Fort Point Chiropractic

Fort Point Chiropractic Our practitioners treat patients for athletic injuries and sedentary or postural repetitive strains.

Do you suffer from headaches? Can chiropractic help you with your headaches?Headaches are one of the most common conditi...
02/20/2023

Do you suffer from headaches? Can chiropractic help you with your headaches?

Headaches are one of the most common conditions that we treat as a chiropractors.

Headache can be caused by many factors, including; tense muscles in the neck and shoulders, stress, restricted joints in the neck and upper back, and inflammation. These are the 3 most common types of headaches that we see in our office and how chiropractic can help headaches.
Tension Type Headaches: these are headaches that can be caused by stress and
tightness of the muscles that attach to the head and neck. They are often lingering
headaches that feel like pressure at or around the temples.
Cervicogenic Headaches: these are headaches that come from the neck itself, usually
from restriction or inflammation within the joints of the neck and upper back. These
headaches have associated neck pain.
Migraines: migraines are much more than just a bad headache; they are usually chronic and in addition to head pain, migraines are often accompanied by nausea, sensitivity to light or sound, dizziness, as well as feelings of exhaustion and fatigue after the headache.

How can Chiropractic help Headaches?
There are 3 main ways we treat patients for headaches; chiropractic adjustments, soft tissue therapies, and nutritional recommendations. This is how they can help you and your headaches.
1. Chiropractic adjustments of the neck and upper back work to remove joint
restriction, improve range of motion, reduce tension in the muscles that attach to the
neck. They also have an anti-inflammatory effect on the brain and nervous system.
2. Soft tissue therapies like trigger point therapy can help relax the muscles that
attach to the head and neck that may be causing headaches.
3. Nutritional recommendations can help reduce chronic muscle tension and
systemic inflammation that may contribute to chronic headaches.

How Active Are You during the Winter?Humans may not hibernate, but most certainly become much less active as the tempera...
02/19/2023

How Active Are You during the Winter?

Humans may not hibernate, but most certainly become much less active as the temperature drops. Unfortunately, even a slight change in your activity level can increase your risk of a variety of health issues, including sore, stiff muscles and joints. Although you may not be able to enjoy your favorite warm-weather activities during the winter, staying active will help you stay healthier and prevent aches and pains.

Why Activity Is So Important

Moving is good for every part of your body, from your legs to your heart and lungs. Any type of movement, whether it's completing a vigorous workout or walking your dog, improves blood circulation. Blood circulates oxygen throughout your body and provides important nutrients to muscles, tissues, and organs. Good circulation keeps your organs functioning optimally, speeds wound healing, and is essential for brain and heart health. Are your feet or hands always cold during the winter months? Even a brief exercise session will warm up those chilly fingers and toes.

Other benefits of moving include:

Better Metabolism. A sluggish metabolism makes it harder to burn calories. Incorporating movement into your daily routine offers a simple way to jumpstart your metabolism and manage your weight.
Reduced Risk of Chronic Diseases. Inactivity increases your risk of high cholesterol, high blood pressure, stroke, type 2 diabetes, osteoporosis, breast and colon cancer, depression, and anxiety, according to Medline Plus. Moving more, no matter the season, may help you avoid or lower your risk of these diseases.
Stronger Immune System. Your immune system is better equipped to fight off winter colds and illnesses if you stay active during the winter. Improving your blood flow with exercise makes it easier for white blood cells to circulate throughout your body. These cells help your body fight germs that could make you sick.
Less Inflammation. Exercise also reduces inflammation, which the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences notes can be a factor in heart disease, asthma, diabetes, colon cancer, high blood pressure, inflammatory bowel disease, and other chronic diseases.
Better Balance. You're more likely to slip and fall if your balance is poor due to weak bones and muscles. Strengthening your muscles and bones with exercise helps you improve your balance and avoid falls.
Lower Osteoporosis Risk. Osteoporosis, a condition that weakens bones, can lead to painful fractures in older people. Fifty percent of women and about twenty-five percent of men may eventually break a bone due to this disease, according to the National Osteoporosis Foundation. Vigorous weight-bearing activity, like aerobics (high- or low-impact), tennis, walking, or dancing, strengthens bones and reduces your risk of breaking a bone.
Less Pain. It's not a coincidence that joint and muscle pain tends to increase during the winter months. A sedentary lifestyle can lead to stiff, painful muscles and joints, but it's not the only reason you may feel more pain during the winter. On cold days, blood flow to your arms and legs decreases in an attempt to keep your core warm. Without a steady supply of blood to warm your muscles, they may soon become stiff and achy.
What's Keeping You from Staying Active?

Is lack of motivation the reason you rarely exercise during the winter? Exercise doesn't have to be a grueling chore. Any type of movement, whether it's dancing in your kitchen, bowling, cleaning your closet, or trying a few yoga moves, will help you stay healthier.

It's much more difficult to skip your daily walk or workout session when you exercise with someone else. After all, you won't want to disappoint your workout partner. Thanks to Zoom and other video calling software, you can work out together even if you live in different parts of the country.

