What is Chiropractic Care?

Chiropractic care has been helping people and families lead active and vital lives for over 100 years. Chiropractic care can improve the quality of your life, stimulate your peak performance and give you more stamina, and implement preventative care steps to assure optimal wellness.

When your quality of life is compromised by pain, dysfunction, injury or disease, chiropractic treatment can be beneficial and help speed recovery. Chiropractors are the only type of doctor specifically trained to locate and correct spinal subluxations (misalignments), which are a common—often hidden—cause of pain, dysfunction, injury and disease. Spinal manipulations can provide a properly aligned spine, a positive mental attitude and support a healthy lifestyle to keep you at the top of your game.

While increasing numbers of people have discovered chiropractic as a safe, effective way of attaining and maintaining better health, there are still many people who do not understand chiropractic. Everyday activities such as sitting at a computer, lifting improperly, lack of flexibility, improper exercise habits, poor sleeping habits, emotional stress, sports injuries, car accidents, slips and falls, etc. all may cause small imbalances in the spine. These imbalances may cause malfunction and ultimately result in compromise of the nervous system, impairment of the muscles, soft tissue damage, and accelerated degeneration. Gentle chiropractic adjustments can help eliminate discomfort and enhance health.

Chiropractic adjustments are a specialized technique which improves spinal and extremity joint function. By restoring normal joint function, pain and tension can be significantly reduced. Anyone who has been to more than one Chiropractor will know that there are many different types of adjustments and treatments used. In our office, Dr. Sandrine G. Martin practices with a diversified chiropractic technique. Simply put, this means that we use a wide variety of different adjustments based on the individual patient's condition and their needs. Traditional adjustments as well as gentle low force adjustments are available. Some of the techniques used include Diversified, Thompson, Gonstead, Activator, Kinesiology and Trigger Point Therapy. We treat patients of all ages from babies and children to the elderly. Adjustments and treatments are available for but not limited to back and neck pain, headache, joints pain, TMJ pain as well as extremities pain, tingling or numbness.

X-rays may be required if your condition warrants them and they are done outside of our office, however all patients' conditions do not necessarily require X-rays. Prior studies such as X-rays, MRI or CT-Scan may be requested for review in order to better assess your current condition.

In addition to adjustments, most patients can improve their recovery time with the use of modalities to relax muscles such as ice/heat protocol, ultrasound and/or massage therapy.