Goals for NSA Care

Basic Care Goals
In basic care, you will notice the following changes in your body during the next 4-12 weeks:

• Greater awareness of your body's response to the adjustment.
• An awareness of changes in your spinal musculature, both during and between adjustments.
• Greater ease of movement, and an awareness of a lack of movement in some or certain areas.
• Deeper respiration during and between adjustments.
• A keener awareness of postural changes as your spinal musculature becomes more flexible.
• You may stand and sit more erect.
• An awareness of how your body holds and releases tension.
• Occurrences of spontaneous movement or stretching that reduce tension in the spinal cord.

• The body's natural rhythms and tendencies.

Intermediate Care Goals
In intermediate care, you may notice or experience the following changes in your body over the next 2-6 months:

• A greater connection between spinal regions during the adjustment.
• Spontaneous movements during and subsequent to adjustments which aid in the reduction of spinal tension.
• Relationships between physical, chemical, and emotional stresses to spinal tension and posture.
• A keener sense of the relationship between respiration, stress, and adjustments.
• A greater awareness of the body, movement, and spinal sense without the necessity of pain to bring about this awareness.
• An awareness of the body-mind connection.
• A feeling of wholeness.