Our Services
Chiropractic
WHAT WE DO
Chiropractic is the largest and most popular drug-free healthcare system in the world. Chiropractors work with bones of your spinal column and extremities, and the nerves in and around your spinal cord and into the limbs, respectively.
Why?
Hidden deep inside your body is the most powerful "mainframe computer" in the universe. It stores a lifetime's worth of experiences and is networked to trillions of smaller "computers", coordinating their operations-telling them what to do and when to do it so the whole system functions properly. All these "computers" are connected with many billions of special "wires". What is your mainframe made of? Not metal, silicon and plastic-it's mostly water, floating in a special protective, temperature-controlled hard casting.
As you've probably guessed, the "mainframe" is your brain, the smaller computers are your cells, tissues, organs and systems, and the "wires" are your nerve fibers. The protective casing is your skull.
How does your brain "talk" to your heart, lungs, kidneys, stomach and other organs? They "talk" through a vast communications system of nerve "wires." Nerves leave your brain and travel from your skull as a tightly knit bundle of billions of nerves - your spinal cord. Nerves from your spinal cord travel through and out of your spinal column and touch every part of you. These nerves carry messages to and from your brain which is how your brain controls and coordinates the function of all your billions of body parts: muscles, organs, glands, tissues and all the rest. Chiropractors spend years in highly specialized training to learn to locate fixated spinal vertebrae that are interfering with the nerves around your brain and spinal cord. After locating spine and nerve stress caused by a vertebra impinging the nerves (subluxations), your chiropractor, using various highly specialized techniques, is able to realign your vertebrae and thus release pressure on your nerves and body structure. This procedure is called a chiropractic spinal adjustment.
TECHNIQUES WE USE
Diversified Technique
Diversified adjusting is a technique where adjustments to the spine are given by direct contact of the Doctor’s hands. This allows for specific corrections of the subluxations in the spine. Diversified technique consists of high velocity, low amplitude thrusts that usually results in a cavitation (popping sound) of a joint. Diversified technique is used to deliver a deeper thrust, in turn often also results in quicker resolution of symptoms.
Thompson Drop Technique
With this technique, a section of the table under the area to be adjusted is raised about an inch and a half to help assist in the adjustment. The Doctor contacts the subluxated segment with his/her hands and thrusts, causing the table to drop back to its original position. The force of the table dropping along with the thrust of the Doctor adjusts the subluxated segment. This technique is used when a lighter force is required to adjust a patient. Often times no osseous (popping) sound is heard.
Activator Technique
Activator technique utilizes an instrument called an activator to administer a low-force, high velocity adjustment to a specific spinal segment. No cavitation is heard with this technique.
Nutritional Consultation
Each patient has different nutritional needs depending on their diet, daily demands, age, and history. Talking with you about each of these areas will help us determine what nutritional needs each patient requires.
Exercise and Rehabilitation Programs
Patients’ response to chiropractic care is much more favorable when a rehabilitation program is added to the treatment plan. We will provide simple stretching and strengthening programs to you that you can do easily from home and will only take 10 minutes a day. Strength and balance of the muscle systems surrounding a patients’ dis-ease will greatly help the healing and remodeling process.
Postural and Ergonomic Evaluations
Patients often go through their day not realizing that their posture at work, walking habits, sitting posture, and many other daily movements may be associated with the developed or continued dis-ease they are treating.
Massage Therapy
MASSAGE TECHNIQUES
Deep Tissue Massage
Deep pressure is used to allow the technique to pass through the fascia making it easier to mobilize the muscle underneath. Deep tissue massage helps improve blood and lymph flow, rejuvenate the skin, and is used during passive stretching of muscle groups to help joint flexibility.
Swedish Massage
Uses light pressure to create a smooth flowing massage. The technique, effleurage, is performed using the palm and fingers of the hand sliding and gliding over the skin. This type of massage helps to improve blood and lymph circulation, relaxes muscles, and promotes joint mobility and healthy skin.
Hot Stone Massage
Smooth basalt rocks of all different sizes are heated to 130-140 degrees Fahrenheit. The rocks are placed on tender, sore spots along the body. They relax trigger points without using deeper pressure, but allows for a smooth relaxing massage. This massage helps increase blood circulation and mobility, while decreasing stress, anxiety, and pain.
Reflexology
Geriatric Massage
This massage is tailored to our aging population because most of their pain is due to decreasing mobility and strength, as well as slowing circulation. Massage can help replenish the skin using lotion, promote circulation throughout the body (especially the arms and legs), and therefore increase mobility and strength.
Prenatal Massage
This is a gentle and relaxing massage. It is all about concentrating on the main discomfort areas such as the neck, low back, legs, feet, etc. Massage during pregnancy also reduces swelling in the extremities.
Trigger Point Therapy
A trigger point is most commonly known as a “knot”. Trigger point is a group of muscle fibers with a build up of cellular waste products, causing a tender and tight spot in the muscle. To relieve the trigger points you gradually increase the amount of pressure on the trigger point to help flush blood to the area and release the tight muscle.
