CHIROPRACTIC
SERVICES
The Responsibility of the Chiropractic Doctor
Find a vertebral restriction and gently provide motion to restore proper function.
Chiropractic is a health care profession that focuses on the relationship between the body’s structure – mainly the spine – and its functioning.
Although chiropractors may use a variety of treatment approaches, they primarily perform adjustments (manipulations) to the spine or other parts of the body with the goal of correcting alignment problems, alleviating pain, improving function, and supporting the body’s natural ability to heal itself.
The term “CHIROPRACTIC” combines the Greek words cheir (hand) and praxis (practice) to describe a treatment done by hand. Hands-on therapy – especially adjustment of the spine – is central to chiropractic care.
Chiropractic is based on the notion that the relationship between the body’s structure (primarily that of the spine) and its function (as coordinated by the nervous system) affects health.
CHIROPRACTIC THERAPY
- Manipulative Therapy / Adjustment
- Diagnosis and hands-on treatment
- Therapeutic Modalities Restoration
- Ultrasound
- Electrotherapy
- Mechanical Traction
- Cryotherapy
- Moist Heat Therapy
SOFT TISSUE
DEEP TISSUE
MANUAL THERAPY
Treatment used to address ligament, tendon and connective tissue components of pain.
REHABILITATION
HOME EXERCISE
Programs tailored to optimizing function, stability and performance.
DISC DECOMPRESSION
FLEXION DISTRACTION
A painless technique that creates negative pressure inside the involved disc, allowing it to absorb fluid and nutrients in order to facilitate healing and decrease inflammation.
POSTURE CORRECTION
The importance of posture is highly critical in so many different areas. Your posture sends a message to people, and displays your sense of confidence and self-awareness. Using simple techniques to fix your posture can give you startling improvements on both your appearance, and how your back feels. You will feel stronger, healthier and more vibrant with proper posture.
The conditions which doctors of chiropractic address are as varied and as vast as the nervous system itself. All chiropractors use a standard procedure of examination to diagnose a patient’s condition and arrive at a course of treatment. Doctors of chiropractic use the same time-honored methods of consultation, case history, physical examination, laboratory analysis and x-ray examination as any other doctor. In addition, they provide a careful chiropractic structural examination, paying particular attention to the spine.
The examination of the spine to evaluate structure and function is what makes chiropractic different from other health care procedures. Your spinal column is a series of movable bones which begin at the base of your skull and end in the center of your hips.
Thirty-one pairs of spinal nerves extend down the spine from the brain and exit through a series of openings. The nerves leave the spine and form a complicated network which influences every living tissue in your body.
Chiropractic also places an emphasis on nutritional and exercise programs, wellness and lifestyle modifications for promoting physical and mental health.
While chiropractors make no use of drugs or surgery, Doctors of chiropractic do refer patients for medical care when those interventions are indicated. In fact, chiropractors, medical doctors, physical therapists and other health care professionals now work as partners in occupational health, sports medicine, and a wide variety of other rehabilitation practices.
Accidents, falls, stress, tension, overexertion, and countless other factors can result in a displacements or derangements of the spinal column, causing irritation to spinal nerve roots.
These irritations are often what cause malfunctions in the human body. Chiropractic teaches that reducing or eliminating this irritation to spinal nerves can cause your body to operate more efficiently and more comfortably.
