Is Chiropractic Treatment a Life Long Commitment?

Chiropractic Treatment, is it a lifelong commitment?

The answer to that question is really up to your preference and how you prioritise your overall health. Is Chiropractic treatment and keeping your health well maintained one of your priorities? Or are you too busy to care about your health?

Chiropractic treatment is a great way to take care of your body. Whether it’s getting you out of pain, creating better posture or just improving your overall wellness and health, it is a great for you in many ways.

Most chiropractors design a care plan that starts with more frequent visits and it usually tapers down over a period of several weeks or months depending on the severity of your condition. However, do they ever tell you to stop coming in for chiropractic treatment? If not; are they just wanting your money or do they genuinely care about your health?

Structural Chiropractic Treatment

If you’re looking to correct the underlying problems in your spine and set up a strong and healthy foundation, you need structural chiropractic treatment to optimise the shape and curves of your spine and this is not going to happen in 1 or 2 visits. Although amazing things can and do happen in just a few chiropractic treatments, it does not mean that your problem is completely fixed at its core. It’s physiologically impossible for your body to go through such changes in such a short period of time.

For example, most people know how long it usually takes to restructure the teeth. A lot of people either have had braces in their lifetime or have known someone that has. Restructuring the teeth usually takes 18-24 months! Applying this to your spine, it would be outrageous to think a chiropractor can fix your back in just a couple of visits. Remember, symptom relief is NOT the same is fixing the problem.

Initial Chiropractic Treatment

The reason why Structural Chiropractors see their clients more frequently for a few weeks or months to start with is because the areas of the spine that have misalignments, have been in a misaligned position for days, weeks, months or even years so the muscles and ligaments around these joints are extremely weak. To build the strength of these muscles and ligaments again, we have to keep adjusting those joints and with doing do, there’s immediate muscle activation around them which makes them strong again which keep your spine well supported so everything can heal from within.

Strengthening muscles takes time. Everybody knows this. Have you ever gone to the gym and done one workout and felt like you have gained your maximum strength?

Protective Chiropractic Treatment

After the initial phase of chiropractic treatment, you’ll be shown your results and your chiropractor will give you recommendations on what they think is the best way to go forward but they will also tell you that it’s up to you to decide. Do you want to stop your chiropractic treatment and let your body go backwards again? Or do you want some less frequent visits to protect what you’ve achieved and go further into obtaining wellness and health?

Being on protective chiropractic treatment is much like keeping up your fitness by continuing to go to the gym or play in some kind of sport, or keeping your health optimum by eating the right foods.

If you eat well for 3 months and then let it all go again, what you achieved will all be reversed. if you go to the gym for 6 months and get fitter and stronger than you were before but then let it go again, what you achieved will all be reversed. Same thing can happen when you use chiropractic treatment to get your body structure nice and strong again, but then let it all go, your body will change and go backwards.

Chiropractors are more interested in preserving and maintaining your health through chiropractic treatment. We are just keeping your body well serviced like a car to allow it to function better and prevent future problems as much as possible. In the end, it is up to you whether or not you want to keep your body well serviced and maintained.

For treatment and a check-up, you can visit our Revolution Chiropractic and wellness clinic in Auckland, North Shore.