I went to see a chiroprator for stiff neck problem. He told me that I have subluxation of the cervical spine and it will take repeated treatments for a year to fix it. How exactly does he adjust the spine and how does the spine get fixed by such adjustments?
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Talk to a real doctor. The 'adjusting' done by chiropractics is potentially dangerous.There are two schools of chiropractic, though. One school thinks that it can cure diseases by 'adjusting' the spine. The 'thought' (if it can be called that) is that this fixes the 'bad energy'. This is straight chiropractic. The other types are less insane, and somewhat less dangerous. The link below provides a FAR more comprehensive analysis of this practice than I could ever go into. It also provides references to studies done on chiropractic.You should really just avoid these guys and gals. They aren't 'doctors' in any trustworthy sense... especially those that buy into the notion of energy manipulation to cure disease. Those folks are mired in magical thinking.
I don't know the answer to your question but I would be careful. I think chiropractors might be able to diagnose a problem and provide some relief but also might make you think you need only them. If you have a chronic problem then I would see a physical therapist (your chriopractor might say you don't need a PT/go figure). A PT will treat your specific problem and, a good one, will give you exercises, etc to strengthen muscles to support the problem for the long term. Medical insurance often will pay for a PT if prescribed by your medical doctor.
A chiro can give you excercises and is covered by insurance too.Look, it works like this...Your brain communicates with your body through the nervous system which is contained within your spine. Also, your core muscles attach to your spine keeping you upright and allowing your body to move properly.When you have a subluxation (one or more spinal bones not lined up properly) it can cause two major things to happen. 1) your nervous system is impaired (think about a spinal nerve being squeezed between two bones kind of like when you pinch a straw. You can't suck through it and likewise with your nerve, message flow is impeded.) This causes a breakdown in communication between brain and body and all sorts of dis-ease can set in.2) your muscles have abnormal stress put on them caused by misalignments that pull on them causing pain and loss of normal motor function.Now understand, unless you had a recent accident which caused the subluxation, it probably didn't happen overnight. So your body is accutomed to being this way and has to be retrained to be a different way. A PT can give you excercises and stretches and even recommend massage (all of which a chiro can do as well) but they cannot treat the spine through adjustments which fixes the root problem.No good chiropractor is going to convince you that you need only them. Every chiro I know will refer out when necessary and only work within their scope of practice.
A PT is not a doctor. A chiropractor is. They are medical professionals backed by over 100 years of research. The safe manipulation techniques they use provide better nerve conduction by relieving "subluxation" which is what happens when a misaligned joint pinches a nerve. The procedure is gradual and non-invasive. If someone is in a situation where the bones have begun to fuse, they will refer the patient for surgery because at that point there's little else to be done.
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