What is Chiropractic?
– Currently: a healthcare profession concerned with the diagnoses, treatment and prevention of disorders of the neuromusculoskeletal system and the effects of these disorders on general health.
– Originally (1895): system of therapeutics designed to remove interference from the nervous system in order to restore health.
What is a Chiropractic subluxation?
Clinical recognition of a subluxation may include:
- Identification of spinal and other joint disrelationships
- Changes in joint motion
- Altered muscle tone, strength or length
- Changes in paraspinal or dermatome temperatures
- Altered sensation or reflexes
- Inflammatory processes
- Provoked pain or objective tenderness
- Changes in skin texture
- SUBLUXATION: is a complex of functional and/or structural and or pathological articular changes that compromise neural integrity and may influence organ system function and general health
Chiropractic adjustments
Chiropractic adjustments include but are not limited to:
- Diversified techniques (High velocity low amplitude thrusts)
- Traction/distraction methods
- Mechanically assisted adjustments
Adjunctive therapies
Our therapies include, but are not limited to:
- Physiotherapeutic modalities
- Ice pack/hot pack
- EMS
- Mechanical traction
- Manual therapies
- Soft tissue techniques
- Massage
- PNF, PIR, TPT
- Bracing
- Taping
- Athletic taping
- Kinesio taping
Patients we see age ranges from newborns to elderly.