Following five years of practice, I have cared for those with back pain, neck pain, headaches, migraines, disc-related pain (herniations), and various extremity pain syndromes. Since that time, I’ve noticed an important consistency to positive outcomes. From my perspective, using hands-on adjusting leads to positive clinical outcomes.
I have two things that I believe are essential to making progress in pain-relief: hands-on chiropractic care and a refined methodology to provide care. About three-fourths of the patients I start work on have already exhausted the medical/physical therapy route without any luck and a smaller segment tried another chiropractor and obtained marginal results. I believe that by targeting the specific bone(s) that are out of alignment, as identified by using the Gonstead method, is paramount for superior results. Generalized techniques, although good for the vast majority of problems, tends to underperform in more difficult cases (especially in cases of pain associated with a lumbar disc herniation). Patient relief is undoubtedly the result of an individualized care program with an adherence to consistency to the program. This is vital to pain relief and ultimately health promotion.
Over the years, I have worked with a wide range of individuals. I have found that I am most effective working with an individual that recognizes chiropractic as a part of an overall healthy lifestyle--that keeping your spine in alignment is common sense.
I’ve been fortunate to train and work alongside some of the leaders in Gonstead chiropractic—Doug Cox, Alex Cox, John Cox, Ray Clinton, Bill Droessler, Larry Troxell, Eric Toijala. My personal chiropractic philosophy is a synthesis of their expertise as well as my own chiropractic career (five years and counting).
Dr. Matt
