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Read on to
learn more about Chiropractic Care at Forces of Nature
or click on a
technique to learn more about specific chiropractic
techniques:
Diversified Technique
Thompson Technique
Soft Tissue Therapy
Orthotics
Chiropractic is a drug-free, hands-on, highly skilled
treatment that can rapidly treat the source of your back
pain. Accidents, stress, overuse or poor posture can
injure your spine and the other joints throughout your
body, causing pain in the surrounding muscles, joints,
and nerves.
Chiropractic
care focuses on restoring and maintaining the health of
these areas through the use of an adjustment. A
chiropractic adjustment is the application of a specific
force through a restricted joint. The adjustment
restores normal joint movement, reduces muscle tension
and allows your nervous system to function properly
again. The results are a
decrease in pain, increased mobility and flexibility,
and a renewed sense of vitality.
Chiropractic treatment works because it treats the cause
of your back and joint pain, not just the symptoms. Just
a few of the many conditions that respond well to
chiropractic care are lower back and neck pain,
pregnancy, athletic injuries, headaches, menstrual pain
and arthritic conditions.
How does Chiropractic work?
Your spine and surrounding skeleton has a very important
function in your body, which is to support your body
weight and allow movement. But your spine also
protects your spinal cord, which is the “central
highway” of your nervous system. Our ability to walk,
run, jump, lift, and feel almost every sensation below
our neck requires a healthy spine and skeleton
The bones in your back (vertebrae) and in your arms and
legs are connected by ligaments, muscles, and cartilage
and work together in very specific ways. When everything
is working and moving well, you are aligned, strong, and
flexible. The stress of daily living, injuries, overuse
or accidents can cause the bones to shift out of their
proper alignment, reducing normal movement patterns, and
affecting their range of motion. These small changes can
cause pain by putting pressure on the different joints,
muscles, and nerves in your body.
Chiropractors understand how to relieve this pain. They
are specially trained to find the source of your pain,
assess the problem, make the proper adjustments, and
provide advice that will allow your joints to work
properly again.
Today, many medical doctors in Ontario refer patients
with back pain to a chiropractor, and studies show that
chiropractic treatment is increasingly recognized as the
most safe and effective treatment for most patients with
back pain.
Techniques Used By Dr. Kim
Macanuel
Diversified
Technique
Diversified Technique is the classic chiropractic
technique, which focuses on the restoration of normal
biomechanical function to the spine and extremities.
Through the use of High Velocity, Low Amplitude (HVLA)
thrusts or gentle mobilization therapy, dysfunctional
segments are restored to normal, pain-free movement.
Thompson Technique
Thompson Chiropractic Technique is based on the body’s
natural
biomechanics and Newton’s Law of Inertia, which states
that “an object in motion will stay in motion unless
acted upon by an equal and opposite force”. Thompson
Chiropractic Technique uses this law of inertia via a
“drop piece” in the table to help adjust joints that are
not moving normally.
During a drop table adjustment, the table is first set
to the patient’s weight. The doctor then places the
contact hand on the segment to be adjusted. A gentle
thrust is applied, setting that area of contact into
motion, which in turn, activates the drop piece. When
the drop piece stops, the force of gravity, combined
with the force of the doctor’s thrust, is translated
into the targeted joint and the soft tissue of the body,
producing the desired change in the joint and the
surrounding muscles.
Based on over 50 years of research and clinical use,
drop piece
adjustments are lighter, gentler, and without many of
the twisting positions that can accompany diversified
adjusting.
Soft Tissue Therapy
Soft tissue therapy is used in every treatment session
with Dr. Anne Stacey to address dysfunction of the
muscles, tendons, nerves, and ligaments in the area of
complaint. It is used along with adjustments to treat
acute strains and sprains as well as chronic overuse
conditions such as tennis elbow, carpal tunnel syndrome,
plantar fasciitis, low back pain, and headaches.
Orthotics
We constantly walk on
unnatural and hard surfaces and floors. Consequently we
alter our foot’s natural shape and compromise our
natural arches.
Prescription orthotics are medical appliances
that are custom made to correct your specific foot
imbalance.
Orthotics are precisely designed to re-establish and
re-create our natural foot function and balance. Your
feet have a direct impact on the rest of your body.
A stable foundation can improve the entire body’s
functioning and mobility.
Insurance Coverage
The cost of custom-made orthotics is not currently
covered by OHIP, however, most extended health care
plans do cover the majority of the expense. Check with
your extended health insurance provider to determine if
orthotics are included in your benefits package and
whether or not a medical doctor’s or chiropractor’s
prescription is required.
Fees
Custom-made Orthotics
$400
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