Structural Shift and Secondary Conditions

While no one is structurally perfect, there is a normal healthy range for health conditions. In the same manner, using medical evidence, we can understand what a fever is because we know what the normal temperature is, or what constitutes high blood pressure because we are aware of the normal range. Just as the department of veterans affairs recognizes va disability claims and determines a disability rating based on medical records, there are established normals everywhere we look, including gauges and warning indicators on the dashboard of your car, letting you know when things are abnormal.

At Northside Chiropractic, we are looking for a significant three-dimensional shift of the spine away from normal. If a shift, such as a traumatic brain injury or a service connected knee injury, occurs, it will cause the shoulders to twist, and the hips to shift, forcing the entire spine out of alignment. These shifts cause the muscles to spasm, the ligaments to deform, and disrupt the nerves traveling down the spinal cord. In other words, the main communication system that connects your brain to your body can be disrupted.

The Primary Condition that we work with, not unlike a pre-existing condition in va disability benefits, is called the ATLAS DISPLACEMENT COMPLEX or commonly known as Atlas Subluxation.

At Northside Chiropractic, our focus is on Structural Corrections, both primary and secondary.

Think of your spine as the foundation for a building. If the foundation was off, would you expect the floors to creak, the walls to crack, and for the windows to not close properly? This could be similar to how veterans might file a claim for both service connected conditions and a secondary service connected claim with the VA.

Now you can spend time patching all the damage, but you would be doing so with the expectation that in a short time the problems will have to be… Repaired again and again, just like maintaining va disability claims with the department of veterans affairs.

Structural Chiropractic looks for the underlying shifts in the spine that might be causing your foundation to be off. Much like how parkinson’s disease could be linked to a service connected disability as a secondary disability, causing one to revisit their original claim.

In the vast majority of cases that make their way to our practice, there is a significant Structural Shift. These Structural Shifts are the underlying cause that often reveals themselves as “symptoms” – or what we refer to as Secondary conditions.