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WHAT DO CHIROPRACTORS DO?

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 spasms 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 body’s 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 (see link below) 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.

WHAT IS SOFTWAVE OR ESWT?

It is a new, highly effective treatment whereby high-energy sound waves are applied to injured, degenerated, and/or painful areas of the body to dramatically reduce pain and increase mobility and function. This 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.

HOW MANY TREATMENTS ARE NEEDED?

The number of treatments needed depends on the condition that is being treated. In many cases, only 5-8 treatments are needed. Each treatment session takes between 10-15 minutes.

WHAT TYPES OF RESULTS ARE EXPECTED?

Beneficial effects are often experienced after only one or two treatments. Many patients report immediate pain relief after treatment. The technology has a high success rate per clinical studies. Patients treated report being pain-free and/or having significant reduction in pain. ESWT can eliminate pain, restore mobility and improve a person’s quality of life. True acoustic wave therapy can also dramatically increase the results of other regenerative treatments.

WHAT ARE THE POSSIBLE SIDE EFFECTS? 

SoftWave powered by TRT OrthoGold 350 has virtually no side effects. Patients can return to work immediately after treatment and there is typically no downtime.

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

WHAT IS SPINAL DECOMPRESSION?

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 neurochemical 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!

WHAT IS MYOFASICAL RELEASE TECHNIQUE?

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, 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 a 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 your 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 decreased range of motion.

WHO NEEDS MRT

Anybody who has been injured or performs any activity that involves repetitive motion or constant tension will develop adhesive scar tissue. Scar tissue will lead to dysfunction and ultimately pain. The typical patient that presents to our office is usually an active weekend warrior who seeks treatment because they are experiencing pain that is interfering with what they love to do. The pain is usually gradual and chronic in nature although it can be acute and sudden. They typically have sedentary jobs but lead an active and healthy lifestyle. They usually know something is wrong and the pain is not getting better. They know that rest, ice, and meds are not resolving their pain. Stretching, foam rolling, and physical therapy seem to give them temporary relief but the problem persists. Some have even sought medical or chiropractic treatment but that does not seem to resolve the issue. If this sounds like you, your problem may not be improving because of the presence of adhesive scar tissue.

SIGNS YOU MAY HAVE SCAR TISSUE

• Stiffness in your neck, elbow, hand, knees, or back
• Tingling, numbness, or weakness
• Increased pain when exercising
• Sharp pain in the bottom of your foot near the heel
• Reduced flexibility and limited range of motion
• Decreased strength
• Inflamed joints

WHAT TO EXPECT

An MRT session is a combination of deep pressure along with a stretch at the same time. Treatment is only done on tissue identified as being scarred. Most patients describe it as a “good pain” or they’ll say “that hurts but feels like exactly what I need.” MRT is not designed to feel good, it is designed to fix a problem. Some patients feel sore after a treatment like a post-workout soreness. Most patients notice an immediate improvement whether it’s an increase in range of motion, increase in strength, or a decrease in pain.

HOW LONG WILL IT TAKE

Each session usually takes 20-30 minutes but varies depending on the person and the condition. How many visits it will take to resolve your condition varies depending on many factors including the severity of the condition, overall health, age, and when the problem started. We recommend an initial treatment plan of approximately 5 treatments where we expect our patients to experience a noticeable improvement within that time. Depending on the results we see within that time, we come up with a future treatment plan.

WHAT IS Y-STRAP DECOMPRESSION?

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 an 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 with spinal compression and disc problems.

WHAT IS PHYSIOTHERAPY?

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

WHAT IS INSTRUMENTAL-ASSISTED SOFT TISSUE MANIPULATION (IASTM)?

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.

WHY IS SCAR TISSUE A PROBLEM

• Scar tissue limits the range of motion, and in many instances causes pain, which prevents the patient from functioning as he or she did before the injury.

HOW IS SCAR TISSUE DIFFERENT FROM OTHER TISSUE

• When viewed under a microscope, normal tissue can take a couple of different fashions: dense, regular elongated fibers running in the same direction, such as tendons and ligaments; or dense, irregular, and loose fibers running in multiple directions. In either instance, when tissue is damaged it will heal in a haphazard pattern–or scarring–that results in a restricted range of motion and, very often, pain.

HOW ARE THE INSTRUMENTS USED

• An IASTM instrument is used to enhance the clinician’s ability to detect adhesions, scar tissue, or restrictions in the affected areas. A skilled clinicians use the stainless steel instruments to comb over and “catch” on fibrotic tissue, which immediately identifies the areas of restriction. Once the tissue has been identified, the instruments are used to break up the scar tissue so it can be absorbed by the body.

IS THE TREATMENT PAINFUL

• It is common to experience minor discomfort during the procedure and some bruising afterward. This is a normal response and part of the healing process.

WHAT IS MASSAGE THERAPY?

Licensed Massage Therapists (or LMTs as they’re often referred to) are practitioners that provide soft tissue manipulation to treat pain and injury. The types of massage therapy range widely but are often an appointment that ranges anywhere from 30-90 minutes wherein the patient will receive a massage to relieve tension, and pain, and improve mobility. BODY DETOX LMTs focus primarily on enabling active lifestyles as a whole and are more targeted in service offerings, which include:

• Specified issue treatment
• Deep tissue massage and active, soft tissue mobilization
• Working with other BODY DETOX practitioners for rehabilitation

WHAT MAKES BODY DETOX DIFFERENT?

BODY DETOX’s massage therapists offer active treatments to help active patients move well and feel prepared for any activity. This means prioritizing injury treatment and rehabilitation over relaxation. BODY DETOX massage therapy flips the conventional approach on its head to address the specific needs of active patients. Therapists work in conjunction with other BODY DETOX practitioners to create accelerated recovery. We help patients make the best use of their appointments to create real, lasting results.

BENEFITS:

• Enhanced Exercise Performance
• Relieve Tension Headaches
• Reduced Muscle Tension
• Improves Circulation
• Stimulation of the Lymphatic System
• Reduction of Stress Hormones
• Relaxation
• Increased Joint Mobility and Flexibility
• Improved Skin Tone
• Improved Recovery of Soft Tissue Injuries
• Trigger Points
• Increased Metabolism
• Arthritis Pain Relief
• Decrease Inflammation
• Heightened Mental Alertness
• Reduced Anxiety & Depression