Self-regulation and regeneration

Thanks to the Body Balance Clinic “correction”, active processes of self-regulation and regeneration begin in the patient's body. Unblocking the cervical joints and restoring the head's center of gravity is only the beginning of a large restorative process of “rebuilding” the body, which proceeds on its own and without the patient's involvement.

The body will strive to return to biomechanical balance. But in order to reverse the destructive processes that took years or even your whole life to develop, it will take time. Recovery usually takes from several weeks to several months, but everything is very individual and largely depends on the initial state of health of the patient.

For some reason, some people believe that the very first “correction” will bring them to a symptom-free state on the very first day after it is performed. Indeed, this does happen with some patients, and they share their experience with others, but this experience is not a rule that works for everyone. It is not a given that this will happen to you. Most often, recovery processes proceed slowly, gradually accumulating in the body day by day.

Full restoration of the function of the head joints may require from one to three “corrections”. For ease of understanding, Body Balance Clinic provides an approximate treatment mechanism that all future patients should use as a guide:

“The doctor performs a ‘correction’ and after the first session improves the function of the patient's head joints by 50–70%. Function means the mobility of the joints, the condition of muscles and ligaments, the correct alignment of the vertebrae, etc. After the ‘correction’, the patient is given 2 months for adaptation and recovery of the musculoskeletal system, where the percentage of improvement roughly corresponds to the percentage of changes in the head joints and will be 40–50%. Such a significant release can lead either to the complete disappearance of symptoms (in the case of initial degenerative changes in the spine), or to partial improvement (in the case of moderate degenerative changes), or may not lead to improvement at all (in the case of severe degenerative changes in the spine).

After two months of regeneration, the doctor performs the second ‘correction’ and improves the function of the head joints to 60–90%. The patient is again given 2 months for adaptation and recovery. After this stage, the percentage of recovery of the musculoskeletal system will be 50–70%, which will lead to significant relief or even complete recovery in patients with moderate degenerative changes in the spine, and to partial improvements in patients with severe degenerative changes in the spine.

After another two months, the third correction is performed, after which the maximum function of the head joints is achieved, which leads to significant relief and improvement of the condition in patients with severe degenerative changes in the spine. In some very rare cases, up to four corrections may be performed.”

This example is described very conditionally and in a very simplified way, but it allows a future Body Balance Clinic patient to form an approximate picture of the treatment. The duration of the regeneration phase can range from two to six months, sometimes up to a year. It depends on the patient's initial condition. And recovery requires from one to three “correction” sessions.

There is one more very important nuance that is worth considering separately. As you have already understood, the treatment process takes time and depends on the initial state of health. Sometimes regeneration is rapid and sudden, but mostly it is slow and smooth. Coming to a follow-up appointment a few months later, the patient often finds themselves in an amusing situation: the doctor reminds them of the symptom that bothered them, and the patient says that they had completely forgotten about it until the doctor reminded them, and that yes, it has completely disappeared. Because of the gradual nature of the changes, patients often do not even notice how and under what circumstances the symptoms stop bothering them. At Body Balance Clinic, such situations occur all the time. But from “amusing” they sometimes turn into misunderstandings. Below is another example from the life of the clinic:

During a phone conversation, a patient says that he does not want to continue treatment because “nothing has changed” for him and that he has got worse. When the doctor nevertheless persuades him to make an appointment, it turns out at the meeting that the “correction” has brought a stable positive result, and that he mistakenly perceived the temporary “rebuilding” of the spine as a deterioration. The clinic's specialists are well aware of the “peculiarities” of their work and therefore, before treatment, they thoroughly describe the patient's symptoms in a special form so as to be sure to compare them later with the sensations after treatment.

In the end, the patient, in good spirits, confirms the positive changes, saying that he had been very busy with work, got distracted, switched to personal matters, and that it somehow strangely turned out that some of the symptoms had disappeared completely, while his attention was focused on the other part of them, which had not gone away after the first “correction” session and was still making itself felt. The unpleasant moments after the “correction” (pain and pulling sensations), because of which the patient said he had become “worse”, turned out to be a temporary reaction of the spine after the restoration of the head's center of gravity. They bothered him for a while and then passed. It also turns out from the conversation that “a friend recommended” the clinic and said “that it helped him and he recovered after the very first procedure”. Naturally, the patient made an appointment without even reading the information on the website. He knew nothing about the “rebuilding” of the spine and, until the follow-up meeting with the doctor, generally thought that he had been harmed. And he mistakenly decided that since his symptoms had not gone away after the first session (or rather, he did not even notice that some of them had disappeared), then why continue treatment?

