Chiropractic Care

The Benefits of Chiropractic Care

Chiropractors are licensed healthcare professionals who primarily concentrate on the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of spinal disorders and other mechanical conditions of the musculoskeletal system. Chiropractic care places a strong emphasis on the body’s ability to heal itself without employing surgery, drugs, or other medical measures.

Patients often experience relief from a wide range of painful and dangerous symptoms by seeking quality chiropractic care. At Carlyle Wellness, we address countless health and wellness issues using a variety of approaches. Read more about some of our specific services below.

Manual Adjustment Using the Gonstead Technique

The “classic” chiropractic treatment, manual adjustments are done by hand to perform a broad spectrum of coordinated contact movements. Manual adjustments may be used to address various patient health and wellness concerns. Applying direct pressure at specific points, we can dramatically improve the function of muscles, joints, ligaments, tendons, and other soft bodily tissues.

A Gonstead chiropractor specifically looks at the whole person and searches for the source of a patient’s pain or discomfort by examining spinal misalignments, nerve dysfunction, foundational imbalance, and motion disturbances. Adjustments are then made to help restore natural spinal alignment and optimal movement. Gonstead chiropractors examine the spine in 5 different ways before an adjustment to make sure you receive the best most accurate care.

The Integrator Method

This therapeutic approach requires the use of a specific hand-held tool called the “Integrator.” A spring-loaded, mechanical instrument, the Integrator aids in chiropractic adjustment by delivering a rapid, low-force impulse with extreme precision. An Integrator adjustment can accomplish many of the same benefits as a manual adjustment by improving the body’s alignment and helping with overall body function.

Laser Therapy

As part of a comprehensive chiropractic care program, laser therapy has proven to be an effective way to manage pain for many patients. Using a targeted light spectrum, laser therapy helps to ease inflammation, encourage nerve regeneration, and generally speed the healing process for individuals who have suffered injuries or are living with chronic pain.

Pregnancy & Pediatric Care

When provided by a chiropractor with proper specialized training, chiropractic care has proven to be safe and effective for pregnant women as well as babies and young children. During pregnancy, chiropractic care has proven extremely helpful in the management of back, hip, and joint pain that goes hand in hand with carrying the extra weight of a baby. Pediatric chiropractic care includes treating young people for conditions that include headaches, sports injuries, poor immune response, allergies, asthma, ear pain, colic, sleep disturbances, and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).

You will experience our Three-Step Approach to Health:

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You will have a nervous system evaluation.

The nervous system is the center of the signals that tell your body how to function at all levels of your existence. It coordinates both your voluntary and involuntary action – from sitting to walking to breathing to digestion. Without your nervous system, you would cease to live! And when your nervous system is functioning properly, your body can achieve its fullest potential.

When there is any interference in the nervous system, called a “subluxation”, your body doesn’t function as well as it should. This can cause symptoms like back pain, headaches, stomach aches, acid reflux – even depression or anxiety. We give what is called a chiropractic adjustment to clear the interference and help the signals flow through your nervous system more freely so that your body can function at its optimal level.

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You will have x-rays taken of your entire spine.

The spine is the vehicle to which we clear the neurological pressure in the body. Our spines have 31 bones, some of them fuse together over time and some of them stay as individual segments. Each segment can be affected or misaligned from another misalignment in a different area of your spine, even in areas where no pain is being felt. It is crucial that we visualize every one of those segments to ensure proper care of your nervous system. Your health is the most important part of life. A healthy body allows you to do everything in your life better, whether that is serving the community, being more productive at work, or caring for you family. That is why we perform an X-Ray series on the first visit because we refuse to play guessing games with your health.
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If we see the need for an adjustment, you will receive an adjustment day 1 as well.

After thoroughly investigating your health, nervous system, and spine to ensure proper care; an adjustment will be performed. Often the adjustment is performed on your spinal structure but sometimes we may individually evaluate other joints like shoulders, knees, or ankles etc. depending on your health signs and symptoms. Adjustments are commonly followed by a “popping” noise but the noise is not what indicates a proper adjustment, and no it doesn’t hurt. Patients often report the action of being adjusted “feels good”. If fear is what has arisen in your mind, we utilize more than one chiropractic technique and will ease you into the Hands-On adjustment based on your comfort-ability.