Why settle for anything less than comprehensive information when making crucial decisions about someone's health? Every patient deserves the highest level of chiropractic care in Kahului, HI, achieved through a thorough analysis that correlates various aspects of their clinical picture. This approach ensures specificity and fosters patient confidence in the doctor's ability to provide effective care.
The Gonstead Technique relies on five essential components: Visualization, Instrumentation, Palpation, X-Ray, and patient symptoms. By integrating these elements, we can pinpoint the precise location that requires adjustment. When all these factors align, we can provide the patient with a specific and effective adjustment. Specificity is the key, as Dr. Gonstead emphasized that three adjustments on the wrong vertebral segment could lead to a Subluxation, highlighting the importance of precision.
Dr. Gonstead postulated that when the Parallel Disc relationship is compromised by vertebral misalignment the pivot point of the nucleus pulposus is compressed and puts pressure against the surrounding annular fibers damaging them.
This tissue damage creates and inflammatory response causing the disc to expand, and it is this expansion which puts pressure on the nerves in a given intervertebral foramen resulting in neurological dysfunction.
The Gonstead system says for this reason that subluxations begin at the disc, it is important to understand the stages of degeneration so as to visualize what adjusting direction and force must be applied for correction.
In the spine intervertebral discs act as both a protective cushion allowing for flexibility as well as a supportive coupling between vertebral bodies to insure a normal and healthy range of motion.
The Nucleus Pulposus is the dense central mass which holds fluids and nutrients and functions as a pivot point or “ball bearing” during movement of a vertebral couple. The Annulus Fibrosis is the outlying layers of fibrocartilage and collengenous fibers, much the “rings” observed in a cross section of a tree trunk. The Annulus is anchored to the cartilaginous end plates of adjacent vertebral bodies.
Dr. Gonstead’s Level Disc Theory states that “anatomically and physiologically normal discs will allow the vertebral bodies to assume their optimum relationships”. This is observed when the vertical height of a vertebral couple is uniform 360º around with the vertebral bodies in line. This relationship is known as “Parallel Discs” and allows for equal weight bearing, adequate nutrient supply and optimal joint function and movement in the spine.
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