"What you get by achieving your goals is to as important as what you
become by achieving your goals."

Zig Zigler

 

 

             

 

 

 Insight Subluxation Station

Our state-of-the-art technology will help us:

• detect areas of nerve disturbance
• document and monitor your results
• deliver the appropriate chiropractic care

Thermal Scan (Measures Temperature Differences)

If your body temperature is 98.6*F, then the left and right sides of your spine should also be the same temperature.  Your skin is the largest organ of the body and the blood vessels under the skin work as the body's thermostat.  When the communication between the nervous system and the blood vessels is disturbed, it causes the body's thermostat to malfunction producing an imbalanced temperature reading along the spine.  

These blood vessels are controlled by the same part of the nervous system that runs your organs and glands, known as the autonomic system.  This thermal scan provides us with information to monitor the autonomic system for proper function. The thermal scanner checks autonomic function by measuring skin temperature differences. The scans display green, blue and red colors to indicate mild, moderate and severe levels of interference.

                   

SEMG Scan (Measures Electrical Current of the Muscles)

Your muscles are controlled by your nerves.  The SEMG (surface electromyography) measures how well the motor nerves are working by reading the amount of electrical current found in the muscles.  Subluxations (misalignments) disturb the function of the nerves causing an abnormal amount of electrical current flowing to your muscles (indicated by colors and/or abnormal patterns).

A patient's SEMG scan (left) is compared to normal (right).  We are viewing the amount of tension in the muscles along the spine.  We also see areas where the muscles are working too hard or not hard enough. Green bars are a mild increase, blue bars indicate a moderate increase and red bars indicate a severe increase in the muscle activity. Yellow indicates areas that are below normal (not working hard enough).

  

Muscle balance is extremely important because the vertebrae in the spine depend on the muscles to move properly.  If one or more vertebrae are out of their normal position, it disturbs nerve function.  This interference creates muscle imbalances along the spine. As a result of this disturbance, the muscles can become weaker or stronger which leaves them tired at the end of the day.

The abnormal muscle pattern on the scan reveals an increased amount of tension/pull on one side compared to the other (similar to a Tug-of-War). This scan of a patient's muscle asymmetry shows the amount of muscle pull from one side to another. Imagine if your wheel alignment on your car was like that!  Normal is marked by white spikes or no spikes at all. The same colors are used here - green, blue and red for mild, moderate and severe levels of muscle pull.

                       

Your body can be malfunctioning for months, even years, before you experience any symptoms.  Since symptoms are always the last to show and the first to go, it is important to monitor the function of your nervous system which is why we utilize the Insight Subluxation Station.