Chiropractic Services
Chiropractic Biophysics (CBP) is the technique we use for STRUCTURAL balance and correction. It is currently the only technique that has documented and published its effectiveness in creating permanent spinal and postural changes. CBP founders and researchers have published research in some of the most prestigious health journals in the world, including Spine, Journal of Orthopedic Research, Clinical Biomechanics, European Spine Journal, Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, and Journal of Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutics.
Chiropractic adjustments have long been used to treat pain, stiffness and soreness. The act of adjusting the spine or extremities, whether using an instrument or a manual adjustment, is simply a mechanical stimulus of the joint and muscles causing a firing of joint mechanoreceptors and muscle spindle cells. This stimulus causes an electrical depolarization of the nerve cell, which transmits through the spinal nerve, cord and on up to the cerebellum and opposite cortex. In the spinal cord, there are separate pathways neurologically that cause a dampening of nociceptive fibers (pain).
We have all experienced that phenomenon in life, hitting our thumb as we are hammering, or burning our hand. What do we do? Shake it or rub it! We unknowingly stimulate joint mechanoreceptors, muscle spindles or mechanical pressure receptors in the skin that block or dampen the perception of pain. The reason why chiropractic is so beneficial for back pain, neck pain and headaches is because the spinal muscles are under unconscious control. You can’t move one vertebra consciously. Try it…move your 5th lumbar vertebra. You can’t. You can move your spine using the large consciously driven muscles like the trapezius, and quadratus lumborum, but you have no control over the “intrinsic” spinal muscles. Chiropractic adjustments manually move “stuck” or fixated areas of the spine so that the neurology of pain is normalized. That is not the only reason for pain; however, there are other factors such as histamine, prostaglandins, catecholamines, etc. But chiropractic is the “cure” for structural, neurologically based pain.
Chiropractic research has come a long way from that simple reflex. We now know that these same pathways stimulate the cerebral cortex. The cortex has a dampening effect on the sympathetic (fight or flight) nervous system. That’s big news, because the balance between the sympathetic and parasympathetic (rest and digest) nervous system controls the function of our immune system, digestive system, cardiovascular, respiratory, reproductive, genitourinary, and endocrine systems! That means that inflammatory bowel disease, infertility, heartburn, high blood pressure, cold hands, frequent illness, gas, asthma, allergies, etc., etc., can and usually do have a STRUCTURAL component.
Does that mean that chiropractic is a cure all?? NO, because we still have biochemical and mental emotional factors to potentially address. Does it mean that people go to chiropractors and are then able to conceive, or their heartburn goes away, etc.?? YES, it absolutely happens every day in chiropractic offices all over the world!!
CBP takes chiropractic to an even higher level! CBP is a posture based system of adjusting, stretching and strengthening that not only dampens pain, not only stimulates the central nervous system, leading to greater health and wellness, but also reconstructs abnormal spinal alignment patterns so that you have a permanent correction. Most chiropractic “wellness” patients I meet go to their chiropractor once a month to get rid of their headache or backache, because they have not completely “centered their spine,” and the nervous system is still firing abnormally. That’s like eating soup with a fork…a magnificent tool but it’s being used completely ineffectively. With complete correction, to optimal spinal alignment, you are now ready for true wellness…strengthening your nervous system to a level that it runs your body like a Pentium 5 (the best analogy possible, although the nervous system CAN run flawlessly).
CBP is based on physics and mathematics, so it is reproducible and constant. There is no room for error. 2 + 2 always equals 4. Gravity always pulls down. A spine out of alignment always causes rapid deterioration of the disc, muscles and nerves. A spine put back to center always improves your neurological function (and wellness) and always eliminates your risk of degenerative spinal disease. YOU CAN COUNT ON IT!!
A recently published study (1997 JVSR) clarifies the role of chiropractic in health and wellness. Performed in the early and mid nineties at the University of California, Irvine, College of Medicine, this study followed chiropractic patients for a full 3 years. The patients periodically rated their health and wellness using a comprehensive questionnaire including physical, emotional, stress, enjoyment of life, and quality of life categories. What they found was that even after 3 years of chiropractic wellness care, people were reporting greater levels of physical and emotional health, they reported experiencing less stress in their life, and greater quality of life. Better and better scores, month after month, year after year! The group rated their physical appearance better, their financial stress was less, they felt healthier and enjoyed life more. As the study was written and published, most of the patients continued with their chiropractic care, and no ceiling was evident on the impact that their care had on their feelings of wellness.
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