Muscle and soft tissue damage often remain after the pain after your original symptoms have improved. Corrective care stabilizes your spine and promotes more complete healing. Visit frequency is reduced and you may be encouraged to supplement your care with exercises and other self-care procedures. With your ache or pain gone, more complete healing can occur. Stopping care now may risk a relapse.
Corrective care is designed to help restore the proper position and motion of your spinal bones, muscles and tissues – but like braces on your teeth, this change also takes time.
During the correction phase of your care, you will not have to receive adjustments as often as you did during the relief phase and, depending on your particular circumstances, Dr. Murphy will often assign you exercises and stretches to complete on your own to help accelerate your healing.
Do not be discouraged if you have mild flare-ups in your symptoms on occasion. This is normal. Flare-ups are bound to occur during this phase because your body has not fully healed.
During the course of your corrective care, – Dr. Murphy will periodically re-evaluate you to ensure that you are responding to care. This helps ensure that the treatment you are receiving is effective and that you are achieving your health goal(s). Like in the Report of Findings visit, Dr. Murphy will of course, review the data collected during his re-evaluation with you so that you can SEE your progress and determine your desired course of action.