The Gonstead Technique
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Experience the Gonstead Difference!
This is a highly specific chiropractic technique of analysis and adjustments. I aim not to keep symptoms at bay, but to correct the root cause of the symptoms through the Gonstead Technique. Steps 1-5 below are utilized at every visit to keep your spine and body healthy.
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Step 1. Visualization: I will briefly inspect your back to look for acne, swelling, moles, blemishes, posture, shoulder height, and hip height. These can all be indications of a subluxation.
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Step 2. Instrumentation: I use an instrument that measures spinal temperature called a nervoscope. When the probes of the scope are glided down the spine, the instrument will pick up if there is abnormal heat being produced by a nerve from a subluxation. Leading me to investigate the area further.
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Step 3. Static palpation: Static means still, or not moving. Chiropractors feel with our hands to confirm what our eyes have seen and physically feel for swelling anywhere along the spine. Where there is swelling, there is often times tenderness or painfulness to the touch.
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Step 4. Motion palpation: After seeing and feeling swelling as well as finding a "spike" in temperature using the nervoscope, I will carefully locate the subluxated vertebra, and motion the bone and joint to determine exactly which direction the bone is stuck. If this step is overlooked, the subluxation may not be corrected.
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Step 5. X-Rays: Full-spine x-rays are taken on everyone at your initial visit. "To see is to know, and to not know is it guess." Taking x-rays of the whole spine leaves no room for guessing. The x-ray will show the curves of the spine, any degeneration, the position of each vertebra, and shows details about posture. Countless pieces of information are found on your x-rays to give you quality chiropractic care specifically for YOUR body. Spines are like snowflakes, there is not 1 that is the same as another.
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It gets better results, plain and simple. Chiropractic is not about the most cracks and pops in the spine, or the loudest. Chiropractic is about removing subluxations, which not only effect your spine, but can effect and influence muscles and organs too. Symptoms start to appear when there is an interference in the nervous system. I strive to be as specific as possible to remove the interference in your nervous system.
Do you want to find out what the Gonstead Difference is all about? Lets get started! Call me below to schedule an appointment.
