Our focus is to diagnose and correct these misalignments and dysfunctional muscles that aren’t working properly to get you back to the activities and sports you love. We can adjust your spine and extremities to restore proper function. Chiropractic works to actively correct these issues. It is achieved reducing the subluxations (misalignments) in the spine and extremities to restore the incredible natural healing abilities of the human body.
How the Model Works
Chiropractic care works to identify and treat the underlying causes of healthcare concerns and to correct them at the source. It targets these base conditions rather than focusing on the symptoms they cause. Just as a doctor wouldn’t treat a heart attack through addressing numbness in the arm, a chiropractor shouldn’t target a nervous system disorder by easing pain solely in the leg.
For example, when a person suffers trauma to the bones at the base of their neck, say from a slip and fall, an auto accident or a sports injury, it can result in posture change, which can, in turn, cause the rib cage to shift along with spinal and pelvic muscle groups. The result over time is that pressure on the discs in the back wear down and cause major trauma to the nerves. Dr. Holen will treat the posture change in the upper neck while also addressing the resulting pain in the pelvis.
WE OFFER THREE PHASES OF CARE
Dr. Holen will go over your treatment options after reviewing your xrays and report of findings with you. We offer a variety of care plan options that will suit your health and wellness goals. Some people are here just for pain relief and that is ok. But, we also offer corrective care plans that are short term that help with remove subluxations in the spine and create more lasting changes.
- Relief Care
Most people discover chiropractic because they are in pain. The goal of relief care is to minimize this pain. Sometimes this is achieved in 1 or 2 office visits, and sometimes it takes several weeks, depending on the injury and the level of pain. - Corrective Care
This describes the phase in care after your initial pain symptoms are gone but residual misalignments remain. In this phase, we focus on objective findings that we discovered upon our initial biomechanical evaluation (i.e. hip or ankle range of motion). We will look at functionality of certain muscle groups to determine your progress throughout the corrective care phase. - Maintenance Care
Once your body is healed, routine chiropractic adjustments will help maintain your optimal condition and alignment. If you want to keep fit after losing weight, you would continue to exercise to keep in shape, and chiropractic care works in the same way to maintain optimal health.