A procedure in which trained specialist use their hands or a small instrument to apply a controlled, sudden force to a spinal joint. The goal of chiropractic adjustment is to correct structural alignment and improve your body’s physical function.

Chiropractic is a unique form of health care that focuses on the diagnosis and treatment of health problems associated with the body’s neuromusculoskeletal (nerves, muscles, bones) system. Chiropractors believe that vertebral dysfunction alters many important bodily functions by affecting the nervous system and that skeletal imbalance through joint dysfunction can cause muscle spasm and pain. Along with the pain associated with muscle spasms, they can also adversely affect the nervous system creating a cycle of perpetuating dysfunction and pain.

The chiropractic approach to health care is holistic, stressing the patient’s overall health and wellness. They seek the cause of pain and dysfunction rather than the elimination of symptoms. Chiropractors provide natural, drugless, non-surgical health treatments and rely on the bodies inherent recuperative abilities.

Nicknamed “The Stem Cell Machine” by the TV Show The Drs that aired 11/21/19 our Softwave Tissue Regeneration Technology is an exciting, breakthrough treatment option in the field of regenerative medicine. It is an advanced, effective, non-invasive, and safe way to treat painful musculoskeletal conditions, degenerative conditions, and chronic pain.  All without needles, anesthesia, medicine, or expensive hospitalization.

SoftWave Treatment is the most advanced, highly effective, non-invasive treatment cleared by the FDA to treat degenerative conditions and chronic pain. SoftWave can be explained as a min lithotripsy device that delivers the most effective Extracorporeal Shock Wave Therapy (“ESWT”) available. During treatment, the ESWT produces high-energy sound waves that are applied to painful and injured areas of the body to dramatically stimulate healing and regeneration. It works by helping to stimulate and improve your body’s own healing capability by enhancing blood circulation and has been shown to stimulate increased stem production to regenerate damaged tissue. Beneficial effects are often experienced in only one or two treatments and there is no downtime!

This non-surgical treatment can eliminate pain, restore mobility and significantly improve a person’s quality of life. SoftWave Treatment accelerates the healing process in the body by stimulating metabolism and enhancing blood circulation and cellular repair to regenerate damaged tissue. The healing energy wave created penetrates tissues and stimulates stem cells and growth factors in the body that are responsible for muscle and connective tissue healing.

MEDICAL EFFECTS:

• New Blood Vessel Formation
• Reversal of Chronic Inflammation
• Stimulation of Collagen Production
• Dissolution of Calcified Fibroblasts
• Dispersion of Pain Mediator “Substance P”
• Release of Trigger Points

Spinal Decompression Therapy involves stretching the spine, using a traction table or similar motorized device, with the goal of relieving back pain and/or leg pain. This procedure is called nonsurgical decompression therapy (as opposed to surgical spinal decompression, such as laminectomy and microdiscectomy) to apply significant distractive forces to the spine in variable directions creating a negative pressure in the center of the intervertebral disc. This creates a suctioning effect or vacuum phenomenon in order to retract and reduce the size of a herniated or bulging disc’s gelatinous internal nucleus pulposus, thus eliminating or decreasing significantly nerve compression. This will also create an osmotic gradient which helps bring nutrients, oxygen and water into the disc, thus stimulating the healing process. Since intervertebral discs have poor circulation, they depend upon receiving their nutrition through diffusion. Treatment may last 30 to 45 minutes and you may require 20 to 28 treatments over five to seven weeks.

