REHABILITATION
Muscle & Joint Rehab in Mesa, Arizona
Movement is a key factor in your recovery after an accident or injury. Chiropractic care that includes muscle and joint rehabilitation helps restore range of motion, supporting overall health and wellness.
COMMON CONDITIONS
Physical Therapy Modalities Practiced by SW Spine & Rehab
In addition to spinal manipulations and adjustments, SW Spine provides a wide range of physical therapy modalities designed to restore movement.
Ice & Heat Therapy
Ice and heat therapy offers a variety of benefits, particularly when combined with other chiropractic treatments. Ice or cold therapy helps reduce swelling and inflammation. It works well for managing acute pain. Heat therapy helps improve circulation and relax muscles, making it ideal for chronic pain. Most patients benefit from a combination of ice and heat therapy.
Muscle Stimulation
Dr. Taylor employs muscle stimulation for a variety of reasons; the modality he chooses depends on the desired outcome. The treatment involves sending mild electrical pulses through electrodes attached to the skin. It helps reduce inflammation, relieve pain, contract the muscle to prevent atrophy, soothe muscle spasms, or any combination of these.
Theraputic Ultrasound
In therapeutic ultrasound, Dr. Taylor uses sound waves to “massage” soft tissue and joints. The ultrasound transducer emits sound waves that pass through the skin, heating the underlying tissues. Therapeutic ultrasound therapy offers a variety of benefits thanks to increased blood flow, which helps soothe muscle spasms and reduces pain, inflammation, and stiffness.
Transcutaneous Electric Nerve Simulation
Transcutaneous Electric Nerve Simulation (TENS) is another type of electric stimulation used to manage pain. The main difference is that a TENS treatment is intended for patients experiencing prolonged, acute pain after an accident or injury. This type of treatment is not recommended for treating chronic pain, such as the lower back pain that sends many patients to a chiropractor.
Helping patients live healthier and pain-free lives after an accident or injury.
HOME EXERCISE PLAN
Chiropractic Rehabilitation Exercises
Dr. Taylor often prescribes rehabilitation exercises to complete at home — designed to support chiropractic treatment and optimize each patient’s recovery. Specific exercises vary according to your unique diagnosis and needs.
Foam Rolling
Also called self-myofascial-release. Devices of varying sizes massage muscles in the back, legs, and arms — relieving tightness and releasing knots by rolling along the length of the muscle.
Strengthening
Pain often imbalances muscles as the body compensates for an injured joint (think gait changes from prolonged knee pain). Strengthening exercises restore that balance.
Stretching
Not the gym-class kind — most stretches are held at least 60 seconds to fully relax the muscle. The goal is restoring your muscles’ natural resting tension. Often paired with foam rolling.
Joint Mobility
An extension of prescribed stretching, focused on maximizing the mobility and capacity of your joints so they move freely and predictably.
WHY IT WORKS
The Benefits of Chiropractic Rehabilitation
Often, the pain that brings patients to chiropractic care is the result of a long-term issue. For example, pain in the neck and shoulders often occurs due to the cumulative effects of bad posture or non-ergonomic work conditions. In other words, the condition that caused the pain likely occurred over time. A return to health therefore takes more than a few sessions with a chiropractor. It requires strengthening and conditioning those muscles and joints. Not only does this speed recovery, it helps prevent a reoccurrence of the issue.
Whether you have chronic back pain or acute pain after an accident or injury, SW Spine & Rehab can help. Call us at 480-354-2008 to get started.