As in medicine and dentistry, we have specialities within the chiropractic profession. Chiropractic neurologists, through their education, training and board certification, choose to limit their practice to a certain specialty to assist members of their profession and allopathic physicians in the diagnosis and treatment of a variety of conditions. Within the chiropractic profession, there are specialists in radiology, orthopaedics, neurology, and physical rehabilitation.
Typically, a chiropractic neurologist serves in the same consulting manner as a medical neurologist. The difference is that the therapies or applications of a chiropractic neurologist do not include drugs or surgery. As a result, certain conditions are more customarily seen by a chiropractic neurologist as opposed to a medical neurologist, and vice versa. Specifically, our people see patients with a variety of movement disorders, dystonia, post-stroke rehabilitation, and radiculopathy or nerve entrapment syndromes that are consequences of peripheral or central types of lesions. Chiropractic neurologists can provide therapies and treatments as well as counsel when there is a diagnostic dilemma or a question of appropriateness of care regarding an individual lesion or scenario.
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The Brain-based approach to chiropractic is a way to look at the body and health issues that focuses on the body’s central computer. The brain (specifically the prefrontal cortex) controls everything: pain inhibition, muscle tension, autonomic activity like heart and lungs, and mood/emotion. When there is a dysfunction in this area, the above start to run out of control or “without brakes” and increase. For example, increased muscle tension (causing pain and moving bones out of place), increased heart rate/blood pressure, and anxiety/feeling overwhelmed by stress that normally doesn’t cause much of a problem.
In order to address this dysfunction, a series of inputs using chiropractic manipulation, massage, complex movement patterns, and eye movements can boost the areas of deficit and improve overall function and decrease pain/spasm. The manipulation is the largest input to the nervous system without causing pain. It must be tailored to the patient and every patient is different. Specific inputs will help, but others my increase the problem. So it is very important to give the proper adjustments in the correct places and directions.
Chiropractic adjustment rarely causes discomfort. However, patients may sometimes experience mild soreness or aching following treatment (as with some forms of exercise) that usually resolves within 12 to 48 hours.
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