What even IS a chiropractic “technique?”

Within the chiropractic profession, there are over 200 techniques:

This essentially is their “approach” to analyzing your health combined with their “style” of intervention.
One chiropractor may approach your spine from a “top-down” mentality, meaning they believe that the top-most bones place pressure on the brainstem and therefore are the most important bones to check and adjust.
Another chiropractor may approach your spine from a “foundational” mentality, meaning they believe that since we are creatures who exist in gravity, that a level foundation must be secured in order to create spinal stability.

Why you care:

Out of the 200 techniques, there are about 5-10 that are taught in schools.
Out of the 5-10 taught in schools there is only ONE technique that has developed it’s own x-ray analysis, palpation analysis, and adjusting method that is used by the National Board of Chiropractic Examiners (NBCE) to license chiropractors–the Gonstead Technique.
The Gonstead Technique is only practiced by less than 10% of all licensed chiropractors.

“A Master of None”:

The most common technique practiced by chiropractors is known as the “diversified” technique.
This is the basic adjusting technique taught to lower quarter students in chiropractic school.
Some students elect to invest hours of their time and thousands of dollars in order to be trained in other techniques to be able to serve a broad range of potential patients with confidence. Other students stick with what they were taught in school and use it throughout their career.

Gonstead: The Gold Standard of Chiropractic:

The Gonstead Technique is so versatile, it can be used on pediatric patients, elderly, and everything in between.
The founder, Dr. Clarence Gonstead started adjusting this way back in 1923. Over his 50 year-long career, he honed his craft and developed a system of analysis and adjusting that he taught to chiropractors so they could get the incredible results he was getting.
In the 1950’s-1970’s, The Gonstead Clinic of Chiropractic, located in Mt. Horeb, WI built a hotel and an AIRSTRIP on their property to accommodate the thousands of people who would drive or fly to the clinic in search of someone who could help them heal.
Effective at helping people with both musculoskeletal conditions and organic disease, Dr. Gonstead revolutionized chiropractic forever.

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