Chiropractic

Your first step to managing pain should be to seek out someone who can figure out what’s causing it. Once you have a clear idea, you should look for someone who can help improve your condition. Chiropractors do both! Chiropractors are experts in assessing, diagnosing and managing muscle, joint and nerve-related conditions. Chiropractors use a hands-on technique to managing your pain, using safe and effective treatment protocols to restore and rebalance your musculoskeletal health. This physical therapy approach to managing your pain targets specific muscles, joints and/or nerves and uses techniques and exercises to help you stretch, mobilize, strengthen and heal. Doctors of chiropractic undergo 4 years of post-graduate training that includes 4,200 hours of specialized clinical training and rigorous study of anatomy, biomechanics, radiology, pathology, clinical diagnosis and technique.

During your first visit with a chiropractor, you can expect a comprehensive history and physical examination to determine the root cause of your symptoms. From here, a treatment plan tailored to your needs may be designed, which can include manual “hands-on” therapy combined with customized exercise programs, acupuncture, taping, ergonomics, electrotherapy, and more. Throughout the course of your treatment plan, you can also expect your progress will be continuously evaluated and fine-tuned to obtain the best outcomes. A chiropractor’s approach is holistic – which means they account for more than the site of pain or injury – but factor other related structures – and their affects on function, quality of life, etc. As primary contact providers, they are also effectively able to refer to and work alongside other complementary providers as needed.