Chiropractic Manipulative Therapy - The Adjustment
What is The Adjustment?
Chiropractic Manipulative Therapy (CMT) is the adjustment our Dripping Springs chiropractors utilize to correct alignment of your joints throughout your body. The adjustment is a specific force guided into the misaligned joint by the hands of a licensed chiropractor. This movement produces a high acceleration, low amplitude force through the joint, to correct alignment without causing pain.
Why do Chiropractors Adjust?
Our Dripping Springs chiropractors adjust misaligned joints for a multitude of reasons. The primary, evidence-based reasons for CMT includes improving range of motion, improving muscular and neurological efficiency, and improving posture, while decreasing pain, decreasing inflammation, and decreasing improper mechanical stresses on joints, muscles, tendons and ligaments surrounding the misaligned joint.
How does Chiropractic Manipulative Therapy Decrease Pain?
While there are many complex theories of underlying benefits from CMT, the method by which CMT reduces pain is actually simple. All joints contain receptors in them, that send messages to our brain. One type of receptor is called a proprioceptor. Proprioceptors sense your joint position, and motion of your joint. When your joint is misaligned, these proprioceptors send messages of misalignment to your brain, and your brain interprets misalignment as pain. By performing the adjustment, our Dripping Springs chiropractors realign your joints into their correct position, which silences the signals of both misalignment, and pain.
How Often Do I Need To Be Adjusted To Get The Benefits?
This is not a one-size-fits-all answer. It depends on your chief complaint, your previous chiropractic and health history, any contraindications you may present with, among other variables. That said, at Evolve Chiropractic, our Dripping Springs chiropractors tend to front-load care, where patients may come in two (2) or three (3) times per week to begin care, and generally quickly taper off to one (1) visit per week as they progress through their recommended treatment plan from Relief to Recovery. Once patients graduate from Recovery into the Rehabilitation Phase of care, we shift to stabilizing and strengthening as our focus during care, and our Dripping Springs chiropractors only adjust joint segments as needed.
Does The Adjustment Hurt?
While there can be some local discomfort lasting up to twenty-four (24) hours after your adjustment, generally there is little to no pain associated with the adjustment. If anything it should be quite relaxing and relieving! Our Dripping Springs chiropractors have extensive experience with patients who are new to Chiropractic Care. We utilize gentle adjustments and build up care as needed, based on your presentation in the clinic.
“…For my first time having a chiropractic session Dr. Humphrey was very considerate on how nervous I was, he helped me ease into it with some simple adjustments. Once he knew I was comfortable he performed his magic, and I walked out of that office a new man!”
-Relief Phase Patient