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“THERE IS A VAST DIFFERENCE BETWEEN TREATING THE EFFECTS AND ADJUSTING THE CAUSE”
- D.D. Palmer (Founder of Chiropractic) CHIROPRACTIC 101Why are Chiropractors concerned with the health of the spine?
When people think of chiropractic and chiropractors, they think of back pain, neck pain or headaches. While it is true chiropractic care is GREAT at resolving many of these common problems, you may miss out on some other benefits to your health. The reason we are concerned with your spine, is it protects the MOST important organ system in the body. Your Brain and Nerve System Your spine and skull, are the armour for your most vital organ, the brain and spinal cord, or central nervous system. That controls and co-ordinates every function in your body. Most people understand it can affect how we feel, like low back pain for instance, but they may forget that it helps control our breathing, the beating of our heart, the digestion of our food, sweating, how awake we are, when we go to bed, are all intertwined with the central nervous system, particularly the autonomic nervous system. The brain controls all of these functions by sending, and receiving electrical like signals through your spinal cord and nerves to the body. The brain constantly monitors these, adapting to the environment. It goes without saying, but clear communication is imperative to ensure spinal health, and best chance of overall health and wellbeing. For this to happen, your spine needs to be in good alignment, with freely moving joints, so the nerves can function optimally. Stress Here is where chiropractic comes in.. Over the course of your lifetime, you have likely suffered incidents, accidents or injuries that affect your spine. From small, bumps and bruises as a child, to repetitive poor posture at work, sitting for long periods in a chair at a desk, to falls off a horse, gravity, to whiplash in a car crash. These stressors and strains all negatively impact your spine, and gradually or suddenly if traumatic you will lose movement in your spine, it may even cause you to shift out of alignment. This puts pressure on the nervous system, this interferes with the signals from your brain to your body, like static on the radio, or a mobile call with poor reception, messages are scrambled. This can affect your bodies function, many things can occur such as decreased co-ordination, slower reaction times, after some time, pain. Mostly, this is gradual, unless traumatic. Chiropractic Care Chiropractic care aims to restore the motion in the spine, restore the alignment, so your body can communicate via the nervous system effectively. Our unique process includes chiropractic adjustments, spinal mirror image exercises, functional exercises and spinal traction, we form a hybrid approach from Chiropractic Biophysics, Denneroll Spinal Orthotics and Dr Michaels clinical experience. Chiropractic BioPhysics®A Better Approach to Spinal Health
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On Site Digital X-ray & Analysis
At Charlton Chiropractic Redbank, we are the only one in the area (that we know of) that takes onsite digital x-ray, conducts motion studies, and uses posture ray x-ray analysis to give you the clearest picture of your spinal health.
Posture Ray EMR Software
Charlton Chiropractic Redbank has acquired state of the art X-ray processing software called ‘Posture Ray’ to enhance and optimise the diagnostic quality of digital radiographic images. Posture Ray is the only software to use the proprietary full spine models developed by the Chiropractic BioPhysics Research team of engineers and mathematicians, published in some of the top journals of the world. They include: Spine, Journal of Orthopaedic Research, European Spine Journal and Journal of Spinal Disorders.
Despite it’s complexity, Posture Ray allows you to clearly see where your spine is out of alignment (the red line) and where the correct alignment (the green line) should be. As shown opposite, it is very clear and easy to understand from a patient’s point of view.
‘You Can’t Diagnose What You Can’t See’
To get a great outcome for you, we need to provide great treatment. Outstanding care is provided according to your health history, trauma history, and your treatment goals. It may require specific X-ray analysis.
Posture Ray EMG Software aids in analysis of spinal x-rays and plots abnormal deviations. As a patient you can easily see exactly what corrections are necessary and track the progress of treatment, whether for spinal displacement, scoliosis or a ligamentous injury secondary to traumatic event.
At Charlton Chiropractic Redbank, we are the only one in the area (that we know of) that takes onsite digital x-ray, conducts motion studies, and uses posture ray x-ray analysis to give you the clearest picture of your spinal health.
Posture Ray EMR Software
Charlton Chiropractic Redbank has acquired state of the art X-ray processing software called ‘Posture Ray’ to enhance and optimise the diagnostic quality of digital radiographic images. Posture Ray is the only software to use the proprietary full spine models developed by the Chiropractic BioPhysics Research team of engineers and mathematicians, published in some of the top journals of the world. They include: Spine, Journal of Orthopaedic Research, European Spine Journal and Journal of Spinal Disorders.
Despite it’s complexity, Posture Ray allows you to clearly see where your spine is out of alignment (the red line) and where the correct alignment (the green line) should be. As shown opposite, it is very clear and easy to understand from a patient’s point of view.
‘You Can’t Diagnose What You Can’t See’
To get a great outcome for you, we need to provide great treatment. Outstanding care is provided according to your health history, trauma history, and your treatment goals. It may require specific X-ray analysis.
Posture Ray EMG Software aids in analysis of spinal x-rays and plots abnormal deviations. As a patient you can easily see exactly what corrections are necessary and track the progress of treatment, whether for spinal displacement, scoliosis or a ligamentous injury secondary to traumatic event.