Correction Chiropractic vs. Traditional Chiropractic

Traditional Chiropractic

Traditional Chiropractic focuses on goals such as decreasing muscle spasms, increasing range of motion, and the temporary reduction of pain. This is how most chiropractors practice and most of them do a great job. However, it falls under the category of symptom relief/ symptom management aka “band aid” care.

Correction Chiropractic

At True Chiropractic, our focus is on NeuroStructural Correction. Think of your spine as the foundation for a building. If the foundation was off, would you expect the floors to creak, the walls to creak, and for the windows to not close properly?

Now you can spend time patching all the damage, but you would be doing so with the expectation that in a short time the problems will have to be… repaired again and again.

NeuroStructural Correction looks for the underlying NeuroStructural Shifts in the spine that might be causing your foundation to be off. In the vast majority of cases that make their way to our practice, often as referrals from other chiropractors or medical doctors in the area, is a significant NeuroStructural Shift. These NeuroStructural Shifts are the underlying causes that often reveal themselves as “symptoms”- or what we refer to as Secondary conditions.

Get Back to Normal

Rather than constantly repairing the damage, at True Chiropractic, we focus on correcting the underlying NeuroStructural Shifts and help you reach Normal Structure.

Our services are not for everyone. However, if you are tired of constantly patching the problem and you are looking for a long term solution that you can both feel and see for yourself, then True Chiropractic may be the right place for you.

What is a NeuroStructural Shift?

While no one is structurally perfect, there is a normal healthy range. In the same manner, we can understand what a fever is because we know what the normal temperature is, or what constitutes high blood pressure because we are aware of the normal range. There are established normals everywhere we look, including gauges and warning indicators on the dashboard of your car… letting you know when things are abnormal.

At True Chiropractic, we are looking for a significant three-dimensional shift of the spine away from normal. If the lower back or hips shift, it will cause the shoulders to twist, and the head and neck to shift forcing the entire spine out of alignment. These shifts cause the muscles to spasm, the ligaments to deform, and it disrupts the NERVES traveling down the spinal cord. In other words, the main communication system that connects your brain to your body can be disrupted causing the body to fail to adapt properly.


9 PRINCIPLES TO WIN: “Winning is not Everything- but making the effort to win is.” Vince Lombardi

1.     Commitment

a.      “Total commitment means 100% effort, 100% of the time, no loafing, no idling, no standing around, no goofing off, no phoning in sick.”

b.     Making a commitment is essentially making a decision to do something.

                                          i.     Latin root of decision is to “cut away-from”… so when we commit to something, we are really cutting away all our other options, our excuses and all other possibilities.
2.     Discipline

a.      Hard work and sacrifice.

b.     Focused effort that develops self-control

c.      Helps you stay on track in the face of stress, pressure and fear.

d.     Means to sacrifice one thing for the sake of another

3.     Excellence

a.      Means personal responsibility… being answerable and accountable for your actions and meeting your obligations and duties without prodding from a superior.

b.     “Unless a man believes in himself and makes a total commitment to his career and puts everything he has into it- his mind, his body and his heart- what is life worth to him?  If I were a salesman, I would make this commitment to my company, to the product and most all, to myself.”   (for Kris’ sake, you can put she, her, herself in for he, him and himself)

4.     Mental Toughness

a.      “The glue that holds a team together when the heat is on and helps them persevere just a little longer”

b.     “Mental toughness is the ability to be at your best at all times, regardless of the circumstances.  It’s easy to do well when there’s no stress, but many of us can be poised when the pressure is on?  Mental toughness is constancy of purpose; it is total focus and emotional control.”

c.      Mental toughness is learned just like every other quality it takes to be #1.

d.     “Leaders are made, they are not born.  They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwile.”

5.     Habit

a.      Those actions that get us through our day without a whole lot of conscious thought on our part.

b.     The principal building block of habits is our beliefs. 

c.      The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will.”

d.     “If you don’t think you’re a winner, you don’t belong here.”

6.     Faith

a.      There is no situation or circumstance that is without a spiritual component. 

b.     Every decision we make, every feeling, every relationship we nurture, has a spiritual dimension.

7.     Passion

a.      Passion and enthusiasm are the seeds of achievement.

b.     To motivate people, there must be a spark, some juice, desire, zeal, inspiration.

c.      It’s tough to be a leader if you can’t energize yourself, and then your people.

8.     Results

a.      They are the bottom line.

b.     The absence of positive results render your leadership a failure.

c.      Leadership isn’t a position, it’s a process that produces the desired result.  If you don’t produce results, if you don’t execute- you’re not a leader.

9.     Truth

a.      Is an absolute necessity for a leader… without truth guiding you as a leader, there’s no trust and if they don’t trust you, you can’t lead them.

b.     A person grounded in truth does the right thing every time.

“What it Takes to be Number One” by Vince Lombardi and Jr.