If pain or stiffness makes staying active difficult, your chiropractor can help. Chiropractic treatments ease pain, keep your spine properly aligned, and loosen tight muscles and joints, making it much easier to exercise. Your chiropractor can also show you exercises that will help keep your muscles and joints loose, limber, and pain-free.

Could a visit to the chiropractor help you move more comfortably? Give us a call to schedule your appointment.

How Chiropractic Will Help You Reach Your Health GoalsNew Year's resolutions are often forgotten once February arrives. ...
02/08/2023

How Chiropractic Will Help You Reach Your Health Goals

New Year's resolutions are often forgotten once February arrives. While you may have meant every word you said when you made your resolutions, achieving your health goals could be harder than you expected. If you're struggling to improve your health, chiropractic treatment could offer the boost you need to check off the items on your list. Take a look a few ways that chiropractic could help you this year.

Exercising Is Easier with Fewer Aches and Pains

Lounging on the couch seems like a much better option than exercising if your joints and muscles ache. Although a fall or injury can trigger pain, poor posture may also be responsible for your symptoms. Poor posture stresses your muscles, ligaments, tendons and joints and may even pull the bony vertebrae in your neck and back out of alignment.

Posture-related pain can occur if:

You slouch over your computer or steering wheel
Your hunch your spine and hold your neck forward when you stand and walk
You spend hours looking down at digital devices
Your job requires you to contort your body into comfortable positions
Chiropractic treatment is ideal for easing pain and stiffness, no matter what the cause. Your treatment plan might include:

Spinal manipulation therapy to realign your vertebrae
Massage therapy to loosen tight tissues and ease pain
Ultrasound therapy to heat deep tissues, relieve muscle tension, and break apart scar tissue that can contribute to stiffness
Traction to gently stretch your spine and reduce pressure on nerves, discs and tissues
Soft tissue mobilization to reduce tension on muscles and tissues and improve function and range of motion
Chiropractic Treatment Can Reduce Your Reliance on Pain Medication

Are you tired of relying on pills to relieve your pain or concerned about medication side effects? Whether you're worried about addiction or struggling with dizziness, nausea, drowsiness and other common side effects, chiropractic will help you reduce and manage your pain naturally.

Just because you can buy pain medication at the drugstore doesn't mean it's harmless. Taking too much ibuprofen could cause gastrointestinal problems or even damage your kidneys, while liver failure could occur if you take more than the recommended amount of acetaminophen.

Your chiropractor offers treatments that:

Target the source of your pain and prevent it from returning
Reduce inflammation, swelling and stiffness
Improve flexibility and range of motion
Enhance blood flow necessary for optimum function and healing
When you visit your chiropractor regularly, you may find you get fewer headaches or notice that your joint pain doesn't bother you as much as it once did. Thanks to the treatments, you may be able to take a lower dose of the medication or even stop taking it completely.

Chiropractic Helps You Manage Chronic Conditions

Do you need a little help controlling a chronic condition? Chiropractic may have a beneficial impact on many chronic diseases and conditions, including asthma, arthritis, migraines, temporomandibular joint dysfunction, fibromyalgia and insomnia.

If you have asthma, realigning your spine reduces tension on chest muscles and allows your lungs to expand fully when you take a full breath. Treatments can reduce the number of tension headaches or migraines you get, or reduce pain caused by fibromyalgia or arthritis.

Visiting the chiropractor could even help you lower your blood pressure. UChicago Medicine Researchers discovered that spinal manipulation decreased blood pressure in patients who had misaligned vertebrae in their necks.

Are you tired of broken New Year's resolutions? Why not improve your health with chiropractic?

Custom Orthotics Could Be What You Need to Fight Foot PainSore, aching feet are a common problem in the U.S. In fact, 51...
12/19/2022

Custom Orthotics Could Be What You Need to Fight Foot Pain

Sore, aching feet are a common problem in the U.S. In fact, 51 percent of adults surveyed by the American Podiatric Medical Association reported struggling with daily activities due to foot pain. Custom orthotics can ease pain and make walking and standing much more comfortable.

What Are Orthotics?

Orthotics are shoe inserts that cushion, align, and support your feet. The inserts are available in both over-the-counter and custom varieties.

What Is the Difference Between Drugstore and Custom Orthotics?

Over-the-counter orthotics use a one-size-fits-all approach to relieving foot pain. While the shoe inserts may be helpful for some people, they might actually worsen pain for others. Custom orthotics are designed by your chiropractor to address your specific foot issues. The inserts are made from a physical or digital impression of your foot to ensure a perfect fit.

Who Can Benefit from Orthotics?

