“Why do chiropractors require so many visits?”
I am a 30 year old male. I want to know why do chiropractors require so many visits?
9 Answers
This is physical medicine, just like when you have rehab treatments, just as many visits to help re-educate your ligaments and muscles. It will only help you .
The number of visits required by your chiropractor varies from person to person due to the level of severity present. The state of dis-ease that your body is in did not develop overnight. In some cases, many of these issues have been developing and worsening over years or even decades. Since many issues took a significant amount of time to develop, they will also take time to heal. The good news is that many issues can be resolved in only a fraction of the time it took to develop with consistent chiropractic care.
Not true in all cases. The number of visits needed is based on your exam/xrays/age/health history. The more chronic(old) the condition may require increased visits. There is no set rules for how many visits are for each type of condition. Beware of costly lengthy programs.
No ligaments which hold one bone to another can get stretched and torn. while at the the same time muscles go into spasm. You have to retrain the joint by adjusting it because without it you will just get back to the same subluxation.
That is a stereotype. I get many of my patients better in 1 to 5 treatments and discharge them. It depends on who you go to and what the problem is. There are times with more chronic conditions that more treatment is necessary.
Dr. Jonathan Donath, DC, MS
Dr. Jonathan Donath, DC, MS
Chiropractic care requires several visits at first to get your body used to being in correct alignment. We have muscle memory and if we’ve been moving around out of alignment, whether due to injury, illness, stress or poor posture, the muscles will tend to go back to what they are used to. They have to be trained to stay in their optimal posture and that takes lots of visits. The initial treatment plan may be as much as daily, but typically 3x/week, at the beginning, but will be reduced as the patient improves. Once in alignment and out of pain, maintenance care will be prescribed at anywhere from 2x/month up to once every 6 weeks. Most doctors recommend once a month, to make sure you stay in alignment, are less likely to be susceptible to injury and have a healthy, working nervous system. Just like going to the dentist, preventative care is better than dealing with injury.
Good question. Typically it depends on the patient, the mechanism of injury along with the severity of the issue. Some patients require more than others. When the body is seeing and embracing the realignment to which the adjustment does, along with the muscular retraining which is extremely important for the amount of in-office visits. In my practice, I chose to have the patient do a lot of at-home work, therefore that equates to fewer in-office visits. However, if it is a severe muscle injury along with spinal misalignment, it will take more in-office visits where we use modalities to help the muscle bellies and encourage body overcoming the injury.
It depends on the condition as sometimes it is very few visits to help correct a problem.
This depends greatly on the philosophy and technique of each Chiropractor individually. Some believe more visits is more effective. Current clinical research says once per week for 10 weeks gives the best results regarding mechanical low back pain. In reality every person is different and every body heals in its own time. There is no one-size-fits-all formula.
