Know If You Should Continue Chiropractic Care
Discuss with your chiropractor at the beginning of your treatments what the projected treatment plan will entail. Your specific condition or injury will dictate how often and how long you will need to continue your chiropractic care. Chiropractors manipulate your vertebrae to relieve pressure on neighboring nerve groups. This method is often used to treat chronic pain, as well as other systemic disorders.
Instructions
Know If You Should Continue Chiropractic Care
1. Visit your chiropractor for your current pain or injury. After your evaluation and diagnosis, ask for a written treatment plan. This should include a projected time frame for treatments and a plan for transitioning to stop them.
2. Let your body speak for you. You know how you feel. If you improved at the beginning of your treatments but you haven't felt any better in weeks, it's time to ask for a revised treatment plan. It may be time to stop your treatments if there are no further benefits to be derived from continuing.
3. Ask your chiropractor if it is unusual to reach a plateau while receiving treatments. Find out if other patients have had a similar experience. If you feel that you've gotten all you can out of your chiropractic care but still don't feel 100 percent, ask your chiropractor for other options. If you don't feel comfortable with the options presented, get another opinion from other chiropractors or go back to your medical doctor.
4. Phase our your care in an intelligent way. Many treatment plans call for a gradual transition to end treatment. Instead of multiple visits per week, you may be phased out to 1 visit per week, then 1 visit every other week and so on.
5. Learn more about the general benefits of chiropractic care by reading 'Chiropractic First: The Fastest Growing Healthcare Choice...Before Drugs or Surgery,' available for purchase at Amazon.com (see Resources below).
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