Parts of this page are written as if I were sharing with another Chiropractor,
How I practice the Art of the Chiropractic Adjustment…
It is little long winded. You are welcome to listen in…Dr. Alex
“Dr. Alex, what Chiropractic Technique do you use?”
“I have been to other chiropractors before that lay me on my back and twist my neck, then lay me on my side and grab my shoulder, my bottom, and give my lower back a big heave hoe. YOU ARE DIFFERENT!”
”I have a friend that has been to a chiropractor before, they are scared, it actually hurt them. You do things quite different than other chiropractors I have been too. How do I explain what you do?!”
………………………………..I use a myriad of techniques to adjust your spine and extremities.
I use a Thompson Drop Table for the low and mid back adjustments. These tables are the finest and most expensive available to the Chiropractic profession. The table’s drop mechanism allows me to move the bone without rotating or twisting you. These tables are worth their weight in gold. They make your adjustment more precise, less traumatic, more effective.
I sometimes use an adjusting instrument called an “Activator“. It works wonderful with the extremities, feet, ankles, knee, collar bone, shoulder, elbow, wrist, or any time I want a low force very controlled adjustment.
These tools and techniques are ancillary, used in addition, to my primary technique which addresses the upper cervical spine. The upper cervical spine (top two bones in your neck, Atlas & Axis) is the most important area of the spine to keep clear and in proper alignment.
When I adjust your neck I am performing what is called an
Upper Cervical- Toggle ReCoil Adjustment
A little Different ??? … What we do NOT do with You
What we do NOT do with You
^ What we do NOT do with You ^
Here’s what some of my Patients Have to Say:
“The last thing I need is to have my neck twisted like a chicken destined for dinner.“
Having survived two major traumas to my neck, “the last thing I need is to have my neck twisted like a chicken destined for dinner.“
Thankfully, Dr. Alex believes in persuasion, not coercion.
I feel better, stand straighter, and have greater range of movement after an adjustment.
Thank you, Dr. Alex.
Surgery, Neck Fusion.
They inserted three titanium discs and plate in C3 through C5.
I didn’t want anyone twisting or cracking my neck.
I’ve had major severe pain from the neck down the spine, leading to the shoulder blades, and down my, and down the arms. It was difficult to work as pain was so severe. I was getting very little sleep due to this.
I’ve had severe pain and loss of use of my arms. I was unable to bend and twist my neck without extreme pain. I had lost a lot of movement in my neck.
Fusion of the vertebral bodies of the C2, C4, and C5. There was a disc bulge at C6 through 7 level. Osteophytes at the joints of Von Luschka at C7, at C6-7 level bilaterally.
Surgery, Neck Fusion. They inserted three titanium discs and plate in C3 through C5.
I was very leery of coming to a chiropractor because of the disc and the plate in my neck. I didn’t want anyone twisting or cracking my neck. However, I knew something had to be done. The medication and the cortisone injections were not working. I just decided to come see Dr. Alex. After about three weeks, the pain was starting to ease and was finally giving me some relief. I’ve been coming to Dr. Alex for about three months and am doing so much better now. I am now able to sleep and do my daily routine much more comfortably.
I highly recommend Dr. Alex’s procedures. It has not been painful and has improved my condition tremendously.
When I lived in Corona a few years ago, I was a patient of Dr. Alex. Then I moved to Banning, and due to the distance, I saw a chiropractor there. When my upper cervical spine went into pain with spasms last month, my Banning chiropractor could not help me. I came in desperation to see if Dr. Alex’s type of manipulation could help me. The spasms stopped after the first treatment, and by the end of the fourth treatment, my neck was completely functional. Despite the distance of 50 miles, I will continue to drive here for my adjustments. It has made such a difference in how I feel.
Dr.Alex’s Adjustment are GENTLE and never Hurt
Did I Mention that I was A Chiropractic Technique Nerd while attending Chiropractic College. I was the Perfect/Imperfect Guinea Pig. I was in a lot of Pain with Sciatica down my Left leg. I was in chiropractic school. I was studying back pain. I was being taught what to do to help folks who hurt, just like me. But I couldn’t help myself. I had free access and treatment from all kinds of chiropractic technique, gurus, teachers, and fellow students. I was hooked up to every kind of shocking, stinging, heating, cooling, stretching, rubbing, shaking machine out there. I applied every kind of goop, lotion, snake oil, and magic potion I came across. You name a back pain or body work therapy and I have had it. Dr. Smith got me Going down the Right Path…..Dr. Alex
Upper Cervical- Toggle ReCoil Adjustment
“More pressure can develop in your nervous system between the top two bones in your neck then anywhere else in your body. This is not a matter of opinion. It is simply an observation of anatomy.
…That is why they Hang Bad Guys by their Neck’s instead of by their Butts”
– Dr. David Smith DC, Chiropractor, Mentor
· Atlas is most freely moveable joint in the entire body.
· Atlas does not have and osseous, locking mechanism like the vertebrae of rest of the spine and it does not have an intervertebral disc to anchor it in place.
· Atlas is basically a ring the pivots around a pin in the second bone in your neck, Axis.
· When atlas is subluxated, (misaligned) direct pressure can be placed on the spinal cord.
· No other vertebrae is capable of creating spinal cord pressure when it is subluxated. Typical vertebrae can create nerve root pressure when they subluxate, but the spinal cord itself is well protected. (Cord pressure can be present at at vertebral levels other than atlas due to other serious conditions such as a fracture, herniated disc, spinal stenosis, etc…these conditions are rare and often traumatically induced..)
The following article is reprinted from a Chiropractic Publication:
Doctor: Think about this for a moment. When you’re in your office – you want to use PRECISION ADJUSTING with HIGH ENERGY.
This is a difficult concept for some new practitioners and some old. When you graduate from Chiropractic College, you think that an adjustment doesn’t compare to a medical surgery in value. It’s just the way everyone’s been RAISED. Most D.C.’s think they have to move every bone in their patients body to be successful, do a good job, and make their patient’s visit VALUABLE!
There were a number of doctors that went on a mission to Panama with Dr. Sigafoose in 1997. In six days, these 19 D.C.’s adjusted over 46,000 people. The greatest lesson they learned on that trip was this . . . THE LESS YOU ADJUST, THE MORE MIRACLES YOU’LL SEE AND THE QUICKER.
[The D.C.’s that adjusted ONLY Atlas and Axis, were the only ones to see miracles in six days. The D.C.’s who insisted on adjusting MORE segments, including extremities, . . . did not see any miracles in six days.]
HERE’S A LITTLE SECRET – The LESS you adjust, the MORE ENERGY goes into each one of your adjustments.
