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Can my insurance be used to cover chiropractic work? What Will Not Correct Structure? What Can I Do About a Structural Foundation Problem? How Are Structural Problems Corrected? What Spinal Misalignments Can’t my body Naturally-Correct? What If my structure is not corrected? |
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Can my insurance be used to cover chiropractic work? It depends on the insurance carrier. Some carriers require a chiropractic rider. You can call for a FREE consultation and we will go over your concerns. You can find out what steps are needed for your situation before you spend any money regardless if you have insurance coverage or not. The only thing you have to lose is your time.  |
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What Will Not Correct Structure? Things like rehab exercises, stretching, physical therapy, and massage will not correct misalinments that causes your structure to be abnormal. Many people believe if they feel better, the problem is corrected. The true test is to evaluate to see if your structural foundation is balanced and your body is functioning as ideal as possible. |
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What Can I Do About a Structural Foundation Problem? The most important thing you can do is get evaluated and follow the recommendations needed to improve your structural foundation. It is also important that you wear shoes, sit in chairs, and sleep on a bed with a pillow that is proper for your body. If used correctly, these things better help your body compensate and prevent you from getting worse. Please note that most of the information about shoes, chairs, mattresses, and pillows is not true. You can learn and evaluate this for yourself by attending our a monthly workshop "The SSS (Sleep, Sit, and Stand) Great Lakes Chiropractic” where you will learn how to Sleep, Sit,and Stand without further injuring your body. The workshop is absolutely FREE. Other things you can do include using your legs and preventing your back from slumping over while working or lifting and avoiding things that keep your head and neck bent forward, like propping your head up behind a pillow. Finally, attempting to self correct or have someone who is untrained try and correct your structure is not recommended and often does more harm than good. |
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How Are Structural Problems Corrected? Structural problems are corrected by a series of therapeutic stretches and spinal adjustments. The stretches and adjustments necessary are determined by specific testing. The application of the stretches and adjusting is done via a specific protocol and is applied to the body in specific ways that not followed or applied will result in a failed outcome. When we adjust, we only correct misalignments your body can not naturally correct. This occurs when the body is stuck in a forward direction. The reason this happens is that you do not have a muscle over your back bone that can pull forward stuck spinal bones back into place. The result is an altered foundation called Anterior Head Syndrome.  |
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What Spinal Misalignments Can’t my body Naturally-Correct? The misalignments that you can’t naturally-correct are ones that occur when a bone in the spine gets stuck forward. The reason you cannot naturally-correct these forward misaligned spinal bones (vertebrae) is that you have no muscles that can pull these bones directly backward to reposition them. To pull a spinal bone back into place you would need a muscle that attaches from the spine to something behind it. There is nothing back there but your skin. The technical name for a misaligned bone in the body is called subluxation. This is a Latin word. Sub means a little bit and luxation means dislocation or out of place. In other words, subluxation means a bone that is a little bit out of place.  |
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What If my structure is not corrected? When structural problems cause by spinal misalignment (subluxation) is uncorrected the body compensates (adapts) to reduce forward mechanical pressure by twisting and tilting sideways and backwards to stay upright. This is why you see some unusual postures in people. How you compensate depends on what and how many things are stuck. All of this happens because forward stuck bones remain stuck forward as your body can’t naturally-correct them. Where you body compensates there is an increase in the mechanical pressure and where you will develop secondary conditions like neck and back pain. The compensation points are where your body cannot handle the increased pressure, and why you the area becomes damaged and painful. To relieve the pain and get the body to correct the damage, you must either compensate further (causing new areas of pain and damage), or have your structure corrected. If the pain goes away due to compensation, though you feel better, your body is mechanically worse and you are literally an accident waiting to happen.  |
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