Changes on x-rays.

Recently, I have been really excited about what I do.  Not that I haven't been excited in the past, but what I have found recently has upped it to a new level.  The big question has always been, "Can we stop and reverse the degenerative process?"  We will never know unless we take post x-rays.  In our office I like to take progress films 90 days after the initial pictures.  My faith in what I do is always increased when I see a positive structural change on the post x-rays.  The best part of it all is when a patient smiles after seeing that they are improving  not only symptomatically, but structurally.  The same applies for patients that were advised to continue their corrective chiropractic care and declined.  I had one return 5 years later and found that she progressed from a phase 1 to a phase 2 degenerative process in her lumbar and cervical spine.  This all happened in a very short time span.  The subluxation is progressive.  It has a beginning, a present, and a future.  This all happens many times without symptoms.  In fact this happens most of the time without symptoms.  I urge all people not to wait until it hurts.  Chiropractic is part of a lifestyle.  When added to your other healthy habits such as diet, exercise, sleep and positive mental attitude, you will reap a healthy body that will pay you dividends for years to come.