3 Phases Of Your Health

This chart is our three phases chart and
it’s been in my office since 1997.
And this chart explains to patients the
different phases they go through when
they’re going through chiropractic care.
The first phase, we’re just trying to
take the pressure off the nerve in order
for you to feel better. And each one of
these little dash lines represents
treatment time or treatments. Eventually
over time, we get to the point where we
cross this thing called the pain line.
When we cross the pain line, a lot of
patients then start to say, “I feel
better. I feel more normal.” But that’s
just when a good majority of the healing
is getting started. And what we’ll see
is people will start to do things in
their life again, and they may dip back
down into pain. But eventually, what
we’re trying to do is go through this
phase called the correction phase. And
that’s where your body’s truly healing.
Healing happens as fast as hair grows.
Healing happens as fast as your nails
grow. Your tissues, your cartilage, your
muscles, your fascia, they all heal at a
certain rate. And eventually, we get to
the point where you’re feeling well, the
alignment is pretty good, your range of
motion is pretty good, and we start to
have to do some exercises in order to
kind of maintain that flexibility and
that muscle tone. And then we get to a
point that we want to maintain.
Maintenance is different from everybody.
Some sometimes maintenance is once a
month, sometimes maintenance might be
once a week. It just depends on what
your body needs. It depends a lot on
what your job is, what your history’s
been, how old you are, how much
degeneration is there. But a good
chiropractor will figure that out with
you and we’ll come up with the right
plan for you.