The "Adjustment"

The most common therapeutic procedure performed by doctors of chiropractic is known as "spinal manipulation," also called "chiropractic adjustment."  The purpose of manipulation is to restore joint mobility by manually applying a controlled force into joints that have become hypo-mobile—or restricted in their movement—as a result of a tissue injury. Tissue injury can be caused by a single traumatic event, such as improper lifting of a heavy object, or through repetitive stresses, such as sitting in an awkward position with poor spinal posture for an extended period of time. In either case, injured tissues undergo physical and chemical changes that can cause inflammation, pain, and diminished function for the sufferer. Manipulation, or adjustment of the affected joint and tissues, restores mobility, thereby alleviating pain and muscle tightness, and allowing tissues to heal.

Nerve Function Impediment

For over 100 years chiropractors have focused their attention on the spine. The spinal cord projects nerves between the individual vertebrae and as such are directly affected when vertebras are not functioning correctly. When the spine misaligns or malfunctions, a disorder called a subluxation will occur.

A subluxation is a misalignment of a vertebra that inhibits nerve supply and causes a cascade of negative effects that include pain, numbness/tingling, muscle spasms and poor functioning of our vital organs. A subluxation can arise from any number of chemical, physical, or emotional stress factors. When the body is not able to communicate appropriately through the nervous system, it is not able to self-heal. Chiropractic seeks to identify, analyze and adjust subluxations.

The Doctor of Chiropractic restores the body's nerve function by adjusting the misaligned vertebra into its correct position. When nerve function is improved, bodily processes become more natural and healthy. As a science, chiropractic deals with the relationship between the spine, nervous system and the effects on the body's innate ability to express and maintain good health. As an art, chiropractic entails knowledge, skill and dexterity to locate and correct subluxations that impair and rob the body of its ability to maintain optimal health and wellness.

Is It Painful?

Chiropractic adjustment rarely causes discomfort. However, patients may sometimes experience mild soreness or aching following treatment (as with some forms of exercise) that usually resolves within 12 to 48 hours. Your doctor will recommend home care to assist in alleviating any discomfort you may feel.

A Cooperative Profession

In many cases, such as lower back pain, chiropractic care may be the primary method of treatment. When other medical conditions exist, chiropractic care may complement or support medical treatment by relieving the musculoskeletal aspects associated with the condition.

Doctors of chiropractic may assess patients through clinical examination, laboratory testing, diagnostic imaging and other diagnostic interventions to determine when chiropractic treatment is appropriate or when it is not appropriate. Chiropractors will readily refer patients to the appropriate health care provider when chiropractic care is not suitable for the patient's condition, or the condition warrants co-management in conjunction with other members of the health care team.

"The source that created the body, heals the body"

The foundation of chiropractic is built on the truth that health is the body's normal state and good health is perfectly natural. Chiropractors know that the body possesses a unique internal wisdom that continually strives to maintain a state of good health. The body's internal knowledge is also the guiding, healing force which allows our body to self-heal and self-regulate, permitting us to adapt naturally to the influences of the internal and external environment.

Chiropractic & Pediatrics

Every baby needs to have a healthy spinal column. The spine is the framework that will support your child throughout his or her growing years and adulthood. Studies have shown that newborn infants often enter the world with spinal trauma and stress due to the birth process. Even under the best conditions, birthing can be difficult for the infant who has spent nine months cradled in the dark, warm womb. It is very important to have your infant checked by a chiropractor shortly after his or her birth to be certain that there is not any nerve interference or spinal problems. Even though most of the baby's spine is cartilage, the C1 or top bone in the infant's neck is calcified at birth. It is typically the one that can misalign during the birthing process. Many nerves pass by this joint and can be interfered by the swelling that occurs in the misaligned joint. By gently realigning this joint the swelling reduces and the pressure is removed from the nervous system.  Normal function is restored.  Periodic checks should continue throughout your child's developmental years.

Scientists are still learning how to accurately assess the damage to infants. They do know that a forced pull on the neck during delivery can cause a subluxation that might cause damage, too slight to be noticed immediately. But eventually it might cause some form of dysfunction including but not limited to pain, scoliosis, earaches, or colic.

