Four Steps to Better Health Through Quality Chiropractic Care
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History of Injury and Examination Our History of Injury is designed to determine whether your condition is within the realm of our care. Based upon the results, one of the doctors will make appropriate recommendations regarding an examination or referral to another doctor if your presenting problem is not a chiropractic condition. Most often, your condition will be treatable by our care. A thorough spinal and musculo-skeletal examination will be performed in order to identify which structures of your body are injured and most likely causing your problem. Computerized Postural Analysis
Figure 2: Postural Decay as we age. Posture Digitization: We take postural photographs of you the patient, and use the sophisticated computer program known as PosturePrint to objectively measure your postural distortions. These photographs enable us to detect and measure abnormal positions of the human skull, shoulders, ribcage, pelvis, knees, and feet. In other words, we can show you how far out of alignment your posture is. This helps explain why you are hurting as well as aid us in prescribing corrective postural-based exercises.
Spinal X-rays (If Necessary) Many patients often ask if we need to take x-rays of their spines. The answer is simple. Properly taken spinal x-rays are like a blue print of your spine. With x-rays, we can see how an individual spine deviates from normal alignment and we can clearly decide on appropriate treatment. Without an x-ray we would only be guessing. Would you want a mechanic to work on your car engine without looking under the hood? For example, the figure below is a sample of common abnormal neck alignment subluxations (viewed from the side) with an estimate on average time needed to rehab such problems. It is clearly evident the further your neck is from the normal, then the longer you will need to perform rehabilitative measures. Please note that these are only generic estimates, as many factors dictate how fast a patient responds such as age, the length of time the problem has been there, amount spinal degeneration, etc.
Another important finding that properly taken x-rays will identify is spinal arthritis. Many people are not even aware that spinal disc disease and bone arthritis are developing in their spines. For many people this is a “time bomb” waiting to explode. Figure 6 below shows an abnormal neck (viewed from the side) with arthritis in the mid neck.
Figure 6: Side view showing arthritis in the Neck Report of Findings The report of findings is a very important part of communication in our office. Before we decide if Chiropractic care is right for you, we sit down with you (the patient) and explain the findings of our examination, posture analysis, and spinal x-rays. Many times patients tell us that other doctors never show them their spinal x-rays. This never happens at Advanced Chiropractic Associates. We are confident that you will find that we are very thorough in our search, identification and explanation of your spinal problem. Once we have identified your particular spinal problem, our Doctors will recommend an appropriate treatment plan specific to your condition. call 973-472-7465 to schedule your appointment today! |
It has been known for years that body posture is like a “Window into the Shape of the Spinal Column”. Figure 1 shows that Abnormal Posture is always associated with an abnormal spine. Body Postural problems aid the doctor of chiropractic in identifying a variety of dysfunctions in the spinal column. Abnormal Postures can cause or relate to a number of health problems. Abnormal Posture causes increased force and pressure on the muscles, ligaments, and bones of your spinal column. These abnormal forces (caused by abnormal posture) lead to a break down of body tissues causing pain and damage.
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