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Crossroads Chiropractic

Chiropractic care is essential to maintain the health of your spine. This is true whether you are experiencing pain or not.

By choice, chiropractors do not use drugs or surgery. Instead they utilize natural approaches to allow the body to heal itself. Chiropractors are facilitators of health that utilize several approaches including: adjustments, physical rehabilitation exercise, physiotherapy, nutritional consultation, orthotics and daily living modifications.

Pain reduction: Aches and pains are a sign that your body isn’t working correctly. This can occur from an injury, but it can also be caused by repetitive stress on your body from a variety of causes such as poor posture, sitting all day, working out or even the way you sleep. By performing a thorough exam, a chiropractor is trained to find the joints that are being affected, and to utilize a chiropractic adjustment to either re-align a joint that has moved slightly out of place (known as a subluxation) or to put motion back into a joint that has become restricted. Chiropractors can actually adjust every joint in the body, meaning not only do they adjust the vertebrae of the spine, but also the pelvis, feet, ankles, knees, hips, shoulders, wrists and elbows!

Wellness Care: Maintaining your spine with chiropractic adjustments not only relieves pain, but also prevents it as well! If you don’t have pain, you likely only need maintenance care once or twice a month. If you came in with pain and it is now reduced or gone, then it is essential that you continue with wellness care to prevent the symptoms from coming back. For most people, it’s their regular daily activities that contributed to their symptoms in the first place: posture at work, how you sleep, too much sitting, working out, etc. Those stressors on your body are not going to go away, so our goal becomes staying ahead of them!

Treatment Plans: Your doctor is trained to do a thorough exam so that they can best recommend a course of treatment individualized to your needs. With chiropractic care, each visit builds on the last, and we must retrain your muscles, tendons and ligaments to hold your joints in the correct alignment. Because of this, treatments will usually begin at a higher frequency and taper down until we get to wellness/maintenance care. Each phase of care; pain reduction, stabilization, wellness are extremely important to reaching long term success with chiropractic.

Chiropractic Care can help with:

  • Neck Pain
  • Back Pain
  • Headaches/ Migraines
  • Arthritis
  • Extremity Pain
  • Radiating Pain
  • Numbness/ Tingling
  • Sciatica
  • Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
  • Fibromyalgia
  • TMJ Dysfunction
  • Pregnancy-Related Pain
  • Sports Injuries (old and new)
  • Allergies
  • Sleeping Problems
  • Chronic Ear Infections in Children
  • Prevention of Future Dysfunction!
  • Overall Health and Wellbeing!
  • Degenerative Disc Disease (disc bulge or herniation)

 

TECHIQUES WE PRACTICE

Diversfied:

This technique has three main objectives: restore spinal alignment, repair joint dysfunction and  enhance proper movement. This is a manual technique where doctors use what’s called a  high-velocity, low amplitude thrust to adjust the joint being addressed.  This is the most commonly used technique by chiropractors, with 95.9% of chiropractors practicing this technique.

Activator:

The Activator Method uses a small, hand-held instrument called the Activator Adjusting Instrument to deliver a gentle impulse force to the spine with the goal of restoring motion to the targeted spinal vertebra or joint.

Thompson Drop:

This technique utilizes a table with pieces that move or drop during the adjustment.

Frequently Asked Questions

Q1. What conditions can chiropractic care help treat?

Chiropractic care can help with back pain, neck pain, headaches, sciatica, joint pain, posture issues, and mobility problems.

Q2. Is chiropractic treatment safe?

Yes, chiropractic care is considered safe when performed by a licensed chiropractor and tailored to your condition.

Q3. How many chiropractic sessions will I need?

The number of sessions depends on your condition, severity, and goals. Some patients feel relief quickly, while others need ongoing care.

Q4. Does chiropractic care help with back and neck pain?

Yes, chiropractic adjustments are highly effective for relieving back and neck pain caused by misalignment or muscle tension.

Q5. Can chiropractic care help with headaches and migraines?

Chiropractic treatment can reduce tension headaches and migraines by improving spinal alignment and reducing nerve pressure.

Q6. Is chiropractic care safe for seniors and children?

Yes, chiropractors use gentle, age-appropriate techniques for seniors and children.

Q7. What happens during the first chiropractic visit?

Your first visit includes a consultation, physical exam, and a personalized treatment plan.

Q8. Can chiropractic care improve posture?

Yes, chiropractic adjustments help correct spinal misalignments that contribute to poor posture.

Q9. Does chiropractic care help with sciatica?

Yes, chiropractic treatment can relieve sciatic nerve pressure and reduce leg pain.

Q10. Is chiropractic care covered by insurance?

Many insurance plans cover chiropractic care. Coverage varies by provider and policy.