The Benefits of Chiropractic Healthcare!

John Brockway Chiropractor Glendale, CO

Dr. John Brockway is a Chiropractor practicing in Glendale, CO. Dr. Brockway specializes in preventing, diagnosing, and treating conditions associated with the neuromusculoskeletal system while improving each patient's functionality and quality of life. Conditions treated include sciatica, neck pain, and arthritis pain,... more

Decompression therapy refers to the non-surgical treatment for health issues causing facet syndrome, hernia, bulging and declinatory discs. Spinal decompression is proven effective for post-surgery patients who are unable to recover completely and suffer post pain and injuries. You may notice relaxing treatment after only a first few sessions.

People with chronic spine injuries are not able to perform day-to-day activities. Therefore, It becomes important to deal with such kind of pain through chiropractic therapy. Other than spinal decompression therapy, a back doctor in Glendale uses other kinds of therapies such as - spinal manipulation, manual soft tissue therapy, and exercise and stretching to treat neck and back pain.

Are you experiencing regular health problems like back pain, stress, headaches, etc? Are other pain medications not able to provide you relief from pain? Here is a list of the benefits of chiropractic therapy, which will make you switch to chiropractic healthcare medication.

  • Curative exercise and stretches 

Even after the spinal injury has healed, maintaining a regular exercise routine helps you to keep your body parts flexible, increases portability and protects from upcoming injuries. Therapeutic exercise is a better way to prevent scar tissue from forming. Your chiropractor will guide you with a proper exercise routine and will keep a check until you are comfortable doing the whole exercise routine on your own. Back doctor in Glendale commonly prescribes exercises to build up strength for their patients with back, neck and other extreme pain. These exercises can help in relieving pain, increase stability and motion capabilities.

  • Manual therapy

Chiropractors use a variety of manual soft tissue therapies, to improve the functioning of tissues like - ligaments, joint capsules, and tendons, etc. These include pin and stretch, manual therapy not only is a form of organic therapy but also has no side - effects treatment after-effects. The therapy focuses on every part of the injury and examines in detail the cause, symptoms and the course of treatment. Other than lower back pain relief in Glendale, many other manipulation therapies are also there depending upon the need of the individual.

Some of the physical therapy techniques:

  • Muscle activation technique

This type of therapy uses electrical pulses which are directed to the specific parts of the body. There are different parts of electrical stimulations that are used to treat a specified injury or pain. Some of these are used to treat chronic pain and provide pain relief and some are used to reduce inflammation. Some of the electrodes are used in combinations as well.

  • Ice and heat therapy 

Ice and heat therapy is one of those therapies which is very accessible and most commonly used to treat pain and injuries. This therapy is cost-effective and also provides instant pain relief. Ice therapy is used to decrease the swelling and also help in giving instant pain relief. On the other hand heat therapy is used to increase the circulation and relaxation of muscles.

  • Nutritional care counseling

It is a fact that bad eating habits and lack of nutrition in the diet lead to serious illness and health problems such as - heart stroke, cancer, and diabetes, etc. Chiropractors are also officially trained in providing nutritional counseling and help in developing a nutritional diet balance chart in order to maximize good health and minimize health problems as much as possible.

  •  Lifestyle recasting counseling

The lifestyle changes you make or adapt on a daily basis plays an important role in defining your present health situation. Lifestyle choices can also affect long term health. With the extension of an unhealthy lifestyle, we tend to ignore small unhealthy changes which with time turns into big health problems. Your chiropractor will keep track of your lifestyle changes and also sort out your unhealthy habits. Chiropractic is more than just manual therapy, the treatment helps in healing the body as a whole.