How do I know if I need a Chiropractor?
In my experience, most people come to the Chiropractor not first but last. They have tried other treatments with no success. So basically, the patient still has pain or symptoms of some sort. Just like Dentists, we don’t treat the symptoms directly but look for underlying causes that create the symptom in the first place. Just like a cavity can cause mouth pain, subluxations or misalignment of the vertebra can cause pain as well. Chiropractic actually gets more complicated than that. Subluxations affect nerves, and the nerves do more than send pain to the brain, the nerves send ALL the messages to the brain. The nerves also carry ALL the messages from the brain. So I always tell my patients there are an input and output to the nervous system. If you subluxate a vertebra and hit the input, you will probably have pain. If you subluxate a vertebra and it hits the output of the nerve, then you won’t feel anything but you may notice muscle weakness.Your Grand Rapids Chiropractor, Dr. S