Structure Dictates Function

What that means is that the way in which your body is structurally aligned and moving together, directly impacts and in part controls how you are able to heal and function day-to-day.

For that reason, we focus first and foremost on the physical structure of your body. Step one: your foundation. From there, we look deeper into fine-tuning the function of your body.

When we talk about structure, we are talking more specifically about your muscles and joints. When they are aligned and moving well, your body and brain are able to optimize functioning.

Every joint in yourbody has little receptors, called the mechanoreceptor. Those receptors send signals to your brain, and it is through that process that your brain ultimately knows where you are at in the world. Therefore, when we fix joint problems, we are on some level, fixing brain problems. This is great news in the sense that your brain controls your whole life! That’s why chiropractic care can have such a profound impact on such a wide array of systems and symptoms in the body.

In addition to the neurological changes, we also see tremendous changes to joint health when joints move appropriately and aligned well. Joint motion decreases inflammation, improves blood flow, and decreases degenerative changes to joints-such as arthritis. Often times we will see an almost immediate change in joint health, pain, and mobility with safe, specific, and effective chiropractic adjustments.

Not all chiropractic care is created equal. There is a large amount of diversity among chiropractors and no two are exactly the same. With that said, below we will detail some specifics on how we do things in our clinic. We believe you should be informed as possible when making health decisions and want you to know what to expect when you enter our unique office. That way you can make an informed decision for your health.

Adjusting Techniques

Dr. Liming is certified and trained in many techniques. If you have a preference pleasae let the doctor know, we try our best to accomodte you and we value your wishes. Our primary methods are as follows:

Diversified Spinal Adjusting

      • This is what most people think of when they think chiropractor, but there is a huge difference in an adjustment that is just ok, and an adjustment that is done well.
      • Quality physical manipulation is very difficult to come by. Dr. Liming has spent countless hours of additional training in manual adjusting from some of the best in the world. Dr. Liming take great pride in his adjusting techniques and is committed to continual learning. 
      • We treat the full spine every time we see you. Your spine functions as a unit, so therefore it needs treated as such.

Extremity Adjusting

Every joint in your body is important. Therefore, we treat every joint, head to toe.

      • Feet / Ankles – The feet are the foundation of your body, we always start there and address all of the bones throughout the feet, arches, and ankles.
      • Knees – Knee problems can be the result of foot/ankle problems or hip problems.
      • Hips – Hip issues may be an underlying cause of low back pain.
      • Hand / Wrist – Carpal tunnel is almost always a joint problem in the wrist that can be a fairly straightforward fix.
      • Elbow – The elbow can be assessed to make sure there isn’t any nerve entrapment in the back of the elbow joint.
      • Shoulder – The shoulder is the most complex joint in the body. It is actually 3 separate joints in one – and they all need examined.
      • TMJ – your temporomandibular joint is often the source of relentless jaw pain, and can even be a culprit in upper neck pain and headaches. We treat this as well.

Flexion/Distraction

This technique involves the bottom end of the table raising and lowering. With each motion of the table lowering, it stretches and decompresses all of the joints in the lower back and hips.

ArthroStim

This is the same idea as the activator, just an automated version.

Gonstead

Very similar to diversified from the outside looking in, manual hands on adjusting. Some of our manual adjustments will actually be a “Gonstead” adjustment instead of “diversified”, but they still function the same and have the same goal in mind.

Wholistic Treatment Protocols

The body functions as one unit, not a bunch of individual parts.  With any health condition, there will always be multiple systems involved. For that reason, it is imperative that we treat you fully in order to fix the true cause.

We look at the body as a whole and design treatment strategies as such. In all cases, we focus on 3 specific areas:  structural correction, metabolic support, and neurological control. It’s never just one.

Structural Correction

In order to fully resolve structural issues, we must address all aspects of it. That means taking care of joint alignment and mobility, scar tissue and adhesions, and correcting muscular imbalances. We do that in 3 specific ways:

      1. Chiropractic adjusting – as detailed above, we mobilize and specifically adjust joints in to correct joint alignment and mobility and to restore healthy mechanoreceptors.
      2. Massage/Manual Therapy – In addition to chiropractic manipulation, we utilize focused soft tissue treatments to break up scar tissue and adhesions in muscles, ligaments, and joint capsules.
      3. Corrective Exercise – Lastly, after the joints are moving appropriately and the soft tissues are free of restrictions, we need to strengthen and retrain muscles and movement patterns. We do this with very specific corrective exercises to fix muscle imbalances, correct posture, and assist spinal curvatures.

Metabolic Support

Metabolic health and function plays a vital role in your body’s ability to heal. We incorporate comprehensive supplemental and nutritional support as needed.

