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Chiropractic

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Chiropractic is a health care profession that focuses on disorders of the musculoskeletal and nervous systems and the effects of these disorders on general health. Doctors of Chiropractic, often referred to as chiropractors or chiropractic physicians, practice a hands-on approach to health care that includes patient examination, diagnosis and treatment. Chiropractors are also trained to recommend therapeutic and rehabilitative exercises, as well as to provide nutritional, dietary, and lifestyle counseling.

The most common therapeutic procedures performed by doctors of chiropractic are known as spinal and extraspinal adjustments, joint manipulation, or mobilization to joints and related soft tissues (muscles, tendons, ligaments). The purpose of specific manipulation techniques is to help promote proper joint motion and alignment in the spine and extremities (shoulder, elbow, etc.) and to support proper nerve function throughout the body. Manipulation or adjustment of the affected joints and related soft tissues helps to restore mobility and increase proper nerve function, thereby alleviating pain and muscle tension and promoting healing.

Chiropractic Physical & Complementary Therapies

These are various techniques and modalities used at Lotus Healing Arts to help:

  • Reduce pain, spasm, and inflammation in nerves, muscles, and joints
  • Promote blood and lymphatic fluid flows, increase circulation to promote healing
  • Relax tight, constricted muscles and tendons; and support healing processes

Ultrasound – Uses high frequency sound waves to aid the healing process in areas of injury. Its effects are to generate deep tissue heat, enhance local circulation, and to enhance the body’s natural healing abilities.

Diathermy/Magnatherm – This modality is used to create heat in the deep tissues. Diathermy aids healing by increasing blood and lymphatic flow and thus circulation to the affected areas, relaxing muscles, and reducing pain.

Laser Therapy – Low level or cold lasers utilize beams of light at specific frequencies that penetrate into the skin and deeper tissues. Designed to help restore abnormal cellular function, reduce pain and inflammation, increase circulation and tissue healing.

Electrotherapy – Interferential – A comforting level of electrical impulses creates a therapeutic treatment/modality to aid in: pain relief, reduced swelling and muscular spasm, promotion of soft tissue healing.

Electrotherapy – Microcurrent – Injury to the body disrupts its normal electrical activity; this type of therapy reduces mild electrical signals like those naturally occurring when the body is repairing damaged tissue. Helps to speed the healing process and reduce pain and inflammation.

Percussor – This vibratory modality is used to free up muscular spasms, fascial and joint restrictions by utilizing gentle mechanical waves of energy on various areas of the body.

Therapeutic Exercise, Neuromuscular Re-Education – Attended instruction to injured/dysfunctional areas to include: therapeutic stretches, joint stabilization exercises (resistance tubing, Swiss ball, etc.), gait and postural re-education.

Infra-Red Heat Therapy – Provides heat to affected areas to help promote circulation, relax tight muscles, and is helpful adjunct to hands on treatment and acupuncture therapies.

 

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Acupuncture

Acupuncture

Acupuncture is a system of natural health care that involves healing and relieving pain by inserting very fine, solid needles into specific points on the body. The system was discovered over 3,000 years ago and has continued to be refined through insights from modern American acupuncturists and research in the fields of neurology and medical acupuncture. It is commonly recognized that there are communication systems between the skin and internal organs and structure of the body that are regulated through the nervous system.

Many acu-points are on or close to various nerves and their location suggests that acupuncture (needle) therapy stimulates the central nervous system (the brain and spinal cord) and the autonomic nervous system (cells and fibers dealing with nerve reflex actions). Acupuncture therapy has been shown to increase endorphins and enkephalins, our body’s own natural painkillers. There are approximately 700 common acupuncture points on the human body and proper stimulation of these points can stimulate the body’s capacity to resist or overcome ailments and to decrease or eliminate painful sensations.

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American Board of Chiropractic Acupuncture
National Commission for Certification of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine

Active Release Techniques

Active Release™ Techniques What is Active Release™ Techniques (ART)

Active Release is a hands on method of diagnosing and treating soft tissue injuries through specific manual contacts utilizing active and passive motion. These techniques help to promote healing of various soft tissue injuries throughout the body, reduce pain and inflammation, improve joint alignment and motion and enhance physical and athletic performance.

What is an ART treatment like?

Every ART session is actually a combination of examination and treatment. The ART provider uses his or her hands to evaluate the texture, tightness and movement of muscles, fascia, tendons, ligaments and nerves. Abnormal tissues are treated by combining precisely directed tension with very specific patient movements.

These treatment protocols – over 500 specific moves – are unique to ART. They allow providers to identify and correct the specific problems that are affecting each individual patient. ART is not a cookie-cutter approach.

What is the history of Active Release Techniques?

ART has been developed, refined, and patented by P. Michael Leahy, DC, CCSP. Dr. Leahy noticed that his patients’ symptoms seemed to be related to changes in their soft tissue that could be felt by hand. By observing how muscles, fascia, tendons, ligaments and nerves responded to different types of work, Dr. Leahy was able to consistently resolve over 90% of his patients’ problems. He now teaches and certifies health care providers all over the world to use ART.

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