This is the kind of mess that sometimes happens at the clinic when patients make appointments without even imagining where they have come and how they will be treated. As experience shows, and however trivial it may sound, patients may simply not notice positive changes because their attention is focused only on the areas that hurt, or because they mistakenly believe that “correction is 1 session where I will get everything at once”. At Body Balance Clinic, there have even been cases when patients forgot that their head and spine had been hurting for many years. Such is this informative digression. Dear future patients, be informed, and before booking treatment at Body Balance Clinic, please:

Body Balance Clinic technologies are capable of helping the patient regain lost health in 9 out of 10 cases. Whatever condition the patient is in, in 90% of cases an individual solution can be found depending on the circumstances. Successful treatment requires: time, the patient's right moral attitude and the desire to get a result.

The clinic's specialists always perform several “correction” sessions as the first step. For many patients, it becomes the only one on the way to getting rid of symptoms. But if circumstances require it or if there is a wish to speed up the regeneration phase, auxiliary techniques may be used – ENDOMASSAGE, craniosacral therapy.

Dietary protocols may be used to support patients with very intense symptoms. When biomechanical methods of treatment have exhausted themselves, simple weight loss or liver detoxification therapy can become the trigger for a whole cascade of improvements in the patient's health. The body restores its potential for optimal functioning, so symptoms that seemed unrelated to the method of treatment used often disappear spontaneously.

A Body Balance Clinic doctor always scrupulously assesses each patient's situation and draws up an individual treatment protocol.

To maintain spinal health, Body Balance Clinic recommends procedures such as therapeutic massage, osteopathy and physiotherapy. But with one “but”:

Experience shows that the use of these types of therapy in patients with a displaced center of gravity of the head and biomechanical collapse of the skeleton without first performing a “correction” leads to the following:

   a) the result of the procedures is only partially realized;
 

   b) the achieved effect fades over time;
 

   c) the procedures need to be repeated regularly;
 

   d) this leads to great expenditure of time and money.

Body Balance Clinic treatment methods are aimed at eliminating the causes of diseases. This makes it possible not only to save the patient's money, but also to achieve long-term improvements while spending a minimum of time.

Therapies that may not have worked very well in the past, after a “correction”, are significantly transformed and bring real improvements. After the main cause of the biomechanical collapse of the skeleton has been eliminated by the “correction”, their effect is maintained and accumulates. For this reason, cooperation with other specialists is very welcome. But the first step should always be the treatment of head joints dysfunction, and only after it – other supportive procedures.

During the regeneration period, when making various movements, patients sometimes hear cracking in the spine, the same as during manual therapy. This phenomenon passes spontaneously and painlessly and is normal, because the spine is restoring its natural anatomical curves. The weakening of the excessive compressive force in the deep muscles of the spine leads to the release of the joints along the entire spine. After this, the vertebrae begin to make small shifts, which is what causes the joint cracking.

This cracking is usually accompanied by a feeling of relief and release. The cracking may continue for up to three months after the “correction”, or there may be no cracking at all. This depends on the wear of the patient's joints and largely on the condition of the liver, which produces the “lubricant” for the joints. It is important to understand that cracking is an indicator of a deep transformation of the spine, and after this phase patients often find that their posture has improved.

Each patient can check how their head joints are working by indirect signs. One such sign is the appearance of a light “rustling” and a sensation of friction of the articular surfaces during light turns and tilts of the head after the “correction”.

In silence, you can hear a prolonged sound of the joints rubbing against each other. At first it may be intense, since over the years of blockage the articular surfaces of the vertebrae have undergone partial calcification. There is no need to be frightened by this; on the contrary, it is a positive sign. If a patient has developed “rustling” in the neck after the correction, it means that the head joints are working normally. Over time, the sound will become less pronounced.

It is impossible to determine the duration of treatment and of the regeneration process with certainty. But based on the experience of Body Balance Clinic doctors, a prognosis can be made relying on the patient's initial state of health. The doctor prescribes a treatment plan, which may be adjusted later. Initially, no one can tell you which of your ailments will disappear with biomechanical treatment and which with dietary treatment, or how soon you will feel relief and to what extent. This varies depending on the physical and, especially, the mental state of each person.

There are people whose complaints disappear in a short period of time. This is especially characteristic of children, thanks to their high plasticity and adaptability, as well as the fact that their muscular framework is not yet fibrotic.

In most cases, it takes only a few weeks or months for the desired improvements to appear.