Chiropractic Care & ReA.L.™ Technique
The master controller of your body is your nervous system, which is what allows your brain and body to communicate. Chiropractic care is a natural healthcare method that seeks to diagnose active nerve system interference (called subluxations) and correct the interference through chiropractic adjustments. When we locate where the communication is off track, we help the body heal by removing obstructions, allowing communication to flow unimpeded and helping to restore health and wellness.
Re.A.L.™ Technique
In Vitality Chiropractic P.C., we use our signature Reflex Activated Leg Check to diagnose subluxation/active nervous system interference anywhere in your body. It could be your organs, your ligaments, your muscles, and of course any of your bones. We look at every possible direction that nervous system interference could show up as. Then we use the Re.A.L.™ Thumb Thrust to correct the diagnosed issue, which has no manual movement about it.This means that the thrust has no pushing as a higher force chiropractic thrust does, the energy that moves the bone is kinetic energy that cannot be seen with the naked eye.
When the patient is in a neutral and relaxed state, this high-speed impulse-based thrust generates force that moves unimpeded to the intended tissue where nervous system interference was diagnosed, removing it and allowing the adjusted tissue to recover normal function. This force that comes from the thumb thrust is enough to move a bone like any other technique, it is just performed in a different way. It has been successfully used since the 1920’s, and every impulse based low force device used today, was developed to imitate this same impulse thrust coming from the human body, which was developed by Dr. Richard VanRumpt.
First, the cranial bones are adjusted to restore proper nervous system interference on the first visit. Also, at each visit the vital organs are diagnosed and corrected for any nervous system interference. The spine and extremities are assessed at each visit after the first. Each vertebra has six directions in the three planes of movement which can have subluxation/active nerve interference that require individual thrusts to correct. Those planes are forward and back, left and right, and up and down. Each plane has a rotational component and a sliding component where subluxation can be found. The Re.A.L.™ approach is quite complex as we look at all 6 possibilities—for example, in the thoracic region (the mid back), there are nine steps to adjusting one vertebral segment. We adjust the rotational component, the tilt component, the side-to-side component (laterality), the ligaments and muscles in between the vertebral segments, the ribs, potentially the intercostal (rib) muscles, the intervertebral soft tissue, and the anterior (movement forward) listing of the vertebra.
Although we don’t adjust the whole spine in one visit (we only adjust segments that are subluxated), we check the entire body to locate nervous system interference. Oftentimes the painful areas are where a problem is, but not always. For example if your neck hurts but your lower back is what the original problem was, fixing the neck will not hold well. The neck must be corrected, but the lower back as well to achieve lasting results. Re.A.L.™ also does full extremity analysis and adjustment as well.
The adjustment in the ReA.L. Technique is unique compared to other chiropractic techniques in that there is no movement of the chiropractor’s hand. Instead, the chiropractor places his thumb on the appropriate anatomy, and his chest and arm in the appropriate direction, to deliver the adjustment. The body then creates kinetic energy derived from the core, and the arm sends the energy through by performing a rapid elbow snap. The impulse continues into the body, where Innate uses the energy to restore normal bone position and alignment. Therefore the bone moves, but it is not moving because the doctor’s hand is moving like a higher force technique. The thrust goes through all levels of tissue because the doctor discovered nervous system interference from the top layers first, and corrected it, which then allows the kinetic energy to go deeper into the layers below that have subluxation. The presence of water in every cell and tissue allows for this passing of energy unimpeded.
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