BENEFITS:

• Provides pain relief. Decompression can relieve tension in tight, spastic, or injured muscles and stimulate the nervous system to release neuro-chemical signals that have an analgesic effect on the body. This can provide significant pain relief in as little as 1 to 3 sessions.
• Promotes healing of spinal disc tissues. Decompression imposes a negative intradiscal pressure to promote retraction or repositioning of the herniated or bulging disc material and creates a lower pressure in the disc, which helps to draw healing fluids, cells, and other substances toward the damaged tissue.
• Helps restore normal spinal disc and joint alignment. Things like stress, poor body mechanics, smoking, and other factors may cause joints to subluxate (move out of place) or your discs to herniate. That same vacuum-like force that helps to realign the joints and discs, thus preventing further pain, inflammation, impaired mobility, and dysfunction.
• Relieves pressure on spinal nerves. Spinal nerves can get pinched when discs, bones, or other tissues encroach on the small spaces through which the nerves exit the spinal column as they go on to innervate the body. Non-surgically decompressing the spine increases the space around these nerves, which may otherwise have become impinged and inflamed, thus allowing these nerves to begin healing.
• Accelerates effectiveness of other healing approaches. At its core, spinal decompression helps to maximize your spinal health and function, and as we’ve heard the saying goes: a healthy spine supports a healthy body!

Myofascial Release Technique (MRT) is a soft-tissue treatment method primarily designed to identify and eliminate adhesions, which are dense collections of scar tissue that form when muscles, fascia, tendons, ligaments, and nerves are injured by combining manipulation and movement. Treatment consists of precisely directed tension with the hands and specific patient movements to essentially “comb out” the adhesive scar tissue. In some cases, scar tissue can entrap nerves throughout the body causing numbness, tingling, and weakness. MRT can successfully release these entrapped nerves.

Adhesive scar tissue forms because of injury, repetitive motion, and constant tension. Once scar tissue forms it can cause pain, stiffness, and dysfunction and limits flexibility in that area of the body. Since every muscle, fascia, tendon, ligament, and nerve has a job to do scar tissue prevents that muscle from performing its job properly. Weakness, dysfunction, decreased range of motion, and instability will lead to pain and compensation. Compensation will lead to more scar tissue formation and the cycle continues.

MRT can be used to treat pain and other symptoms caused by injury or damage to:

• Fascia. This is fibrous connective tissue that protects and supports muscles and organs throughout your body. Inflammation across a band of fascia tissue can cause extreme pain and stiffness. Plantar fasciitis is a common fascia tissue condition.
• Major muscle groups. Strains and pulls from overuse or trauma can affect any of you major muscle groups. This includes muscles in your neck and shoulders, back, and hamstrings.

Tendons and ligaments. Tendons connect muscles to bone and ligaments connect bone to bone. Injury to either can cause pain and decrease range of motion.

The Y-Strap is a tool that fits around the base of the skull/chin that allows for the spine to be stretched. The Y-Strap is a stretching tool to perform manual spine decompression. This type of “stretch” is called spinal traction. In other words, the Y Strap allows us to “separate” the segments in your spine to release any tension within them.

HOW DOES THE Y-STRAP WORK

According to Pettibon, the Y Strap corrects “kinks” in the epi-pia collagen network. The Y-Strap adjustment works by stretching the spine and pulling the head in the Y-Axis of the body. This pulling force generates a decompression in the vertebral discs. The force applied can have different speeds and force patterns: From a slow and smooth stretching motion to a HVLA (High Velocity, Low Amplitude) Movement. This HVLA procedure generates a swift vacuum within the vertebrae discs that enables nutrients to flow into the discs. The advantage is using the Y-Strap chiropractic technique is a straight angle and non-existent torsion of the procedure to treat a patient of spinal compression and disc problems

Physical therapy or physiotherapy (sometimes abbreviated to PT) is the remediation of impairment and disabilities and the promotion of mobility, functional ability, quality of life, and movement potential through the methods of neuromuscular re-education, therapeutic exercises, and other musculoskeletal modalities.

An IASTM is a tool to effectively detect and break soft tissue adhesions, scar tissue, and altered connective tissue to increase blood flow, increase range of motion, promote healing, and increase cellular activity in the region.

THE TECHNIQUE

• Separates and breaks down collagen cross-links, and splays and stretches connective tissue and muscle fibers.
• Breaks down scar tissue to promote healing patterns within the soft tissues.
• Facilitates reflex changes in chronic muscle holding patterns.
• Increases the rate and amount of blood flow to and from the area.
• Increases cellular activity in the region, including fibroblasts and mast cells.