How A Chiropractor Can Get You Pain Free
The care you receive from a chiropractic specialist is cost effective, completely safe, and is a phenomenal way to get pain free without surgery or prescription drugs.
Chiropractic care is a method of health care that primarily focuses on soft tissue, joints, maneuverability, and how these systems impact your general health.
That is just a small sample of some of the conditions that chiropractic care can help prevent, and reduce. Doctors who practice chiropractic medicine provide evidence based treatment methods that are drug free, natural, and impactful. Treatments always include a thorough neurological and orthopaedic examination to find the root of your pain and provide you with the most effective treatment methods.
Chiropractic professionals are highly trained to diagnose, and recommend treatments plans and therapeutic techniques that work for you.
Along with specializing in soft tissue and joint pain, chiropractors are usually qualified to provide nutrition and lifestyle counseling to make sure you are living the healthiest life possible.
With that said chiropractors are still best known for helping patients with mobility, and pain relief. The most common form of chiropractic medicine is known as a chiropractic manipulation which is a rapid movement that corrects joint alignment.
What is chiropractic care?
Chiropractic care is a treatment that improves overall health and helps patients reduce pain, and stiffness without medication or surgery.
A Doctor of Chiropractic is a health care professional who focuses on the diagnosis as well as treatment of neuromuscular disorders through the use of soft tissue therapies and/or manipulation of the spine/joints when necessary.
Chiropractic services are provided by a chiropractic professional to relive stiffness, pain, and to increase functionality and mobility throughout the body. It also increases overall health of the patient and can lead to an overall healthier lifestyle.
Benefits of chiropractic care.
There are many benefits that come from chiropractic care. Some of the improvements and benefits to your health include the following.
Chiropractic care is excellent at helping you get rid of the pain.
There are few things that are more frusterating that living with pain especially when you have been dealing with that pain for a ling time. Neck pain, back pain, chest pain, arthritis are just some of the different sources of pain that you may be facing. Chiropractors in Tysons Corner Virginia can help patients get over their pain and get them back to living their lives.
Chiropractic care addresses the source and not just the symptoms.
The use of medication, shots, and muscle relaxers typically only treat the symptoms of your pain instead of the actual condition. Chiropractic care on the other hand helps by directly going after the root cause of your pain symptoms. Chiropractic care is much safer than surgery or medication, and helps you stay pain free much longer.
When you simply pay attention to the symptoms alone, it is akin to taking the battery out of the smoke alarm because you don’t like the noise but the fire is still smoldering. Chiropractic care is much more effective. Chiropractors are specially trained in spinal manipulative therapy, soft tissue manual therapy as well as in exercise/rehab. That way, movement dysfunction is attended to but so is strengthening, stretching, and shoring up the support structures of the frame.
Chiropractic care does not require taking medication
There is no medication that is required in chiropractic care. It is a hands on treatment style that invloves adjustments and evidence based and proven techniques to get you pain free fast. The advantage to this is that many people react adversely to medications and to the continuous use of medication for their pain symptoms, and with chiropractic care this is not an issue.
Chiropractic care can be complemented with other treatment methods
Chiropractic care can also be a treatment method that is combined with other medical services and treatments to provide you with the best chance of improving your health. For example many patients recieve fantastic results from combining chiropractic treatments with laser therapy, exercise & stretching routines.
Along with that chiropractic professionals are highly skilled at spinal decompression, Active Release Techniques, myofascial release, and laser therapy along with other pain relief techniques.
Chiropractic care is not a form of treatment, rather it is a profession with many effective options for pain treatment under its umbrella. This means that there are plently of options for each patient to get pain free.
If you are in the Vienna Virginia area, now is the time to contact a chiropractic professional and get pain free today!
It's Important To Ask The Right Questions Of Your Chiropractor
In order to get the best chiropractic care, you first need to make sure that you have a highly qualified chiropractic professional. Asking the right questions can make a big difference in finding the chiropractor that fits your needs the best.
Here is a list of questions you can ask a chiropractor to help you in your selection·
What experience do you have in the field of chiropractic?
