Facts About Chiropractic Care You Need To Know

It has taken me over the course of 35 years to be known as the best Chiropractor in Mission Viejo. Without bragging about it, I would like to tell you why. This time, we are going to do that by looking at the actual objections to Chiropractic care that I have heard starting from my 1^st day in practice.

Chiropractic is dangerous

As a Chiropractor in Mission Viejo, I am a specialist, not a standard chiropractor. I studied at a Post Graduate School to learn the system that I use so that I can apply 6 ounces of pressure with an instrument to make the adjustments. I use a measuring device to locate the nerve irritation to find it and measure how bad it is. As I am correcting your spine I can determine when the nerve irritation is actually gone. There is no “popping and cracking”. So, it is impossible to hurt anyone.

Once you start, you have to keep going forever

In my office, all of the patients chose how long they want to be under care. We do a lot of education to help you determine what is best for you, and then it is your choice if you just want to relieve your problem or actually correct it. It’s just that most people want to get corrected because they don’t want their problem to come back.

See this is just like going to the dentist. People go there and have a tooth filled if they have a cavity. Then, they go back every 6 months to get their teeth cleaned so they can keep the cavities away. No one ever complains or questions why they have to go to the dentist forever. They just go twice a year because they know it is right.

The spine controls every organ, muscle, and piece of skin in your body. Keeping it corrected and free of irritation is a must if you really want to be healthy. It is as important or even more important then your teeth in your overall picture of health.

The point is that you don’t have to keep coming back. It is just a fact that you would stay as healthy as possible that way.

Chiropractors aren’t real doctors

This used to be true many years ago. But things have changed. You used to be able to get a license to practice Chiropractic in about 6 months. Now, the chiropractors are required to have 4 years of Chiropractic college including an internship. Chiropractors actually have over 4700 hours of training as compared to a medical doctor who only needs 4300. The difference is that they learn all about drugs and surgery, while we learn about the mechanics of how the body works and how to correct it.

Therefore, many times we prevent surgery of the spine because the patient really didn’t need it in the 1^st place. The medical doctor just couldn’t correct it with Medical care.

Don’t you have to go 3 times a week for a long time?

You only have to come in to get treated as much as your problem needs in order to fix it. Once the nerve irritation is gone your corrective care is usually only between 6 and 8 visits per year. That’s because we actually correct the nerve irritation so your body can heal itself.

You can go to a very popular new franchise, which I will not mention. And, you can pay for 4 adjustments per month for as long as you want to go. But you are not correcting anything. You are just being adjusted and the problem is never fixed. That would cause you to need to go 4 times per month and never really be corrected. Why waste your time?

Most of our patients only need 2 treatments per year to stay well once their problem is corrected. It is a lot healthier, less time consuming, and less expensive!

Chiropractic is expensive

We give all of our patients a discounted price from the normal insurance prices. These days all insurances are getting worse and worse. My statement is, “If the treatment is natural, and it works, then insurance will not pay for it.” Once we assess your problem, we can figure out almost exactly what you need before you get past the 1^st two treatments. Our cash patients pay about ½ price compared to the normal insurance rates.

Chiropractic can cause strokes

This could be true with the old manual adjusting. But, as the best choice for Chiropractic, we only use 6 ounces of pressure. There is no danger of a stroke. My oldest patient was 101 and we bought him a cake for his 100^th birthday. My youngest was a baby whose digestion came back to normal after his 1^st treatment.

Medical doctors don’t think much of chiropractors

Most of them really don’t, although the percentage of people going to the chiropractor is up from 7% to 14% now. Many of the doctors are hesitant to disagree with Chiropractic because more and more people actually want it. In our clinic we actually refer people to Medical professionals whenever it is called for. The ones that I refer to are actually patients of mine and understand what we do. That’s the way it should be from most people’s perspective. We should be working together.

Chiropractic didn’t really help me before

I have heard this time and time again. Usually, my new patients have gone to a traditional “pop and cracker” and have not gotten well. Then, they hear about me or read about me and come in to see if I can correct their spine. My latest one is a 72-year-old, in which case I was the 4^th Chiropractor. She used to go in once a week, have 2 days without a headache and 5 days with the migraine returning. She also got sore from the adjustment and had to go back more because of that.

After 10 short weeks of treatment with me, she is 70% better as pictured on her x-rays, and her migraines are gone!! Is she happy, or what?

My pain isn’t really that bad

Problems may not feel “that bad”. But it is just like a cavity in a tooth. The toothache may be mild and come and go. However, the cavity keeps getting bigger and bigger and continues to eat away at the whole tooth. If you don’t fix it, you could lose the tooth.

Imagine losing a whole disc in your back because it didn’t hurt that bad. At some point, you wouldn’t be able to walk. We just have to examine you and take an x-ray to really know how bad it is. I always show my patients the x-rays to see how bad it really is.

Problems that we see on the x-ray are always worse than the patient can feel. That’s why the 1^st visit with consultation, examination, and x-rays is so important.

People want to check with their M.D.

The problem is that Medical doctors do not recognize Chiropractic problems. In fact, they are under the false idea that all Chiropractors are the same. They don’t realize that the best Chiropractic is done without the old manual adjusting. So, there is usually no referral from an M.D. They will not admit it, but they don’t want anyone to go to the Chiropractor.

It is just that people are getting smarter in that they want a natural cure instead of taking the harmful and dangerous drugs they are always recommended!

I want to check with my HMO

This is almost the same as the previous one. Because the HMOs are run by Medical doctors, they don’t usually cover Chiropractic. Some HMOs have Chiropractors, but no one ever gets referred to one unless they have had all of the drugs and tried Physical Therapy and it didn’t work. Of course, the coverage is very limited, so it would be useless for me to belong to an HMO. This is handled with the discounts we give.

Our discounts make it cheaper to fix your back problem even if you went to the HMO because the coverage is never enough to fix a problem. You would have to pay the regular insurance prices to get all the care you really need, and my costs are lower by over 50%.

At this point, I have attempted to explain to you that none of the negatives that people have experienced or heard about actually happen when they are patients at Manago Chiropractic in Mission Viejo.