Chiropractic Visits: How Often? Chiropractic Not Working?

Chiropractic adjustments. How often do you need one? I'm gonna explain the

bigger picture so that you understand the variables that determine how often

you might need one. Coming right up

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Chiropractors often get criticized for adjusting so much that they they sell

care plans to people that go on three times a week for three months twice a

week for three months and once a week for the rest of your life so why do they

do that? and is there a way that we can get fewer adjustments and still get the

same results or even better? So let's talk about all these factors first of

all before we can answer the question of how often we need to understand several

different things so first of all what is an adjustment and with that I don't mean

the the twisting and the cracking or using an instrument that's just the

action but what's the mechanism when we do an adjustment what's the mechanism

how does it influence the body how does it change anything because it is not

about moving the bone I don't care how many chiropractors have told you that it

is about the alignment of the bone that's not what it's about if it was

about moving the bone then you would simply find the misalignment you would

move the bone from A to B and you'd be done all right but that's not the case

if that was the case you need one adjustment but there are other factors

involved so it's not about moving the bone it's about the effect on the brain

what happens in the brain when you move the bone because the brain controls and

regulates everything in your body so if an adjustment has a benefit it's because

it affected the brain somehow it changed the brains perception it changed the

brain's ability to carry out its actions so what effects

does it have on the brain first it is stimulation okay when we move something

we activate receptors we activate muscle spindles we activate mechanoreceptors

stretch receptors and we send signals to the brain that's number one and this has

been verified by EEG electroencephalograms in dozens if not

hundreds of studies when we stimulate when we do something like an adjustment

which is also very quick and very sudden it's very different from a stretch for

example we have a pattern interrupt it's like a defibrillation in a sense it's

like a surprise to the brain and these can also be verified on EEG s the other

thing to understand is that it is a patterning retraining that every skill

that you have whether it is in sports whether it's it's throwing a basketball

shooting hoops if it's playing an instrument playing piano or violin

you're not going to create a habit you're not going to get skilled in one

attempt you're gonna have to do it over and over and over because all skills

that you have are patterns in your nervous system it is by creating habits

and patterns and pathways that are habituated that you can carry out

actions and skills automatically so posture muscle spasms they're also

habits misalignments are also habits that we need to interrupt and that we

need to retrain so adjusting is a skill retraining and it takes a certain amount

of repetition okay there's no way around that

here is where and this is where chiropractors agree that yes it takes a

lot of repetition but the question is how much repetition

and what are the other factors involved that might reduce the need for so much

repetition or if you've been adjusted for a year and you have seen you see

temporary results and then he goes right back to where it was what's going on why

doesn't it take why doesn't it last what is required for an adjustment to work so

first of all we know that an adjustment is a signal so in order for it to work

the brain has to process that signal it has to be able to understand it it has

to metabolize it okay brain cells have a metabolism they have energy expenditure

it requires energy to process a signal so in order to process the signal the

brain requires glucose or in some cases ketones if you're on a ketogenic diet

your brain learns to utilize more ketones than glucose it also needs

oxygen and these two are enough to process the signal temporarily but that

is not going to change the skill because in order to change the skill in order to

