True Correction vs. Temporary Relief in Boynton Beach

Although chiropractic is effective in providing patch-up or pain relief treatment, as neurologically-based chiropractors we have found specifically correcting the spine offers long-term benefits. This is why our office specializes in Principled Chiropractic care in Boynton Beach.

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Thanks to technological advances and a new understanding of the spine and nervous system, we are now able to correct the spine and use pre and post-x-rays to document this change. These changes are achieved through a series of specialized gentle adjustments. If we are able to accept your case, a care plan will be recommended based on the pre-existing levels of degeneration in your spine, your age, levels of activity, and your response to an adjustment. Not every spine is correctable for us so we always start with a checkup to evaluate your potential for success in our office.

When a person seeks chiropractic care at Inspire Chiropractic and we accept them as a practice member, it is essential that we are both working toward the same goal. Traditionally, the focus of health care is centered around a person’s symptoms and the treatment or relief of their symptoms. This is the entire basis for relief care. Today Chiropractic care is very well known for its ability to provide relief care and is often referred to as miraculous in its ability to provide relief where all other forms of health care have failed. However, although many chiropractors specialize in and are extremely successful with providing relief care, this was never the intended purpose for Chiropractic. Chiropractic from its inception over 110 years ago was designed to be a Principled form of health care. The goal or objective of Inspire Chiropractic is to identify the underlying cause of a person's health challenge and to correct it. A condition of the spine known as Vertebral Subluxation interferes with the body’s natural ability to heal itself. At Inspire Chiropractic we locate Vertebral Subluxations, thoroughly analyze all of its components, design a specific program of adjustments and exercises to correct Vertebral Subluxations, and most importantly we help you and your family learn how to achieve a state of optimal health and how to maintain a healthy spine into the future.

Difference between Symptoms and Warning Signs

To fully appreciate and understand this difference and the importance of Principled care let’s start by looking at the difference between “symptoms” and “warning signs”. The difference is best understood through a simple comparison. If a person sprains their ankle and they experience pain in their ankle – this is a direct relationship. The location of pain and the location of the injury is the same. This is a classic example of a symptom. However, if a person is suffering from heart disease and is experiencing pain in their left arm – there is likely nothing wrong with the left arm! This is a classic warning sign of a problem with the heart. It would seem quite silly – even foolish – to spend a tremendous amount of energy and resources treating a person’s arm pain when the cause of this pain is coming from the heart.

Vertebral subluxation

Fortunately or unfortunately there is often a significant time delay between the onset of subluxation and the first warning signs. This is because of our body's amazing ability to adapt to both its internal and external environment. For example, if you have a pebble in your shoe – you don’t lean on it – you lean off of it and your body behaves very similarly in relation to Vertebral Subluxation.

subluxations start in the neck

Very commonly one of the first Vertebral Subluxations to occur in the spine is in the neck. This is for a variety of reasons including the fact that the vertebra, ligaments, and muscles in the neck are the smallest and the head (in particular in children) is disproportionately heavy in comparison to our body. Small slips and falls as a child or even the birth process itself can result in the small vertebra of the neck becoming displaced or subluxated. The body behaving very intelligently will change our posture, often shifting the head well in front of the shoulders and leaning the head to one side or the other to reduce the pressure this subluxation places on the spinal cord. As a result of the change in head posture, our rib cage may bend or shift to reduce pressure on the spinal nerves, and similarly, the big muscles of the lumbar spine and pelvis will compensate to further reduce the unwanted pressure on the spinal nerves. This for the body is a much better state than suffering the immediate and devastating effects of the spinal cord and spinal nerve pressure. However, this leaves the pressure on the vertebral discs imbalanced and causes them to begin wearing out at a progressive rate.