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Examination

If our consultation suggests that you’d likely be helped with chiropractic care, we’ll need to perform a complete examination. Our patients often comment on how thorough our examination is, compared with other practitioners they’ve consulted.

Our examination varies based upon what we discover during the evaluation of your health history. What we find will tell us which examinations we need to conduct:

Physical

This is a general evaluation that may include the recording of height, weight, pulse, blood pressure and similar objective measurements.

Orthopedic

These examinations test your ability to turn, bend and move key joints of your skeletal system through their expected range of motion.

Neurological

We’ll test your dermatomes, deep tendon reflexes, muscle strength and other aspects pointing to the health of your central nervous system.

Chiropractic

These tests can include postural evaluations, static and dynamic palpation and other procedures to reveal neurological problems.

sEMG

Surface electromyography is an instrument that locates subluxation patterns by measuring electrical activity in the muscles supporting the spine  A normal scan will show symmetrical balance at each level and will also exhibit an adequate degree of tone of the supporting muscles.  Subluxation (nerve irritation due to misaligned or poorly moving vertebrae) disturbs the proper functioning of the nervous system, which causes an abnormal amount of stimulation of the muscles. 

As this progresses, it causes varying degrees of excessive muscle tension and imbalance as seen in the abnormal scan.  Each color depicts a different state of dysfunction.  Lastly, the disturbance in proper nerve function from subluxation also causes the muscles on either side of the spine to become imbalanced.

Thermography

Thermography is a way of measuring tiny differences in skin temperature that can reveal nervous system disturbances.  Your skin temperature is regulated by the autoonomic Nervous System, more specifically your sympathetic nervous system.   When communication between the Nervous System and the blood vessels is disturbed, it causes your body's natural thermostat to "malfunction" - producing an imbalanced temperature reading along your spine.  This scan helps us assess the imbalance in temperature and the pattern of dysfunction.