Born out of more than a decade of research and engineering, the Impulse Adjusting Instrument results in more efficient and effective chiropractic adjustments. Compared with other adjusting instruments, the Impulse Adjusting Instrument is twice as fast and it's waveform is specially tuned to the natural frequency of the body. It allows the doctor to create more bone movement with less force and simultaneously stimulate greater populations of nerve receptors for more effective adjustments and better results.

Over the past 20 years, a myriad of research has been conducted into the effectiveness of chiropractic adjusting instruments. This research began with attempts to prove that the thrust of a modified dental instrument (used to split impacted wisdom teeth) could actually move a bone in a dog. In the years that followed, research aimed at quantifying the forces, speeds, vertebral motions, and neurophysiological responses was conducted in human subjects and published in the scientific literature. Collectively, this research has demonstrated that hand-held chiropractic adjusting instruments indeed, created bone movement, spinal nerve root and neuromuscular reflex responses that are widely held as responsible for the mechanisms of the therapeutic effects of chiropractic adjustments. Clinical research into the effectiveness of instrument-delivered adjustments has been compared to manual chiropractic adjusting methods. This research has shown a positive clinical outcome in both patient groups receiving manual or instrument delivered adjustments and no difference in patient outcomes between patients receiving either technique.

Furthermore, a 2005 study published in the Journal of Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutics compared the forces, speeds, and frequency area ratio of six commonly used chiropractic adjusting instruments including both the Activator, Pro-Adjustor and Impulse™. The study reported a broader range of forces and a superior frequency area ratio among electromechanical adjusting instruments over traditional spring-loaded activation devices specifically favoring the Impulse Adjusting Instrument™. Impulse™ was also found to be twice as fast as the spring-loaded activation devices examined on all settings. These findings provide a scientific rationale supporting the anecdotal reports of better results with patients by clinicians using Impulse.