An adjustment to the spine and surrounding soft tissues results in decreased muscle tension, increased joint range of motion, decreased pain, and restoration toward nervous system integrity. Adjustments or joint manipulation involve a low amplitude high velocity thrust to the restricted area. Oftentimes a cavitation or joint “pop” is heard or felt which is a normal physiological process. By applying an adjustment the body will begin the process of healing and generally provides pain relief and increased range of motion.

The functional medicine model for health care is concerned less with what we call the dysfunction or disease, and more about the dynamic processes that resulted in the person’s dysfunction. The use of noninvasive testing methods and many new biomarkers of physiological function have all combined to provide a much greater understanding of the functional status of the individual. Functional medicine has evolved to be a clinical operating system for the application of a patient-centered, systems biology approach to health care.

Its focus is on understanding an individual’s physiological, cognitive, emotional, and physical function, as well as on the design and implementation of a therapeutic program that is personalized to the functional needs of the patient. Functional medicine practitioners are trained to think in terms of function derived from biological and social systems and network biology. They become skilled in looking at the patient simultaneously from the frame of reference of both a telescope and microscope.

In the functional medicine model, the word function is aligned with the evolving understanding that disease is an endpoint and function is a process. Function can move both forward and backward. The vector of change in function through time is, in part, determined by the unique interaction of an individual’s genome with their environment, diet, and lifestyle.

While laser therapy is an adjunctive therapy to chiropractic treatment, Dr. Randolph believes that all his patients would benefit from its use. Dr. Randolph has seen many conditions improve much faster with use of the therapy versus chiropractic alone. Dr. Randolph's review of pubmed literature and the results of said literature indicate a strong connection to good health and the use of LLLT. "As a chiropractor there are things I do that the laser cannot, and the laser does some things that I as a chiropractor cannot." Wellness in the body and the brain are of great importance as we age, and I'd like to see a shift from sick/symptom based care to wellness care. Lasers are an integral part of that plan.