Protection Plan Of Care

Following an initial care phase at Revolution Chiropractic, we frequently offer what we call a Protection Plan. This is a tailored plan of Chiropractic checks. Designed to maintain, or protect, the positive changes we’ve achieved with your spine.

The majority of issues we find in the spine are due to months, or more commonly years, of cumulative stresses to the body. Dysfunctional movement patterns of the spine become ingrained in the brain, and Chiropractic adjustments, along with spinal exercises, aim to rewire the brain so-to-speak as well as allow muscle, ligament, and tendons to heal and function properly.

How

After the initial care plan is complete, your spine should be much stronger, functional, and resilient to stress. However, it won’t miraculously be invulnerable to the future impact of poor posture, repetitive strain, or sheer bad luck.

I like to describe it this way; we design your initial care phase to unravel the effects of past stress. While the protection care plan helps you move more smoothly into future tensions.

A Scandinavian study published in 2018 compared the effect of scheduled maintenance care (what we call a Protection Plan). Versus seeing the chiropractor only when pain occurred. It discussed how this affected the frequency of bothersome low back pain (i.e., pain that affected the ability to do desired daily activities. The maintenance care group had nearly two weeks less bothersome days than did the control group in the year.

Results

Now, this study didn’t show that low back pain completely disappeared in these chronic back pain sufferers, but they did gain more days on which they were able to do what they wanted, unhindered by their pain, which is a win. As with any scientific research piece, it is somewhat limited in its scope, in this case, it only looked at low back pain in chronic low back pain patients, which is far from the only group of people that we work with during practice!

Pain is something measurable to an individual, but we must also consider the potential effect of a spine that is more mobile and putting less tension on the brain and spinal cord on the overall capacity and well-being of a person. We see it frequently, better sleep, more mobility when playing sport, or just doing regular physical activities and fewer headaches, just to name a few! Of course, different people respond differently, and everyone has the choice of how they want to manage their health care. Still, we will continue to make available (and personally utilize, yes, chiropractors need chiropractic too!) maintenance care in the form of our Protection Plans.

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