Corrective Care
Getting to the root of the problem once and for all

What is corrective care?

Corrective care is necessary to remove the actual cause of the problem, not only to relieve or reduce a person’s pain and/or symptoms.

For example, a person may have headaches, the result of a mis-aligned vertebra in the neck, which is causing irritation to a nerve. The irritated nerve can cause an effect, which is a reduction in blood supply to the head, which in turn results in the headache.

Relief care focuses on the symptoms: the headache. Relief care would be similar to taking aspirin which although it may temporarily alleviate the headache, would do very little to correct the cause.

Corrective care focuses on making sure that the vertebra(e), the cause, is corrected and therefore the headaches, the result, is gone.

The difference between relief care and corrective care can be illustrated by the following analogy. Let’s say your house is cold because your furnace is not producing heat. For relief care you can buy an electric heater, which could take care of your immediate discomfort. In the long run, however, running an electric heater is both less effective and more expensive than fixing the furnace.

Correction would have been to simply fix the furnace. Although it may have a higher initial cost, it would save money in the long run.

How long does corrective care take?

Not everyone can reach complete correction. Sometimes a person’s problem has reached a point that complete correction is impossible. If that is the case, a regular Chiropractic care plan can bring your health up to its greatest potential.

If correction is possible (and desired), an intensive care plan of approximately 30 visits in the first three months may need to be followed. Correcting a person’s structure is similar to pouring cement into a mold. If you remove the mold before the cement hardens, you lose the object you want to create.

After the intensive phase of corrective care is accomplished, the next phase is rehabilitative. This is when the soft tissue (ie: muscles and ligaments) begins to heal, and range of motion begins to improve. Following that phase of corrective care is the maintenance phase. This is when your muscles and ligaments are strengthening, the corrections are more stabilized, and you are closest to optimum function. The road to this phase differs with each individual, and is often determined by compliance with the previous phases.

The choice is yours!