Jeff Langmaid explains how a single spinal adjustment can match weeks of exercise for certain outcomes. He notes adjustments work passively and quickly, though he acknowledges they operate through different mechanisms and that exercise has better long-term effects. Patient noncompliance with exercise routines is also a factor.
Exercise takes time. And in many cases, the answer should be exercise and spinal adjustments, of course. But when parsed out head to head, exercise takes time. People are non compliant. It's active. Those are the active components, a really good thing. But a spinal adjustment can take one minute, it's passive, and it can equal or better the results of the exercise they're spending time doing. Now, of course, the mechanisms of action work in different ways. Long term, these things can play out in slightly different fashions, but that is, I'm going to say, arousing endorsement of what we do with spinal adjusting in our practices.
