The Gonstead Method
Gonstead Technique
Did you know there are literally dozens of “types” of chiropractic care? Your Doctor of Chiropractic chooses one or more techniques to specialize in. This is why people can have such different types of visits depending on the office they choose. That also means if they weren’t successful in a past chiropractic setting, they may have just not been in the right office for them.
As Gonstead trained doctors, we treat root causes rather than symptoms, helping our patients heal trauma and long-term issues, not just acute pain.
Because the Gonstead method is so rigorous (there are only 500 Gonstead doctors in the world), it gives us the freedom to help anyone from the elderly, to infants, to athletes to post-accident injury.
Your spine is an engineering marvel, permitting you to stand, turn and bend, while protecting the vital neurological communication pathway of the spinal cord. Our evaluation and spinal adjusting approach honors the biomechanical integrity of your spine.
Weight-bearing X-rays – Unlike hospital X-rays, we’ll send you to an imaging center where you stand in a weight-bearing position and take pictures that capture your entire spine from your skull to your tailbone, from the back and from the side. And while some chiropractors will adjust you without such pictures, we never do. As we always say, “To see is to know.”
Posture evaluation – Throughout your care plan we’ll observe your posture and weight distribution through an app. Forward head carriage, high shoulder, uneven hips and other nuances will be noted, guiding what we do on each visit.
Thermographic scan – We’ll use our handheld scanning instrument to measure minute changes in temperature along your spine. These reveal areas of inflammation and nervous system dysfunction.
Specific adjustments – With a clear understanding of your unique spinal pattern, we’ll apply a carefully controlled thrust to your spine at just the right time and place. Welcome to scientific chiropractic!