Does Everyone Get Chiropractic Adjustments the Same Way?
As you might expect, many people don’t get adjusted the same way (the same adjustment, with the same technique and the same treatment plan) because there are many factors that determine what an adjustment looks like for someone. Let’s dig deeper into why this can be!
Chiropractic Technique:
In the chiropractic world, there are many different techniques that allow a chiropractor to analyze someone’s spine as well as to execute an adjustment. Depending on the technique that your chiropractor uses, your adjustment could include:
- Manual adjustments
- Drop tables
- Instruments
- Distraction tables
- Sacro-Occipital Technique blocks
- Soft tissue therapy
- Others
Age/Stage of Life
Expectedly, how you get chiropractic care as a baby is not the same way that you get care as a child or an adult. Babies are not tiny adults, which is why their adjustments looks different! When it comes to babies, their adjustments are much gentler and there is a more neurologically-based approach instead of a musculoskeletal one. Additionally, a young adult with a simple case of neck pain may be adjusted very differently than someone past their seventies who has a tougher time getting on the table, shifting positions or whose body is more sensitive to certain types of adjustments.
Past and Present Conditions
On the other hand, there are some people with either past or present medical conditions or issues that could change how a chiropractor approaches their body. For example, you may have a history of hardware in your body, such as spinal fusion surgery. This could mean that your chiropractor cannot directly adjust over the affected region and may have to focus on stabilizing the segments above and below it. People with disc herniations or disc extrusions may benefit greatly from chiropractic, but they will do better with adjustments that do not input excessive rotation into those segments. […]
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