His Technique is Unique

Meet Dr. Bob

Dr. Robert Crimi, DC (aka Dr. Bob), has been an institution in Babylon Village for over 25 years and established his Main Street Chiropractic office in 2010. It is rare that one encounters a professional who receives such universal acclaim as does Dr. Crimi, so we recently asked him to speak about his technique and provide some insight into his unique approach to treatment. His insights will resonate with anyone seeking treatment and relief, but perhaps more so with gym members who understand the mechanics of training and workouts.

Q: It’s the one thing I hear over and over from your patients: no one does what Dr. Crimi does!
A: My basic goal, from an adjustment standpoint, is to stabilize the body, to stabilize the spine. How one gets this done is up to each practitioner, but for me, it’s first about determining which segments of the spine are the most unstable and focusing there first. This is critical because these segments influence other areas of the body – they are the most impactful.

Q: So it’s a multi-stage process?
A: When I adjust somebody, I begin with pre-adjustment, checking for areas of greatest instability. This is followed by adjustment and then post-adjustment, where I recheck alignment. It’s necessary to adjust, to recheck, and to readjust. As I adjust, I am making sure that the adjusted areas are transferred from an unstable state to a stable state.

Q: Patients have spoken about your unique approach, specifically the standing adjustment and how no other practitioner employs this technique. When people think of Chiropractic, they think of a person lying prone on the adjustment table for the manipulation. But your approach begins with the standing examination and analysis, and extends to actually being treated, not while lying prone on a table, but standing or seated in an upright position. Based on the experiences of patients I’ve spoken to, this technique is unique to you.
A: That’s from a technique called Advanced Biostructural Correction. Dr. Jesse Jutkowitz developed it, and I learned it from him. The focus is on a particular area of the spine which is a critical area for instability. This is based on the fact that there is no muscle that is going to self-correct it if this segment goes out. When I place the patient against the wall, the adjustment occurs from front to back.

There are basically three areas that get adjusted. Your cervical (neck), thoracic (mid-back), and lumbar (lower back). Of these three areas, if I were to be limited, I would concentrate my energy on the thoracic. I want to make sure that these vertebrae are adjusted on the wall and are stable because these are the vertebrae that set the foundation for everything else. Even if a patient were to come to me with lower back pain, and I was not able to effect a complete adjustment to the lower back, if I could adjust these critical vertebrae, they would experience relief from their back pain. Without even touching their lower back. Because everything ties into the vertebrae that are adjusted through the wall realignment.

I believe in not an exclusive focus, but a primary focus on the thoracic segment of the spine, because I believe that it plays the greatest role in influencing the alignment of other segments of the spine.

We live on our feet, for the most part. And when I adjust a patient in the standing position, I get a better idea of what their situation really is. If I were to take a chiropractic x-ray, I would take it of you standing up. The Medical people, for example, would take an X-ray with you lying down, but I believe that chiropractic treatment is better served if the examination is performed at least partly standing up. I can better assess your biomechanics when you’re on your feet. If you were lying down, your situation would be less visible because gravity is out of the equation. The upright position provides a truer look at what’s going on. Now, of course, everyone is different. And it’s essential that we customize our approach to treatment based on the individual requirements of the patient.

Q: It’s not a cookie-cutter approach.
A: There are treatment approaches that require a lot of force, and other approaches that require less force. So it’s necessary to have an arsenal of sorts, composed of different treatment approaches that deliver the same result. The idea, of course, is to get the job done. How the job gets done? That’s for me to figure out.

The biggest obstacle to effective treatment is the commitment of time. We are indoctrinated into the medical model and are prone to not understanding that the body takes time to heal, especially when you’re looking for changes that are not chemical changes to the body but rather are structural.

It actually has a lot in common with working out. You go to the gym, and you do this, and you do that…but no one goes to the gym just once, twice, three times. And thinks, “Oh, that’s it, I don’t need to go anymore.” Or, if they don’t see muscle development immediately, they think, “Oh, well, that didn’t work.” The idea is to produce lasting changes, not just temporary changes. And I think that people who work out can appreciate that the most; they can relate. They understand that results take time, and they continue to go to the gym because even once the changes have been affected, they want to maintain the impact of those changes.

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