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What is Corrective Care
Corrective Care
Corrective care is necessary not only to relieve or reduce a person's pain or symptoms, but also to remove the actual cause of the problem. For example, a person might have headaches which results from a misaligned vertebra in the neck which causes 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 a headache. Relief care focuses on the symptoms: the headaches. Relief care would be similar to taking aspirin which, although it may temporarily alleviate the headaches, does nothing to correct the cause. Corrective care focuses on making certain the vertebra, the cause, is corrected and therefore the headaches, the result are gone.
The difference between relief care and corrective care can be illustrated by the following. Let's say your house is cold because your furnace is not producing heat. For relief care you could 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 cost more initially, it would save you 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. Your doctor will inform you of the severity of your problem and if correction is possible. If complete correction is not possible, then a program to bring your health up to its greatest potential will be explained.
If correction is possible, it normally takes one to six months of intensive care followed by three to fifteen months of stabilization. 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 wanted to create. After the intensive phase of corrective care, visits of once a week to once every two months are necessary to hold you structure in place until it stabilizes. As cement requires time to stabilize, so does your spine. Your doctor can best determine your individual needs.
Continue Your Progress
Research shows that ligaments and muscles supporting the spine take longer to heal than the pain or symptoms last. Continuing care encourages your spine to heal completely and faster than on-again, off-again treatments.
Prevent a Relapse
Without continued chiropractic care, your muscles and vertebrae will return to their unhealthy positions. Part of the corrective care phase retrains and strengths muscles to assume a more correct position.
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