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‘Lose Tension, Function Better, Feel Better’

Benefits of Regular Chiropractic Care
Broad Benefits in Chiropractic

Strength follows an improvement in neuromuscular control eg muscle and joint co-ordination. This strength is known as a functional improvement. Lee looks to provide a functional improvement and a reduction in whole body tension at each session.

Within the session Lee provides sensory stimulus in various forms, because the body contains various tissues that in themselves have various mechanical needs. Each stimulus provides an input into the nervous system. Working on the body as a whole is preferred to specific areas of symptomatic complaint because muscular control is integrated and an injury or disease in one place can affect muscular strength in an other (4, 5). 

Probably the most well known sensory stimulus provided by a Chiropractor is that of an impulse. Just as in Physics an impulse is force over time.  

Each appointment builds on the last, creating changes over months and years. Chiropractic treatment is dose specific, which means a helpful dose could be 8 visits, a substantial improvement could be 15 visits and a 120 day plan could consist of about 18 visits (6). Another group have found 12 sessions are an optimum (7).  

Life Tension(s), are the Cause

Over doing it tension, lack of exercise tension, or poor posture tension, emotional tension(s), workplace tension(s) and relationship tension(s) all accumulate together to create holding patterns within your body. Causing poor muscle and joint co-ordination. 

What About Pain and Discomfort..?

Good Body Function, Strength, Neutral Spine, Full Movement, Cranial Competence

Your perception of danger about your body is relative to your pain experience. This is why pain is defined as a sensory emotional experience (1). 

Muscle repair takes about 120 days (2).

A typical 12 visit Chiropractic Care Plan  looks to clear compensations and provide improved neuromuscular strength.

Some X-Ray or MRI findings can be helpful in understanding the inner workings of the spine and its discs. According to science imaging findings have a poor correlation with pain experiences, however they can provide psychological reassurance.

Maintenance or regular ‘servicing appointments’ that interupt whole body tension accumulation are best scheduled on a calendar basis, rather than when you are in pain (3).

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References:

  1. International Association for the Study of Pain (2016); Terminology; Pain
  2. HIdes JA, Richardson CA and Jull GA (1996). Multifidus Muscle Recovery is Not Automatic after Resolution of Acute First Episode. Spine 21(23) 2763-9
  3. Eklund A, et al (2018). The Nordic Maintenance Care program: Effectiveness of chiropractic maintenance care versus symptom-guided treatment for recurrent and persistent low back pain-A pragmatic randomized controlled trial. PLoS One. 12;13(9):e0203029.
  4.  Hisayoshi Murai et al (2009) Altered Firing Pattern of Muscle During Exercise in Chronic Heart Failure. Physiology 587 (11) 2613-22
  5. Lehman G (2006) Trunk and Hip Muscle Recruitment Patterns During The Prone Leg Raise Following an Ankle Sprain Injury (deconditioning). Chiropractic and Osteopathy 14 4
  6. Haas, Mitchell, Vavrek, Darcy, Peterson, David, Polissar, Nayak. Neradilek, Moni2013/10/16. Dose-Response and Efficacy of Spinal Manipulation for Care of Chronic Low Back Pain: A Randomized Controlled Trial. Vol 14. DOI: 10.1016/j.spinee.2013.07.468. The spine journal : official journal of the North American Spine Society
  7. Goertz et al (2013), Spinal Manipulation for Low Back Pain and Weeks et al (2016) Senior Low Back Pain Trial