Chiropractor Ken Frederick Details His Techniques From Low-Force To Aggressive Care

Ray Hrdlicka – Host – Chiropractors.Media

Now let’s talk about those types of techniques you have. Just pick one and then explain it, and more importantly, explain what it fixes. Because as a layman, we’re not going to understand anything about… hey, you know, this is what can be my solution. All I know is I got pain. Whether it’s in my shoulder, whether it’s in my arm, my knees, my back, my neck, et cetera, et cetera. That’s all we know as patients. And I can personally speak from that experience. So, what techniques help what? Pick one at a time and then we’ll explain it.

Ken Frederick – Chiropractor – Port Orchard, Washington

Okay. The gentlest low force technique that I use is using a handheld instrument called an activator. That is probably more designed for people that cannot tolerate a more aggressive technique such as manual diversified adjusting, which is by hand. So for example, infants are a very light force. The elderly are a very light force. And then of course, there are some genetic dispositions that we look for on X-ray that say, you probably want to adjust this person with a very light force instrument.

A second one is a little more aggressive technique with the same idea, but it’s called an impulse adjuster. It is a little more powerful, and that is probably more for people that can tolerate a firmer adjustment but are apprehensive to manual adjusting.

Then, of course, the manual diversified adjusting is the granddaddy of all the techniques. They’re safe. The pops, the snaps, the crackles you hear are not bones breaking. They are a gas escaping from a joint space. So for example, somebody can bend down to the floor and you will hear their knees pop. Well, nothing broke. It’s a gas.

Moving on to another technique that I like to use is the Thompson drop table. The drop table is probably the most aggressive. Essentially what it is, it was invented by a chiropractor, Dr. Thompson. And what he did was come up with the idea to use physics. And the physics in this is that mass times speed equals force. And we use gravity to help us as a practitioner move the bone in the direction we want it to go. It sounds worse than it is. It’s actually pretty comfortable, but I’ve had many patients go, oh my God, that sounds brutal, but it’s not.