It is important to find out the level of experience of the chiropractor. An experienced chiropractor should be well versed in treating different conditions. You need a chiropractor you are comfortable with, and finding an experienced chiropractor may be enough to calm your nerves that you are in the right hands.
Ask how long the doctor has been in practice. Ask if the doctor has specialized or has any additional training beyond that of Doctor of Chiropractic. For example, there are the elite 5% of doctors in the profession that go on and achieve specializations in certain fields of Chiropractic. For example Certified Chiropractic Sports credentials. (CCSP). Dr. Gold has gone the extra mile with this certification.
What techniques or treatment strategies do you practice?
Chiropractors use different techniques in providing relief for patients for different musculoskeletal conditions. You may want to ask the chiropractor if he or she can perform multiple chiropractic techniques to treat different health conditions.
You should inquire whether or not the doctor incorporates a multifaceted approach. For example, the research literature is clear that a robust system of exercise/rehabilitation/state of the art modalities combined with spinal manipulative therapy (chiropractic adjustments) provides superior outcomes when compared to either treatment modality by itself. Some Chiropractors only perform adjustments. We achieve much better outcomes incorporating multiple modalities/therapies.
More recent research has shown the incredible effectiveness of Active Release Techniques, spinal decompression, and Class IV laser as modalities chiropractors can use as leverage against your pain.
What is your average visit recommendation or case length?
If your Chiropractor recommends 50 treatments in a year, you are not in the right office. You should leave.
Unfortunately a common trick for some chiropractors is to take an x-rays of the neck area. Regardless of if their has even been trauma to the neck or if there is any discomfort described by the patient. Then they begin to explain problems in your neck and all the terrible things that will happened to you unless you seek immediate treatment from them. At this point some chiropractors would suggest that you will need to come in for between 40-60 appointments within a year.
The reason why this is unethical and dishonest is because this amount of appointment is not in the best interest of the patient. The measure of a truly reliable and respectable chiropractor is that they should see how FEW appointments they can make before you are completely out of pain, and back to your life. Secondly for a doctor to recommend visitations after a 4 week trial period, according to most experts and to most medical guidelines is quite simply out of line, and is not at all patient centered. A chiropractor who is trying to schedule you in for a years worth of appointments on the first day cares much more about their profit than the patient, and these are the types of chiropractors that you should be avoiding.
The vast majority of patient visits needed in our office is between 6 and 12 visits for symptom relief.
When profit comes before the patient, it is termed a ‘Doctor-centered’ practice.
Patient-centered practices have shorter, trial recommendations and the treatment schedule is adjusted in accordance with how you respond to treatment. Anything less indicates you need to find a different doctor.
How much are your fees?
The cost of treatment can vary depending on which chiropractic professional you choose to see in Northern Virginia. There are numerous factors that can impact this including level of experience, as well as level of training and certification. The majority of chiropractic offices you go to are very upfront about their prices and make an effort to thoroughly explain what you are paying for. Do not hesitate or be afraid to inquire about the cost of your visit before you commit to starting. It should always be customary to discuss costs with your chiropractor before you begin your treatment plan.
It is also important to recognize that the doctor is compensated according to their level of training, education, and experience. The fact that one chiropractor is more expensive then the other is not unethical, it typically means that one has more experience or certifications that allow them the charge more for their services. For example you would likely pay more for an orthopedic surgeon to give you an evaluation compared to a general practitioner. In the same way you should expect to pay a chiropractic specialist with higher certifications more for your evaluation and treatment than your regular run-of-the-mill general family chiropractor. The clinical evaluation is at a higher level as is every aspect of treatment.
Regardless, any office that is patient-centered is happy to go over their fees with you.
Do you provide free consultations?
Many patients prefer to receive treatment in a situation in which they can meet with the chiropractic professional and discuss and explain their condition in order to see if the chiropractor is capable of providing effective treatment solutions. One option is simply calling ahead or texting and explaining your condition over the phone.
No-charge consultations can go a long way to alleviating the ‘fear of the unknown’ in apprehensive patients and helping them get over any mental barriers to calling and making an appointment.
If you are in the Northern Virginia area; now is the time to take control of your health and schedule an appointment with Dr. Douglas Gold at NoVa Spine & Sports Rehab today!