Kinesiological to find abnormal muscles holding bones and joints out of place which can produce nerve pressures and irritation. Radiological to evaluate X-rays for specific misalignments and subluxations, as well as other health determinations. The results of the total examination help to identify the cause or causes of your condition and allow your Doctor to determine the appropriate treatment necessary to obtain the fastest relief and the most permanent correction possible. At first patients are often apprehensive about getting an adjustment and have difficulty relaxing. Most spinal adjustments are not painful at all and, as a matter of fact, patients feel very good and often free of pain almost immediately.
Adjustments are also very safe with no harmful or dangerous side effects.
To give an adjustment the chiropractor locates a vertebra, or any other bone, which has slipped from its normal position. In most cases this is done by making contact in a very special manner, usually with the hands, directly over the affected vertebra or other bone, and making a gentle movement to realign the vertebra. Now, with today's growing emphasis on treatment and cost effectiveness, manipulation is receiving much more widespread attention. Chiropractic manipulation, also frequently called the chiropractic adjustment, is the form of manipulation that has been most extensively used by Americans for the last one hundred years. Satisfied chiropractic patients already know that DCs are uniquely trained and experienced in diagnosing back problems and are the doctors most skilled in using manipulation for the treatment of back pain and related disorders.