Manual Adjustments & Mobilizations

Adjustments help to relieve pain and restore normal movement and function to the joints and their supporting muscles and ligaments. Highly skilled and precise movement is applied by hand with a quick thrusting action to a joint. When a joint is manipulated pressure is released, sometimes creating a popping or cracking noise.

With mobilizations, the same movement is applied to a joint, but in a slower fashion. This helps to restore motion into a restricted joint.

Instrument-Assisted Adjustments (Activator)

Using a small hand-held instrument called the Activator, a gentle impulse is delivered to a joint. This technique is more gentle than both hands-on and drop-piece adjustment and also allows for more specificity, as it is small enough to target even the smallest joints in the body.

Muscle Release Therapy

Our muscles are intricately connected to the joints in our body. Without restoring proper function to both the joints and muscles, injuries often persist. It is important to holistically treat an injury by addressing both joint restrictions and muscular problems.

Muscle release techniques work by relaxing contracted muscles, improving blood flow and lymphatic circulation within the muscle, and stimulating the muscles’ stretch reflex to restore proper function.

Instrument-Assisted Soft Tissue Therapy

A hand-held stainless steel tool is used to treat muscles, tendons and ligaments. It aids in the breakdown of adhesions or scar tissue found in these soft tissues, improving blood flow and lymphatic drainage aiding in swelling reduction and tissue healing.

Drop-Piece Adjustments

A quick thrust is applied to a specific joint which activates a drop section of the chiropractic table to release. This dropping motion accelerates the force being put into the joint allowing for a gentler adjustment, with less force needed to achieve the same results as with a manual adjustment.

Pregnancy Care

Chiropractic Prenatal Care is suitable for any pregnant women, especially if she is suspected of having inadequate uterine function, pelvic biomechanical dysfunction, pregnancy related low back or pelvic pain, and/or baby mal-position.

Prenatal Chiropractic Care consists of an analysis of the pelvis, diversified and/or drop-piece chiropractic adjustment, and treatment of the surrounding musculature and ligaments. Treatment addresses the sacroiliac joints, pubic symphysis, sacrotuberous ligaments, round ligaments, piriformis and psoas muscles. The goal is to reduce the effects of sacroiliac joint dysfunction, improving the biomechanical function of the pelvis. The overall goal is to optimize uterine function allowing for a safer, easier birth.

In the care of pregnant women, sacroiliac and pelvic dysfunction may contribute to dystocia (difficulty during labour). It has been proposed that sacral dysfunction can lead to pelvic misalignment and the tightening and torsion of specific pelvic muscles and ligaments. The resulting tension and their aberrant effect on the uterus may prevent the baby from comfortably assuming optimal birth position, proper labour progression, and natural, non-invasive birth outcomes. The correction of sacroiliac and pelvic dysfunction may have a positive effect on these causes of dystocia.

Obstetric research shows a decrease in undue stress from proper positioning of the fetus including proper development of the spine and nervous system. As well, chiropractic research shows effectiveness of the sacral adjustment on pelvic biomechanics.  

Individualized Exercises

Individualized exercises are prescribed to every patient, whether they are exercises aimed at short-term pain relief or rehabilitative exercises for stretching tight muscles and tissues or strengthening weak muscles for long-term benefits and future injury prevention. Exercises will be changed and advanced as needed.

Postnatal Rehabilitation

The Growco methodology is aimed at preventing, reducing, and/or resolving symptoms women have been made to think are an inevitable consequence of childbirth. Rehabilitation is targeted to restore your total body, including core and pelvic floor muscles after delivering your baby. The classes include breathwork, stretching and strengthening the core and pelvic floor while focusing on supporting Moms' body and mind.

This work is applicable to any Mom, whether you delivered 6 weeks ago or 16 years ago. If you are a new Mom your body has recently undergone tremendous changes and stress, regardless if your delivery was vaginal or c-section. If you had your child(ren) some years ago, you may still be in need of restoring your core and pelvic. Indicators include recurrent lower back pain, inability to control your bladder or persistent separation of your abdominal muscles.