RETRACING

A common question which Chiropractors and their patients have to face is the question of retracing. Many patients cannot understand why they should have to go back, step-by-step, over the various stages of their disease through which they have progressed, in order to regain health. Your Chiropractor knows when the patient is retracing. Please take a few moments to read this explanation of retracing to help you better understand the process.

What do we mean by retracing? Primarily it implies going over ground which has already been covered until the individual reaches the point from where they started. When a patient is under Chiropractic care it often occurs that they exhibit symptoms which have not manifested themselves for months or even years. Their first impression is that they are becoming worse; but the fact is they are retracing several stages through which their disease progressed in the making. this is not peculiar to only certain cases, but it is a common condition to which all are subject. The disease must be retraced, step-by-step, in order to reach that point where it started, namely, Health.

Different stages of the disease give rise to different symptoms, and as the order reverses itself, symptoms which were present, perhaps years ago may occur. If the vertebra is being returned rapidly towards its normal position an entire series of symptoms may develop at one time and patient consequently will believe that they are getting worse. As a matter of fact, the outlook is particularly bright at this time, and the patients should be made to realize this fact. Naturally, if they do not understand the condition, they will assume that they are becoming worse.

Rehabilitating spines is similar to straightening teeth;
Both take time and repeated care