the cranium. This restores balance to the reciprocal membranous tension within the cranial system, thus improving neurological function and reducing the potential for neural entrapment at the base of the skull.

This technique can be used on anyone, but is ideal for infants and newborns. Infants with cranial issues not only present with a misshapen head, but may also have sleeping issues, excessive crying, nursing/latching problems, and/or torticollis.

Athletes

With improved mobility and mental function, chiropractic has been monumental in improving athletic performance. It's the one therapy that increases reaction time, corrects muscle imbalance and assists in injury prevention.