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Services

Full Spine Diversified (manual adjustment)

Diversified Technique is the classic chiropractic technique taught in all chiropractic colleges. The focus is on correcting spinal subluxations (misalignments) and restoring the area(s) to normal biomechanical function, and correction of subluxation(s). Diversified adjusting of the spine uses specific lines of drives for all gentle manual adjustments, allowing for specificity in correcting mechanical distortions of the spine. Motion palpatation and full spine hands-on techniques are used to deliver a deeper thrust, which makes an articulation cavitation (popping) sound as the adjustment is given.

Thompson Drop Table

The Thompson Technique utilizes a “Segmental Drop Table” to enhance the motion force imparted towards the segment or area to be adjusted. The concept of adding motion by inventing a table with specific areas that would drop away as the adjustive thrust was applied to the vertebral segment has been shown to be very successful. Many patients enjoy the feel of the Thompson Drop technique for their adjustments as it is a gentle technique.

Flexion-Distraction Spinal Decompression

Treatment with flexion-distraction techniques is used to restore damaged spinal nerves and surrounding structures by reducing the stricture of the paraspinal ligaments, increasing the movement of metabolites in discs, reducing the stress and internal pressure imposed on the posterior discs, and expansion intervertebral foramina).

Spinal decompression therapy is used to treat radiating pain resulting from chronic low back pain. This is a treatment method that alleviates disc problems and removes the pressure imposed on the discs by creating zero gravity or negative pressure conditions inside the spinal canal so that nutritive substances and oxygen are supplied to the discs. This reduces pressure inside the intervertebral discs by softly extending certain parts of the discs through the decompression of lesion site

Arthrostim Instrument (Chiropractic Adjustment)

The ARTHROSTIM™ Instrument produces rapid thrust and recoil at a rate of TWELVE TIMES PER SECOND. The ARTHROSTIM™ Instrument delivers true high-velocity, short-stroke thrusts activating the patients’ proprioceptors and mechanoreceptors without recruiting the pain receptors (nociceptors), providing a gentle comfortable method of adjusting patients.
Several studies have shown that instrument adjusting is equally as effective as traditional chiropractic techniques for easing pain and increasing range of motion in patients who have sought chiropractic care. Its speed, gentleness and accuracy are recommended and are often preferred by populations such as children and the elderly.

Ultrasound Therapy

Ultrasound is a therapy modality that utilizes high or low frequency sound waves. These sound waves are transmitted to the surrounding tissue and vasculature. They penetrate the muscles to cause deep tissue/muscle warming. This promotes tissue relaxation and therefore is useful in treating muscle tightness and spasms. The warming effect of the sound waves also cause vessel vasodilatation and increase circulation to the area that assists in healing. The therapist can also adjust the frequency on the machine to use waves that will decrease inflammation, and/or address scar tissue.

CASCADE CHIROPRACTIC OF SOUTHERN OREGON

What is Chiropractic Care

Chiropractic care is a health care profession that focuses on disorders of the musculoskeletal system and the nervous system, and the effects of these disorders on general health. Chiropractic care is used most often to treat neuromusculoskeletal complaints, including but not limited to back pain, neck pain, pain in the joints of the arms or legs, and headaches.

It is estimated that doctors of chiropractic treat more than 30 million people annually. Today, doctors of chiropractic comprise the third largest group of doctorate-level, portal-of-entry primary-care providers in the nation, next to medical doctors and dentists.

Doctors of Chiropractic – often referred to as chiropractors or chiropractic physicians – practice a drug-free, hands-on approach to health care that includes patient examination, diagnosis and treatment. Chiropractors have broad diagnostic skills and are also trained to recommend therapeutic and rehabilitative exercises, as well as to provide nutritional, dietary and lifestyle counseling.

The most common therapeutic procedure performed by doctors of chiropractic is known as “spinal manipulation,” also called “chiropractic adjustment.” The purpose of manipulation is to restore joint mobility by manually applying a controlled force into joints that have become hypomobile – or restricted in their movement – as a result of a tissue injury. Tissue injury can be caused by a single traumatic event, such as improper lifting of a heavy object, or through repetitive stresses, such as sitting in an awkward position with poor spinal posture for an extended period of time. In either case, injured tissues undergo physical and chemical changes that can cause inflammation, pain, and diminished function for the sufferer. Manipulation, or adjustment of the affected joint and tissues, restores mobility, thereby alleviating pain and muscle tightness, and allowing tissues to heal.

Chiropractic adjustment rarely causes discomfort. However, patients may sometimes experience mild soreness or aching following treatment (as with some forms of exercise) that usually resolves within 12 to 48 hours.

In many cases, such as lower back pain, chiropractic care may be the primary method of treatment. When other medical conditions exist, chiropractic care may complement or support medical treatment by relieving the musculoskeletal aspects associated with the condition.

Doctors of chiropractic may assess patients through clinical examination, laboratory testing, diagnostic imaging and other diagnostic interventions to determine when chiropractic treatment is appropriate or when it is not appropriate. Chiropractors will readily refer patients to the appropriate health care provider when chiropractic care is not suitable for the patient’s condition, or the condition warrants co-management in conjunction with other members of the health care team.