THE LEANDER EXPERIENCE
If a doctor wants to minimize the pain a patient experiences during one treatment, all he needs to do is to make sure that the table he uses is quite comfortable and relaxing. To do this, one thing he needs to do is to check the length of the leg of the patient and to lower the table’s center cushion. This is so the doctor can energize the flexion of the table.
This technique is made popular and famous by the Leander Chiropractic Tables, and has been around for more than twenty years. The first time, this was used for the specific decompression to the lower lumbar segments and the intervertebral discs that creates compression. And then, as patients began to experience the relief that this technique brings, it became evident that a vast procedure was needed for this, and it was named the Leander Technique with a use of the Leander table, of course.
The tables used for practice, such as this leander table, actually started out as a osteopathic tables that are used by chiropractic healers and bonesetters. But with such a table, many other inventors surfaced, and one of them came out with the leander table, and eventually, the leander technique.
But always bear in mind that since the Leander Technique uses the flexion-distraction process, this can’t ultimately stand alone. All people concerned with such procedures all have different ways in the flexion-distraction process, and all of them should be credited for their work as well.
The standard procedure of the Leander Technique is quite easy as the patient is made to lie facedown on the Chiropractic Table. The first thing that the doctor needs to do is to check the length of the leg of the patient and to test them for any imbalance. Afterwards, the center cushion of the table is lowered to permit the lumbar spine to assume its normal position.
It is only in this position that the doctor can now energize the flexion of the table, and the setting should be set to at least 29rpm. Any less speed will allow the patient to offer too much resistant, and the results of the test will differ.
As the patient is relaxing in this position, as there is a flexion, the palpation this induces will give ample amount of information to the chiropractor. But the doctor can adjust the position to the specific needs of the patients. For other results, the doctor can adjust a thoracic segment by having the face of the patient turn toward the side of spinous laterality if desired for that particular segment. This would allow to doctor to cure the rotatory component of the subluxation. This position would then allow the thrust to focus on the skull, and into the spine as the flexion goes to the bottom of the stroke. Doctor needs to continue with the spinal sublixations, with a turn of the head as needed until the lumbar and thoracic spine is corrected, then the flexion should be turned off and the cervical sublixations should be corrected.