Cassara Chiropractic Center - Adjunct Therapies

Adjunct therapies are additional treatments used in conjunction with chiropractic adjustments. These therapies enhance the benefits of your chiropractic plan of treatment and speeds up the recovery process.

Muscle Stimulation

This modality uses a form of gentle, safe electrical stimulation to muscles that are tight and painful. This stimulation causes the muscles to twitch slightly during treatment, but causes the muscles to be relaxed by the end of the treatment. By relaxing these muscles adjacent to the spine, the vertebras are allowed to move more freely, which helps to relieve pain and nerve irritation.

Ultrasound

This modality uses sound waves at high frequency to aid the healing process in areas of injury. Specifically, its effects are to generate deep tissue heat, relieve swelling, break up areas of toxic waste products accumulation, and relieve pain with deep micro-massing vibration. The combined effect of all these actions is to relieve pain and promote rapid healing.

Ultrasound Therapy

Traction

Motorized intermittent traction places gentle stretch on the spine to separate the vertebrae and relieve direct nerve pressure. It also takes the stress off the discs between the vertebrae. This stretching effect of the disc creates a suction action and lets the disc absorb more blood and healing nutrients, thus allowing it to heal more quickly. Traction is most often used on the neck and low back.

Percussor

Manual application of mechanical high speed rotary deep tissue stimulation technique: the object of which is to...

1 - increase the superficial blood circulation
2 - to relax muscular spasticity
3 - increase connective tissue elasticity
4 - to mobilize inflammatory exudates and
5 - to flush lymphatics that get blocked following injuries.

Laser Therapy

This is the use of a cold laser beam to treat an injury to a soft tissue such as a ligament, tendon or muscle. A low intensity laser beam reduces pain, inflammation and swelling and promotes healing of damaged tissue. It works by increasing the flow of blood and by reducing the production of prostaglandin, which is a chemical released in response to an injury that causes pain and inflammation.

Therapeutic (stretching) Exercise

Treatment by careful selection of an exercise and stretching program for a distinctive purpose. Instruction and demonstration of exercise and stretching is given during the office visit.

Laser Therapy

Color Therapy

Color therapy is the use of color in assisting the body's' natural ability to balance itself. Practitioners of the healing arts have used color for centuries. Color serves to support our vital life force by supplying light energy to the body.

There are seven rainbow colors used in this therapy, plus 2 additional colors of Aqua and Magenta. Each color corresponds to a particular area of the body as well as a particular state of mind. These areas of the body with which color is associated are called Chakras. Chakra is a Sanskrit word, meaning wheel. Chakras are the spinning focal points of energy in the body. Their function is to receive, process, and transmit energy, which affects the physical, emotional, and subtle energy levels of the body.

Orthotics

Percussor

Orthotics correct deficiencies caused by a functional difference in leg length, and foot pronation which interferes with biomechanical function of the pelvis and spine, when treated with an appropriate custom-made orthotic it will stabilize biomechanical functions of the body.