One of the greatest gifts you can give your newborn is a complete spinal examination by a doctor of chiropractic. Chiropractors feel strongly that the entire family can benefit by having spinal checkups. The children who have been under regular chiropractic care are sick less often and less severely. They rarely miss days from school. Recent studies have also shown that they have fewer emotional and learning disabilities and other neurological problems connected with childhood. In 1989, a study compared the patients of two hundred pediatricians with two hundred children who had been under the care of chiropractors. Not only was the overall health of the chiropractic children superior to those who had known only medical treatment but they also had fewer ear infections, fewer allergies, lower incidence of tonsillitis and less need to be given antibiotic therapy.

Chiropractic

Chiropractic is the science, art and philosophy of restoring health to the body naturally. Doctors of Chiropractic are trained in detecting spinal misalignments, called subluxations, and gently removing them so your nervous system can control your body properly and efficiently. Every organ and cell in your body is completely dependant on the information and energy that your nerves carry. Anything less than 100% is not ok. Your body suffers, however the outward symptoms of this nerve pressure doesn't show up until the end stages of the disease process.

Disc Decompression

Disc decompression is the revolutionary non-surgical treatment of spinal discs. Spinal discs do not have a direct blood or nutrient supply. The only way they stay healthy and hydrated is if the joint is taken through a full repetitive motion through out the day to cause a pumping motion in and out of the disc. Do to spinal stress and poor posture these joints get locked up and loss their ability to move and exchange fluid in the disc. The disc dehydrates and breaks down leaving them susceptible to disc degeneration, disc bulges and even disc herniations. Spinal Disc Decompression is the advanced therapy that stretches these joins in a repetitive manner, opening the joint and creating a vacuum inside of the disc to suck in fluid and nutrients. This allows the disc to rehydrate and heal. The thicker the disc, the larger the space for the spinal nerves to pass out of the joint without irritation. This is great for not only regenerating the disc, but relieving sciatica and low back pain.

Physical Therapy & Rehabilitation

As Chiropractic research has advanced, we understand that strengthening the muscles surrounding the spine will help make the adjusting procedures last longer and more permanent. Our examination process detects and locates the muscles that are weak and failing to support your spine. We teach our patients how to not only strengthen these muscles, but how to maintain them for a life long healthy life style.  

Pettibon^™ Body Weighting System

A large part of our core strengthening programs rely on the physical therapy and rehabilitation processes we used. Based upon the renowned Pettibon^™ System, patients go through a muscle and ligament strengthening exercises that enable them to heal more quickly that with conventional chiropractic practices. Our offices are unique in this respect in that we have implemented the spinal restorative system developed over the past 40 years by a gifted and tenacious doctor, Dr. Burl Pettibon. This system has tipped traditional chiropractic on its edge.

We use the Pettibon body weighting system to activate these weak and mal-conditioned muscles. By wearing this weighting system just 15-20 minutes twice a day during the corrective procedures, we can strengthen these muscles. Once the muscles begin to function properly they will pull the spine into proper alignment and give you the support to live your active life style. No one wants to accelerate their own aging process, but imbalanced and weak posture is a sure way to do that. This weighting system reverses the effects of gravity and traumas restoring balance and health to your spine.

The Pettibon^™ system of correcting spinal dysfunction is a leap in the advancement of correcting spinal postural imbalances. The system is different in part, because of the unique blueprint exercises designed by Dr. Pettibon. The exercises are performed in combination with the corrective Pettibon adjustments.

Offices such as ours utilizing the Pettibon^™ system have devoted a tremendous amount of extra time and resources to train and improve upon the effectiveness of every chiropractic adjustment. Because of this advanced training, both the doctors and the staff are able teach each patient the necessary steps to enjoy a lifetime of health and vitality.

Massage Therapy

Our massage therapy not only feels great, but extremely effective in breaking up fibrotic tissue that restricts muscle and soft tissue movement. Massage can lengthen shortened and imbalanced muscle that may be interfering in your body's ability to maintain balance. We offer many advanced forms of massage that maybe just what you need to finally be free from that annoying ache. We also have Doctors on staff to help direct just what you need so our therapist may be able to do in one session what it takes other therapist to do in many sessions.

