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Our practitioners use a combination of passive and active techniques to relieve pain, improve body awareness and achieve stability, strength and peak performance within the body’s kinetic chain. We consider our role one which supports and assists each patient in their goal – it is an active partnership between the clinician and patient. Whether your goal is to get out of pain and stay out of pain or learn how to gain the competitive edge in elite athletic endeavors, we will customize our approach to achieve the most efficient long-term solutions for your maximum benefit. Our practitioners have attained the certifications and training pertinent to each of the methods described below.

Techniques (Click on a name to learn more):

• Chiropractic Care
• The McKenzie Method
• Rehabilitative Exercise and Certified Personal Training
• Clinical Massage Therapy
• Active Release Technique
• Graston Technique
• Kinesio Taping Method
• Dynamic Neuromuscular Stabilization

Chiropractic Care emphasizes the relationship between your body’s structure (primarily your spine) and function (primarily coordinated by your nervous system) and how that relationship impacts your health and well-being. Chiropractic is a natural form of health care that uses spinal adjustments to correct misalignments and restore proper function to the nervous system, helping your body to heal naturally. Chiropractic doesn’t use drugs or surgery. Rather, a chiropractic spinal adjustment—the application of a precise force to a specific part of the spinal segment—corrects the misalignment, permitting normal nerve transmission and assisting your body to recuperate on its own.

The McKenzie Method is a comprehensive approach to the spine based on sound principles and fundamentals that when understood and followed accordingly are very successful. This unique method used to assess and treat the spine is widely recommended as the first choice for common back and neck problems worldwide.

Most low back pain is “mechanical” in origin, meaning that an applied force caused the pain. A basic philosophy of McKenzie’s theory is that the reverse force can probably abolish the pain and restore function.

McKenzie credits the patient’s ability to learn the principles and empowers them to be in control of their own symptom management, which can reduce dependency on medical intervention. The McKenzie Method promotes the body’s potential to heal itself without medication, heat, cold, ultrasound, needles, surgery or a force dependent on the practitioner. It also addresses a growing demand from patients and third party payers for professional rehabilitation services that develop the patient’s self-treatment skills in a cost-effective and time-effective manner.

Rehabilitative Exercise and Certified Personal Training is combined to produce scientifically proven dynamic exercise progressions that act to re-educate the body’s motor function and improve overall stability and strength. Commonly overlooked factors such as postural and neuromuscular deficits reinforce painful and imbalanced expressions of movement. By addressing these deficits and re-educating the body’s kinetic chain, patients are enabled to understand proper movement and remain stable and strong for the long-term.

Clinical Massage Therapy utilizes a variety of techniques to aid in restoring balance in the soft tissues of the body such as myofascial release, neuromuscular techniques, assisted stretching, muscle compression, traction, and tapotement. The growing body of scientific evidence supports the use of these techniques as an effective adjunct to musculoskeletal rehabilitation.

Active Release Technique is a patented, state of the art soft tissue system/movement based massage technique that treats problems with muscles, tendons, ligaments, fascia and nerves. Every ART session is actually a combination of examination and treatment. The ART provider uses his or her hands to evaluate the texture, tightness and movement of muscles, fascia, tendons, ligaments and nerves. Abnormal tissues are treated by combining precisely directed tension with very specific patient movements.

Graston Technique is an innovative, patented form of instrument-assisted soft tissue mobilization that enables clinicians to effectively break down scar tissue and fascial restrictions. The technique utilizes specially designed stainless steel instruments to specifically detect and effectively treat areas exhibiting soft tissue fibrosis or chronic inflammation.

Originally developed by athletes, Graston Technique^® is an interdisciplinary treatment used by more than 9,000 clinicians worldwide—including physical and occupational therapists, hand therapists, chiropractors, and athletic trainers. It is utilized at some 830 outpatient facilities and industrial on-sites, by more than 160 professional and amateur sports organizations, and is part of the curriculum at 38 respected colleges and universities.

Kinesio Taping Method is a definitive rehabilitative taping technique that is designed to facilitate the body’s natural healing process while providing support and stability to muscles and joints without restricting the body’s range of motion as well as providing extended soft tissue manipulation to prolong the benefits of manual therapy administered within the clinical setting. Latex-free and wearable for days at a time, Kinesio® Tex Tape is safe for populations ranging from pediatric to geriatric, and successfully treats a variety of orthopedic, neuromuscular, neurological and other medical conditions. It can be applied in hundreds of ways and has the ability to re-educate the neuromuscular system, reduce pain and inflammation, enhance performance, prevent injury, promote good circulation and healing, and assist in returning the body to homeostasis (restoring the body’s internal equilibrium).

Dynamic Neuromuscular Stabilization is a new manual rehabilitative approach based on developmental movement principles. It is designed to activate the body’s stabilizing system by stimulating movement control centers in the brain. It stabilizes the body by teaching the body to mimic and internalize the precise postures a child takes when it learns to crawl and upright itself. The method helps to restore the structural and postural alignment of the body’s neuromuscular skeletal system by invoking a full body “global” motor pattern.

Global motor patterns form the foundation of human movement. They are activated in the specific sequence of increasing complexity during the postural development in the first months of a child’s life. The global motor pattern remains essential for control of posture and stability of the spine – the pivotal center of the entire locomotor system throughout the life of the individual.

DNS therapy reactivates patient’s dormant global motor pattern and, exploiting the plasticity of the brain, establishes new physiological connections. The spinal-joint manipulation, muscle relaxation and the soft tissue release procedures are all conducted in the postural positions of ideal movements of an infant (crawling and turning). In these positions of support the maximum spinal stability and joint centration of the entire body are achieved.

During DNS therapy, gentle pressure is applied to the body while the patient is situated in a ideal movement position. This pressure stimulates a global motor reaction which minimizes muscle imbalances, relieves painful muscle spasms, improves spinal stability, and encourages postural awareness. Over time, through repetition of the DNS exercises, spinal stability becomes habitual and unconscious.

DNS therapy prepares the body for gentle, non-forceful manipulation producing faster and more stable improvement of function and, therefore, long-lasting pain relief.