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If you have been suffering pain and irritation due to sore back muscles or poor alignment, you may need to seek the care of a chiropractor.  Your chiropractor will use several tools to help you readjust your spine over the course of several treatments.  You shouldn’t expect instant miracles, and you definitely shouldn’t fear the techniques and equipment that will be used.  As long as you have a realistic idea of how the process works, there is no reason you can’t experience immense happiness and health through the help of a chiropractor.

One of the tools you’ll see used is the activator instrument, which probably will resemble a small pogo stick.  It may look intimidating; after all, who wants to get hit with a stick?  Trust your chiropractor with the activator instrument, though.  Most patients have reported that the process is very gentle, and that, though the tool is used to strike parts of the back, the overall sensation is just slight pressure.  It can be used to target specific areas of the back and neck so that only affected muscles and joints will be treated.  This is what makes it such an important item in the collection of tools a chiropractor will use. Read more…

The activator instrument has become a vital part of many chiropractic practices.  These practices abide by the theories of activator method, a common activator instrument based method of chiropractic practice.  The activator instrument can be a popular choice for a treatment device because of its gentle, low impact nature.  This is something that manual manipulation of the spine cannot accomplish alone.

Everyone who has ever experienced any back problem knows how vulnerable even the slightest back injury can leave your back, and how sensitive to any movement or pressure your back can become.  Manual manipulation of these sensitive injuries can simply be too much sometimes, and do more harm than good in trying to properly align the spinal column.  It is often preferred in these cases that an activator instrument be used to spare the patient this risk of harm. Read more…