Why manual therapy for spinal disorders requires holistic adjustment

Modern Western medical treatments are flooded with chemical drugs and surgery. The natural, back-to-basics approach to healing will become the new favorite. In particular, the use of chiropractic, orthopedic, massage techniques to treat the spine and spine-related diseases, so that patients in the absence of pain, no trauma, no drugs, no injections, so that the spinal origin of the disease quickly disappeared, by the majority of patients generally favored. However, some patients believe that manipulation is incomplete and prone to recurrence. Why exactly? This is one of the major problems that has puzzled the manipulative medicine community. As a veteran doctor who has been engaged in Chinese medicine spinal injuries for nearly 30 years, I have the following answers based on years of clinical experience. One, first of all, choose a doctor of manipulation to professional, what is professional? It is to have a medical degree or clinical treatment experience. Second, the doctor should not only conduct a comprehensive and systematic spinal examination of the patient before clinical treatment, but also examine the patient’s pelvis, limbs and sternum, ribs and combined with X-ray film for diagnosis, according to the comprehensive judgment of the body’s mechanical structure, to make a chiropractic treatment plan, and then step-by-step, holistic treatment of patients, only in this way can achieve a more desirable effect of manipulative medicine. Why is it necessary to adjust the whole spine with manipulative treatment? Because the 26 vertebrae of the human spine are divided into 5 segments of the hub (i.e., occipital ring hub, circumferential hub, cervicothoracic hub, thoracolumbar hub, lumbosacral hub) with 6 joints in each segment and a total of 23 intervertebral discs, which are linked by muscles, ligaments, and joint capsules into a spinal canal. It is connected to the cranium, the internal organs, the spinal canal circulation of the spinal cord, 31 pairs of spinal nerves between the vertebrae. Numerous arteries and blood vessels pass through it and have a chain or sailing effect, forming a self-regulating control system and energy system to maintain the healthy functioning of the body’s tissues and organs. This seemingly simple, but complex, multi-pathway feedback system allows the entire spine to be displaced, biomechanically disturbed, and diseased if just one of the small joints or soft tissues of the spine is damaged and displaced. Therefore, traditional drugs, acupuncture, minimally invasive treatment and modern surgical treatment are the symptoms but not the root cause, can not completely cure spondylosis, manipulation correction and adjustment, not only need to correct local small joint disorders, stripping soft tissue adhesions, contact jamming, reduce pain, but the need to use manipulation correction and adjustment of the entire spinal joint, ligament imbalance state, so that it is a new state to restore balance, in order to more completely cure the disease Otherwise, there will be recurrent attacks and repeated aggravation. Doctors in the local treatment, but also need to carry out overall treatment, in order to restore balance to the entire spinal system, the physiological function of the body organs to normal lasting.