Now, we've already adjusted the entire spine on this patient. Like I said before, the spine
is not the only thing that can be adjusted by chiropractors. Now, granted some choose
to not adjust to anything else and some choose to. I for one, choose to adjust everything
if it needs it. Everything that needs to be adjusted I like to adjust it. What I do after
I adjust the spine is when I adjust the arms, I adjust every joint in the arm but I start
with the wrist. The main part of the wrist that actually is important is the 3 bones
that are right back here closest to the arm. You got the arm bones that come up here, and
then you got 3 bones that sit right here across the wrist. Now, those 3 bones make up what
everyone knows as the carpal tunnel. Carpal tunnel is these 3 bones that sit right there.
They sit like that and then there's a ligament that runs right across the bottom of them
that finishes off this little tunnel through there. Now, through that tunnel is where all
the ligaments run through, all the tendons run through here, the nerves run through there,
but the blood vessels run on the outside. Now, if you can imagine, just picture if these
bones that should sit in a configuration like this, if they fall out of adjustment, most
commonly this bone falls down into that tunnel. As you can see, when that falls down in there,
that puts pressure on everything that would run through that tunnel. What I do when I
look at the patient here is I check those bones. I start out with those bones and I
see where they're at. I can actually feel for their position. Now, to make the adjustment,
I just correct them again in the direction that I feel that they're out so I can make
the adjustment there. These ones usually don't make the noise that the spine does, but you
can feel it moving just like that one there. Then I can move this one back in the other
direction. Basically, I'm just taking each of those bones, moving them back where they're
supposed to be. In most cases, that opens up the carpal tunnel, and for many people
it actually allows the carpal tunnel syndrome to go actually go away. I have several patients
right now who will follow me to the ends of the earth I think because of the benefits
they've gotten from they've gotten from their carpal tunnel syndrome. Now, after the wrist
because again, we're looking at the entire body here. Every thing's connected so with
any kind of problem with the arm, the next thing that I do after the wrist is I'll go
to the elbow. We all know that the wrist and the elbow. This bone's connected to that bone.
The next thing I'm going to do is the elbow. I will go ahead and check and see. I have
a different way. There's several ways of checking the elbow. A lot of times what people notice
when they have elbow problems is you can have things like tendinitis, you have tennis elbow.
A lot of different things like that, as well as pain down the arm and all different kinds
of presentations. The first thing that I do is I check the radius. That's the little bone
right up top here. That's the bone that just sits up here and just rotates back and forth
with the arm. It's the smaller bone in this end of the 2 bones that make up the forearm.
I just check it and see if it needs to be adjusted there. I just feel the way it's moving.
If I found a spot, which I didn't on her, then usually what it does is it moves back
this way and I can just simply move it back that way, make a little adjustment in there.
In this case, hers is fine. Now, again because the elbow has 2 bones in there, the bigger
bone in the elbow is the ulna. The ulna, the way I check it is it usually just simply goes
backwards. What I'll do is I'll feel for how it's moving in there, and it usually creates
a really sore muscle right here. I'll feel for that one as well. We talked about muscle
spasms before. In the case of these subluxations, this is one of those. This is one the ones
that gets sore and swollen and spasmed, and hers seems to be fine. If it wasn't, then
I would make the adjustment right here. Just a little bump up like that, and that fixes
the elbow.