Chiropractic Care and Pain Relief

Chiropractic Care: Adjustments

• Chiropractic Adjustments help to mobilize joints throughout the spine and the extremities. Our goal is to increase that mobility to allow for improved range of motion, decreased pain, and overall better life function. The adjustment can be performed in various ways including manual (by hand) or instrument type adjusting. Comfort is important to us and our patients, we want to be able to deliver an effective adjustment without the worry of injury.

DISC Treatment: Non-Surgical Spinal Decompression

• When patients have pain, numbness, tingling, and burning, it can be easy to point to muscles as they spasm and seize. Iftherapies to address muscles are performed and resolution or improvement is not met, then there must be more to the picture. This is where discs come in. A disc injury is a compressive injury to the spine. Adjustments help mobilize joints, muscle techniques help recover muscles, tendons, and ligaments, but if a disc is the pain generator, these techniques will ultimately fail to provide results. If a patient sustains a disc injury, decompression therapy is the most effective conservative treatment that can be utilized in conjunction with core stability exercises once pain has reduced.

Shockwave Therapy: Acoustic Wave 

• Shockwave is a therapy that transmits kinetic energy to targeted tissues, creating a radial wave. Radial shock waves emit their greatest energy at the skin’s surface, and lose power as their energy penetrates deeper tissues. The wave penetrates into the tissue to stimulate recovery through angiogenesis, or blood vessel growth. The influx of vessels helps to promote healing as more nutrients and oxygen are delivered and more carbon dioxide and waste products are removed.

Musculoligamentous Injury: Kinesiotape 

• Kinesiology tape is a specific type of tape that is used to help stabilize injury, decrease pain, and increase blood flow to a region of complaint. 

 Soft-tissue care: Active Release Technique 

• ART or active release technique is a myofascial technique that utilizes a pin and stretch type of system. A patient is brought to a contracted range of motion, at this time, the provider then uses their fingers/thumb/instrument to pin the targeted tissue. As the tissue is pinned down, the patient is then taken through an elongated state. This is theory helps to “strip” the muscle or lengthen the muscle tissue. In turn, the muscle is able to release and allows for better active movement and optimal motion

FAKTR: IASTM 

• IASTM, often called Graston Technique, stands for instrument assisted soft tissue mobilization. It is a technique that focuses on myofascial injuries and soft tissue rehabilitation.

Physical Therapy: Core Stability Rehab

• Core stability is critical to maintain the progress that we make through the course of treatment. This is the most important part of treatment as it creates integrity around an injury and decreases the risk of aggravation and setback.