It’s comprehensible that you, as a novice, are seeking to understand the healing art chiropractic care is when you’re trying to improve the central and muscular system of the body. The number of techniques alone can be quite frightening before you even begin to work out how to avoid the deceitful doctors practicing in your area. You want the results so it pays to be well informed about the combination of procedures and techniques as well.
The types of chiropractic techniques can be broadly categorized into the Instrument Based Methods and Manual Adjusting Methods. Like the name implies, where the former would make use of specific tools to provide you relief, the latter is performed by hands only.
The number of techniques at any given clinic dedicated to chiropractic care is not to overwhelm you but to ensure that virtually everyone, from babies to the elderly, get the treatment according to their needs. Where the gentlest of them all would suit a young child, the older people would need a more vigorous yet safe therapy in order for it to be effective.
These include:
* Diversified, including variations like Gonstead and Thomson
* Activator
* Sacro-Occipital
* Pro-Adjuster
* Extremity Manipulating
* Impulse
* Cox Flexion-Distraction
* Receptor Tonus
* Logan Basic
* Graston
Essentially, most of them are all the same: locating, analyzing, and correcting your spinal subluxations. But how do you know which one of them is best for you. Consider the following to know a verified practitioner is attending you.
* How much of an experience and training does the chiropractor has to treat the same condition as yours.
* Which technique is the doctor using and why?
While there are no wrong or right answers to these, you’re at least getting to know the respective treatment or philosophy of the doctor. Most besides asking you whether you’ve been adjusted previously, the type of technique that was used and if it was effective, and which technique you’d prefer in particular, would also use a number of adjunctive treatments and therapies like ultrasound and physiotherapy to see which would suit you most.
Additionally, the following are a few red flags for any technique you need to be aware of:
* It’s a “special new technique”, which according to the chiropractor none other providers of chiropractic care use
* It can “cure” chronic conditions like heartburn, diabetes, or asthma
* You have to pay a significant amount of cash upfront for “unlimited treatment for 6-12 months”
* It’d follow a long-term plan like 3 times a week for the initial stage of 6-12 months followed b y 2 times a week for another similar period and so on
* Elaborating on the previous point, it seems as if the technique(s) employed don’t have an end point or even if the improvement stagnates then there’s no talk about a change in treatment
* The same treatment is being recommended for almost every patient irrespective of their condition
Some chiropractors specialize in techniques to address soft-tissue inflammation etc. Others still will be comfortable with the idea of advising complementary therapy like nutrition and meditation in line with chiropractic care.
