What is Chiropractic Care?

Chiropractic care treats a wide variety of musculoskeletal conditions from specific traumatic injuries, such as automobile and sports accidents… to repetitive stress injuries involving posture imbalances, such as shoulder impingement and carpal tunnel syndrome… to chronic conditions, such as degenerating discs and joints causing nerve impingement. Chiropractic treatment can help heal specific injuries to muscles, tendons, ligaments, and nerves.

Benefits include:

• pain management

• increased range of motion and function

• decrease progression of degeneration in the joints

• correct posture

• improve balance

• reduce risk of falls

• enhance performance

• manage and prevent injuries

• reduce aches and pains that affect the ability to actively participate in life

Chiropractic care is widely recognized as one of the safest non-invasive therapies available for the treatment of back pain, neck pain, joint pain of the arms and legs, headaches and other complaints. Patients of all ages with a variety of health conditions, including back, neck and headache pain, can benefit with chiropractic evaluation and treatment. 

Chiropractic Adjustments

Treatment usually includes spinal manipulation, which uses controlled force to help restore movement and function to areas of the spine that have become restricted. Dr. Swanson uses hands-on spinal manipulation or a hand-held instrument if a more gentle technique is indicated. He also utilizes various soft tissue techniques, including trigger point therapy, myofascial release and soft tissue mobilization. Therapy modalities used in the office include ultrasound, electric muscle stimulation and spinal decompression.

SPORTS INJURIES & REHABILITATION

Proactive and restorative rehabilitation and therapy for athletic injuries to improve performance, decrease muscle soreness, increase flexibility and range of motion, and provide pain relief.  

Additional Wellness Treatments

Treatment may also include patient education and reassurance, therapeutic exercise, as well as, ergonomic, nutritional and lifestyle recommendations.  

FASCIAL MOVEMENT TAPING

Treatments include acute injuries, chronic cases, injury prevention, recovery facilitation, pain mitigation, and performance improvement and training –  fostering proper movement of muscles and joints.