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Chiropractic Care for Arthritis
There are two major types of arthritis: osteoarthritis, which is caused by aging and wear-and-tear, and rheumatoid arthritis, which is an autoimmune disorder that causes inflammation of the joints. Chiropractic care can be an effective treatment for both. Although the two types of arthritis differ in significant ways, both cause joint pain, stiffness, swelling and immobility that chiropractic treatment may relieve.
Chiropractic Care for Joint Pain
Joint pain is a common complaint, often prompting patients to seek chiropractic or other medical care. When joints, the places where bones meet in order to facilitate movement, get out of alignment, several painful conditions can result. Joint misalignment affects both muscles and nerves, often resulting not only in localized pain, but in radicular pain, pain that runs down the adjacent limb. Although any joint can move out of its correct position, the joints that most often bring patients in for treatment are the facet joints of the back, the sacroiliac (SI) joints and the temporomandibular joints (TMJ).
Chiropractic Care for Neck Pain
The neck is comprised of the uppermost vertebrae of the spine as well as a series of nerves, ligaments, muscles, tendons and other soft tissues. Neck pain occurs when one or more of these anatomical structures is damaged or impeded.
Chiropractic Care for Shoulder Pain
The shoulder is a combination of bones, muscles and connective tissues. The three bones of the shoulder are the humerus (upper arm bone), clavicle (collarbone) and scapula (shoulder blade). The humerus connects to the shoulder at a ball-and-socket joint.
Pediatric Chiropractic Care
Childhood is a time when the body is developing, and any poor habits may cause problems well into adulthood. Even the birthing process can affect the musculoskeletal system and nerves in ways that are undetectable in childhood, yet evident in adulthood.
Chiropractic Care for Spine Conditions
Ever since homo sapiens evolved into upright creatures, there has been strain placed on the spinal column. Chiropractors are able to treat spinal disorders that occur because of birth defects, injuries, repetitive stress or disease processes. Through manual adjustments, chiropractors correct misalignments of the vertebrae in the spine, decompressing discs and nerves in the process. By restoring proper alignment of the vertebrae, they help to restore musculoskeletal, neurological, and vascular health, promoting proper circulation so that all systems of the body receive proper oxygenation and nourishment.
Prenatal Chiropractic Care
Pregnancy changes a woman’s body, and this may lead to problems due to the musculoskeletal system being misaligned. Prenatal chiropractic care keeps your bones, muscles, joints and connective tissues working properly to alleviate and avoid uncomfortable symptoms.
Cold Laser Therapy
Certain neuromusculoskeletal conditions require extensive treatment and rehabilitation to achieve the desired healing. Modern technologies are being developed to provide patients with options that facilitate healing faster, safer and more effectively than traditional methods.
Trigger Point Therapy
Chiropractors and many other therapists, including physiatrists and osteopaths, often focus their therapeutic attention on trigger points, the hypersensitive spots in muscle tissue that develop as a result of overuse or misuse of muscles. Trigger points are actually palpable nodules located in deep muscle fibers. Trigger point therapy is designed to relieve pain and stiffness by applying controlled pressure directly to the trigger point. During the procedure, the patient participates by identifying areas of pain and relief, and by breathing deep, controlled breaths to facilitate relaxation. Trigger points affect not only the local regions, but muscles at some distance from the site. Regions away from the trigger point that respond to...
Chiropractic Care for Back Pain (Lower and Upper)
Lower and upper back pain may be a sign that you strained your back or it may indicate that there is an issue in your musculoskeletal system. Back pain can be placed into three distinct categories:
Myofascial Release
Myofascial release is a form of therapy designed to relieve chronic and acute pain through special, targeted massage that aims to reduce tightness within the fascia, a sheet of connective tissue below the surface of the skin. Tightness within the fascia can restrict a patient's range of motion or cause the patient to favor one side of the body. The goal of myofascial release is to relieve pain and allow the patient to regain range of motion.
Pain Management
An estimated 70 million Americans suffer from chronic pain. Chronic pain is a major medical condition distinctly different from and more complex than acute pain. Whereas acute pain is a normal sensation triggered in the nervous system to alert the body to possible injury, chronic pain is a state in which pain persists, for many months or years, beyond the normal course required by healing. The effects, both economic and personal, associated with chronic pain can be significant. They include loss of income; debt from costly medical treatment; impaired mobility; and anxiety and depression.
Chiropractic Care for Elbow Conditions
Elbow injuries are common conditions, most often resulting from repetitive strain or overexertion. They frequently occur during sports or exercise, or during certain occupational activities, such as construction work. Chiropractic care is an excellent treatment option for disorders and injuries of the elbow. The holistic approach taken by chiropractors is beneficial both in providing pain relief and in addressing underlying structural or postural causes of such problems. Although elbow conditions vary, they are often treated with many of the same chiropractic techniques.
Physiotherapy
Physiotherapy, also known as “physical therapy,” helps our patients recover after injury and surgery, and the treatments also improve outcomes for those who are living with chronic conditions. There are no age limitations for physiotherapy treatment.
