How MY process is different
How my
process is different
(Hi, I'm Dr.
Joe 'BackCrack' Cipriano, a chiropractic physician in Greenville, SC. All of
the people you see in my videos are real, actual patients. My y-strap
decompression adjustments get the results people have been searching for. I'm
here to help! For appointments and other information, please visit my website, www.DrJoeBackCrack.com, and
to watch my crack-tastic videos, please visit www.YouTube.com/DrJoeBackCrack.)
If you’ve ever
searched for a chiropractor, then you know there are many out there to
choose from. And just like any specialist, so too do different chiropractors
have different processes from one another. It’s really up to you to choose
which is going to work best for you. I’m not saying that my process is the only
right one out there. But I am saying that, especially if you’ve watched my
videos (or if I’ve ever done an adjustment for you personally), you’ll
notice that my process is significantly different from most others out there,
especially when it comes to massage, adjustments, and the
infamous y-strap.
Certainly, using
a massager in and of itself isn’t a groundbreaking procedure for chiropractors.
Many capable ones have used massagers for a very long time. But if you pay
close attention, you’ll notice that most of them only use a massager before
an adjustment. Surely, this is a useful technique to help relax the muscles
prior to adjustment work, and I’ve adopted the practice too, as you can clearly
see in this video.
But what about after? You won’t find too many chiropractic specialists who
massage after an adjustment, but I (and my patients) have found that post-adjustment massages
allow the body to hold an adjustment longer, and patients have reported
to me that their relief, therefore, lasts longer too.
Speaking of
adjustments, you’ve probably seen many chiropractors do only one or two
adjustments on patients for their specific problem areas, and if that’s okay
with those patients, then that’s fine by me. But, as you’ve probably noticed
(if you’ve read this
earlier blog post of mine), I look at chiropractic medicine as part of the
solution for total body health,
and not just one specific area. For this reason, you’ll almost always see me do
a full body adjustment on every patient I see, even if they’re only complaining of a single, isolated
ailment (like, for example, lower back pain). As we know, forward head posture
or subluxations in the cervical spine can 100% be the cause of their low back
pain. So, I go through and adjust cervical, thoracic, lumbar,
hip/pelvic/sacrum, and do leg pulls and ankle adjustments, too. My technique
does vary when it comes to hip/pelvic/sacrum adjustments – for example, I might
do sacral drops, but not side postures, depending on the patient. (Also,
patients sometimes need an upper cervical adjustment at the end to fully take
all the pressure off their nerves.) But whether I’m applying these variations
or not, you can always count on me for a full body adjustment, since I tend to
believe that this better addresses all
of the possible causes of a
particular problem, instead of just a few potential ones.
Finally, I’ll generally wrap up using the y-strap and a traction/decompression of a patient’s spine. This is actually the number one reason why patients come to see me, and probably a top reason that people like watching my videos.
But, surprisingly to me, many chiropractors
don’t see the y-strap’s utility as I (and my patients) do. And even fewer will
employ the y-strap with a full body adjustment and pre- and post-adjustment massage. Again, this can
work perfectly fine for some patients, and if it does, more power to them! But
if you’re the kind of person that wants to get the full Dr. Joe BackCrack
experience, with all three of these key differences, then I’ll hope to see you at my office soon, so I can offer you some lasting relief,
too.
