4 Benefits of Combining Chiropractic Care and Rehab for Faster Recovery

When people think of chiropractic, they think of the typical "back popping" doctors. While and adjustment is great for most people, this is only one tool used out of many in our office.

We believe every office visit should include 4 things.

Mobility: this will help increase range of motion in joints that are locked up and not moving correctly. Most of the time our patients get some relief on just 1 or 2 visits, but it takes time to see 100 percents improvement.

Soft Tissue: During this process, we will use scraping tools or a technique called ART Applied Release Technique to strip the muscles and release the adhesions. If these remain around a joint, your joints will keep getting "stuck" and not move well.

Neuromotor: This involves an aspect of retraining the body how to correctly function and move without pain. We use e-stim, vibration plates and other treatments to began this process.

Exercise: after you get movement in joints and correct neruomotor control, we will add some light exercises to your program so you can strengthen areas of the body, while stretching other areas. Most people have an imbalance such as forward head posture causing a tight neck and upper back.

One of the research articles I came across this week shows how chiropractic helps with acute and chronic pain and how it modulates sensory information. Here is the research below.

The Effect of Spinal Manipulation on Brain Neruometabolites in Chronic Nonspefic Low Back Pain Patients.

A Randomized Trial November 26, 2019 Research reported "pain is transformed from acute to chronic due to hypersensitivity of the pain-processing network in CNS".

"In chronic pain, neurophysiological and brain metabolite changes are an indiction of neuroplasticity. The neurophysiological mechanism of the manipulation is the result of the CNS's ability to modulate sensory information". 🧠

"Spinal manipulation with effect of CNS leads to change and increases metabolite concentrations in specific brain regions, thereby, relieving pain and disability following chronic low back pain".

Conclusion: "In the patients with low back pain, spinal manipulation affects the central nervous system and changes the brain metabolites. Consequently, pain and function disability are reduced".🙌

A spinal adjustment literally has direct effect on the brain and changes the process we perceive as pain and function! 🧠

Didehdar D, Kamali F, Yoosefinejad AK, Lotfi M. The effect of spinal manipulation on brain neurometabolites in chronic nonspecific low back pain patients: a randomized clinical trial. Ir J Med Sci. 2020 May;189(2):543-550. doi: 10.1007/s11845-019-02140-2. Epub 2019 Nov 26. PMID: 31773541.