If you're new to dr.stephanie.ca or this blog, or you a new patient in my office, you might want to take a quick browse through lingo I often use. Its simple, fun, and easy to understand.
Usually the sound that injured muscle tissue makes. When muscles get tight, achy, and miserable, they form knots and scar tissue that pile on top of each other like a football tackle.
With the Dr. Stephanie Method, crunchy crunchies go away with treatment, and you are left with healthy, lean, long muscles.
"Uncooked Spaghetti"Another way of referring to healthy muscle fibers. Healthy muscles are like uncooked spaghetti. They all line up neatly, in rows, and all face the same direction.
"Cooked Spaghetti"
Unhealthy muscle fibers. When muscle tissue gets annoyed, it folds in on itself, and causes other muscle fibers (spaghetti) to get annoyed too. The result is tissue that is not neat, does not line up sequentially, and is rather messy, and going every which way.
"Snap, Crackle, Pop"
This is sound that a happy spine can make after getting adjusted. Similar to the noise when you open up a pop can, the "snap", "crackle" or "popping" noise is gas being released from the joint so that it can move easier.
"Spinal Boo Boo"
When a part of the spine is not moving properly, feels tender to the touch, or it is not as bouncy as it should be. Doctors will refer to this often as a 'subluxation', 'facet joint irritations/syndrome', or 'zygapophyseal irritation/syndrome', 'misalignment', etc. Spinal boo boo covers all of these terms well enough, and kids can understand too. ;)
"Bouncy Back" or "Bouncy Spine"A healthy spine should feel a bit like a trampoline. Springy, and able to resist natural forces (ok maybe not a group of toddlers, but *normal* natural forces) of everyday life.
Un-springy, un-bouncy spines are tough, rigid, and inflexible. This is a no-no. Your spine should feel bouncy when I evaluate it, and able to resist some gentle pressure without any pain or discomfort.
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Be Healthy.
Dr. S
xo
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