Jeff LangmaidFounder, The Evidence Based Chiropractor

Unlocking the Mystery: How Chiropractic Adjustments Work

15 Jul 2024 · 1 min

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Jeff Langmaid (speaker) states that spinal chiropractic adjustments can be very effective at reducing pain and disability, but the precise biological/mechanistic explanation remains actively researched despite decades of study. He emphasizes the dynamic, multi-factorial nature of what happens during an adjustment (not a simple 1+1=2), celebrates ongoing discoveries, and notes the broad applicability across many clinical settings.

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Although we have seen that spinal adjustments can be very, very effective in reducing pain and disability, the exact mechanism of the adjustment continues to be explored in the research. You've seen that highlighted dozens of times on this podcast and probably many times in the future. And at one point you might look at that and say, how do we not know how this works yet? Haven't we been researching this for like 30 years? The answer is absolutely yes. Here's the good side of that. It's because it's so dynamic. It is not one plus one equals two. When an adjustment is delivered, there's a lot that happens. And we continue and the researchers continue to discover and learn more about how a chiropractic adjustment works. I love that. And you should love that, too, because it highlights just how impactful, just how dynamic and just in how many different clinical settings we can apply something and get a benefit.