retrain the pattern we have to make new synapses we have to enhance we have to

enlarge the pathways involved and that means we have to build something we have

to add materials we have to have raw materials with which to build new

synapses and new pathways and strengthen the nerves involved so now we also need

building blocks that's nutrition that's essential fatty

acids and cholesterol and essential amino acids and in order to utilize

those things we need enzymes and vitamins and minerals and cofactors and

food factors that there are tens of thousands that we know of and even more

that we don't know of but that's the stuff in whole food and that's why when

we eat processed foods we can be deficient in the building

blocks and the cofactors needed to process those signals so nutrition

becomes incredibly important for the adjustment to work so there are a few

things that can interfere with this signal so if we adjust over and over we

we make a change and then it's back to where it was then the brain is either

missing something like we said the nutrition or there is something else

interfering with that signal over and over and over it's like a circuit

breaker it trips you fix it and it trips again well what was it that tripped it

again and this is what we have found over and over is maybe the most

important factor to address today even before or at the same time that you

start adjusting at all and if someone has poor digestion then they're gonna

have inflammation and they're gonna have deficiencies because they can't break

down the food so it causes inflammation they can't break down the food so they

can't absorb the micronutrients so now they don't have the nutrients necessary

to process the signal and to rebuild synapses and pathways so what we can do

is we can identify if they have a food sensitivity we can give them a digestive

enzyme so now they break the food down better we reduce the inflammation they

absorb more food that we give them some nutrients so now there's fewer

deficiencies now they have the building blocks and the raw materials to actually

process the signal and to create new synapses and this is the difference

between an adjustment that is short term effect and that starts lasting longer

and longer but there can be other things interfering as well so if they have a

metal toxicity a metal can sit in a synapse it can block a receptor it can

block a crucial function in the body so that

we adjust and then that circuit breaker goes off again same thing with chemicals

so the body has a normal way a natural way of dealing with toxins we eliminate

toxins through the liver and through the bowel and the kidneys and the lungs and

the skin but if the body gets overwhelmed or if it gets stressed or

deficient then it has a lesser ability to get rid of these things and now they

start accumulating until they become a problem I'm tripping these circuit

breakers if you will so by assisting the body by helping the liver by taking some

homeopathics to assist the body in eliminating toxins

we're actually supporting that adjustment there are also other factors

there are immune factors if you have chronic pathogens if you have chronic

inflammation so if you have sinus infections if you have a poor gut flora

then all of those are factors and we've talked in other videos about scars and

another factor is electromagnetic fields because your body is an electromagnetic

fields if you have a lot of electromagnetic fields around you it

interferes with your body's ability to adapt it makes it more difficult the

body has to expend more energy to compensate for that external

electromagnetic field so these are all different reasons and different factors

that are important to understand of why the adjustment may or may not work so

well so 50 60 70 years ago people got a few adjustments and they got tremendous

results because we didn't have such processed food such poor digestion we

didn't have so many deficiencies we didn't have metal toxicity chemical

toxicity they've added 80,000 chemicals in our environment since 1950 it was a

different world and these are the factors that have changed that we need

to understand these are the real reasons why we

SiC and why chiropractic doesn't work as quickly as it used to so if you've had

chiropractic care for years and you're just getting better and then you're kind

of just coming back to the same place all the time then it might be time to

find someone that can address some of these other factors or encourage your

existing chiropractor to maybe look for some of these things or ask about those

in our office we have had people come from other chiropractors they said I

went to this place for a year I've been adjusted every week for two years and

the adjustment holds for two-three days and then we start helping them with

these factors some digestive enzymes some metal and chemical detoxification

and all of a sudden their adjustments start holding and rather quickly we see

them once a month and they're doing just great so everyone's different this is

not something that's going to happen every time but very very often we find

that these are the factors that really determine how well that adjustment is

going to work because it's not about moving the bone it's about creating a

signal helping the brain develop a new pattern and having the nutritional

status the ability to process the energy to create the energy to process that

signal to have the building blocks to create new patterns and new synapses the

body is an ecosystem and everything works together so how often do you need

to get adjusted I suggest that you need to get adjusted

three times a week initially to interrupt the pattern and to start the

pattern retraining but if you have a proper nutritional status you should

already start to see some stabilization again everyone's different this might

happen in two weeks for some people and four weeks

in other people but it should not have to go on for months and months and

months at that frequency then there are other reasons

other factors that are not being addressed and I believe that maintenance

chiropractic is incredibly important we should never ever stop getting adjusted

entirely because of all these different reasons we live in a different world we

live in a very stressful toxic world and chiropractic has the ability to create

pattern interrupts and resets that can be incredibly powerful I believe a

maintenance for most people should be maybe once a month every six weeks every

couple of months very few people can go even longer than that and still do well

but again it's not about symptoms it is about having a fully functional body to

have all the organs and all the synapses to have a stable brain that can sleep

well and function well and think well that has good endurance that doesn't

fatigue easily from physical movement or or mental tasks that's all a part of

health and by understanding these factors you have the bigger picture that

can help you understand what chiropractic does and how to get truly

healthy so watch as many of our videos as you can because these are things that

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