Every year, more than 50 million Americans seek medical care for injuries, looking for care that can help relieve pain, restore function, and improve their overall wellness. Focused on supporting musculoskeletal health, chiropractic care and physical therapy can both be extremely effective in helping people heal and recover.
At Easy Reach Chiropractic, Barbara Adonis, DC, and Heather Previll, PT, DPT, provide both types of therapy alone and in combination to help patients recover faster and more fully following work and sports injuries and motor vehicle accidents. If you’ve suffered an injury, here’s how a combination of chiropractic care and physical therapy can help you heal.
Chiropractic care focuses on problems affecting your musculoskeletal system, including your bones, joints, muscles, and connective tissues. It also focuses on the nerves that control pain and movement, especially at the points where these nerves exit your spine.
Chiropractors use hands-on techniques to optimize spinal alignment and facilitate normal nerve and joint function. Through specific techniques, chiropractors relieve pain and inflammation, promote healing circulation, and support natural healing and tissue repair.
Physical therapy focuses on exercises and activities designed to restore function following injuries, surgery, or degenerative damage, like joint dysfunction from arthritis. Your therapist designs a treatment plan to support endurance, flexibility, and strength through a regimen of targeted rehabilitation.
Chiropractic care and physical therapy work well on their own to facilitate healing and recovery, but they also work quite well together. In fact, these two therapies complement each other for synergistic effects that enhance your body’s natural healing responses and restore strength and function.
First, incorporating both techniques ensures you receive a comprehensive evaluation that considers every aspect of your injury and your recovery. In turn, your evaluation enables our team to develop a treatment plan that addresses issues affecting your spine, joints, nerves, muscles, blood vessels, and other tissues, for a holistic approach that benefits your whole health.
The combined techniques of chiropractic treatment and physical therapy work together to reduce nerve pressure and relieve pain while improving strength and mobility, addressing every component of your musculoskeletal system and your nerve health, as well. Together, these techniques help manage pain more effectively, so you can begin resuming your regular activities as soon as possible.
Finally, both chiropractic treatment and physical therapy also include lifestyle guidance to help you heal more quickly and prevent further injury. And, they both work well with other treatments, including medication and minimally invasive interventions.
Getting better after an injury takes patience and commitment. By following your custom treatment plan closely, our team can help you heal as quickly as possible. To learn more about, request an appointment online or over the phone with the team at Easy Reach Chiropractic in Lake Worth and Fort Lauderdale, Florida, today.
