Many people don’t know what to expect when they first visit a chiropractor this page is designed to give you a walk through of everything you can expect on your first visit to Urban Chiropractic.

Your first visit is about 30 minutes long. This is where the Doctor will get you to fill out an intake form. She wants to know exactly how much chemical, physical and emotional stress has hit your nervous system. This will tell her why you are presenting with the symptoms that you have.

Next your back will be measured by a technology that will look at the thermal temperature between the left and right side of your spinal cord. It measures the amount of heat each nerve is putting out. It could be normal, underactive or overactive. This measurement is one that shows the Dr Kurji how long this problem has existed and its effects on the muscular and the underlying organ systems as well.

After a thorough history, you will then go into an adjusting room. This is when you will get your first torque release treatment.

Patients report feeling looser, relaxed, taller, less pain, dizzy etc. These are all effects of the treatment and are all positive.

How is the adjustment performed?

An instrument called an integrator is the tool used in torque release technique.It is the first FDA approved chiropractic instrument. It looks like an activator ( another instrument used by chiropractors), but that is where the similarity ends. It is based on the physics equation of Force = Mass x Accelaration. The mass is miniscule, and it accelerates with a speed of 1/10000 of a second, leading to a tremendous force to the nervous system. It in essence "unwinds" and " resets" the nervous system, returning balance to the spinal cord and thus allowing the body to free itself from symptoms.

What is Torque Release Technique?

The spinal cord is like the circuit box in our home. We have a pair of nerves that leave the spinal cord on the left and on the right from the neck (called your cervical spine) your upper and mid back (called your thoracic spine) and your lower back (called your lumbar spine). These nerves are like little wires that supply the house with power. In a house if you overload and electrical circuit by plugging in too much information, the circuit trips and you have to go to the main power box to turn the circuit breaker back to on. You overload the circuit again and it will trip again and again until you stop overloading it. The human body is the same. We have chemical stresses (environmental ie air pollution, noise pollution, overloading our senses with TV, violance on screen, loud music etc....) so we all have some form of chemical stress. The second type of stress we have is physical stress. We were designed as humans to roam the earth and hunt and fish. We now sit in desk jobs, with high levels of stress, don't exercise enough, walk and stand on cement, wear terrible shoes that are not designed to protect our feet and thus spine. Car accidents, are also an example of this. The last type of stress and the most significant is emotional stress.

Stress overloads our spinal cord and the nervous system. When this happens the "circuit" trips and the body shows us this by a symptoms such as:

• headache
• backache
• earache
• stomach pain
• IBS
• constipation
• carpal tunnel issues
• mood swings
• depression

Torque release technique 'resets" the nervous system so that the body can function normally with no symptoms.