- Electrical Muscle StimulationPhysical Therapy – My office uses a standard compliment of PT equipment in conjunction with spinal and extremity adjusting in order to help maximize the healing and repair process. Those therapies include Electrical Muscle Stimulation(EMS), Ultrasound(U/S) and Exercise programs. In addition, there are a series of manual therapy (hands-on) techniques used in the office to help treat a whole series of muscular problems, including therapeutic massage, trigger point therapy, joint mobilization and neuro-muscular re-education.
- Chiropractic Adjustments$250The following are a series of quotes from chiropractic founder Dr. D.D. Palmer. Although these quotes were stated 100 years ago or more, they are still true to this day. I thought you would enjoy reading these in an effort to understand it just exactly how chiropractic principle is applied through the chiropractic adjustments...
- Spinal AdjustmentsJMPT 1999; 22:594-609). In relating LBP can lead to work absence and higher medical costs: the focus of a study published earlier this year. In a review of 250 employees receiving workers compensation for low back pain– 72 of whom had no physically therapeutic care — patients receiving spinal adjustments experienced greater reductions in pain and disability. This translated into lower therapeutic costs and a faster return to work (
- SubluxationChiropractic is the scientific art of removing subluxations in the spine and other joints. Subluxations are restrictions in the normal movement of the spine(or other areas) that put pressure on nerves and cause the affected nerve function to be diminished.
- Manipulation TherapyKorthals-de Bos et al, British Medical Journal 2003 – In a Randomized controlled trial, 183 patients with neck pain were randomly allocated to manual therapy (spinal mobilization), physiotherapy (mainly exercise) or general practitioner care (counseling, education and drugs) in a 52-week study. The clinical outcomes measures showed that manual therapy resulted in faster recovery than physiotherapy and general practitioner care. Moreover, total costs of the manual therapy-treated patients were about one-third of the costs of physiotherapy or general practitioner care.
- Flexion Distraction TherapyFlexion Distraction Technique – Utilizing a special table in the office this is the technique of choice for treating low back disc herniations in the office thru manual decompression. It applies divergent forces against the vertebrae while gently stretching and flexing the lower half of the body. This is quite a dynamic technique for these injuries and most respond very well.
- AcupunctureIn 1964, the AMA -realizing that they were losing money on treatments that were not involving drugs or surgery – formed a “Committee on Quackery.” This was designed to abolish ALL non-allopathic forms of health care, including Chiropractic, Acupuncture and Massage Therapy. The AMA was taken to court for this behavior by Dr. Chester A. Wilk and – after 24 years of research and data against them – concluding in 1987, the chiropractic profession, represented by legal wizard George McAndrews from Chicago, handed the AMA the most significant courtroom defeats in American medical history for trying to create a giant medical monopoly as well as violating the Sherman Antitrust Act — which deals with the professional relationship between professions and treatment of patients between different disciplines. Prior to this, medical students and doctors alike were told – and being taught –