How Should I Feel After An Adjustment

By Dr. George Auger
Greenville SC


When your subluxations are adjusted, the response of your body is to
make an effort to function normally. With the nerve interference
reduced and proper function restored, your body has many changes to make
on the way to striking a new balance.

The response in your body may be perceived as a pleasant effect. You
may feel relaxed. A symptom may fade, pain may lessen or an injury may
heal. You may feel more energetic or sleep better. Your concentration
or moods may improve.

Occasionally, the response of your body may be interpreted as an
unpleasant effect. Spinal muscles may tighten and work to restore
structural balance. A weak organ or part of the body may "act up" on
the pathway back to normal healthy function. Or your body may now be
healthy enough to eliminate toxins that have accumulated in your
tissues.

Sometimes, no response may be visible after an adjustment. IT MAY TAKE
TIME for your body's functioning to change from a downhill direction to
an uphill direction. For example: For two weeks a person has only been
able to get three to five hours of rest a night. She then gets a night
of ten hours sleep (more than the usual amount of sleep that is healthy
for her body), and yet she wakes up feeling exhausted. Her body is
still under the effect of the previous condition of not enough rest.
Now, take a person who, for fifteen years (or even one year), has been
subluxated and whose body has been functioning at a subnormal level. He
is adjusted... and yet he feels no difference. His body is still under
the effect of the previous state of subluxation. Both of these bodies
require good conditions and TIME for the downhill momentum to slow,
stop, and then begin an uphill climb.

Not only does it take time to slow and stop a downhill momentum; it also
takes time to slow and stop an uphill momentum. If a person has been
eating good nutritious foods and stops, it will take time for her body
to show signs of malnutrition. While she was eating well, a positive
momentum was being acquired that would last past her good habits.
Through chiropractic adjustments, you will be slowing and stopping the
downhill momentum caused by subluxation; and you will be acquiring an
upward momentum to maximum health. Should a person stop chiropractic
care, this positive momentum often misleads that person into thinking
that their body is still fine, even though a subluxation has reoccurred
and malfunction is again beginning.

Good health habits such as chiropractic maintenance care are absolutely
necessary if optimum health and well-being are your goals.