Spinal Rehabilitation For Ongoing Pain
Chronic patients are a special concern of ours. If you have chronic musculoskeletal pain (MSP), chances are you have tried many treatments before and nothing has had a real lasting effect.
Reflex Chiropractic's goal is to help you return to your active lifestyle. Many health care professionals may have told you that you have to learn to live with your problem. Others may have promised they could fix it for you. Scientific investigations suggest that such "fix it" approaches do not work for chronic MSP. Rather, we approach chronic MSP like asthma or diabetes, and help you learn how to control and cope with it better.
A Step by Step Program
We review your medical history, to be sure nothing serious is causing your pain. Next, we figure out a way to gradually increase your activity so that your sensitive tissues can be nourished and strengthened.
Reflex Chiropractic will guide you step-by-step through a biomechanically safe program. You will learn "first-aid' measures for flare-ups so you will not fear or mind your pain so much. Most important, we will show you how to recondition your body, so that you can return to activity safely.
Once your condition begins to improve we will show you what things are important for prevention. Unfortunately, it is not possible to completely avoid, "flare-ups", recurrences, or aches and pain. But, it is our goal to teach you how to minimize their likelihood and severity. This involves a specialized functional-performance evaluation followed by a prescription of exercises involving " core stability training" and yoga-based flexibility exercises.
Get to know your body better!
Your body has two muscle systems. The first is a superficial system that produces movement and generates power. (It can be thought of as the husk or shell.) The other is a deep "core" which is responsible for guiding, controlling, and stabilizing movements.
The superficial system is under voluntary control, whereas the deep system is automatic. When pain strikes, the deep system usually shuts off, while the superficial one tightens to guard and protect. We will show you how to perform specialized, gentle exercises that you can do at home. As you become stronger, you'll be able to control your body better -- which will help prevent pain from occurring in the future. These gentle exercises have more in common with Pilates or Yoga than with traditional strength training.
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