Chiro can treat...
- Acute and Chronic Back Pain: Whether it's a recent injury or long-standing pain, we tailor our treatments to offer you relief and support, helping restore spinal health and mobility.
- Auto Accident Injuries: The aftermath of a car accident can manifest in various ways - from whiplash to spinal misalignments. Our in-depth auto accident exams ensure timely detection and effective treatment.
- Neck and Spinal Injuries: Protecting the spine is crucial for overall well-being. We employ a range of techniques to treat injuries, alleviate pain, and ensure optimal spinal health.
- Whiplash: This common injury, often resulting from rear-end car accidents, can lead to chronic neck pain if not treated properly. Our therapeutic approaches target the affected regions, promoting recovery.
- Sprains and Strains: Overstretching or tearing of ligaments can cause sprains, while strains involve muscle or tendon damage. Our treatments aim to heal these tissues, ensuring a swift return to everyday activities.
- Pinched Nerves: A compressed nerve can cause significant discomfort. Our chiropractic adjustments help to relieve the pressure, restoring nerve function and alleviating associated pain.
- Sciatica: This nerve pain, often shooting down the leg, can be debilitating. Our treatments target the root cause, providing lasting relief.
- Headaches and Migraines: Beyond the common painkillers, our chiropractic care offers holistic solutions to reduce the frequency and severity of headaches and migraines.
- Numbness and Tingling of Extremities: This can often be a sign of nerve interference or damage. Through thorough evaluation and tailored treatments, we aim to restore sensation and reduce discomfort.
- Pain Associated with Pregnancy: The physical changes during pregnancy can lead to spinal misalignments and pain. Our gentle techniques aim to provide relief while ensuring the safety of both mother and baby.
- Herniated and Bulging Discs: These conditions can put pressure on nearby nerves, causing pain. Our spinal decompression therapy is particularly effective in treating these disc issues.
- Non-pharmaceutical Pain Management: We provide natural solutions for pain relief, allowing patients to avoid or reduce their dependence on medications.
- Degenerative Disc Disease: Over time, spinal discs can degenerate, leading to chronic pain. Our treatments aim to slow this degeneration and manage associated symptoms.
- Musculoskeletal Conditions: From tendinitis to bursitis, our comprehensive care approach ensures that all underlying musculoskeletal issues are addressed.
What is Chiropractic?
Chiropractors understand that one of the main causes of pain and disease is the misalignment and abnormal motion of the vertebrae in the spinal column called a subluxation. Chiropractic works by removing these subluxations in the spine, thereby relieving pressure and irritation on the nerves, restoring joint mobility, and returning the body back to a state of normal function.
Numerous studies have demonstrated that chiropractic care is one of the most effective treatments for back pain, neck pain, headaches, whiplash, sports injuries, and many other types of musculoskeletal problems. It has even been shown to be effective in reducing high blood pressure, decreasing the frequency of childhood ear infections, and improving the symptoms of asthma. More and more scientific research is demonstrating the tremendous detrimental impact that subluxation has on the tissue of the body. In order to be truly healthy, it is vital that your nervous system be functioning free of interference from subluxations. Chiropractors are the only health professionals trained in the detection, location, and correction of the vertebral subluxation complex through chiropractic care.
The chiropractic adjustment is a quick thrust applied to a vertebra to correct its position, movement, or both. Adjustments are often accompanied by an audible release of gas that sounds like a 'crack.' The sound sometimes shocks people a little bit the first couple of times they get adjusted, but the sensation is usually relieving. Occasionally, minor discomfort is experienced, especially if the surrounding muscles are in spasm or the patient tenses up during the chiropractic procedure. There are times when the audible 'cracking' does not occur. This is often due to either significant muscle tightness or that the patient may be having a hard time relaxing during their adjustments.
How does Chiropractic work?
Chiropractic doctors practice natural, drugless, non-invasive health care and rely on the body's ability to self-heal. Sounds ideal, but just how does it work?
We look at the whole picture
Like other health-care providers, we follow a standard routine to gain information about the patient. We consult, review the case history, conduct a physical examination, and we may request laboratory analyses and/or x-rays. Unlike other health-care providers, however, chiropractic physicians also conduct a careful analysis of the patient's structure and pay particular attention to the spine. We also ask you about your life- Do you eat well? Exercise at all? How do you deal with stress? Do you have children? What do you do for work? And so on.
We seek the origin of the problem
Using this information, a diagnosis is made. Included in the diagnosis is the probable reason for your pain or discomfort. It is important to note that chiropractors seek the origin of the illness in order to eliminate it-we do not simply treat the symptoms. If your roof is leaking, do you simply catch the drips in a bucket for years on end, or do you repair the roof to prevent it from leaking? Similarly, if the migraine headache you've had all week is being caused by a misaligned vertebra and an irritated nerve, do you continue to take painkillers indefinitely, or do you realign the vertebra to prevent the pain? You get the picture.
We fix the origin of the problem
Chiropractors have a term for misalignments: subluxations. A vertebral subluxation is a misalignment of the bones that protect the spinal cord. It's a leak in the roof. Or a kink in the wiring of your nervous system. The severity of the subluxation can vary, and there are a number of potential contributing factors that can be physical, emotional, mental, or chemical. The subluxation can be caused by any number of incidents, from birth trauma to an auto accident to simple repetition or over-use.