What Happens During Chiropractic Adjustments?

 Hey,

Doctor Ryan Alter

your Delray Beach chiropractor. Today

I want to go over exactly what happens

actually the mechanics and what’s

what’s

what’s actually happening

when the chiropractor makes an adjustment. So we’ve got our model spine here. This is going to act as the patient. So when the patient is lying down on the table

the chiropractor comes in

and makes these adjustments.

And what’s actually happening? Well

I’m going to show it to you

and I’m going to explain it to you. So here we have kind of a zoomed in version of your spine

and some vertebrae. This is a bone

the vertebrae

this is your disc. And here’s the nerve that comes out between the vertebrae. And what can happen is these vertebrae start to wedge

wedge

wedge

wedge

wedge back

and start to pinch that nerve.

That’s what causes most of the symptoms. And the chiropractor’s job is to find out where that’s happening and then with our adjustments

tap

tap

tap

tap. And we’re working

working

working this vertebrae forward as far as we can To open that nerve hole and take pressure off that pinched nerve. That’s what the chiropractic adjustment does.

That’s what’s actually happening when we apply that force. You can see how this is very different than a lot of the other things people do for back pain. Massage doesn’t do that. Acupuncture doesn’t do that. Needle injections don’t move the vertebrae forward. The key is moving the vertebrae forward

and getting pressure off that nerve so the patient can get better.

We’re here in Delray Beach. We want to be a resource for you

and anybody you know. Our goal and our mission is to make sure that everyone in this area is feeling their best.

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