It’s true: It takes more effort to stay active in the winter months; and if you’re dealing with lingering pain, it’s easier to sidestep enjoying the outdoors or heading to the gym. This robs your body of motion, a crucial contributor to wellness. Leave hibernation to the bears, and conquer the pain that’s getting in your way.
At Active Care Chiropractic & Rehabilitation, we offer a range of nonsurgical treatments designed to dial back pain from musculoskeletal problems. There’s no need to suffer from lingering pain when we likely have an alternative that works for you.
Today, we’ll look at four treatment options, both familiar and lesser known, that can help you clear up those nagging aches and help you make the most of an active winter.
The cornerstone of our practice, chiropractic adjustments have the power to align and balance your musculoskeletal system. Spinal manipulation can provide near-instant pain relief, but that’s a side effect rather than a target of treatment.
By restoring balance to your spine, chiropractic adjustments promote healing conditions within the body, eliminating blood flow constrictions and nerve compression. These improvements provide natural pain relief produced by your own body.
Used in various cultures for many centuries, cupping therapy uses negative pressure to gently break up adhesions and improve natural drainage in your body. Using a principle called vasodilation, cupping encourages blood flow at the treatment site, also promoting the benefits of better circulation.
Cupping works well on back and shoulder pain, assisting in the breakup of myofascial knots, scar tissue in the fascia, a thin coating that reduces friction between muscle groups. Breaking up these trigger points reduces inflammation and pain while promoting increased flexibility and range of motion.
A noninvasive way to treat a wide range of soft tissue pain, cold lasers provide another way to improve blood flow while reducing inflammation, two key results that combine to naturally short-circuit pain.
An excellent complement to chiropractic adjustments, cold laser therapy helps with conditions like:
You’ll feel little during your cold laser treatment, perhaps some localized warmth as the laser boosts circulation to provide more oxygen into injured tissue.
A treatment that can reduce pain while also boosting performance levels, active release technique focuses on adhesions, muscle imbalances, and scar tissue brought on by traumatic injury or repetitive strain. It’s a manual technique that’s often used in a multimodal treatment plan, combined with other therapies.
These are just some of the natural pain relief options available to our patients at Active Care Chiropractic & Rehabilitation. Book your consultation with the nearest of our six offices, by phone or online, today.
