I am happy to say that patients in our office typically respond much better and much faster than the published "best dose". In other words, our methods typically out-perform the best dose recommendations published in the medical literature.
We believe our results are better than the published average results because 1. we attempt to correct the spine, not just relieve symptoms and 2. we utilize other advanced treatment methods along with our spinal correction system of chiropractic. These include acupuncture, laser therapy and spinal decompression to name just a few.
So if you are fortunate enough to be classified as a rapid responder (and most of our patient are), we won't need to see you several times a week for an additional 4-6 weeks like the research studies recommend. Instead we'll need to see you much less often! But we will need to see you over time. See, getting you out of pain and changing your core spinal foundation, while usually accomplished fairly quickly with our methods, still requires time to remodel the ligaments, muscles, and joints. To put it is as simply as possible, once your spine has been corrected back towards normal, to have it retain its improved structure, it will take some time and additional work. This is because the soft tissues supporting the spine need time to be remodeled and remolded.
This doesn't take very many treatments, but it does take time. It is however worth your time, because having a corrected spine reduces wear and tear on your spine and thus spinal decay as we discussed on previous pages. seen in the top picture in the left hand column of this page of this website. The typical rapid responder in our office will need an additional 6-8 visits over a 2 month time period for a total of about 10-12 visits in over about six weeks. After this treatment plan is completed, the spine should be stable in its new corrected alignment. An alignment likely to provide the log lasting relief you are seeking.
The main ligaments of the spine are 1. the anterior longitudinal ligament, 2. the posterior longitudinal liga-ment, 3. the ligamentum flavum and 4. The inter-spinous ligament. These structures must be remolded for long term postural change can take place.
Before a permanent correction is possible, the spinal ligaments must be remolded into their new shape.