How Often Should I Receive Chiropractic Adjustments?

“Adjustment means to bring into right relationship. This is what is being done in chiropractic: bringing vertebrae into right relationship.” — Joe Strauss

Have you ever walked out of your Chiropractor’s Center and asked yourself, How long do these Chiropractic Adjustments last?

That’s a great question, and with it comes more clarity on how Chiropractic Care isn’t something done to you, but rather a way of promoting a higher quality of life from the inner recuperative power within you.

It’s something you create through an interdependence on the Chiropractor’s ability to locate, analyze, and facilitate the correction of areas within your spine that are out of relationship—vertebral subluxation.

Spinal bones are designed to protect the nerves through proper relationship with each other and the surrounding neurological tissue.

If you’ve lost that relationship and spinal integrity is less than ideal for a working relationship, neurological disturbance from vertebral subluxation can interfere with the body’s recuperative power—putting your well-being in a state of disharmony or dis-relationship.

Chiropractic adjustments facilitate proper relationship within the spinal joints, but how long the chiropractic adjustment lasts depends upon The Sixth Chiropractic Principle from the 33 Chiropractic Principles.

The Sixth Principle: “The Principle of Time”

The sixth principle, “The Principle of Time”—there is no process that does not require time.

Within your body is the ability to self-heal, self-coordinate, and self-function. Every second of your life, your body is in self-healing mode to get rid of weak, dying tissue and replenish it with new healthy tissue—but that process requires time.

Vertebral subluxation is a state of condition that requires healing and restoration for the spinal neurodynamics to be in proper relationship. This healing and restoration require time.

Depending on how long vertebral subluxation has been present and how long you’ve been receiving Chiropractic Adjustments will contribute factors to how long the adjustments last.

Chiropractic adjustments promote proper relationship within the spinal neurodynamics, which allows the neurological tissues to function optimally, which in turn allows the body’s inherent recuperative power to coordinate overall well-being and more self-healing.

Being Proactive with Chiropractic Care

The purpose of the Chiropractic Adjustment is to promote more restoration of the tissue within your body that needs healing, in order to hold the adjustment more effectively and in order to make the adjustment last longer. Being proactive with your lifestyle choices—including your Chiropractic Care—will enable the adjustment to be more effective.

Being proactive with your lifestyle choices will allow the principle of time to work in your favor and enable you to hold the adjustments longer. Being proactive is “acting, creating, or controlling a situation that causes something to happen rather than responding to it after it has happened.”

So if physical, chemical, and emotional stress can cause an environment for vertebral subluxation to occur, if you choose to act, create, or control how you are adapting to those stressors—you’re being more proactive in making the adjustment last longer.

Being proactive about the circumstances of your quality of life so you’re adapting rather than compensating to stress requires constant attention to detail.

Contributory Factors to Vertebral Subluxation:

• Physical Stress: Physical stress can be defined as external invasive forces that outweigh the internal resistive forces of the body to be in a state of balance.

• Chemical Stress: Chemical stress can be defined as external or internal chemicals that trigger physical reactions throughout the body, offsetting the chemical equilibrium or body chemistry balance.

• Emotional Stress: Emotional stress can be defined as internal emotional tension or mental strain that can produce physical responses throughout the body, offsetting the chemical equilibrium or physical state of balance.

How Do You Know If You’re Adapting or Compensating to Stress?

The unique aspect of chiropractic is you’ll never absolutely know if you need an adjustment or how long your last adjustment has been holding, but if you’re being proactive, your chiropractor will be able to tell you on your next visit.

The point of visiting your chiropractor is to let them decide through a proper evaluation and analysis for vertebral subluxation on the necessity for the chiropractic adjustment.

Malfunctioning spinal integrity can be asymptomatic, and choosing to visit your chiropractor on a proactive basis, based on stress levels, will support the necessary adjustment, which can promote greater results for allowing the adjustment to last longer!

Better structure within your spine means better function within the neurological system. Better function within the neurological system allows for the opportunity for more optimal well-being within.

Visiting your chiropractor in a proactive manner will promote more holding.

Holding the chiropractic adjustment can be achieved with consistency and continuous care.

Regular chiropractic adjustments allow repetitive reinforcement on the ligaments, muscles, and even the structure of bones around the spinal cord and nerve roots to help reinforce proper relationship within the spinal neurodynamics.

5 Proactive Choices to Promote Holding the Adjustment Longer:

1. Sleep: Early to bed, early to rise, a good night’s rest for recovery and healing.

2. Nutrition: Fuel your body with real food, vitamins, and nutrients.

3. Movement: Take time to play, participate in sports, and move your body.

4. Attitude: Think thoughts that produce positive action towards well-being.

5. Adaptability: Master the breaking points to physiology and find ways to overcome or strengthen your resistance to stress—Chiropractic Adjustments being one choice for a greater chance of adaptability!

Now take your 5 proactive choices for a better you and start right now! Put them on your calendar and hit repeat. Look twenty years down the road from now and see your future self thanking you for investing in yourself and your loved ones.

Well-being can be considered a fundamental principle rather than a fundamental pursuit, but that principle requires time.