It is a well established fact that vertebral subluxation complex will affect the vascular system due to its effect on the sympathetic nerve system. Visualizing the temperature patterns on the body therefore gives us an indirect assessment of the physiology of the nervous system. And that's our objective as chiropractors, to monitor and restore normalcy to the nervous system. Surveys taken with doctors disclose that a great many chiropractors currently practicing, are not monitoring the physiology of the nervous system. These practitioners eventually become symptom treaters or spine straighteners.
Some chiropractors use no X-ray, thermography, or neuromuscular testing of any kind.
The only indicators they really have to go by are symptoms. If the patient gets worse, they are told to come in more often, adjusted harder, more frequently, or in a different place. It may never occur to them that they may actually be causing vertebral subluxation complex, the consequences of which may not surface for several years. Using thermography is such a simple solution to this problem. It can give you an immediate indication of how the body is reacting to an adjustment, favorable or unfavorable.