What Is a Chiropractor?
A Chiropractor is a licensed healthcare professional who focuses on your body's capability to heal itself.
Chiropractic Medicine is a healthcare profession that cares for your neuromusculoskeletal system—the bones, nerves, muscles, tendons, and ligaments. A chiropractor helps manage your pain and mobility through the use of adjustments to maintain good alignment of your musculoskeletal system. Chiropractic has become widely recognized as being extremely effective in treating many conditions that can arise from misalignment.. For example, when something is "out of place" or not positioned correctly within the body, this can result in various conditions such as headaches, muscles aches, back pain, shoulder pain, joint pain, limping, scoliosis, sciatica, neck tension, neuropathy, and so much more.
What Does a Chiropractor Do?
Chiropractic Medicine is focused on the body's ability to self-heal and further works well in unison with nutrition, physical therapy, and massage therapy. It does NOT involve surgery or medicine and rather believes that with regular retraining of problem areas, the body can restore itself. Upon a first visit, the Chiropractor will conduct an examination of the patient, looking at their bone position, mobility, and muscle reflexes. They also perform tests to diagnose the patient's condition, then come up with a treatment plan and set a time frame for monitoring progress.
Adjustments along with various chiropractic techniques, treatments and therapies help to realign the bones to allow full mobility and function of the neuromusculoskeletal system.
Benefits of Combining Chiropractic and Physical Therapy
Dr. Elahi and his experienced team at Health First Wellness Centers serving Schaumburg, IL, know that combining services like nutritional support, physical therapy, chiropractic, naprapathy and more can help patients with musculoskeletal complaints regain optimal health more quickly.
By educating patients about exercises and movements they can do at home combined with in-office treatments, chiropractic, and wellness support, our holistic approach can maximize a patient’s recovery and pain relief.
Patients regularly come to our practice complaining of back and neck pain, knee pain, foot pain, and joint pain. Disc herniations and pinched nerves are also common. After a complete assessment, we can tailor an integrative health plan for you utilizing some of our therapies like:
- Chiropractic adjustments
- Physical therapy and rehabilitation
- Massage
- Acupuncture
- Active Release Technique (ART)
- Manual Therapy
- Spinal decompression
- Shockwave therapy
- Vestibular therapy
- Ultrasound therapy
- Nutrition Counseling / Dietician Guidance
With consistent retraining and realigning of the musculoskeletal parts of the body, people will find that their pain lessons and their mobility and function increases. For this reason, these specialties work remarkably well in unison.
Contact Us!
At Health First Wellness Centers serving Schaumburg, IL, we offer physical therapy, chiropractic, nutritional counseling, massage therapy, and more. To schedule an appointment with one of the Specialists on our team call us at 847-519-7046 and/or Request an appointment with one of our physical therapists today through this link.