GONSTEAD SYSTEM

Excellent Treatment With the Gonstead System

Professional Gonstead Practitioner

Hands-on treatment allows our doctor to properly examine, assess and treat your adjustment needs or injuries. The Gonstead System of chiropractic care was developed by Dr. Clarence S. Gonstead of Mt Horeb, Wisconsin beginning in 1923. He refined his unique system over a 55-year period.

The Gonstead System focuses on being as specific as possible with the examination and treatment of the patient.

The examination includes taking a detailed history, instrumentation, static palpation, motion palpation, neurological testing and often times, full spine X-rays taken in the standing, weight-bearing position, if deemed necessary during the functional exam.

Treatment is done by administering a very specific hands-on manipulation called an adjustment.

By using his or her hands as adjusting tools, the Gonstead practitioner is better able to sense the relaxation of the patient and to control the direction and amplitude of the adjustment needed for each individual patient.

No mechanical instrument can match the sensitivity of feel or timing of an applied force from a skilled chiropractor’s hands.

The goal of the Gonstead practitioner is to “do the least to achieve the most.” That is to say, the least amount of segments to be adjusted with the least amount of force the least amount of times.

No Two Patients are the Same, Nor is Their Treatment

This is case specific to each patient. The Gonstead chiropractor does not treat every patient with the same manipulative procedure of twisting the neck and lower back from both the right and the left and the middle back from top to bottom.

Every patient is a unique case with specific subluxations and must not be given the same course of manipulation.

That type of approach could potentially harm individuals with too much impact on the joints of the spinal column and result in neurological insult.

The Gonstead chiropractor believes that chiropractic care is not scientific unless the adjustment is specific.

The Gonstead System has hundreds of years of combined clinical experience and has been tried and tested.

Through the process of deductive science, the Gonstead chiropractor is confident that if subluxations are found during the functional examination, he or she has a specific protocol for treatment with an expected result.

Furthermore, if a need for an additional evaluation is found necessary, she'll refer the patient to the appropriate doctor or therapist to ensure that the needs of each patient are properly met.

Find out if the Gonstead System will help you.

Call Bodnar Chiropractic Center today for a FREE consultation.

Dr. Bodnar obtained her Doctor of Chiropractic degree in 1997 at the Life University of Chiropractic, Marietta, GA.