Simply put, chiropractic care is about spine health. At your first appointment at Cimarron Chiropractic, our chiropractor will explain how chiropractic care helps with range of motion injuries in the head, neck, shoulder, hip, and spine. If you have an injury that is causing pain, we want to figure out what is wrong and how to help you. Our treatments are designed to restore motion and give you better flexibility.
Common Conditions Treated with Chiropractic Care
We treat all types of musculoskeletal and neurological concerns in patients, such as:
- Herniated disc and bulging disc
- Chronic pain (Upper back pain and lower back pain, neck, shoulder, hip, legs)
- Personal Injuries (work injuries, auto accident injuries)
- Pinched nerve
- Conditions like arthritis, sciatica, spondylosis, spondylolisthesis, degenerative disc disease, spinal stenosis
- Headaches and migraines
Chiropractic Techniques
Spinal adjustments are a very safe and effective method for restoring mobility and reducing pain. We believe in a more natural approach that gives long-term results, instead of short-term relief that pain medications provide. Our goal is to find and fix the underlying problem to give you a better quality of life. We offer a wide range of treatments to restore your spinal health and repair injury such as:
- Chiropractic Care – spinal adjustments to realign your vertebrae and discs for pain relief and proper healing
- Corrective Exercises – to correct posture and alleviate pressure on the spine
- Nutritional Counseling – to ensure healthy joints and muscles
- Spinal & Postural Screenings – to troubleshoot problems with spinal alignment
- Lifestyle Advice – to recommend better exercise, nutrition and other lifestyle choices
- Electrical Stimulation Therapy – to ease muscle soreness and improve blood flow for faster healing
The Benefits of Chiropractic Care
We use the “triage concept” to diagnose problems. Potentially serious conditions might involve a fracture or major nerve damage, while other conditions are herniated discs or pinched nerves, or a simple spinal misalignment. Individuals with spine pain and restricted range-of-motion typically achieve dramatic results from chiropractic care. Spinal manipulation is an extremely effective treatment for low back pain and neck pain, and greatly aids a patient’s recovery from auto, work or sports accidents in which spinal joints are injured. We perform spinal adjustment techniques that are gentle enough for children, the elderly and the injured.
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We perform pain-free, drug-free chiropractic adjustments, a manual manipulation of the spinal vertebrae using movements to improve your range of motion. Many patients who have never tried chiropractic care are missing out on the help this therapy can provide. Don’t be one of them – give Cimarron Chiropractic a call to schedule an appointment with us.
Chiropractic helps to remove postural imbalances and structural misalignments that can accumulate in our bodies over time. Chiropractic works by restoring your own inborn ability to be healthy. For your body to remain healthy, your nervous system must function well. For your nervous system to function well it must be free of interference. By restoring spinal function with Chiropractic adjustments, nerve interference by misaligned vertebrae is removed, thus allowing optimal nervous system function and improved health.
Seeing a chiropractor is not only for back pain and neck pain. Chiropractic care is an excellent way to keep your body at its peak performance through nutrition, adjustment and overall wellness. In addition, chiropractic care has been known to help a wide range of conditions from fibromyalgia to diabetes.
When a vertebrae becomes misaligned or moves out of its normal position, this is referred to in the chiropractic profession as a subluxation. Subluxations can be caused by a wide range of issues ranging from a minor slip or bump to a car accident or any sudden trauma. When a vertebrae is subluxated, it begins to put pressure on nerves, blood vessels and everything around it. This pressure comes with a price. The subluxation interrupts the natural pathways that the messages sent from the brain need to be clear in order to be completed properly.
Chiropractic is an overall way of looking at the human body. It’s based on the idea that the body is self-sustaining and self-healing. The body is in essence completely controlled by the brain through its connection via the spinal cord and the vast networks of nerves that make up the body. When this system is not functioning at its peak, the overall performance of the human body is lacking.
In the chiropractic world, drugs and medicine are not utilized as a form of treating a patient. While supplementation and nutrition are almost always a part of the bigger picture, drugs and prescriptions can be viewed as band-aids to treat symptoms rather than going to the source and treating the real problem.
While it’s often perceived that the chiropractor is solely here to treat back and neck pain, this is simply a small piece of what the profession really is capable of handling. Chiropractors not only treat soft and hard tissue problems such as sciatica and joint pain, but are largely called on to deal with more significant issues. Some of these issues include fibromyalgia, allergies, insomnia, headaches and many more.
Adjustments, or manipulation as they’re sometimes referred to is the minor movement of vertebrae in the spine. The objective of this movement is to realign vertebrae that have moved out of place for a number of reasons ranging from normal daily activity to trauma such as a car accident.
When these vertebrae are out of place, it has an overall systemic effect from muscular to the central nervous system. Without proper alignment and flow of all nerves and systems in the body from the brain, we can’t function at our peak.
An adjustment is often a pressure from the chiropractor utilizing the hands or an instrument to move a vertebrae back into place. This happens with a quick movement and is often without discomfort. You may hear a noise that sounds like you’re cracking your knuckles referred to as joint cavitation. It is the release of gases such as oxygen and nitrogen from the joint.
Going to the Chiropractor is a new experience for many of us. Maybe we’ve heard through a friend or have done some research online. It’s possible that you are just fed up with living in pain and it’s time to do something about it. In either case, your first visit to the chiropractor will really be about getting to know the chiropractor and discussing your history, current condition and goals.
Chiropractic is based on the idea of removing imbalances both structural and postural in an effort to allow our body to heal itself. For this to happen the network of nerves and signals from your brain, down your spinal cord, to the network of nerves must be allowed to flow freely without any interruption. Chiropractors have the ability and skill to remove these interruptions or misalignments and allow the body to perform as it was meant to.
If you’ve ever been in a car accident, played a sport, fell down or just bumped into something too hard, it’s very possible that you are not functioning at your best due to a misalignment. While there are many potential mechanical or structural causes for misalignment, there are also chemical reasons. For instance, if you smoke or drink excessively or even just have a poor diet, the chemical issues in your body can eventually cause underlying conditions and disease to appear.
Allowing a chiropractor to get you back on track both chemically and structurally will bring your body back to the proper state it should be in to perform at its peak.