Treatment

At Manassas Chiropractic and Rehab we use the Pettibon system to aid in Spinal Rejuvenation

The P-SRT Table

This SRT Rejuvenation Table is the result of many years of research and development of spinal and disc corrective protocol that can achieve predictable spinal disc correction and rehabilitation. We are commited to bringing the truth to the Chiropractic profession on how to restore optimal structure and function to the human spine. The qualities, effectiveness and cost of this table can be matched by no other rejuvenation table on the market.

To begin, one way this table eliminates the need for an expensive traction computer is by harnessing the patient to a stationary traction device that anchors the patient in a fixed, decompressed position. To apply rejuvenation force, the table will raise up to 30 degrees using the patients' body weight to determine the amount of distraction force. The patient can, therefore, monitor the amount of force based on their individual tolerance. By adjusting the motorized table tilt. If more force is needed than the patients body weight can provide, the motorized table top can slide away from the stationary harnessing device, adding to the rejuvenation force to the desired level based on their body weight and condition.

Another unique feature of this table is that its the only rejuvenation table that utilizes Whole Body Vibration (WBV) to relax muscle spasms in the spine and body. Extensive research has been conducted over the last decades proving the efficacy of WBV for quick and effective reduction of muscle spasm, healing of injured tissues as well as increasing the strength of postural muscles supporting the spine by up to 25%. Using WBV has therapeutic benefits that will accelerate the rehabilitation of injured disc tissue as well as enhance spinal correction. This is the only rejuvenation table available today using Whole Body Vibration and is patent pending.

This unique table combined with the SRT Protocol will allow you to achieve unprecedented results with the rehabilitation of disc and most all spinal corrective patients.

The Wobble Chair

The wobble chair is best used to eliminate waste products in order to maintain healthy, well-hydrated spinal discs, ligaments, and tendons. The Wobble Chair™ is a patented, height-adjustable stool with a specially-designed seat. The seat provides 360 degrees of rotation, 40 degrees of side-to-side flexion, and 35 degrees of front-to-back flexion on a universal-type joint to facilitate all possible combinations of exercise motion needed for lumbar disc mobility, re-hydration, nutrition delivery, and waste elimination.

Weights

The Pettibon Weighting System consists of specially designed head, shoulder and hip weights that patients wear. The amount of weights and their placement depend upon the spinal displacement that needs to be corrected.

Frontal head weighting activates the body’s righting reflexes, causing the patient’s body to reposition forward under the weighted head.Front-lateral head weighting causes the patient’s body to also be laterally corrected in conjunction with forward correction. Shoulder weighting, with the majority of the weight on the front or back of the low shoulder, is dependent on the patient’s pelvic position (back or forward relative to his/her upper body). Proper weighting causes the patient’s “hopping and righting reflex” to lift the weighted low shoulder while rotating the shoulders into alignment over the patient’s pelvis. Hip weighting, with the majority of the weight over the front and/or back of the rotated pelvis, is dependent on the patient’s reactions to the head and shoulder weights. Hip weights used with the head and shoulder weights corrects lumbo-dorsal and the lumbo-sacral spine. In addition, hip, knee and foot corrections are simplified.