Therapeutic massage is an essential component of Integrated Wellness and to our chiropractic care. The massage we offer at Integrated Wellness is geared specifically to the improvement of chronic pain, injuries, reduced range of motion, inflammation, muscle strains and spasms, and poor circulation. This work has the proven secondary effect of enhancing immune function. Our team of licensed massage therapists produces rapid, positive results by using a range of integrated therapies, tailored to your specific needs. This approach, unique in the state of Utah, may include any of the following modalities:

Core Strengthening & Stabilization

We believe in core strength and stability so much that it is a part of every patient's program. We have beginning, intermediate, and advanced programs for all our patients. We also teach individual and group classes. Please look at our calendar for our next free workshop.

Custom Orthotics & Posture Assessment

We have been making custom orthotics for almost a decade now. We believe the feet are the foundation of your body and must be functioning properly to remove stress from your feet, ankles, knees, hips and low back. Our orthotics have changed peoples lives from restored the ability to run again, delayed or prevented knees and hip surgeries and relieved low back pain. You must call and ask for a free foot and gait assessment today! (watch for our online coupons)

Nutrition Counseling

The old saying "You are what you eat" is taken whole heartedly here at Integrated Wellness. As a society we have lost the art of whole-food preparation and family meal times. So many diseases are the direct correlation of what goes into our mouths—or what should be going into our mouths. At Integrated Wellness, we take nutrition seriously as we often see that direct correlation manifested in overall spinal and organ health. Because of this, we have on-staff a Certified Nutritional Health Counselor to provide our patients with group and individual nutritional counseling, as well as group workshops and whole-food cooking classes. Don't miss out on our free nutritional workshops. It could save yours and your family's health.

Lifestyle Education & Workshops

Here at Integrated Wellness we are a training facility for lifetime health. That is why on a monthly bases we offer free workshops to our patients and the general public on topics like core strength, nutrition, how to raise a healthy child, fibromyalgia, headaches and migraines, TMD, and digestive disorders just to name a few. Check out our online calendar to see the next free and excited workshop that could change your life.

Weight Loss

We now offer the most exciting program in sustainable weight loss. By combining our nutritional counseling, advanced weight-loss exercise, and treatment of the glands and hormones in the body that directly affect your body's weight, we can naturally stimulate the metabolism and restore your proper metabolic set-point to a proper and healthy level. Not only will the pounds come off, but they'll stay off as you experience this unique weight loss system not offered anywhere else. 

Additional Therapies – NeuroModulation Technique (NMT)

In addition to our unique multi-treatment regimen, we offer a highly effective, non-invasive, alternative treatment process known as NeuroModulation Technique (NMT). This treatment is offered through the services of Dr. Chris J. Frogley, DC, NMT, an associate of Integrated Wellness and responsible for the foundational research and design of our Integrated Weight Loss program. NMT is a unique form of treatment that provides the patient with an advanced, multi-system focus of healing.

In short, NeuroModulation Technique:

• restores the body's innate capacity to heal
• is fast, safe, effective, and painless
• is about optimizing wellness
• has effectiveness that is not limited to any particular illness or disposition

NeuroModulation Technique (NMT) was developed by Dr. Leslie S. Feinberg, D.C. in 2002. Formerly known as the "Feinberg Technique," NMT has garnered a reputation as an especially effective, yet highly safe form of alternative healthcare.  Many thousands of people all over the world have experienced relief from allergies, and autoimmune illnesses such as arthritis, Crohn's disease, irritable bowel syndrome, lupus, myositis, scleroderma, and more, as well as inflammatory conditions. Often, patients suffering from chronic pain have either experienced a reduction, or even an elimination of their pain within minutes of an NMT treatment. Many of these patients have experienced successful resolutions of their health issues with NMT when conventional medical care and other types of "complementary "or "alternative" medicine has been proven ineffective.

NMT is best described as "informational medicine," because it works to identify and correct the informational source of illness— the confusion that can interrupt our innate healing mechanisms. Many believe illness results from some external affliction that viscously attacks the mind-body. The NMT position is that illness is the inevitable result of informational confusion and faults in the body's systems responsible for regulating it functions; making them inadequate to produce the balanced internal-body state that wellness requires. The issue of illness, or "dis-ease" in the body happens by default when the mind-body is not sufficiently aware of its internal conditions and the requirements for healing. NMT retrains the mind-body to a better awareness so that it can more efficiently produce the optimal health it is capable of enjoying.

