Laying the foundation

Chiropractic care at Bakke Chiropractic Clinic is directed toward helping you regain health and it is like building a house- certain things have to happen in a particular order for everything to stand strong and work correctly. When building a house, if you tried to put up your walls before you had a solid foundation, your walls would be weak and eventually collapse. If you tried to put on your roof before the walls were ready, you would run into the same problem. The same is true for your body. Your body has to go through a particular plan of care to repair itself correctly and reestablish a firm foundation for continued health and wellness.

There are three general phases of chiropractic care . . .

Phase 1: Relief Care

Usually "pain" is what motivates patients to come into our clinic! The very first objective is to provide treatment to decrease the pain and get some initial relief. Depending on the condition, the severity, the underlying "foundation" or  general health, it is typical for the doctor to recommend care  2-3 times per week and with very severe cases, more often. The goal within those first 3-4 weeks of care is to work toward a significant improvement with marked reduction of pain and a return to more normal function..

Treatment frequency is always dictated by so many variables and is dependent on initially getting control of the pain syndrome and then being able to address the larger underlying problems that caused the pain in the first place!

Phase 2: Corrective/Restorative Care

During the corrective care phase, the next 6-8 weeks, muscles and other tissues are allowed to heal more completely,  helping prevent further injury. Following a decrease in the initial symptom complex, the goal is to:

• address the underlying physical structures and conditions
  
• provide supportive treatment with exercises and rehabilitative strengthening
• offer lifestyle suggestions to minimize recurrence 
• suggest nutritional support to enhance the overall health of the body
• help improve and maintain the overall integrity of the muscle and skeletal systems.

Once again, recommendations and frequency of treatment are dependent on your response to treatment and the general course of  your improvement.

Phase 3: Wellness Care

Once your body has conquered the pain syndrome, has healed and strengthened and you are feeling better again...it is important to do the things that helped restore your health and avoid the things that contributed to the problem.

Pain is the "alert" signal that tells us something has gone wrong; in the absence of pain we have a tendency to fall back into the same old patterns of living and not take care of ourselves. If yours is a condition that benefits from periodic adjustments and visits to our clinic, you doctor will discuss that with you and help you make a plan for the future.

Get your "house" in order!

The doctors and staff at Bakke Chiropractic Clinic are here to help you build a better "house"...your body!

Establish a firm foundation of good health, make sure that the structure....muscles, bones, nerves....are strong, healthy and fully functioning, and then add the protective "roof" and make lifestyle changes to maintain that health and wellness.  We all know that when you feel better...when your "house" is in order... you live better and your life becomes a more positive experience for you and for your loved ones.