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What are chiropractic adjustments?

CHIROPRACTIC ADJUSTMENTS

Chiropractic adjustments are specialized maneuvers that restore motion and alignment to joints. To combat knee pain , Dr Lapointe may adjust the knee joint directly or just the spine and hips.

How does restoring alignment to the hips and spine benefit the knee joint? Research indicates that imbalance in the spine may cause low-grade scoliosis. In turn, one hip is slightly elevated in relation to the opposite hip: resulting in a condition known as “functional” short leg (as opposed to “anatomical” short leg, mentioned earlier, where limbs are actually differing lengths).

Functional short leg wreaks havoc on the body when a disproportionate amount of force is transferred to a single knee-instead of both- during walking or running.