The natural state of your mind and body is health.

The Natural State of Your Mind and Body is Health.

At ReConnect Chiropractic and Wellness, our approach is simple. We believe that health is your most valuable asset. We educate with truth: health is when your body works as it was designed. Most people think how they look or feel is an indicator of how healthy they are — it's not true. Imagine you unknowingly eat some spoiled food. Later you get stomach cramps and vomit. You certainly don't feel well, but thankfully your body is functioning correctly. Imagine the tragic consequences of taking a drug to calm your stomach and retain the toxic food. Vomiting, sneezing, coughing and even fevers may actually be signs that your body is working correctly — the definition of true health.

Functioning Great

Your brain, spinal cord and all of your nerves control and regulate your body. Every cell, tissue, organ and system — even your immune system — takes orders from your nervous system. Thus, true health is how well your nervous system is orchestrating the workings of your body. That's why subluxations are so serious. Compromised brain-to-body or body-to-brain communication can be the underlying cause of a variety of health problems. Many people with a spinal problem discover that other health problems resolve with chiropractic care. Patients often report that as their care progresses, they notice other positive changes in their health. We want to help you maintain the temple God gave you.

Not all chiropractors are alike. Although they go by the same name, chiropractors differ greatly in technique and philosophy. The traditional philosophy that chiropractic was based on has never changed, but for social acceptance, on a cultural level, some chiropractors have. As a result, when patients go to different chiropractors they get different opinions, treatments, results and costs. This can be both confusing and frustrating. If expectations aren't met, patients stop care and never experience the results chiropractic can give them.

There are basically two types of chiropractors: the musculoskeletal chiropractors who work on symptom relief, and the traditional wellness chiropractors who work on subluxation and structural correction.

Symptom Relief Chiropractors

Like the typical M.D., this type of chiropractor primarily focuses on relief of symptoms (back pain and headaches). Manipulations are done to the spine to decompress joints, free fixations and reduce pain. Electrotherapies such as ultrasound, diathermy, electrostimulation, TENS units and laser acupuncture are often used. In some states, chiropractors are even trying to expand their scope of practice to prescribe drugs.

Length of treatment and frequency of adjustments are usually dictated by the patient's symptoms or insurance coverage. Degrading schedules like 3-to-2-to-1 per week are often used because that's all insurance will pay for. Monitoring progress by symptoms and insurance usually means shorter overall treatment time, but still leaves the patient far short of correcting the cause. The patient may feel better temporarily, but since the spine remains structurally misaligned, it degenerates silently and results in damage and dysfunction to discs, joints and whatever part of the body the nerve supplies.

"It should be apparent that electrical currents administered to the body have purely physical side effects of an undesirable nature. Most people who employ or promote electrical currents are either unaware of these effects or choose to ignore them."
— Robert Becker, M.D., Cross Currents

"Orthodox medicine tends to treat the symptom, and once it has made the symptom go away, it tells the patient that his or her condition is cured or at least controlled. Actually, in most cases, the disease hasn't been treated at all. Its symptoms have been masked or obliterated, but in due time the disease may well assert itself in another direction."
— Robert C. Atkins, M.D., Health Revolution

The bottom line: treating only symptoms still leaves the cause uncorrected.

Traditional / Wellness Chiropractors

This type of chiropractor practices the traditional wellness philosophy of chiropractic — subluxation and structural correction of the spine. Simply put, a subluxation is a misaligned vertebra that interferes with nerve impulses. Nerve impulse is the electrical signal from the brain that regulates all function of the body and keeps us alive.

Although the traditional/wellness chiropractor wants patients to feel better, the primary focus is removing nerve interference (subluxation) and restructuring the spine and posture to its most stable biomechanical position. By maximizing the integrity of the discs, joints and nerves through spinal adjustments and postural correction, the body's wellness — its health potential and ability to function — improves. This is done through a rehabilitation program of adjustments and spinal exercises.

The length of correction and frequency of adjustment is determined by the severity of the patient's subluxations and structural alignment. Symptoms may be gone long before the spine is at its maximum corrected position, so adjustment schedules are kept intense to allow structural correction in the shortest amount of time. The patient is then closely monitored by postural patterns, x-rays and spinal readings until the subluxations are corrected and the spine is in proper alignment. By reviewing before-and-after studies with the doctor, the patient actually sees the results.

Since subluxations are silent and research shows they begin at birth — resulting in dysfunction and disease — the traditional chiropractor recommends families be checked, especially children. Because of this, the traditional/wellness chiropractor will work out fair and equitable payment plans so families can afford care, regardless of insurance coverage.

So remember, when choosing a chiropractor, choose based on your health care philosophy and goals. If your philosophy is to only treat symptoms when they arise, choose the symptom relief chiropractor. If your philosophy is wellness — maintaining optimum health potential to prevent dysfunction and disease — choose the traditional/wellness chiropractor for maximum correction and maintenance of your spine and health.

The choice is yours.