Yesterday, a patient who had located my services in Viridian based on my nervous-system based approach, asked what differentiates us from traditional chiropractic. She had experienced and appreciated a basic chiropractic approach when healing from a previous injury. Like her, I have also had a good experience with many types of chiropractors. And similarly to her as well, I have had exceptional improvements in many aspects of my health when switching to nervous-system based care.
Chiropractors use hundreds of different techniques. So experiencing one type and responding well or not enjoying to that technique or style it means just that - that you tried that particular type of chiropractic and did or did not like it.
Even those of us who classify ourselves with a nervous-system based approach use many techniques. What unites this family of techniques is that we recognize that your body’s innate intelligence has taken your unique anatomy, set of experiences, and habits to create your one of a kind nervous system. The job of your nervous system is to take in information about your internal and external environment and keep you safe to the best of its ability. From there it runs your immune system and automatic (90%) and conscious (10%) functions. Your nervous system senses whether to breathe quickly or slowly, to increase your heart beat or keep it in resting mode, keeps your blood in your digestive system or sends it to your limbs to run away, and tells your muscles whether to be tight or loose, etc.
So in our assessment and adjustments of your nervous system, we ask your body questions about which areas of the spine and pelvis may be under more stress, or sometimes where it could even benefit from adding more tension. We address areas that influence the spinal cord and its position, tone and tension by working primarily in spots where your spine and spinal cord connect, namely at the very top and bottom of the spine. This is where your body has the most connections to self-regulate and self-heal, so an adjustment in these areas can affect many secondary misalignments. Patients are amazed at how muscle tension and joint pain in an areas we didn’t even touch can shift by these small adjustments.
Lastly, a nervous-system based chiropractor is extremely gentle. Rather than putting in big forces wherever your spine feels tight and manipulating your body into different positions to get a big movement, we use very precise but gentle impulses in the exact area where your body can most efficiently make changes. This makes our work extremely safe for the most tiny patients (about ⅓ of our patients are infants!), and for those who have frail bodies for a variety of reasons.
Interested in experiencing a different approach? Text us at 612 280-6596 to see if nervous system based chiropractic care is right for you.
