Which Chiropractic Technique Is Best? (Chiropractic Explained Simply)

Which chiropractic technique is the best? It's not necessarily a single one but

I'm gonna tell you what to look for am Doctor Ekberg with Wellness For Life and

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anything. Someone recently asked me a question on YouTube and asked if

activator was a good technique for chiropractic and I'm gonna fill you in a

little bit on what to look for in a chiropractic technique so the short

answer is the technique is exactly as good as the doctor performing it so if

you have a really really good doctor doing full spine then it's a good

technique if you have a really good doctor doing applied kinesiology then

that's a good technique there's over 300 different chiropractic techniques and

each one does something a little bit different but they all have something in

common if they're performed properly and this is what sets chiropractic apart in

chiropractic you observe something and then you find something that is out of

balance you you measure leg length difference you check postural

differences you can measure temperature or you can do a muscle test like I do

and if you find something that isn't the way it's supposed to be if it's not

level if it's not aligned if it's not holding when you push on the muscle then

that's a problem then the chiropractor makes an adjustment and then he goes

back and rechecks so you look for something that's out of balance or

something that's not working and then you give the adjustment and what that is

it's giving the body information and if that information is useful for the body

then you go back and recheck and you can see an improvement if there was a

postural misalignment then that should be better if there was a leg length

difference it should be better if there was a muscle

wasn't working it should now be working and if you have made a change the thing

that you have made a change to is the central nervous system because the brain

controls the muscles the muscles move the bones and align things and in the

time it takes to make an adjustment you can't rebuild muscles you can't make any

tissue changes to the body what you can do is you can change how the body

processes and that is what the central nervous system does so what I tell

people an adjustment actually is is it's a stimulation it's an input of

information to the nervous system that creates a pattern interrupt you could

also call it a jumpstart or you could call it resetting a circuit breaker so

we are an electrical system and all the changes that take place in in a short

period of time is to that electrical system that manages everything so

chiropractors tend to favor their own technique and they tend to not look so

favorably on other techniques mainly because they don't understand them so I

am so happy that I went through a lot of additional neurology courses where I

started understanding how the brain works and what chiropractic actually

does because then I understood the commonality what all chiropractic

techniques have in common they all do something to affect the nervous system

chiropractors do not take pressure off nerves they put pressure on receptors

receptors generate signals and with specific receptor stimulation we can

rebalance the nervous system that's what all chiropractic techniques have in

common and like I said if you find a good practitioner then that's a good

technique however you may have heard me say that the world has changed more in

the last 50 years than it has in the previous 50

thousand so the world we live in the rules have changed and even since

chiropractic was founded a little over a hundred years ago the world has changed

dramatically and chiropractic has always talked about the three sides of a

triangle they talk about chemical structural and emotional balance so the

body is influenced by chemical signals structural mechanical signals and by

emotional signals so you could have your blood pressure change by thinking

something different that's an emotional signal you can have signals to your

brain change depending on your posture or how much you move you can have

signals change depending on what you eat or if you take a drug a drug is a

chemical and interferes with signals so if we understand how much the world has

changed in the last 50 years then we understand that the chemical structural

emotional all has to be addressed if we want to be truly healthy that's what a

holistic chiropractor does in our office we address all of those an interesting

thing is that the founder of chiropractic DD Palmer he wrote a book

in 1912 and already he said that that bone in your neck is as likely to be

misaligned due to eating processed food as it is due to trauma I'm paraphrasing

but that's essentially what he said that the other factors it's not just posture

and trauma and accidents any of the other factors are equally likely to

start creating imbalances and in our world we have more food allergies we

have more chemicals we have more heavy metals we are more pollution we are more

electromagnetic radiation than we've ever had before and these are factors

that we must take into consideration so if you were subluxation if you're

misalignment is caused at least in part by a metal or a chemical or a food

then that adjustment is going to be a temporary reset it's not going to fix

the problem it'll make you feel better but you're gonna have to get adjusted

over and over and over and over until you help the body deal with that metal

or that chemical or that food sensitivity I sometimes ask a patient if

your shoulder pain is caused by a heavy metal toxicity would you like me to work

on your shoulder or your metal toxicity food-for-thought we have to address the

cause so in our office we work with chiropractic adjustments we show people

stretches and postural exercises we have nutritional counseling and we have

detoxification programs so in our office we work on all three sides of the

triangle and we have good tools to provide help in all those areas so for

the structural we work with chiropractic and exercise and stretches and postural

retraining for the chemical side we work with nutritional counseling whole food

natural supplements and detoxification programs and for the emotional side to

help people relax to help them enter into a relaxation

response we have biofeedback we have audio-visual

entrainment and programs to help retrain the brain into a more relaxed behavior

so if you want a good chiropractor look for someone who observes something

adjusts and then re observes and can show you the changes to your

satisfaction and then in addition I would suggest today look for a holistic

chiropractor who can address all areas that might influence and interfere with

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