Chiropracter

It depends on your body and habits, and the chiropractor you have. There are skilled chiropractors and not-so-skilled ones. There are chiros who will take an xray and adjust the segments that they find are out on that xray, and adjust the same ones forever and never assume your body will change. There are some who do much much more. So, you gotta do some homework and ask questions there, to try to pick a good one.

I’ll just give you my take on frequency. I’m a massage therapist by trade, and worked closely with chiropractors for a couple years so I could get adjusted anytime I wanted.

What I noticed was that due to my work, my body needed adjustments sometimes twice a week. When I learned stretch therapy and applied it to myself, I would only need adjustments _maybe_ once every month, or every other month. And it was rarely for misalignments, usually it was some obscure problem I didn’t know how to fix with stretching or qigong. So my take on frequency is, the better you take care of yourself, and the more responsibility you’re willing to take for your body and energy, the less you will need it. But as always, listen to your body. If you can’t fix it yourself and don’t have time to figure it out, see someone.

It’s not dangerous to become reliant on adjustments, or massage, or anything else, per se. It’s just a choice. It’s certainly less expensive and better in the long run the more responsibility and control you take for your personal health, but some people aren’t ready for that. I’ll use any health professional (western med or otherwise) if I know I need it, esp. because its good to get an outside perspective on what’s going on.

As far as feeling disconnected from the body, that can happen because you’re basically getting an extremely rapid change in structure which can have physical and energetic effects. That’s why I prefer stretching and qigong, because the changes are slower. But again, if you need the chiro, use him. But go on your schedule. I think it’s right and good for you to be questioning your need, but don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater, either. 🙂

Brian

Chiropractic seems okay but if you have a good acupuncturist, you’ll never need to go see a chiro again.

ALso if you find a good old schoool tuina guy that also knows the bonesetting, your money is better well spent on one of those visits. Some chinese massage along chi meridians, some gentle bonesetting and herbs to make it a complete healing package.