Chirotherapy

If the muscular corset is – in most cases due to substantial pain - no longer able to stabilise the spine, the joint capsules of the smaller vertebral joints are slackening. Vertebrae and joints may displace themselves thus causing instability. This instability on the other hand is causing blocks – a sort of “self-help” for local stabilisation – and disk damages, such as disk protrusions (disks are bulging out) or disk prolaps (disks are herniated).

Furthermore, this instability can result in irritations of the nerve branches at the vertebral joints and the compression of nerve roots (e.g. the sciatic nerve).

Chirotherapy has undergone profound medical research and is now a well-proved method for the diagnosis and therapy of this kind of malfunctions (blocks) of the spine. By applying soft manipulation, the impaired functionality of the vertebral joints is restored

The manipulative treatment of the spine is reserved exclusively to physicians and alternative practitioners additionally qualified as “chirotherapist”. Not every dysfunction needs manual medical treatment. Such conditions can also show a spontaneous regression

Long years of experience as well as our internal studies show that the tendency towards blocks within the small vertebral joints decreases when the autochthonous back muscles are built up in a specific way. Therefore, chirotherapy shows positive long-term effects only when a special muscle-building training is carried through at the same time (e.g. by using the MedX testing and training equipment).