Why ABC™ is more effective than traditional chiropractic.

Before I get into why Advanced Biostructural Correction™ is more effective than traditional chiropractic, I’d like to share my personal journey.

At age 14, I was diagnosed with mild idiopathic scoliosis after a screening, which (unbeknownst to me at the time) was the beginning of my journey into spinal health and general wellness. I used to have a lot of pain and postural problems, but I’m so thankful to my family for valuing a natural approach to healthcare.

I was originally interested in psychology as a career but ultimately decided to pursue the goal of earning my Doctor of Chiropractic degree so I could help people around me on their wellness journey in a different way.

Ironically, after I graduated from my chiropractic training my posture was worse than ever. I remember walking by an office building one day that had mirrored windows, and I caught sight of my reflection. I couldn’t help but notice that my body was leaning significantly forward as I walked, almost as if I had just launched off of a ski jump.

I realised that my body must have been doing a lot of extra work to keep me upright with it in that forward leaning position, and it was likely the reason that I was having more frequent bouts of back pain than ever before. This was in spite of the fact that I’d had quite a bit of chiropractic treatment in the previous four years! Although I had already graduated with my Doctor of Chiropractic degree, it wouldn’t be until two years later in practice that I would discover the answer to fixing my poor posture problem. I’m so thankful I did.

So Why is Advanced Biostructural Correction™ More Effective Than Traditional Chiropractic?

I’m glad you asked.

Many people have been to a chiropractor at some point in their lives, and the result of that likely varies quite a bit from one person to another depending on various factors. The three main types of things most people will experience are: 1) They feel quite a bit better immediately  2) There is no noticeable change, or 3) It has made the problem/symptom worse (or shifted it to a different place). Over enough time, most people find that it stops helping to improve anything if it made any difference at all. The common denominator in all three of these for most people though is that the results were most likely fairly temporary. There is a reason for that, which I will talk about in a minute.

At Tree of Life Health & Wellness, we practise something significantly different and more effective than traditional chiropractic methods, called Advanced Biostructural Correction™.  Whilst ABC™ was researched, developed, and tested by a chiropractor and is used by many chiropractors, it is not actually a chiropractic technique because it is based on a completely different set of empirically proven, observable principles. This means that the way we apply treatment to effect changes is also significantly different. These differences are key to why this approach works so much better.

The Traditional Chiropractic Approach

In traditional chiropractic training, most chiropractic colleges teach an approach to joint manipulation that is based on something called motion palpation. This is where the practitioner challenges individual bones (or groups of them) by pushing them in various directions to determine if there is a restriction of movement in one or more directions, indicating a loss of normal function in that area. The practitioner then attempts to move the bones or joints into or away from those specific directions in order to try to restore normal motion to that joint. They typically do this using a high-velocity push that is small in amount of movement (short lever).

The main problem with this is that this approach is not effective because it fails to recognise that the reason those bones are stuck the way they are, is because (using the muscles in directions they can pull), the body intentionally shifted and held those bones in that position as a reaction to something else going on that the body couldn’t do anything about directly. It has to do this to compensate for the loss of leverage that has occurred. So, what happens symptomatically when you try to move those bones out of that position is going to vary. But, the end result is going to be:

• that the body either has to shift those bones back to where they were to continue to work around the other thing(s) it couldn’t deal with, or
• it has to find a different pattern in which to shift those bones (and/or others) out of alignment in order to create an equivalent effect of counterbalance to be able to continue to hold the body up.

The first case will result in a lack of change or improvement, and the second will result in the worsening of the mechanical compromise of the body, even if it temporarily makes things feel better. The second case can also make things feel worse.

The Reason ABC™ Works

The reason ABC™ works and works so much better, is that it actually locates and targets the key bones responsible for causing the other ones to get “stuck” (actually, held) out of place. The result of this is that the body is then able to let go of the other (stuck) bones that most chiropractors (and others) attempt to adjust. This allows the stuck bones to move out of their compensated positions on their own as they now no longer need to be held in a position to counterbalance for the loss of leverage caused by the others having shifted in a certain way.

So, in summary: ABC™ is superior to traditional chiropractic (and similar types of therapies) because 1) It treats the root cause of mechanical dysfunction rather than the secondary effect(s), and 2) It does this in a way that over enough time, allows the body to unlock itself from all of the injury patterns that have been built up in the body over years, rather than simply shifting the stresses of those injuries from one place to another; and this creates real change. 

The ABC™ Result

The result of this is that your body not only feels better, but actually functions much better on every level, and it ultimately also becomes more resistant to injury in the long run, because you have a much more stable base to work from.

If you have tried traditional chiropractic (or other similar approaches) and found it not to be effective in solving your pain and postural problems, it’s time to give ABC™ a try. You won’t regret it. I am certainly grateful that I made the switch to ABC ™ nearly 20 years ago. It has allowed me to provide effective health and wellness care to my clients, my family, and to receive effective care myself.

What Others Are Saying

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My treatment and support received from Dr Tim Swindler has been life changing. As I could not walk up hill, stand up straight and was living on pain killers, I had been informed by specialists that the next step would be a back operation. Instead I turn to ABC and am now 98% pain free. I am off medication, and am able to lift, carry and do activities that I could not do before. Thank you Tim. ~Kathleen

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