Chiropractic maintenance care, also known as "chiropractic wellness care," is a type of ongoing chiropractic treatment that is designed to help patients maintain good health and prevent future health problems. 

The goal of chiropractic maintenance care is to help patients maintain the benefits of chiropractic treatment over the long term. Many people find that regular chiropractic care helps them manage chronic pain or other health conditions more effectively, while others use it as a way to stay healthy and prevent future health issues from developing.

Chiropractic maintenance care is typically not covered by insurance, so patients will typically pay out-of-pocket for these services. It's a good idea to carefully consider the costs and benefits of chiropractic maintenance care before starting this type of treatment, and to discuss your options with a chiropractor or other healthcare provider.
 

Membership chiropractic is a type of chiropractic care in which patients pay a monthly fee for ongoing chiropractic treatment. This type of care is often referred to as a "chiropractic maintenance program" or "wellness program."

In a membership chiropractic program, patients typically receive a certain number of chiropractic adjustments per month. The exact services and number of visits included in a membership chiropractic program may vary depending on the specific practice and the patient's needs.

Membership chiropractic is a way to receive ongoing, preventative care to maintain good health and help prevent future health problems. Some people find that this type of care helps them manage chronic pain or other health conditions more effectively, while others use it as a way to stay healthy and prevent future health issues from developing.
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Membership chiropractic is not typically covered by insurance. Not having to spend time or pay someone to process insurance claims helps keep the fees of a membership chiropractic program affordable.

​This week it has been great to hear so people at the office mention something about how they know that getting adjusted is one thing they can do to help keep their immune systems working better. With that in mind, I thought I'd share some quick reminders about chiropractic care and things you can do to help you immune system.

The primary purpose of a chiropractic adjustment is to remove interference from the nervous system through the correction of vertebral subluxations. While some professions focus on changing the environment around you to suit a weakened body, chiropractic focuses on strengthening your body to suit your environment.

As a reminder, here are a few common sense approaches to strengthen your body and immune system:

1. Move your body. (Walk, Exercise, Stretch, etc.)
2. Get enough sleep.
3. Improve your nutrition. Eat well.
4. Drink water and greatly reduce or remove sugary drinks and snacks from your diet.
5. "Pray, hope, and don't worry." (quote from St. Padre Pio)
6. Limit nerve interference due to vertebral subluxations as much as possible through regular chiropractic care. 

​See, I told you these were common sense, but I think it's valuable to be reminded of the simple, little things from time to time. You can determine the best way to for you to take care of the first five items on the list, and I'll be at the office to help you with the last one. 

See you at the office soon, and be well!

Just as there are many different techniques and practice styles in this great profession, there are many opinions on how regularly one should have their spine checked. Let us explain the science behind our recommendation of no less than once weekly spinal checks for you and your family.

Dr. Ogi Ressel is an international lecturer, a pediatric and x-ray specialist, researcher and clinician. He recently wrote an article to chiropractors around the world on this very subject. According to Ressel, "Many chiropractors often schedule patients for a once-a-month maintenance adjustment based on the idea that monthly maintenance adjustments will help prevent and alleviate many problems. In reality, monthly adjustments are promoted because most chiropractors feel that this is the visit frequency that most people will "buy into" as a preventative measure."

Dr. Ressel confronts the chiropractic profession with this reality - " In essence, when most chiropractors place patients on a monthly maintenance schedule, they are simply maintaining their problems, but their symptoms are gone! That is the reality."

Here is Dr. Ressel's reasoning:

1. First of all, research done by Tapio Vidman, M.D., D.M.Sci., (a Researcher in the University of Alberta's Faculty of Rehabilitation Medicine), tells us that a subluxation, once formed, will cause an inescapable degeneration progression if it is allowed to remain for more than 10-15 days (published in Clinical Biomechanics 1987). This means that a monthly maintenance visit will absolutely ensure that your patient will get worse over time. Other research on subluxation degeneration, states that microscopic degenerative changes to the hyaline cartilage which surrounds your spinal joints can begin to occur within forty-eight hours of the occurrence of a subluxation!

2. According to Dr. Ressel, "Most doctors do not see their patients on an appropriate schedule of care in order to be able to really correct their subluxation pattern, and it is a pattern. It is a neurological habit the body becomes accustomed to, and it most often starts in children."

"Patients need to be placed on a schedule of care that will actually cause their subluxation pattern to be broken. The correction of subluxation patterning is most important in children."

If you are serious about working with us to see that you and your family function as best you can under any circumstances (regardless of the presence or absence of pain and symptoms), a weekly spinal check is critical.

---Thanks to Sasso Family Chiropractic for this article.

Just as there are many different chiropractic techniques and practice styles, there are many opinions on how regularly one should have their spine checked. Here is the reasoning behind Mind & Body Chiropractic's recommendation of no less than once weekly spinal checks for you and your family.

Dr. Ogi Ressel is an international lecturer, a pediatric and x-ray specialist, researcher and clinician. According to an article he wrote to chiropractors around the world, "Many chiropractors often schedule patients for a once-a-month maintenance adjustment based on the idea that monthly maintenance adjustments will help prevent and alleviate many problems. In reality, monthly adjustments are promoted because most chiropractors feel that this is the visit frequency that most people will "buy into" as a preventative measure."

Dr. Ressel confronts the chiropractic profession with this reality - "In essence, when most chiropractors place patients on a monthly maintenance schedule, they are simply maintaining their problems..." Here is Dr. Ressel's reasoning:

1. First of all, research done by Tapio Vidman, M.D., D.M.Sci., (a Researcher in the University of Alberta's Faculty of Rehabilitation Medicine), tells us that a subluxation, once formed, will cause an inescapable degeneration progression if it is allowed to remain for more than 10-15 days (published in Clinical Biomechanics 1987). Other research on subluxation degeneration, states that microscopic degenerative changes to the hyaline cartilage which surrounds your spinal joints can begin to occur within forty-eight hours of the occurrence of a subluxation!

2. According to Dr. Ressel, "Most doctors do not see their patients on an appropriate schedule of care in order to be able to really correct their subluxation pattern, and it is a pattern. It is a neurological habit the body becomes accustomed to, and it most often starts in children."

"Patients need to be placed on a schedule of care that will actually cause their subluxation pattern to be broken. The correction of subluxation patterning is most important in children."

For these reasons Mind & Body Chiropractic recommends a spinal check at least once a week you and your family regardless of the presence or absence of pain and symptoms.

Thanks to Tony DeCosta, DC and Sasso Family Chiropractic Center for the inspiration behind this article.