Chiropractic Care

What is Chiropractic?

Chiropractic focuses on the relationship between the body's structure—mainly the spine—and its functioning. Chiropractic care is used most often to treat neuro-musculoskeletal complaints, including but not limited to back pain, neck pain, pain in the joints of the arms or legs, and headaches. Doctors of Chiropractic practice a drug-free, hands-on approach to health care that includes patient examination, diagnosis and treatment. Chiropractors have broad diagnostic skills and are also trained to recommend therapeutic and rehabilitative exercises, as well as to provide nutritional, dietary and lifestyle counseling.

Although practitioners in Santa Clarita may use a variety of treatment approaches, they primarily perform adjustments, or manipulations, to the spine or other parts of the body with the goal of correcting alignment problems, alleviating pain, improving function, and supporting the body's natural ability to heal itself. The purpose of manipulation is to restore joint mobility by manually applying a controlled force into joints that have become hypomobile – or restricted in their movement – as a result of a tissue injury. Tissue injury can be caused  by a single traumatic event or through repetitive stresses, such as sitting in an awkward position with poor spinal posture for an extended period of time. In either case, injured tissues undergo physical and chemical changes that can cause inflammation, pain, and diminished function for the sufferer. Manipulation, or adjustment of the affected joint and tissues, restores mobility, thereby alleviating pain and muscle tightness, and allowing tissues to heal.

Chiropractic is widely recognized as one of the safest drug-free, non-invasive therapies available for the treatment of acute and chronic pain. In addition to being a safe form of treatment, spinal manipulation is incredibly effective, getting patients back on their feet faster than traditional medical care.

Ailments Commonly Treated by Chiropractic in Santa Clarita:

• low back and neck pain
• sciatica and disc herniation
• headaches and migraines
• work, auto, and sport injuries
• sprains and strains
• arthritis