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.


That’s Not Normal


“Hey Doc, I need your help today, my breathing is not normal!” “What do you mean, not normal?” I asked. “Well, it’s normally right around 15 breathes per minute, but today it’s going almost 25 breathes per minute and it’s labored—definitely not right!” At first, you may think, “Yep, something’s definitely not normal there.” But the problem here is not with this man’s respiration rate.  It’s with our definition of the word normal.  What he really meant to say is that his respiration rate was not average.

Regrettably, these terms are very often used in place of one another incorrectly.  One of the areas this mistake is most often seen involves the day-to-day functions of our bodies.  Science has established what it calls normal figures for our physiological functions.  These include respiration rate, heart rate, blood pressure, cholesterol, temperature and everything else you can think of.  Medicine has even established a number as far as what each person should weigh.  However, what we are really looking at is not what is normal, but what is average.

An AVERAGE is rarely a number that is actualized by any individual in a group.  In fact, forcing a person’s body to conform to the average can actually be harmful to an individual.  The average is simply the median of the group.  The average value is something that is easy for us to know – all it takes is a simple mathematical equation to figure it out.  NORMAL on the other hand is something that is not as easy to figure out.  In chiropractic, we say that we are ever changing, constantly adapting, self-regulating and self-healing organisms.  We say that normal is something that can only be determined by the Innate Intelligence of the body. This is an important distinction to understand.  Even though the average respiration rate of an adult is 15 beats per minute, it may not be what is necessary for an individual at any given time.  In other words, if a person’s body needs to increase its respiration rate for some reason, it may not be average, but it can most certainly be normal!

Is it normal for a healthy baby to have a runny nose, fluid in its ears and a fever?  Is it normal for a healthy woman to gain 1-2 pounds per week?  Is it normal for a healthy person to vomit and have diarrhea?  Is it normal for a healthy person to have muscle spasms, inflammation and pain in his/her neck?

How did you answer these questions?  If you said no to any of them, you may be right.  And, if you said yes to any of them, you may also be right!  This is why:
1.      A healthy baby who is cutting teeth can have a runny nose, fluid in its ears and a fever.  These are all normal parts of the process of cutting teeth.
2.      A healthy pregnant woman will normally gain 1-2 pounds per week for nine months.
3.      A healthy person who eats a bad piece of fish will vomit and get diarrhea as a way of healthfully expelling toxins.
4.      A person who has injured his neck will have muscle spasms to protect the area from further damage while it heals.  He will also have inflammation to begin what is called the healing cascade.  And, his body will produce pain so that he knows to be careful until all is well.

It turns out the man who was concerned about his respiration rate had been in a bowling alley the night before and it had been a smoky environment after he had spent 3 hours mowing down an overgrown field full of weeds the morning before.  His body was likely raising its respiration rate to expel the toxins and to increase the rate at which his cells received oxygen to speed healing of the damage done by the smoke and allergens.  So you see, nothing was wrong, it just wasn’t average.


ChiropracTIC recognizes that normal is a state that can only be determined by your body’s Innate Intelligence.  We do not try to make you conform to a standard level of function.  Rather, we accept you for the unique individual that you are and we rejoice in the knowledge that when you have a clear nerve system and a healthy lifestyle, your body will do whatever is necessary to progressively and consistently grow you toward the full expression of your purpose and potential in life.  HAVE A NORMAL DAY!
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