Techniques

How Todd adjusts

Technique is a decision made after the exam, not a brand Todd is loyal to. Two patients with the same complaint can leave with two different adjustments because their joints, ages, injury histories, and tolerances are different.

Here is every method Todd is trained in, what each one actually feels like on the table, and the situations that call for it.

The methods

3 techniques, chosen case by case

If any of these sound uncomfortable, say so at your exam. There is almost always another way to get the same joint moving.

Rehabilitation-Based Chiropractic

Pairs every adjustment with corrective exercise so the change holds after you leave.

What it feels like: Table work plus homework — usually two or three specific movements, not a generic printout.
When Todd uses it: Recurring problems, deconditioned patients, and anyone who improves in the office but loses it within a few days.

Manipulation Under Anaesthesia

A hospital or surgical-centre procedure for chronic cases that have stopped responding to in-office care.

What it feels like: Performed while you are sedated, so you feel nothing during the procedure. It is followed by a structured rehabilitation schedule in the clinic.
When Todd uses it: Long-standing adhesions and severe restriction where guarding and pain prevent an effective adjustment while awake. It is a considered step, not a first option.

Extremity Adjusting

Applies the same joint-restoration principles to shoulders, elbows, wrists, hips, knees, ankles, and feet.

What it feels like: Similar to a spinal adjustment but scaled to a smaller joint — a specific, quick movement, often combined with traction.
When Todd uses it: Frozen shoulder, carpal tunnel, jammed ribs, ankle sprains that never fully recovered, and knee pain that follows a hip or foot problem.

How the technique gets chosen

Your first visit runs 60 to 90 minutes and most of it is not adjusting. Todd takes a history, watches how you stand and move, measures range of motion, and tests the joints and soft tissue around the area that hurts. Only then does a technique get picked, because the exam is what rules options in and out.

A young athlete with a locked thoracic joint and a 78-year-old with osteoporosis and the same complaint will not get the same adjustment. Neither will someone six months into a disc herniation and someone who slept wrong on Tuesday.

Nothing is done without explaining it first. You will know what is about to happen, where, and why, and you can stop at any point.

What Todd focuses on

Technique is the how. These are the cases these methods get used on most.

Auto accidents
Work injuries
Whiplash
Carpal tunnel
Headaches

Todd practices at Pure Wellness Middletown, 708 Ash Blvd in Middletown. Read more about the conditions these techniques are applied to, or book an exam and find out which one fits your case.

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