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- What Is Chiropractic?
Chiropractic is a therapy that emphasizes diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of mechanical disorders of the spine. Misalignment of the spinal column can have pervasive adverse effects on tissues and organs throughout the body. The restoration of proper alignment through spinal adjustments and other treatments has positive effects on virtually all aspects of health.
This therapy is based on the correction of subluxation of the spinal column. When the spine is even slightly out of alignment, it may impinge on the spinal nerves that branch out to the muscles and various organs. Bringing things back into their proper places through gentle manipulative techniques results in sometimes-miraculous outcomes.
Neck and back pain are the most common conditions treated with chiropractic care. However, skilled practitioners such as those at the Whitaker Wellness Institute have helped many patients get a handle on pain from other sources, such as carpal tunnel syndrome, headache, frozen shoulder, and musculoskeletal injuries. In addition, research suggests that by relieving nerve impingement, specific chiropractic maneuvers can improve health in organs throughout the body.
Results are particularly impressive when chiropractic is used in tandem with our other innovative pain-relieving and health-restoring therapies such as hyperbaric oxygen therapy and microcurrent therapy. Patients enrolled in our Back to Health Program often use chiropractic as an important adjunct treatment on the road to wellness. - How Chiropractic Can Help You
A typical chiropractic treatment at the Whitaker Wellness Institute might include heat and/or cold applied to the affected area and massage to relax the muscles. However, the centerpiece of chiropractic is the adjustment and manipulation, in which the chiropractor restores vertebral alignment, taking the stress off impinged nerves and overworked muscles.
In addition to spinal manipulations, the chiropractic team at Whitaker Wellness uses other modalities such as cold laser therapy and spinal decompression. Cold laser therapy involves the application of specific wavelengths of light to problem areas to help control pain, reduce inflammation, and enhance healing.
Spinal Decompression
Spinal decompression is particularly effective in treating pain associated with herniated/bulging discs and degenerative disc disease in the low back and neck. The patient lies on a specialized decompression table while traction-distraction forces are applied to spinal structures in a precise and graduated manner, offset by cycles of partial relaxation. This "decompression effect" gently separates the vertebrae and lowers pressure inside targeted discs, causing retraction of the herniated or bulging disc, reduction of pressure on the nerve root, faster healing, and excellent clinical response. - What Conditions Benefit?
As a therapy for acute neck and low back pain, chiropractic care is an undisputed winner. And although it is primarily used to relieve musculoskeletal pain, at the Whitaker Wellness Institute we also successfully use chiropractic to treat a number of conditions including, but no limited to:
- Arthritis
- Back pain
- Carpal tunnel syndrome
- Frozen shoulder
- Headaches/Migraines
- Neck pain
- Sciatica
- Tinnitus
- Whiplash
- Our Patient Success Stories
Click the links below to read about how other people just like you used chiropractic treatment at the Whitaker Wellness Institute to get back on the road to health.
- Additional Articles on Chiropractic
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You owe it to yourself to explore how the unique, drug-free therapies offered at the Whitaker Wellness Institute can turn your health around. Call us at (800) 488-1500 to speak with a Patient Services Representative. We can customize a treatment program that fits both your budget and your health goals.
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