Services
Sports-Oriented Chiropractic
"Sports-oriented" chiropractic means taking the best that chiropractic has to offer, namely manipulation, and integrating it into a more complete understanding of the mechanics of the human body. Muscles attach to bones to move or stabilize joints. When treating the typical injury if you only address the joint issue or only work on the muscular aspects you will be missing part of the picture. We seek to gain a complete understanding of your injury, not only where it hurts but also where it originates, in order to truly resolve the problem.
Active Release Technique®
Our doctors are credentialed Active Release Technique® (ART) providers. ART is a newer, truly unique soft tissue treatment system. It allows us to find not only what muscles are tight, but where exactly within the muscle is tight and affecting your biomechanics. It also helps us to find and break down adhesions, or scar tissue, that have built up between muscles and/or nerves. ART can be very effective in treating conditions like tennis and golfer's elbow, peripheral nerve entrapments such as carpal tunnel syndrome, rotator cuff injuries, and other soft-tissue and nerve-related conditions. It has become a very popular technique amongst athletes, especially in endurance sports like Iron-Man Triathlons. For more detailed information, visit the ART website at: www.activerelease.com
Individualized Rehabilitative Exercises
As part of our evaluation and treatment plan we will try to identify which exercises you can perform to take a pro-active part in your recovery. This may range from a few simple stretches to a comprehensive rehabilitation program. We try not to over-whelm our patients with dozens of different exercises just for the sake of exercise. Instead our focus is on those handful that will really make a difference and are worth doing. We keep up to date through seminars and more importantly by practicing what we preach; every exercise Dr. Raymond gives you is something he has done or does on a regular basis.
Instrument-Assisted Soft Tissue Mobilization
Quite often with soft tissue injuries there will be adhesions (essentially scar tissue) layed down within the muscle. Using specialized tools we can rub the surface of the skin over the muscle and actually feel changes in the texture of the muscle that can't be felt by hand. Typically adhesed muscle will feel rough or crunchy. We then proceed to literally "scrape" away the adhesions (not as painful as it sounds.) During the course of one or more treatments you can actually feel as the texture of the tissue smooths out and returns to a more normal state.
IASTM works particularly well on the more tendinous portion of the muscle near where it attaches to bone. Some examples of its use include treating conditions such as tennis elbow, knee tendinitis, or cleaning out scar tissue associated with an old ankle sprain. IASTM works particularly well when combined with Active Release Technique.