The Power of the Mind-Body

The NMT position is that the mind-body is a self-correcting system that always seeks to find and maintain the balanced internal state in which optimal health and vitality thrive.  The mind-body is an integrated unit of 50-trillion cells which organize themselves into the body's various tissues, organs, structures, and systems. Intelligence is found at every level of mind-body organization, including: the DNA of the first cell from which life begins; the memory and information processing structures in each cell of the body; the neurological networks in organs and the autonomic nervous system; and the top level of information processing, the brain.  This intelligence includes both the "conscious" mind that provides us with the awareness we need to interact with people and events in our environment, as well as the "other than conscious" mind that is internally directed to quietly govern body function in the background without distracting the conscious mind from its responsibilities. The clinical focus of NMT is on the other-than-conscious activity because that is where body function is determined. NMT uses a unique form of dynamic muscle response testing (or dynamic MRT) for applying the NMT protocol. This process is used to train the mind-body to reach the more valid and complete informational state required to release the body's natural capacity to heal.

Every bodily function originates as an instruction, a set of information that is relayed to the cells which is responsible for performing that function, triggering it to begin and end. Incorrect body function inevitably results from incorrect information, relayed to the wrong place, at the wrong time. Every person is unique in their genetic heritage— that range of physiological possibilities of which the mind-body is capable. Every person also carries compromising effects of previous disease, trauma, and aging.  Skilled practitioners use NMT as a tool to evaluate all of these unique factors and optimize the possibility to be well again.

A Uniquely Developed Protocol for Healing

The mind-body was created with an amazing intelligence that allows it to produce a fully formed human being from a single cell, and to develop into trillions of body cells communicating perfectly to heal the body and maintain vitality throughout its lifespan.  When that communication fails, the NMT system is a unique and powerful tool by which the NMT practitioner enters into a carefully developed therapeutic dialog with the patient's mind-body. NMT uses special routines of questions and corrective training statements that are organized into therapeutic templates known as "NMT clinical pathways." Each of these pathways is a window into a specific area of body function. Because the NMT system is exceptionally thorough, there are NMT clinical pathways available to address just about every type of problem. The practitioner guides the patient through a session by selecting the NMT clinical pathways to be used according to the priority the mind-body recognizes will be most effective. Follow-up sessions are used to evaluate how well the patient responded to the prior treatment session, as well as determine treatment priority as the NMT process continues.

The informational basis of illness and disease may be the most common, yet the most-overlooked roadblock to healing. Bodies suffer all sorts of negative impact in life: trauma, toxins, infection, stressors including emotional, physical, and chemical, as well as malnutrition, and more. Nutritional support, diet, and exercise all need to be part of a healthy lifestyle that recognizes the importance of preventing disease, and NMT practitioners often recommend these as part of their treatment plan. Conventional medical care may also be needed, especially to support emergent conditions. NMT strives to never be in conflict with traditional medicine and to always be complementary and supportive of such care.  In fact, NMT is often a vital tool used to assist conventional medicine in the process of healing of illness and disease. No matter what other form of healthcare a patient may choose to receive, if the informational basis of illness has not been addressed, the healing resources of the mind-body simply cannot be efficiently expressed.   NMT is a powerful tool to help the mind-body freely realize its potential to heal.

NMT is safe and effective for all people, and particularly safe for the very young and very old. NMT is also effective for animals and is used by NMT-specially-trained veterinarians and others interested in animal care.

Using NMT Along With Other Forms of Treatment

Other types of complementary or alternative medicines are often harmonious with NMT— acupuncture, chiropractic manipulation, homeopathy, and more. While other methods of informational medicine are available, none offer the rational, scientific, and carefully structured and thorough foundation as NMT. Other methods that are not as well crafted as NMT may actually confuse the mind-body further and compromise clinical outcome for a patient. It is advisable to discuss with your NMT practitioner any other types of healthcare you may be interested in prior to taking part in them.

The Preventative Aspect of NMT

NMT is not burdened by the limitations found in disease-oriented methods of healthcare. By focusing on prevention, NMT can provide help even before the onset of symptoms may make us aware of a challenge to our health. After recovery from some health complaint or illness, NMT may be used proactively to periodically evaluate and correct any subsequent confusion that creeps into the mind-body's information processing systems to help maintain health. How much more efficient it is to maintain the health we have than struggle to regain the health we have let slip away.

We are pleased to be able to offer this advanced form of treatment to our patients and their families. For more information about Dr. Chris Frogley or NMT, please feel free to contact him directly at drfrogley@frogleychiropractic.com, or by calling 435.760.5855.