Chiropractic Care
Chiropractic healthcare includes body system disorders and how these disorders affect overall general health.
Chiropractic care treats neuromusculoskeletal conditions, including but not limited to, back pain, neck pain, pain in the joints of the arms or legs and headaches.
Doctors of Chiropractic practice use drug-free, hands-on approaches to health care that include patient examination, diagnosis and treatment. Chiropractors have broad diagnostic skills and are also trained to recommend therapeutic and rehabilitative exercises, as well as to provide nutritional, dietary and lifestyle counseling.
What is involved in the treatment?
Most common procedure performed is a Spinal Manipulation, also called Chiropractic Adjustment.
This procedure can be manual as well as nonforce adjusting. The purpose of manipulation is to restore joint mobility and stimulate the nervous system, by manually applying a controlled force into joints that have become hypomobile – or restricted in their movement – as a result of a tissue injury.
Tissue injury can be caused by a single traumatic event, such as improper lifting of a heavy object or through repetitive stresses, such as sitting in an awkward position with poor spinal posture for an extended period of time.
Either situation...
injured tissues undergo physical and chemical changes that can cause inflammation, pain and diminished function for the sufferer. Manipulation, or adjustment of the affected joint and tissues, restores mobility and stimulates the nervous system. This alleviates pain and muscle tightness, improving communication to the nervous system and allowing tissues to heal.