The main treatment of chiropractic health care involves manipulation of the spine, other joints, and soft tissue. Treatment may also include exercises and lifestyle counseling. Services offered at Chiropractic & Acupuncture Associates include the following:
Manual Adjustments: Techniques where the doctor's hands are used to manipulate, massage, mobilize, stimulate, apply traction to, or otherwise influence the body.
Activator: A spring-loaded tool that delivers precise spinal adjustments.
Acupuncture: A minimally invasive approach using thin needles to apply local and distal stimulation in order to gently activate the body's natural repair mechanisms.
Ultrasound: A technique that uses sound frequencies to generate local heating in tissue. The warming effect of the sound waves causes vessel vasodilation and increases circulation to the area, which assists in healing. Ultrasound is commonly applied in occupational therapy, physical therapy, and athletic training.
Lumbar Traction: Spinal elongation helps to inhibit pain, improve mobility, decrease mechanical stress, reduce muscle spasm, and relieve spinal nerve root and/or disc compression.
Massage Therapy: The practice of manipulating muscles, tendons, ligaments, skin, joints, or other connective tissue, as well as lymphatic vessels or organs of the gastrointestinal system.
Nutritional Counseling: Dietary recommendations, including herbal supplements.
Rehabilitative Exercises: Corrective or therapeutic exercise, physical fitness/exercise promotion, ergonomic/postural advice, and self-care strategies.