Chiropractic Care for Gastrointestinal Disoders
Chiropractic care, although usually associated with neuromuscular problems, can be very helpful in providing relief from the symptoms of many gastrointestinal (GI) disorders, including irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), Crohn's disease, colitis, gallbladder disease, gastroenteritis, gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) and celiac disease. While research studies have not yet established connections between chiropractic treatment and relief of the symptoms of these disorders, there is a large amount of anecdotal evidence supporting this conclusion. In keeping with the views of chiropractic medicine, it is no surprise that manual adjustments of vertebral misalignments should be helpful in decompressing nerves that supply energy to the...
Spinal Decompression
Back pain and leg pain may be caused by problems in the spine that can be remedied with spinal decompression. The treatment works by expanding the spine to alleviate pressure on the nerves in the spinal cord.
Chiropractic Care for Herniated Disc
The vertebrae of the spine allow you to turn, twist, bend and perform many other tasks. In between the vertebrae are fluid-filled sacs known as “discs.” These provide cushion between the bones to prevent erosion, fractures and impact trauma.
Ultrasound Therapy
While ultrasound is used for diagnosis and observation in many medical disciplines, such as vascular surgery and obstetrics, chiropractors and physical therapists commonly use ultrasound as a treatment mode. Applied to the patient's skin using a device called a transducer, therapeutic ultrasound uses high frequency sound waves to penetrate deep into muscle tissue to relieve pain, increase circulation, and reduce inflammation and spasms. Ultrasound treatment is effective in treating vehicular and sports injuries and can also be helpful in treating the ongoing pain of certain systemic diseases, such as rheumatoid arthritis.
Chiropractic Care for Multiple Sclerosis
Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is an autoimmune disease that attacks the central nervous system. The disorder causes an inflammation of the myelin sheath, the outer covering of the nerves, precipitating a wide variety of symptoms, including muscles weakness, pain, numbness, decreased coordination, spasticity (muscle stiffness) and, when the optic nerve is affected, visual difficulties. Chiropractic care, with its holistic emphasis on correcting spinal misalignments to allow the body to heal itself, is a natural treatment for this disease.
Chiropractic Care for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), a debilitating and emotionally troubling disorder, has all too often been dismissed by medical professionals because of its amorphous symptoms and the inability to quantify the condition through diagnostic tests. Chiropractors, however, accustomed to treating symptoms that may be vague and chronic, have helped a great many patients with chronic fatigue syndrome towards recovery. The symptoms of CFS are neurological in origin and include constant exhaustion, difficulty concentrating, headaches, sore throats, joint pains, muscles aches, and swollen lymph nodes.
Chiropractic Care for Fibromyalgia
Fibromyalgia, a chronic, sometimes disabling, condition that causes fatigue and widespread muscle aches, often responds well to chiropractic treatment. In addition to constant dull pain, patients who suffer from fibromyalgia have specific points on their bodies that are sensitive to even minimal pressure. These tender spots may be present in the back, neck, shoulders and chest, or along the inner knees. Because in many cases conventional medical treatment does not provide sufficient relief, many patients with fibromyalgia turn to chiropractic care.
Chiropractic Nutritional Counseling
Chiropractic care is founded upon the concept that the body is capable of self-healing given proper support and maintenance. At the most fundamental level, our bodies rely on nutrients to function at every level.
Chiropractic Care for Headaches and Migraines
Getting a headache is a universal human experience, and most headaches are short-lived and relatively benign. For millions of people, however, headaches are a serious problem because of their frequency or severity. A very small percentage of headaches are due to traumatic brain injury or tumor, and some are the result of anatomical abnormalities or polyps. The vast majority are due to more benign causes. This does not, however, make these headaches any less painful. While conventional medicine treats headaches primarily with medication, chiropractic care for headaches involves hands-on manipulation of misaligned vertebrae to reduce or eliminate nerve compression and increase the flow of oxygen and blood to the affected site.
Chiropractic Massage Therapy
Massage therapy helps our patients with a range of ailments, such as headaches and pain. The treatment poses few risks when it is performed by an experienced and specially-trained therapist who considers the patient’s health conditions.
Chiropractic Care for Knee Pain
You never realize how much you use your knees until you are limited by pain, stiffness, tightness, swelling and popping. By design, the knee is an amazing anatomical feature that works perfectly to help you walk, run, climb stairs, bend down stand up and sit.
Electrical Muscle Stimulation
Electric muscle stimulation (EMS) is a method of treatment frequently used in chiropractic therapy to relieve muscle spasms and pain. During EMS, electrodes attached to an electric stimulation machine are placed on the patient's areas of discomfort, transmitting mild electrical current to the region. These electrodes adhere to the skin with adhesive pads. The purpose of EMS is to decrease pain, strengthen muscles, and reduce inflammation. Patients who undergo electric muscle stimulation most often find it soothing and pleasant, something like a deep electrical massage.
Chiropractic Care for Muscle Spasms
Muscles spasms, or sudden involuntary contractions of muscles, are a common, painful ailment. Spasms occur as the body's reaction to sudden trauma, as during a vehicular of athletic accident, or repetitive trauma, as occurs when people remain in an uncomfortable position for too long, exercise without warming up, carry unusually heavy loads, or work physically hard in extreme heat. Muscle spasms are the body's way of protecting an injured joint by preventing further movement. Chiropractic care, which focuses on spinal and joint manipulation, as well as stretching and massage, can be very helpful in relaxing the affected muscles and relieving the intense pain of muscle spasms.
