What is the chiropractic?

Answer 1

Did you know chiropractors diagnose in the same way as medical doctors and study most of the same courses in school?

A chiropractor will diagnose your condition based upon findings from range of motion, palpation, muscle testing, orthopedic tests and other studies like x-ray or MRI when necessary to further evaluate a condition.

A chiropractor is licensed to treat muscular or skeletal disorders of the spine and the extremities including the shoulders, hands, knees and feet.

A chiropractor addresses your condition by adjustments of the spine and extremities, and when necessary uses physiotherapy such as electrical muscle stimulation, manual therapy, kinetic exercises, ultrasound and infrared to name a few.

Adjusting of the spine is to increase the mobilization of joints which have become dysfunctional. The importance of this is that it reestablishes the joint's proprioceptive mechanisms so the body can heal itself.

You may seek treatment of a chiropractor directly for conditions such as Back pain, neck pain, hip pain, arm or leg pain, headaches, shoulder pain, radiating pain, sharp and shooting pain, frozen shoulder, disc herniation, TMJ syndrome, carpal tunnel syndrome, tennis elbow, golfer's elbow, knee pain, among others.