Video: How a Chiropractor Uses a Therograph

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How the therograph is used by the chiropractor during your visit to the in this free alternative medicine video.

Video Transcript

We've basically gone over the entire spine. There's one other way of adjusting the neck that we use that's pretty common. There are a bunch of different ways of adjusting all parts of the spine, but the 2 main ones that most people use. I've showed you the one laying on her back on the table. This is the other one. It can also be adjusted sitting in a chair. Now, before I do this I will also show one of the instruments that we use in chiropractic many times. One of the more common instruments, it's been around for many, many years. Some people call it dual pro, thermagraph, temposcope is what this one actually has written on it. All means the same thing. Basically what it does is it reads bilateral temperature differences. Checks to see if one side of the spine is hotter than the other. If it is, we know that that's a sign that there could be some nerve miscommunication going on there. Basically what we do is we will run this right up the spine on each side and we'll look for spots where it tells us that one side is hotter than the other at one particular level. I got your hair caught in it that time. Based off of that, we'll use that information. Plus, then we'll also feel it. Like I said before, I'll feel for hot spots, I'll feel for muscle spasms. Then of course, I'll feel for the movement of the spine. In this case, what I can feel for is the movement of each individual vertebrae. I can feel it right up here towards the top. This particular one. Like I mentioned before, this one doesn't want to go this way and it's not wanting to rotate to the right. What I'm going to do is I'll place my hands on that specific one right there, bring her head right off to the side until I feel it right there, and give it just a little bump and it usually makes that little noise.

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How a Chiropractor Uses a Therograph

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