Chronic Pain
Chronic Pain
Pian is very important signal of your body, that helps alert you to possible injury. Everyone experiences occasional aches and pains. However, chronic pain is different from typical pain, it can last several weeks to years. Chronic pain can influence your daily activities by decreasing mobility, strength, and capability.
The pain may feel sharp or dull, causing a burning or aching sensation in the affected areas. It may be steady or coming and going without any apparent reason.
Some of the most common types of chronic pain include:
- headache
- postsurgical pain
- post-trauma pain
- lower back pain
- cancer pain
- arthritis pain
- neurogenic pain (pain caused by nerve damage)
- psychogenic pain (pain that isn’t caused by disease, injury, or nerve damage)
The main goal of treatment is to reduce pain and increase mobility. This helps you return to your daily activities without significant discomfort. Some procedures can provide relief from chronic pain:
- electrical stimulation, which reduces pain by sending mild electric shocks into your muscles
- physical therapy
- massage
- sauna
- infrared light therapy
- heating stone mats
Professionals at the Chiropractic Injury Center can help you with this by using multiple treatment options.
For more information and resources, visit the American Chronic Pain Association website at theacpa.org
We Offer
Massage therapy
We do hands-on massage therapy. Our massage therapists have many years of experience in various massage techniques. We have gentle massages for fresh injuries as well as deep tissue massages for those further in their care process or for chronic conditions. This therapy helps promote circulation, reduce spasms, relief stress/anxiety and reduce pain.
Our massage tables are equipped with table warmers and we have bottle warmers for our oils because we understand that there is nothing worse than being cold during your massage. We focus on using natural oils such as almond and coconut. We have many different oils and can accommodate skin allergies that our patients may have.
We provide:
- Deep Tissue Massage
- Swedish Massage
- Sports Massage
- Therapeutic Touch
- Soft Tissue Manipulation
- Compression Massage
- Relaxation Massage
- Trigger Point Therapy
- and not only
Chiropractic Care
This field of medicine focuses on disorders of the musculoskeletal system, the nervous system, and the effects of these disorders on general health. Chiropractic care is used to conservatively treat neuromusculoskeletal complaints such as back pain, neck pain, headaches, pain in the joints of the arms, legs, and jaw. We practice a drug and surgery free approach to healthcare.
Chiropractors adjust the spine by “putting the bones back in place” and help restore the normal curvature of the spine. The purpose of an adjustment is to restore joint mobility and range of motion to the joints of the spine, arms, and legs. This helps the joints of the body move and function as they were intended. It also takes stress off the muscles, ligaments, and most importantly the nervous system. When the nervous system is able to function properly the body can better understand its own injuries and diseases so that it can properly heal itself.
In order to help you we specialize in:
- Gonstead technique
- Activator technique
- Drop table, technique
- Diversified technique
- Spinal Adjustments
- Extremity Adjustments
- Spinal Decompression
- Faktor
- and not only..
Physiotherapy
- Electrical Stimulation
Uses an electrical current to cause muscles to contract. Electrodes are placed on the skin over the problematic areas on the muscle, then a gentle electric current is turned on and it forces the muscles to contract. The effect of it is that it artificially tires the muscle in spasm, allowing it to relax, and it helps promote circulation of blood to bring in nutrients in and remove toxins.
- Ultrasound
This therapy is used to treat deeper structures such as ligaments, tendons and fascia. Soundwaves are able to penetrate deeper than a standard heat and this helps to promote circulation, speed up the process of healing and decrease pain of those structures. It is used to provide deep heating to soft tissue in the body. Deep heating tendons, muscles or ligaments increases circulation to those tissues, which helps in the healing process. Increasing tissue temperature with ultrasound is also helps to relieve pain.
- Heat stimulation
We will use dry heat packs and place them over your spine and wrap them around your neck to warm up the muscles and increase circulation. We generally use this in combination with electric therapy to help it be more effective.
Physical Rehabilitation
After an injury, the body automatically inhibits the muscle to protect it and prevent further injury. On top of having the muscle fibers be overstretched or torn this causes them to become very weak. Physical rehabilitation helps restore the strength in those muscle cells and stimulates the body to grow new healthy muscle cells. This is the most important therapy to help you recover from your injury.
We specialize in:
- Manual Therapy
- Ice Therapy
- Heat Therapy
- Ultrasound
- Traction
- Functional Electrical Stimulation
- Exercise
- and not only
Natural Heating Stone Mats
Natural heating stone remedies help with a wide range of health problems. The warmth you fill inside whole body when you step out into sun is caused by far infrared rays (FIR), an invisible light which is on opposite side of harmful ultraviolet rays. It is the same light that plants use to feed and live. Our body is not an exception. Stones such as jade, amethyst and tourmaline target a wide variety of issues that will improve your overall health.
- Heat and speed up the recovery process
Infrared Rays (IR) help to heat deep tissues such as the ligaments, tendons and bones. Generally a hot pack will only heat the skin and a thin layer of tissue underneath it but many times our symptoms especially in the spine are much deeper and that kind of heat does not penetrate, these mats are effective at helping heat and speed up the recovery process of all the deep stabilizing structures around our joints and spine
- Help in natural detoxification process
Negative Ions work by eliminating free radicals in our body, antioxidant products work in the same way and when these stones are heated up they release a lot of negative ions that help reduce the amount of free radicals in our body and take a lot of stress off of our system
- Stimulates the repair and healing of nerve cells
Pulsed electromagnetic field (PEMF) therapy uses the same magnetic waves the earth and these waves help stimulate our cells to work and function better and stimulates the repair and healing of nerve cells
We have 3 variants of mats and each has their own specific properties:
- Jade –
- Helps the body function more efficiently by stabilizing your energy levels
- Emits a low heat that produces a calming sensation good for meditation
- Mined in China, then cut and polished to the ideal size found on your mat
- Tourmaline –
- Produces the highest amount of negative ions
- Improves the body’s ability to recover energy and detoxify itself
- Fragile in structure, potent in benefits
- Amethyst / PEMF –
- Emits a strong and steady flow of far infrared and negative ions
- Promotes better wellness and a better quality of life
- Comes in a crushed form that conforms well to the shape of your body
More information you can find on Healthy Line
Infrared Heating Bed
Infrared Rays (IR) help to heat deep tissues such as the ligaments, tendons and bones. Generally a hot pack will only heat the skin and a thin layer of tissue underneath it but many times our symptoms especially in the spine are much deeper and that kind of heat does not penetrate, these mats are effective at helping heat and speed up the recovery process of all the deep stabilizing structures around our joints and spine
Infrared Heating Bed will help promote chemical reactions that occur in living cells of our bodies in order to maintain life, reduce pain, and distribute nutrients and energy throughout your body in order to increase ability to survive. They will also cleanse your blood, have a calming effect, and help you to recover from fatigue.
Fito Sauna
Saunas relax muscles and soothe aches/pains in both muscles and joints. Under the high heat provided by a sauna, the body releases endorphins. Endorphins are the body’s all-natural “feel good” chemical, and their release provides the ability to minimize the pain of arthritis and muscle soreness other from, say, an intense physical workout. Sauna use can help the body and mind deal with stress and reduce the risk of depression and other mental disorders.
To add to its healing benefits, we use aromatic or healing herbs. In our sauna we use only the best quality natural herbs.