Chiropractic Care

What are the benefits of chiropractic care?

Chiropractic care improves the communication of your body and nervous system, and supports your natural ability to self-heal, self-regulate, and self-organize, enabling you to experience life at a higher level. Chiropractic care is an essential part of a healthy lifestyle and is known to help people in a variety of health situations. Many health conditions are secondary to inefficient adaptations to stress from your environment, diet, and/or life. Though chiropractic care is not a treatment for medical conditions, your body can resolve many secondary health conditions when your spine is healthier. Many people receiving regular chiropractic care in our office report:

• Improved sleep
• Improved digestion
• Better elimination
• Feeling more relaxed
• Improved ability to handle stress
• Easier, deeper breathing
• Improved awareness of posture
• Less frequent headaches
• Less pain
• Improved flexibility
• Better, easier movement
• Improved ability to listen to the body's needs
• And more...

Who should see a chiropractor?

Anyone who is seeking better health, function, adaptability, body awareness, and/or an overall higher level of well-being should have their spine checked regularly for interference to their nervous system. Chiropractic care is safe and effective at any age and supports your ability to thrive throughout every stage of life.

Is Dr. Jason going to twist or pop my neck or back?

No. The form of care we provide does not involve the type of chiropractic adjustments many associate with twisting movements and the popping sound. In Network Spinal Care, we apply light, gentle pressures to the spine and surrounding regions, developing two unique reorganizational waves that travel along the spine and throughout the entire nerve system. These precise pressures initiate a reorganizational process where the body learns to readjust affected nerve and spinal tissues. This readjustment is the result of breath movements increasing in the very low back, up the spine, and through the neck. This is known as the respiratory wave and is the first spinal wave developed in care. A second spinal wave develops known as the somatopsychic (body-mind) wave. Coordinated by the brain, this wave travels along the spine and through the arms and legs and central nervous system that promotes the development of new health and wellness strategies within the brain. (see the latest research below). Here are some answers to common questions about twisting and popping most people associate with chiropractic care. The popping sound many people associate with a spinal adjustment comes from the gases (oxygen, nitrogen, and carbon dioxide), temporarily moving out of the synovial fluid of the joint. When you "pop" or "crack" a joint, you stretch the joint capsule (ligament structure surrounding the joint). If the stretch is far enough, it creates a tiny vacuum and the gases are rapidly released as bubbles. This is known as "cavitation." Over a period of about 20 minutes, the released gases dissolve back into the synovial fluid. A joint does not have to cavitate for an adjustment to occur, and just because a joint has been stretched enough to create a temporary release of tension and a cavitation (popping noise), this does not mean there was a corrective adjustment that took place. The twisting movements associated with many forms of chiropractic adjustments are part of a method of creating the stretching mentioned above. During such maneuvers, a chiropractor provides specific pressures while creating short, quick stretches to help reposition misaligned bones or mobilize restricted tissues. This approach has helped many people for many years and is generally very safe. We work with very different strategies in our office to achieve very different objectives. Our focus is to help your body learn to improve itself and reach a higher, more efficient level of self-organization.

What is a vertebral subluxation and how does chiropractic care help?

A vertebral subluxation is defined by the Australian Spinal Research Foundation as "a diminished state of being, comprising of a state of reduced coherence, altered biomechanical function, altered neurological function and altered adaptability." (6) Vertebral subluxations are a means of your body adapting to excessive stress from chemical, mental, or physical traumas. This adaptation acts as a type of short circuit to limit overactive nerve responses due to those stressors. While it is an intelligent response of your body, there are a cascade of issues that can happen as a result of this stress response. Chiropractic care helps improve your body's adaptive process through various methods of adjusting vertebral subluxations. However, the underlying stress that your body had to respond to (and may still be responding to) must be addressed in order for sustainable changes to happen. This often requires changes to lifestyle and habits that created the imbalance in your system. This is why our intake questionnaires and regular evaluations of your health, spine, and nervous system are so detailed. Your optimal well-being involves much more than improving back pain, neck pain, and headaches.