Perhaps you are dealing with some serious gut health issues, or maybe you need to lose some weight but just can’t seem to do so, or maybe you are dealing with chronic fatigue and inflammation. In any and all circumstances, we can drastically improve the outcomes that you will experience in our office by adding nutritional and metabolic support along with your chiropractic or neuropathy care.

If there are any serious health concerns going on from a metabolic standpoint, then we may also order some advanced laboratory testing in order to gain more clarity with the specific support you would need.

For more information, please see our gut health page, and our body contouring page.

Neurological Control

Your brain controls everything in your body. Therefore, we always assess neurological function when trying to get you truly well. We do this through a field of health care called functional neurology.

Functional neurology focuses on subtle (or not-so-subtle) imbalances in the brain and how to fix them. We are able to utilize simple coordinated movement patterns, eye movements, balance, as well as others to assess each region of the brain individually. Ideally each region of the brain is functioning well, and is balanced between the right and left side. When that is not the case, that’s when disease and disfunction begins.

Neurological imbalance can be a huge piece of chronic pain and disease.

Supportive Therapies

After looking at the body from a wholistic perspective, evaluating you structurally, metabolically, and neurologically, we then support body systems as needed with various therapies in the office. Some of the most common therapies used in our office are:

      • Spinal Decompression – Spinal decompression is the most effective way at opening disc spaces and relieving pressure on intervertebral discs. We use it to gently traction apart joint spaces in the spine. When dealing with disc bulges or herniations, sciatica or radiating pain, or severe degeneration or arthritis, spinal decompression is the most powerful natural treatment and is extremely effective when combined with chiropractic care. For more information, please visit our spinal decompression page
      • Red LED Light Therapy With Contour Light– Contour Light offers the latest advancement in light emitting diodes (LED) technology in a unique pad design delivery system that can treat several areas of the body at once. The large, soft, and flexible pads comfortably contour to the shape of the human body, allowing the light source to be as close as possible to the skin for the most effective application of therapeutic photonic energy.For more information on that, please visit our body contouring page.
      • Home Therapies – We use several home therapies to support in clinic treatments as well. Some of the most commonly used are infra-red devices and electro-magnetic devices. Home therapy is sometimes a crucial part of treatment if we are dealing with serious, chronic issues.

New Patient Exam Process

Consultation

Each visit will begin with an in depth consultation discussing the specifics of your health history and intake forms. This will lay the foundation for your care moving forward, and gives you an opportunity to tell us exactly why you’re here and what’s important to you.

Examination

Following the consultation, you’ll receive a complete physical exam to check your spine, nervous system and muscles. During this exam, we’ll use advanced technology to give you as detailed an overview of your nervous system function as possible. During this exam, some people may require diagnostic imaging. If imaging is indicated for you, our diagnostic and digital imaging services will offer a more detailed view of your skeletal system to help identify any abnormalities.

 

      • NEUROLOGICAL EVALUATION Using thermal-infrared technology, we assess your entire spine and nervous system to find miscommunications between your brain and body.
      • MUSCLE ASSESSMENT We then evaluate your muscles using surface electromyography or sEMG to see how they are responding and contracting along your spine. sEMG is the exact same technology as an EKG for your heart, only for your muscles.
      • SPINAL EXAM A full spinal examination will help us see where structural shifts and subluxations may have occurred.
      • DIGITAL X-RAYS If necessary, using our state-of-the-art, digital x-ray system, we are able to find any curves, degeneration or loss of disc space in your spine, which can’t be detected during the other evaluations.

Comprehensive Youth Development Exam

Following the consultation regarding your child’s health, Dr. Loren will perform a complete developmental exam where he will assess your child’s balance, hand-eye coordination, range of motion, posture, muscle tone, primitive reflexes, and eye movement. These findings will help Dr. Loren put together a comprehensive corrective care plan. Unique to your child/children. 

Creating an Individual Chiropractic Care Plan

Dr. Loren will discuss the findings of your exam and assessment and will provide a custom plan of action that’s individualized to your specific needs. This plan will be designed to improve your health and wellness through the most current chiropractic methods.

At Virtue Integrative Health, we’re here to serve as your guide on the road to better health. We are passionate and driven to improve the health and wellness of Overland Park and Kansas City  metro communities. We are grateful to have the opportunity to serve you on your journey to better health & wellness. Contact Virtue Integrative Health for more information or to schedule your appointment today.

At this point, you’ve learned a lot about our techniques and processes. Hopefully this has been helpful in your decision making process and we truly hope to hear from you soon.  Our promise to you, is that we will do anything that we can to treat you fully an completely in order to find and fix the real cause of your problem.  All aspects of your health and physiology are important, and therefore they all need addressed.
If you’ve made it this far and are still trying to make up your mind, please give us a call. You have nothing to lose, and so much to gain. 

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