Why a correction doesn't hold — and the two exercises that fix it
An adjustment puts a joint back. The muscle around it decides whether it stays. Here is the part of care that happens between visits.
A joint sits where the muscles around it let it sit. You can adjust a segment back onto its axis in a second, but if the tissue pulling it off the line has not changed, it will drift back — often by the next morning.
That is why we treat soft tissue and loading as part of the same job, not an add-on. Release what is pulling the segment off plumb, then teach the muscles that should have been holding it to do their share.
If you have been “put back” a dozen times and it never lasts, the adjustment was probably fine. The question is what happened in the hours after it, and whether anything was asked of the muscles that let it slip.
Two moves, not twenty
We hand people a short set on purpose. A printed sheet of twenty exercises gets done twice and then lives in a drawer. Two moves matched to the segment we are working on get done — and done is the only version that works.
The specifics depend on your assessment, but the shape is always the same: one move to restore the motion the segment lost, one to load the muscle that should hold it. Five minutes, most days, between visits.
When to come back
We set the next interval from the reading, not the calendar. Early in a correction the segments give up their new position quickly, so visits are closer together. As the muscle takes over the holding, the gaps stretch, and eventually you do not need us for it at all. That is the point.