Most
patients start with Initial Intensive Care. Initial Intensive Care is about
damage control. The primary focus of this crisis care is to reduce or eliminate your most
obvious symptoms. Initial Intensive
care in itself cannot stabilise spinal decay. Initially you may require many
spinal corrections to begin to unlock damaged joints within the spine and remove
pressure from the nervous system. The fibrosis (scar tissue) around the
joints of the spine and nerves, the stress and damage on your ligaments,
tendons and muscles due to years of chronic subluxations, can make it difficult
to hold your spinal corrections. Initial Intensive Care usually involves
multiple sessions per week (2 or more) depending on the nature and complexity
of your injury
You will
be prescribed Initial Intensive Care if:
• Your
chronic (long standing) or acute (recent) subluxations have damaged your vertebrae
joints, nerves, discs, muscles, meninges (the soft tissue layers around the spinal
cord containing small blood vessels, tendons and ligaments.
• Your spine
is weak and unstable and your spinal corrections hold briefly and incompletely.
• You may
have advanced spinal decay.
• You have
height loss, stiffness, tightness, tension and constant physical or emotional pain.
• Your
posture is off-centre and your spine is unbalanced.
• Your energy is low, your breath is shallow and your ability to adapt to life’s stress is compromised.
