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By SMART Chiropractic I am talking about the same thing that everyone uses for setting goals.

They are as follows:

S = Specific

Is your treatment geared for specific areas of biomechanical weakness?

M = Measurable

Are there measurable findings that can be used to measure your progress?

A = Attainable

Is it possible to attain normal or close to normal structure and function?

R = Realistic

Are your goals for treatment within the possibility to achieve?

T = Timely

Have you set an achievable time frame for completion for treatment?

These are questions you should be asking yourself whether you are a doctor or patient.  If these questions can’t be answered completely at the outset of treatment, then have specific periodic assessments to determine if progress is being made or if other treatment or diagnostic options are needed.

Do you feel like you’re going in circles going to a chiropractor?  Does it feel like when you walk out the door that your problem just comes right back.  Don’t blame it on chiropractic, it just maybe your chiropractor.

Some chiropractors have more experience in finding and fixing your problem than others.  So if you want your biomechanical problem fixed, make sure your chiropractor is checking you for at least the following:

1. Your feet – Your feet have 26 bones, that if they are not aligned properly can cause significant structural problems.
2. Your knees – Besides the bones there are lots of soft tissues here that can be injured.
3. Your hips – By hips I mean where your femurs are attaching to your pelvis.
4. Your ilium- These are the two bones, that join with the sacrum to from your pelvis.
5. Your sacrum – The large triangular bone at the base of your spine.
6. Your Lumbar Spine
7. Your Thoracic Spine
8. Your Cervical Spine
9. Your rib cage
10. Your temporal mandibular joints
11. Your Clavicles – AKA collar bone
12. Your Scapula
13. Your Shoulders
14. Your Elbows
15. Your Wrists
16. Your Hands

I will get more into each of these on future posts, hopefully with video.

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