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- Can you tell when you need a chiropractic adjustment?
In most cases, no. When you have a misalignment in your spine, it may or may not hurt. It usually doesn't.
Often a misalignment will lie just under the surface much like a dental cavity creating a problem but going
unnoticed until it causes pain. This explains why people will be showering their hair or picking something off
the floor and 'all of a sudden' their back goes 'out' or they experience sudden neck ache.
- How do I know if I need to see a chiropractor?
Receiving chiropractic care is a necessary part of being healthy, which in turn means preventing disease.
Just like a balanced diet and being active, chiropractic care allows you to reach your full health
potential. Everyone, from the youngest to the oldest, should eat well, remain active and have a healthy
spine. Whether you have a specific problem or not, your spine needs to be checked to remain healthy.
As Hippocrates said, "You are only as healthy as your spine." You have regular dental check-ups,
so why not your spine. Remember, your teeth can be replaced, your spine cannot!
- What does a chiropractor do?
A chiropractor checks your spine to see if you have any misalignments. Your spine is meant to be in line.
When you have a misalignment, your spinal bones create havoc with your nervous system. This havoc and
interference disturbs the mental impulses flowing from your brain to your body and body back to your brain.
Your brain then can no longer keep the body healthy due to this interference. As a resul this can cause
lack of vitality, weakened immune system, arthritis and other diseases .
- If I have misalignments what then?
If you have any misalignments, it is very important that you have them corrected. Your chiropractor will
gently adjust your vertebrae back into alignment, allowing your body to start healing itself.
- How long does a chiropractic adjustment take?
It takes just a few minutes.
- Does it hurt?
Adjustments are usually painless.
- I've heard that chiropractors 'crack' your bones?
The adjustment may cause a noise such as you hear when your knuckles pop. This is not the bones
cracking. The noise is the pressure being released between the misaligned vertebrae- much like
the built up pressure being released from inside a canned drink when it's opened.
- What causes the bones in my spine to misalign?
Stress causes your spine to become misaligned. Stress can be physical (e.g. traumatic, repetitive), emotional
( e.g. from work, lifestyle or relationships) or chemical (e.g. toxic surroundings, poor diet). Everyone
suffers from different degrees of each of these stresses.
- Are all patients adjusted the same way?
Each adjustment is tailored individually to suit each patient based on their age and misalignment. Young
patients are adjusted differently to adults and elderly patients are adjusted differently again.
again.
- Once I go to a chiropractor do I have to keep going?
Absolutely not! Once is better than never, though most people choose to continue to receive the
benefits of chiropractic care. Your chiropractor adjusts only those vertebrae that are misaligned,
restoring your body back to the way it was designed to be in its natural state. Just like exercise
or eating properly, when you feel what it's like to be healthy with a healthy spine, you also
notice when something's not quite right. To keep this amazing body of ours running, it requires
the correct kind of upkeep and just like anything else, if you don't put energy into health you'll
eventually put energy into fighting sickness.
You don't have to keep going but most people choose to.
- How long will I need chiropractic care?
How long you decide to benefit from chiropractic care is always up to you.
- Can I adjust myself?
No, it's impossible to adjust yourself. It is possible to make your spine pop and feel better, but it's not
possible to find the misalignment that's causing the problem and specifically move it. If you rely on
adjusting yourself or having someone who is not a chiropractor adjust you, the parts of your spine that pop
will become too loose and unstable, while the real problem, the locked misalignment, will become stuck and
decay. Chiropractors would never attempt to adjust themselves. They go to another chiropractor to receive
their adjustments.
- Is chiropractic safe?
Chiropractic is one of the safest health professions in the world. Your chiropractor will do a
complete examination and take x-rays to determine if there is any reason why you can't be helped
through chiropractic care.
- Can a person who has had back surgery or fracture still see a
chiropractor?
Definitely! Conditions such as these often place extra stress and tensions on the spine and
tissues. To leave this extra stress unchecked leads to further problems in other areas. The
chiropractor takes all of these factors into account to insure your spine is kept in peak condition.
- What kind of education does a chiropractor have?
A chiropractor has 5 years of chiropractic schooling. Courses taken are the same as a medical
doctor with the addition of studying spinal care, nutrition, exercise and advanced neuroanatomy
in place of emergency procedures, surgery and pharmacology.
- What's the difference between osteopathy and chiropractic?
Chiropractic maximises your health and healing by removing interference from your nervous system
and allowing your innate healing ability to flow through you. A chiropractor is able to read and
diagnose x-rays, thus allowing us to form a thorough examination. X-rays also show us the condition
of a patient's spine and allow us to be very specific in our adjustments. Osteopaths cannot utilise
and diagnose from x-rays, and therefore their adjustments are far more general.
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