How We Check Your Spine
for Vertebral Malposition

The most important part of our practice is identifying where, when, how, and what direction to adjust your spine.

 

A vertebral malposition is a specific bone that is malpositioned.  We correct Vertebral Malpositions only for the purpose of clearing Neuro-Spinal Interference (NSI). There are many approaches to finding such a malposition.

 

The process is complicated by the fact that symptoms, pain, stiffness, or that “off feeling” does not indicate where a vertebral malpositioned vertebral bone is. All these sensations can be more connected with sites of inflamed tissue like cartilage disc, muscles, ligaments, tendons, etc. Most VM’s are silent. 

 

Further the process is further complicated by the fact that bony asymmetries (differences between sides) commonly occur in normal development from birth. Therefore differences in measures like leg-bone length, eye-socket height, right/left foot shoe size, or even x-ray films that supposedly demonstrate a spinal bone “out of place” all can give a false indication of malposition. In fact that asymmetry may be perfectly normal for you. 

 

If your nervous system and vertebral position is as important as biologists and physiologists say it is, then one would think that your own body should have an internal “chiropractor” at work somehow keeping you correctly positioned. It just so happens to do just that. Your own body is much more innately aware of your “normal” vertebral bone position. This position is regulated through neural sensors that sense a stretch from a vertebral bone out of place. Then the nervous system sends signals to small, deep muscles that actively “pull” bones back into place. 

 

Modern chiropractors understand that your own body is the best authority on you. Therefore for the highest degree of accuracy and precision, it is only by palpating or feeling these muscles that chiropractors most accurately can find where your own body wants its own bones.

 

Some of the modern muscle palpation assessments for detecting Vertebral Malpositions include AMP (Advanced Muscle Palpation) and VerteBraile. Our doctor has been trained in muscle palpation at Southern California University of Health Sciences and has been palpating hundreds of spines each week since 2007. 

 

How long does our spinal check take? Similar to the length of time it takes to find a light switch in your own home. Yet the harmful impact of a vertebral bone malpositioned over time can be as far reaching as the reach of your nervous system itself.

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What chiropractic technique do we use to adjust your vertebral malpositions? See our answer "How We Adjust."