The Gonstead System of chiropractic care was developed by Dr. Clarence S. Gonstead of Mt Horeb, Wisconsin beginning in 1923. He refined his unique system over a 55-year period.
The Gonstead System focuses on being as specific as possible with the examination and treatment of the patient. The examination includes taking a detailed history, instrumentation, static palpation, motion palpation, neurological testing and often times, full spine x-rays taken in the standing, weight bearing position. Necessity of x-rays is determined during the functional examination. Treatment is done by administering a very specific hands-on manipulation called an adjustment.
By using our hands as adjusting tools, the doctors at Hassel Family Chiropractic are better able to sense the relaxation of the patient and to control the direction and amplitude of the adjustment needed for each individual patient. No mechanical instrument can match the sensitivity of feel or timing of an applied force from a skilled chiropractor’s hands.
The goals of the doctors at Hassel Family Chiropractic are to “do the least to achieve the most”. That is to say, the least amount of segments to be adjusted with the least amount of force the least amount of times. This is case specific to each patient. The Gonstead chiropractor does not treat every patient with the same manipulative procedure of twisting the neck and lower back from both the right and the left and the middle back from top to bottom.
Every patient is a unique case with specific subluxations and must not be given the same course of manipulation. That type of approach could potentially harm individuals with too much impact to the joints of the spinal column and result in neurological insult. Dr. Hassel and Dr. DeBoer believe that chiropractic care is not scientific unless the adjustment is specific.
The Gonstead System has hundreds of years of combined clinical experience and has been tried and tested. Through the process of deductive science, Dr. Hassel and Dr. DeBoer are confident that if subluxations are found during the functional examination, they have a specific protocol for treatment with an expected result.
To learn more about the history of Dr. Gonstead visit www.gonstead.com
Get Well,
Dr. Vince Hassel
