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Chiropractic Care

Chiropractic is a conservative, hands on approach to treating pain symptoms that originate from the spine, joints and surrounding soft tissues. Chiropractic adjustments intend to correct misalignments and joint restrictions as well as improve soft tissue health. As a result, pain is relieved and mechanics restored. Ultimately, healthy joints are painless, prevent injury and age more gracefully.

Corrective Exercises

By using illustrations and simple explanations, Dr. Johnson teaches patients about their spines and joints. She believes it is important to understand the causative chain of events that culminate in pain and dysfunction. She incorporates easy exercises to use during the work day to correct postural patterns that fatigue muscles and create tension or pain. Additionally, she suggests simple exercises to rest the body, countering the repetitive use during the day and strengthen weak muscles that may be causing pain and joint dysfunction. Combining stabilizing exercises with chiropractic treatments relieves pain and builds long-term muscular integrity needed to support healthy, pain-free joints.

Lifestyle Advice

Although most patients seek relief from a specific pain symptom, Dr. Johnson believes in analyzing a patient’s repetitive activities, diet, physical exercise routines, medications and supplements, as well as sleep positions and foundations, to point out certain activities or postures that may be causing or aggravating a pain pattern. By identifying and discussing these activities, patients learn to modify or avoid pain provoking habits. The goal of including lifestyle advice is to allow patients to safely participate in the activities they must do as well as the activities they enjoy the most.

Palliative Products

Dr. Johnson often recommends and offers products to be used at home during acute phases of care as well as items that can be incorporated into home routines for muscle and spine maintenance. The effects of work, stress and pain postures can easily be relieved with simple routines and inexpensive tools. Combining short-term use of tissue specific nutritionals with topical pain relievers can safely and quickly reduce pain and inflammation associated with muscle, nerve or disc pain. Dr. Johnson researches pain relieving products and only recommends select products that are effective, affordable and that she herself uses.

Detoxification Baths

Detoxing foot baths facilitate the body’s healing and repair processes. Herbal cleanses focus on a particular organ and are generally expensive, uncomfortable and often inconvenient. Unlike herbal cleanses, foot baths address environmental toxins that are unavoidable and congest important organs. Without a way to eliminate these toxins, the body is forced to incorporate them into organs and joints, diminishing organ efficiency and straining joint capsules. Unburdening the body from these environmental toxins improves organ function, normalizes joint fluids, encourages lymphatic drainage, as well as removes cellular waste and cleanses the blood. Periodic baths are a nice addition to any wellness regime.

Custom Orthotics

Custom orthotics relieve degenerative changes in the foot. The foot has three arches; one on the inside of the foot, one on the outside of the foot and one behind the toes. As we age, the arches slowly reduce or collapse, causing changes in the connective tissues of the feet. When this happens, the body will shift and compensate in the ankles, knees, hips, spine and shoulders, often causing pain. Custom orthotics support the three arches, stabilizing the foot and thus eliminating strain to the joints above the feet. This is particularly important for those who stand, walk or run for long periods of time. Providing the body a solid foundation protects all the joints, reduces pain and preserves your chiropractic adjustment.