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This information is intended as a health service to you and your entire family.

INFORMATION FOR THE NEW PATIENT

The purpose of this brochure is to inform the new patient of the step by step process that is taken in our office to determine whether we can help you. If we can determine on the first visit that we can help you, and you do not understand any part of the procedure, please ask the doctor to explain it. During the first visit the doctor will want to know if you have one leg that is shorter than the other, and if you have a pelvic distortion If a leg shortness and pelvic distortion exists, the doctor will recommend that x-rays be taken of our neck and head to determine if the atlas vertebra has been displaced. The x-ray is the only means by which the doctor can accurately know in just what directions the atlas has been displaced. He must measure these directions in order to figure a means to correct the atlas to normal position.

The purpose of this brochure is to explain the chiropractic adjustment, how it works, what it does to the patient, what benefits the patient may receive from the adjustment, and other relevant facts that the patient should know.

The word "adjustment" is a rather loosely used term in chiropractic today. It denotes the application of a force to a spinal bone (vertebra) to move it from one position to another. The intention of the adjuster in moving a vertebra is to correct the patient's subluxation (a misaligned spinal bone causing harm to nervous structure). In order to do this, the adjuster must reduce the vertebra to or toward its normal position. (The term "manipulation" is frequently used for the same reason).

The questions most frequently asked by patients are answered in simple language here.

Q. What do you mean when you say I have an atlas subluxation?

A. The atlas is the top vertebra (spinal bone) of the spinal column. If it moves out of its normal position (misaligns), it causes damage to nerve structures, bodily distortions, produces spinal column imbalance, spastic contracture of the extensor muscles, and a contractured (short) leg.

A child with bronchial asthma breathes normally again, the acute attack stilled by a chiropractic adjustment. A man suffering intense pain from sciatica returns to his daily labors after weeks of suffering, relieved by a chiropractic adjustment. A lady patient, tormented for years by migraine, is freed from pain by the chiropractic adjustment. A boy who constantly suffered from "stomach pains" lives a normal pain-free life after a chiropractic adjustment. A girl with a twisted pelvic girdle is liberated from her braces as a result of a chiropractic adjustment. The patient who could not raise his arm, could not sleep except under sedation because of the pain, completely recovers after his chiropractic adjustment.