The Spinal Adjustment

What is it?

The spinal adjustment forms the foundation of chiropractic care and its effects are nothing short of profound. The spinal adjustment can be delivered in many ways and this is why chiropractors as individuals, seem to practice in many different ways. Whatever the delivery though, the premise is the same - the spinal adjustment is performed to remove interference from your nervous system to allow your body to heal itself.

Absolute Skill

With any intervention, you want to know that you are receiving expert care. Chiropractors, by their training and practice, are skilled practitioners in the art of spinal adjusting. This is because chiropractors must study at university for five years in order to become registered and they spend many hundreds of hours learning the safe delivery of their technique. They then perform spinal adjustment hundreds of times each day in their practices which adds up to tens of thousands of times each year. In addition to this, chiropractors attend post-graduate courses and seminars to refine their skills and keep up to date with the latest in safety and technology. This makes chiropractors the most skilled practitioners in the art of spinal adjustment procedures.
 Safety and Skill - that defines the chiropractic spinal adjustment

Chiropractic Spinal Adjustments are refined and specific. They are delivered gently and with skill.

Safe and Effective

Research continues to show that chiropractic adjustments are extremely safe and extremely effective. In fact, when compared to the use of aspirin for pain, chiropractic adjustments are some 250 times safer. When compared to non-steroidal antiinflammatories like Naprosin, chiropractic adjustments are at least 400 times safer. These statistics mean that the chance of a serious event curing from chiropractic care are negligible compared to the safest forms of medications available today. And of course when compared to surgery, the statistics are tens of thousands of times more favourable toward chiropractic spinal adjustments.

The effectiveness of adjustments is also confirmed by research across the globe and what's more, by patient satisfaction ratings time and time again. It has been shown within chiropractic practices that 80% of patients get the results they came for, 10% of patients get more results than what they came for and only 10% of patients get less results than what they came for. This is an amazing success rate for chiropractic are and means that you can rest assured of a very high rate of success with chiropractic care on your spine.

How does it work?

The spinal adjustment is performed to remove a condition of the spine called vertebral subluxation. By performing the adjustment, the chiropractor assists your body toward better health by helping your spinal cord and nerves to work better. This in turn, improves communication between your cells and allows you body to function better. As your health potential increases, you experience the effects of true healing which can include more mobility, pain reduction, increased energy, more well being and the reduction of organ malfunction like lungs and digestive system. Sometimes, when you start chiropractic adjustments, you may even get an increase in your symptoms for a while, or old symptoms, that you haven't experienced for some time, can return as your body re-establishes its communication pathways again. This is all considered a normal part of proper healing and will be monitored carefully by your chiropractor.