Why Do I Need to be Periodically Re-Examined?

You are always “re-examining” yourself, typically beneath the level of your conscious attention. It’s natural to do so. You know when you “feel” better and when you don’t. You rely upon your feelings, pain or no pain, presence or absence of fever, body aches, or fatigue, etc. as accurate indicators of whether you’re healthy or in need of assistance. However, basing critical health decisions upon feelings alone couldn’t be more misleading so much of the time.

The things you feel are referred to as “subjective” factors. The things that are measurable are called “objective” findings. Objective, comparative information is essential since only 10-15% of your nervous system has anything to do with feelings of pain. The other 85-90% could be disturbed in its function (and often is) and you typically wouldn’t feel anything. This is why people are frequently shocked to see how long their spines have been decaying when viewing their x-rays.

Why is this so important? It’s because your nervous system directs the function of every organ, tissue, and cell of your body. It coordinates every aspect of your existence. There is NOTHING else as important to your well-being, and yet without measuring its functioning periodically you’re only guessing and have no accurate idea of how well you are performing. Chronic pain and illness nightmares commonly result.

Your ongoing health and well-being is absolutely dependent upon optimum nervous system communication of intelligent information. If you’d like to understand this better, please make sure that you’ve recently attended our Part 1 AND Part 2 classes. We can also provide you with additional research. After the initial corrective phase of your care we perform re-examinations at least twice a year and here is a summary of the important reasons:

1. Re-exams give us objective (things we can measure) findings for the neurology and physiology we are affecting. We started your care with computerized scans of your nervous system and spinal muscular system. Performing these scans during the re-exam let’s us evaluate your response to care.
2. Re-exams keep both of us accountable. If your progress is slower than it should be, it could be that you are doing something in your life that is impeding your healing like sleeping on your stomach while also alerting us to areas requiring more attention.
3. Re-exams help guide us in making the best and most accurate recommendations for your adjustment frequency as well as home care and exercise programs.
4. Re-exams let us know when the active phase of care is complete and you can begin wellness care. They also document your current status for comparison purposes if you should happen to suffer an auto accident or other injury.

Re-exams are a vital part of your care at Norton Chiropractic Wellness Center. Thanks for wanting to understand why they are necessary for us to help you be your best.