Chiropractic Care

Chiropractors are doctors (DCs) who use hands on spinal manipulation and a range of alternative therapies to treat various types of pain and injuries. Each year, approximately 22 million Americans visit a chiropractor, with about 35 percent seeking back pain relief due to accidents, muscle strains, or sports injuries. Other common issues addressed by chiropractors include pain in the neck (a part of the spine), legs, and arms. They also often help manage headaches and migraines. If you’re looking for pain management support, please contact at 602-610-7299 or book an appointment online.

Focus of Chiropractic Care

Chiropractic care primarily aims to relieve pain in muscles, bones, connective tissues, and joints. This includes ligaments, cartilage, and tendons. Chiropractors operate with the principle that proper alignment of the musculoskeletal structure, particularly the spine, enables the body to heal naturally. This approach can reduce the need for surgery and lessen or eliminate the use of pain medications. Spinal manipulation helps increase joint mobility, especially after injuries caused by repetitive stress or trauma. Given today’s sedentary lifestyle with many people hunched over keyboards or screens repetitive stress and poor posture are major contributors to pain and injury.

What to Expect from Chiropractic Treatment

When you first visit a chiropractor, a thorough medical history is taken along with a physical exam. Additional lab tests or imaging might be ordered depending on your symptoms. Treatment plans often include manual adjustments, where the chiropractor applies a controlled yet sudden force to realign joints. Many chiropractors also advise nutrition and exercise changes to complement adjustments, with the ultimate goal of restoring full function to injured areas and preventing future injuries.

Safety and Effectiveness

Chiropractic care is generally considered safe and effective, particularly for back, neck, and headache pain. Other conditions regularly treated include fibromyalgia and osteoarthritis. Combining chiropractic adjustments with deep tissue massage from a licensed massage practitioner (LMP) is also an effective, non-invasive option for pain management.

Benefits of Chiropractic Care

Chiropractors help improve joint health and mobility, loosen tight muscles, and maximize muscle contractility. They work to minimize degeneration of connective tissues and joints and reduce chronic inflammation often linked to misaligned vertebrae ( subluxation). Additionally, chiropractic care improves circulation, speeds recovery, and optimizes nervous system function by enhancing individual nerve performance.

Chiropractic treatments have also been shown to boost immune system function and improve the performance of individual organs. For those with anxiety, chiropractic care can reduce hyperactivity, while it energizes individuals struggling with depression. It serves as a valuable stress management tool, enhancing quality of life and helping prevent disease beyond just injury recovery.

Chiropractic Treatments at Global Pain Solutions

Global Pain Solutions offers a variety of safe, effective, minimally invasive treatments for chronic and acute pain, including:
Electrotherapy: Uses electrical energy to relax muscles, prevent atrophy, increase blood circulation, improve range of motion, manage pain, and prevent deep vein thrombosis. Particularly effective for musculoskeletal conditions affecting the neck, back, and shoulders, and also used for osteoarthritis and fibromyalgia.

Mechanical Traction: Also known as therapeutic spinal traction, this method gently stretches and mobilizes the spine, including the neck. It is a useful alternative to surgery for herniated or bulging discs. It also helps with conditions such as carpal tunnel syndrome, headaches, pinched nerves, and shoulder or elbow pain.
Manual Therapy: Involves skillful hand techniques to manipulate joints and soft tissues to increase range of motion, relaxation, and reduce swelling and inflammation. This therapy is individualized based on patient needs and complements holistic pain management.

Myofascial Release: Targets the myofascial tissue a thin, strong connective tissue supporting bones and muscles through sustained pressure to increase strength, flexibility, and posture awareness.
Neuro Muscular Rehabilitation: Focuses on rehabilitation exercises tailored to heal and manage pain from neuromuscular disorders, combining manual manipulation, electromyography, mechanical traction, massage, and chiropractic care.

Therapeutic Exercises: Customized exercise programs including stretching, strengthening, posture work, and core exercises designed and monitored by licensed professionals to meet individual recovery goals.
Cole Laser / Low Level Laser Therapy (LLLT): A natural, non-invasive therapy using light wavelengths to accelerate healing, reduce pain, minimize swelling and muscle spasms, and improve function, recommended for various acute and chronic conditions.

These treatments contribute to comprehensive pain management, helping patients achieve better mobility, reduced pain, and an improved quality of life.