Can Chiropractors in Cocoa Beach FL Adjust Too Often?

Get Your Spine Checked Out Often in Cocoa Beach FL

In my opinion, everyone should get checked for vertebral subluxations on a weekly basis and adjusted accordingly. One week you may not need to be adjusted. Another week you may need an adjustment. Based on this, if we keep this plan in our minds, we may miss one week or I may be out of the office another week, you can get checked about every week to two weeks.

“Why?” Well in my receiving my C.C.W.P., Certified Chiropractic Wellness Practitioner, certificate in 2009 I found a study that proves my point. Dishman¹ states, “The residual effects of chronic pathomechanics include fibrosis, contracture, adhesions, deformity and structural derangements. This explains the need for repeated manipulative treatment of many years or, perhaps, a lifetime of management of chronic joint disease. Many of these consequences are preventable by regular kinematic spinal examinations and/or corrective care.” He goes on to state, “The reason 50 or 60 visits are necessary over a period of many months is due to the adventitious fibrils, fibrosis, scar tissue, etc., would seem more rational than trying to explain the necessity of replacing a “bone out of place” perhaps 60 or more times.”

Alcantra² states, “80 visits over two years resulted in a patient’s ability to live a “normal life” free of medication.”

In short it takes a lot of adjustments (50+) over a lot of months to repair the damage to live a “normal life” without medication. That is if you don’t create more damage.

As for what I do, once a week is a good way to repair and prevent permanent cellular damage which becomes permanent within 14 days³. Based on this, I RECOMMEND once-a-week checks so you, your family and mine can avoid permanent damage!

Enuf said,

Dr. Bret

¹ Dishman, R.W. Static and Dynamic Components of the Chiropractic Subluxation Complex: A literature review. JMPT 1988; 11(2).

² Alcantra et al. Chiropractic Management of a Patient with Myasthenia Gravis and Vertebral Subluxations. JMPT 1999, 22(5).

³ Videman, T. Experimental models of osteoarthritis: The Role of Immobilization. Clinical Biomechanics 1987, 2 (also reviewed in Chiropractic Report

Written by Bret B. Glas, D. C., C.C.W.P., L.C.Ph., CF-L1