This helps restore nervous system integrity and can improve the healing process. There are many ways to adjust the spine. Sometimes the doctor's hands deliver a quick, highly accurate thrust. Or an instrument directs a repeatable force to a fixated spinal joint. Other times a slow, constant pressure is used.
Some chiropractic doctors use special tables with moving sections.
Several areas of the spine may be adjusted or just one. The key is to use the precise amount of energy. At the exact spot. In the right direction. At just the right time, to get spinal joints moving again.