Musculoskeletal Rehabilitation

Our practice uses what we call "rehab" for our patients. This treatment depends on the patient's injury or the treatment plan provided by one of our doctors. This style of treatment uses a combination of stretching techniques and therapeutic exercises to "rehabilitate" the patient's muscles back to proper health. Our therapeutic exercises focus on the neck, back, and extremities as an essential part of the rehabilitation process following an injury. We integrate tools and props into the process to get the most out of the treatment that we can.

Should your treatment plan call for "rehab", here are some things you may experience.

• Resistance Training
• Core Exercises
• Lower back stretching and strengthening
• Shoulder exercises
• Balance training
• Spinulator

The Spinalator is a form of an intersegmental traction table. The table has three rotating rollers on a triangle that rotates. As this triangle rotates, the roller lifts and separates the segments of the spine. During this motion, the rollers also elevate to increase the level of pressure to loosen tension in muscles to relax the patient before this adjustment.

The intersegmental traction Spinalator aides in reducing or stabilizing spinal degeneration and subluxation.

Five things intersegmental traction does:

1. Aids in straightening the spine.
2. Aids in reducing arthritis and calcium deposits along your spine by exercising each joint.
3. Aids in tightening and strengthening the ligaments and muscles that attach to the spine to hold it in place.
4. Increases the blood supply to the spine to speed the healing of the nerves, muscles and discs.
5. It feels good!

You just lie on the table, and the rollers gently uplift the body, opening-up the joints, moving the discs and stretching the muscles. All of this helps to stabilize the back.