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Electrical Stimulation

Electrical stimulation uses an electrical current to cause a single muscle or a group of muscles to contract. By placing electrodes on the skin in various locations, contraction of the appropriate muscle fibers takes place. The intensity of the current can be adjusted to allow for a forceful or gentle muscle contraction. Electrical stimulation can maintain the health of the muscle by promoting an increase in blood flow, providing nutrients to the soft tissue. It decreases fibrotic changes, strengthens healthy muscle, helps prevent or reverse disuse atrophy, maintains or improves mobility and can promote peripheral circulation. There is also a relaxing effect that occurs as the muscle being contracted fatigues. There are various types of electrical stimulation in use today and the type used and its specific application will depend on the condition being treated.

TENS Unit

Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation is a type of nerve stimulation designed to control pain. TENS units vary in their ability to control parameter ranges of amplitude, frequency and pulse width. The units are small; battery powered, and light weight. They are designed to provide sensory and not motor stimulation. This is important to note when using TENS units because motor stimulation will initiate or produce muscle contractions in cases of severe pain that may aggravate the condition. Electrodes are placed in specific locations on the skin surrounding the area of pain and are connected to the TENS unit. TENS units are designed to be used at home, as part of a comprehensive treatment program designed for pain management.

Traction

Traction is the therapeutic use of manual or mechanical tension created by a pulling force to produce a combination of distraction and gliding to relieve pain and increase tissue flexibility. Indications for traction therapy include, but are not limited to, extremity pain or tingling that is temporarily relieved with manual traction, spinal nerve root impediment due to a bulging, herniated or protruding disc, decreased sensation that temporarily improves with manual traction, increased muscle tone that is reduced with manual traction, muscle spasms that are causing nerve root impingement and general hypo-mobility of the lumbar or cervical spinal region.

Benefits of Traction:

Separates and stretches spinal segments and/or extra-spinal joint surfaces
Relieves the effects of compression on articular surfaces that are due to muscle spasm or other compressive factors
Reduces the circumference of the intervertebral discs and thus aids in restoring its position to one that allows for normal biomechanics
Relieves the compression effects of foraminal distortion, as with nerve root encroachment
Promotes distraction and gliding of joint facets
Relieves muscle spasm
Dissipates edema or congestion in an area, especially when applied intermittently
Stretches fibrotic tissues and breaks adhesions
Triggers proprioceptive reflexes
Temporarily immobilizes or splints parts

Spinal and Extremity Rehabilitation Program

Body Ball There are many reasons that people use and trust our facility for rehabilitation. One of the most important reasons is the hands on approach of the doctor who will not only evaluate you but will also lead you through your program each session. Our spinal and extremity rehabilitation programs are designed by the doctor to meet the individual's needs and goals.

An Efficient, Clinically Proven Program

Our spinal rehabilitation program is clinically proven to greatly reduce and, more often, eliminate chronic back and neck pain. Performed properly, it provides more health benefits than any other single form of therapy. Therapeutic exercise incorporates a broad range of activities intended to improve strength and flexibility, increase range of motion and functional capacity, and can improve cardiovascular fitness. The program is very safe, extremely efficient and tremendously effective.

Sessions last for 10 - 20 minutes, on each visit. Every visit is conducted one on one with the doctor.

Our program is focused in three areas:

1. Injury Rehabilitation

We care for all areas of the body with rehabilitation but our specialty is the spine. We perform not only spinal rehabilitation, but extremity rehabilitation as well. Our results are phenomenal!

2. Athletic enhancement

Because of the equipment we use athletes come to us to increase their athletic performance. Athletes that include weekend golf players to professional athletes and competitive martial artists.

3. Balance and Fall prevention

Very important for all of our patients, as well as for those entering their sixth decade of life, to take active steps in increasing their balance. We have the knowledge and equipment to dramatically increase their balance. This gives them increased confidence when walking and decreases their chances of falling.

The benefits as well as the focus of our spinal rehabilitation therapy include:

Increase in spinal strength and stability
Increase in spinal muscle balance and coordination
Increase in response and recruitment of core muscles while using joints and muscles of the lower extremities
Increase in proprioceptive function and recruitment patterns
Increase in joint function and flexibility
Promotion of the function of the ankles, knees and hips as they relate to balance

We achieve these benefits by using some or all of the following:

Joint mobility training - Increases the ranges of motion and joint health.
Stretching and flexibility - The vital component of each and every program.
Body Balls a.k.a. Swiss Balls - Promotes core strengthening and stabilization.
BOSU Balls - The human body and brain are intimately linked such that enhancing balance in one enhances balance in the other. Better balance (physically and mentally) leads to better performance in all activities, whether those activities are primarily physical or mental in nature.
Kettlebells - Kettlebells are used mostly to train the Olympic lifts and their variations. These movements performed with kettlebells possess much greater ranges of motion, increasing your dynamic flexibility and extreme range strength.

Trigger Point Therapy

Trigger Point Therapy is one of the treatments used when dealing with the muscular component to an injury. It is also, as the name implies, used in the treatment of trigger points, which are areas of increased neurologic activity in muscle tissue that can cause secondary referral of pain. Fascia is the interwoven connective tissue that surrounds the muscles and internal organs. Fascia shrinks when it is inflamed, is slow to heal because of poor blood supply, and painful when inflamed because of its rich nerve supply. Myofascial restrictions occur when the fascia is disrupted or stretched by an injury, no matter how minor. Trigger Point Therapy removes restrictions that impede movement.