Dr. Charles J Stringer, DC, Everett WA
Phone Number: (425) 337-3462
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How Our Office is Different
 SERVICES WE PROVIDE: PETTIBON CHIROPRACTIC RELIEF CHIROPRACTIC MASSAGE ACUPUNCTURE REINVENTION OF CHIROPRACTIC Traditional chiropractic attempts to adjust/manipulate vertebrae into different positions, whether into misalignment or alignment did not make any lasting corrections and whatever was attempted made a person's spine measurably worse. Dr. Pettibon developed a weighting system combined with physical therapy that has transformed chiropractic and truly made it a permanent correction. While many chiropractors in Everett, WA are available, very few utilize the Pettibon technique. This technique is far superior in that it truly does allow for life-long correction. Relapse and reoccurance of pain will inevitably occur unless the postural muscles are strengthened to allow the spine to stay supported. This is achieved through various physical therapy exercises in conjunction with chiropractic adjustments as well as wearing the Pettibon postural weights twice a day for twenty minutes. PETTIBON WEIGHTING SYSTEM The Pettibon Weighting System consists of specially designed head, shoulder, and hip weights that you wear daily for up to 20 minutes. The amount of weights and their placement depend upon the spinal misalignment that needs to be corrected. The nervous system always wants us to hold our heads upright and it has five righting reflexes that continually send it skull and spine positional information. Wearing the weights alters the body's centers of mass, causing the righting reflexes to send this new sensory information to the nervous system. To balance the body relative to the weights, the nervous system causes some involved spinal muscles to relax and others to contract, thereby correcting the spine and posture relative to gravity. Additionally, the weights force the involved muscles to do isometric exercises. This is needed to restore their strength, endurance, and balance so that the spine is held in alignment after optimum strength has been gained. WHY ISOMETRIC EXERCISES? Isometric exercises, which involve pushing against a force that moves very slowly or doesn't move at all, help eliminate postural muscle spasms as well as rehabilitate their balance, strength, and endurance.
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