Chiropractic adjustments are a drug-free and natural approach to helping patients relieve their pain and gain more mobility. It is highly effective at restoring joint function and mobility. This eventually helps with reduced pain and increased range of motion.
Here are the common types of chiropractic techniques or adjustments the best chiropractic doctor in Delhi, India use during the treatment.
1. Activator Technique
In this adjustment, a handheld adjusting instrument is used to provide a gentle impulse into the spine’s vertebral segments, or the extremities. The force applied seems like a light thumping feeling when used to treat everything from low back pain to some types of headaches. For example, migraines. This is the right choice for seniors as it is highly comfortable.
2. The Diversified Technique
This technique helps with restored spinal alignment, good movement, and mobility, and repaired joint dysfunction. Chiropractors use hands-on thrusts with high accuracy to correct misaligned bones or joints. About 96% of all chiropractors use this technique on roughly 70% of their patients.
3. Gonstead Technique
This technique often involves adjustment of the low back or pelvis when the patient lies on his side. This technique aims to realign joints, improve mobility, relieve pain, and reduce stiffness.
4. Spinal Manipulation
Spinal manipulation, also known as manual therapy or spinal mobilization, is used by physical therapists and chiropractors to relieve pressure on joints, improve nerve function, and reduce inflammation. This is a manual therapy technique identical to the diversified technique mentioned above. This technique involves the use of gentle thrusting motions and more stretching.
5. Spinal Decompression
It is believed more of a chiropractic technique rather than an adjustment. It is extremely effective at treating symptoms of lower back pain caused due to bulging, degenerated, herniated, and slipped discs. It includes the use of a special table that functions with careful spine stretching to promote the healthy flow of oxygen, water, and other important fluids into the discs and throughout the spine.
6. Thompson or Drop Table Technique
It involves the use of a specially adapted table with padded platforms. It is created to drop a fraction of an inch when the chiropractor makes an adjustment by applying a quick thrust. It is primarily used for extremities or the spine.
Dr. Anshu Shringi at Spinal Chiropractic Clinic provides chiropractic treatment in Delhi based on a patient’s specific health condition.
