What is relief care?

Relief care is that care necessary to get rid of your symptoms or pain, but not the cause of it. It is the same as drying a floor that was getting wet from a leak, but not fixing the leak.

Why choose only relief care?

Many times a person chooses relief care ONLY due to failure to under-stand the benefits of corrective care. Corrective care can cost less over time while leading to a more permanent result.

For some people, however, relief care may be the unavoidable choice of care due to financial circumstances or personal priorities.

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 want to create.

After the intensive phase of corrective care, visits of once a week to once every two months are necessary to hold your structure in place until it stabilizes. As cement requires time to stabilize, so does your spine. Your doctor can best determine your individual needs.

What kind of care do you choose?

Relief care focuses on the symptoms: the headaches. Relief care would be similar to taking aspirin which, although it may be 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 not producing heat. For relief care you could buy an electric heater which could take care of the 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.

If your choice is to receive relief care, please inform your doctor. Three arrangements are necessary to receive full benefit from this phase of care.

1. Once You Feel Better – Do not dismiss yourself from care. However, tell the doctor.
2. Do Not Dismiss Yourself – Once relief has been obtained, inform your doctor and a no cost re-examination will be done to update your records.
3. A Checkup ~ A Must – We will schedule you for a checkup within several months to detect any potential return of the problem.

Great Reasons to Continue Care

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 strengthens muscles to assume a more corrective position.

Continue Care for Maximum Results

Relief Care – Temporary relief of pain or symptoms.

End Product: Temporary relief.

Corrective Care – Not only includes feeling better, but correcting the CAUSE of the problem in the first place. This phase includes realigning the spine, thereby greatly improving function and energy.

End Product: Relief from pain and symptoms in the body. Total body realignment. Greatly improved body function and energy.

Maintenance Care – Keeps the body moving forward and prevents problems from occurring. It is designed on an individual basis.

End Product: Ideal health scenes, great energy and endurance, lifetime health care.