Orthotics relieve pain caused by a variety of foot conditions, including:

Overpronation. Overpronation occurs when the inside of your foot turns too far inward when you walk. In addition to causing pain in your feet, overpronation may also disrupt the natural alignment of the bones in your legs, hips, and back, triggering pain in these areas. If you overpronate when you walk, you may be more likely to develop Achilles tendinitis, plantar fasciitis, and other foot conditions. Orthotics align and support the foot, preventing this inward turn.
Arch Issues. Both low and high arches can cause foot pain. Arch problems may also affect the alignment of your spine and legs and cause pain in your knees, hips, or back. In addition to supporting the arches, orthotics reduce pain by distributing pressure equally over the surface of the foot.
Arthritis. Both osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis cause pain and swelling in the joints in the feet. Orthotics cushion sore feet and make walking less painful.
Plantar Fasciitis. Plantar fasciitis, a common cause of heel pain, occurs when the band of connective tissue that connects the heels to the toes becomes inflamed. Every year, about 10% of the U.S. population develops plantar fasciitis, according to Medscape. Wearing orthotics reduces stress and inflammation in the fascia and helps it heal.
Overuse. Foot pain is more common in people who stand for hours, run, or play sports. Orthotics decrease pressure, offer extra cushioning, and prevent your feet from moving too much in your shoes.
Aging. The layer of fat covering the bottoms of your feet thins with age. Without that natural cushion, walking and standing can become painful. Orthotics support and cushion your foot, relieving and preventing soreness.
Other Conditions. Orthotics are also helpful in decreasing pain caused by bunions, bursitis, hammertoes, heel spurs, sprains, and diabetes.
What Are the Type of Custom Orthotics?

Your chiropractor will recommend a type of orthotic depending on your foot condition. Orthotic types include:

Rigid Orthotics. These orthotics are made of inflexible materials, like plastic carbon fibers or stainless steel. Rigid orthotics are ideal if your foot pain is caused by abnormal foot motion. The orthotics align the foot and reduce motion. They can be helpful for plantar fasciitis and arch pain and may also reduce pain in the legs, hips, and back.
Semi-Rigid Orthotics. Semi-rigid orthotics consist of a hard inner core covered by a softer material. These orthotics offer support and cushioning, while also improving balance. They're a good choice if you run or walk for exercise and are also helpful for flatfoot, plantar fasciitis, overpronation, hammertoe and foot alignment issues in children. Semi-rigid orthotics may offer a good option if you find rigid orthotics uncomfortable.
Soft Orthotics. Ideal for cushioning, soft orthotics feature several layers of foam. In addition to improving comfort and absorbing shock, they also reduce pressure that can cause blisters and calluses. These orthotics can be helpful for people who have age-related foot pain, diabetes, bunions, and arthritis.
Heel Cups. Heel cups only cover the heel portion of shoes. They ease pain caused by Achilles tendinitis, plantar fasciitis, heel spurs, and other conditions.
Ready to ease your foot pain with orthotics? Contact our office to schedule an appointment with our chiropractor.

Struggling with Back Pain This Summer? Ease Your Pain with Chiropractic CareAre you skipping your favorite summer activi...
08/18/2022

Struggling with Back Pain This Summer? Ease Your Pain with Chiropractic Care

Are you skipping your favorite summer activities due to back pain? If you don't want to miss another minute of summer fun, give your chiropractor a call. Chiropractic care is ideal for both upper and lower back pain and offers a drug-free alternative to pain relief.

Why Back Pain Often Occurs During the Summer

With so many ways to be active during the summer, it's not surprising that back pain complaints increase as the temperature rises. Twisting and turning when gardening, forgetting to use your leg muscles when lifting furniture, or using poor technique when exercising or playing sports can trigger pain in the joints, muscles, tendons, ligaments, and nerves that make up your back.

Chiropractic Care Offers Natural Back Pain Relief

Contrary to popular belief, back pain doesn't always go away on its own. In fact, pain could become a chronic problem if you don't receive treatment for your symptoms. Although medication is effective in easing pain, it only offers a temporary solution. Pain often returns as soon as you stop taking the medication. In addition to providing natural pain relief, chiropractic treatments target the source of the problem, reducing the likelihood of flare-ups in the future.

A Misalignment Could Be Responsible for Your Pain

Painless, smooth movements are only possible when the vertebrae of your spine are perfectly aligned. If one or more of these small bones are misaligned, you may experience back pain, inflammation, stiffness, muscle spasms, and tight muscles and tissues. Misaligned vertebrae and tight muscles and tissues may also press on nerves, increasing your pain.

Your chiropractor realigns your vertebrae using a treatment called spinal manipulation. Commonly called an "adjustment," spinal manipulation involves quick thrusts to your spine that move the vertebrae back into their normal position. Once your spine is properly aligned, pain, stiffness, and inflammation decrease. At the same time, blood flow to your back increases, promoting healing. Adjustments treat your pain and also help you avoid flare-ups in the future, as you're much more likely to experience back injuries if your vertebrae are out of alignment

Your chiropractor also offers treatments that relax your muscles, ease pain, and quicken healing, like massage, soft tissue manipulation and mobilization, and ultrasound therapy.

Chiropractic care can be used alone or in conjunction with standard care. In a study of low back pain in 18- to 35-year-old activity military personnel, patients who receive chiropractic therapy in addition to standard medical care reported significantly less pain than those who only received standard medical care. The study appeared in Spine in 2013.

Could Poor Posture Be a Contributing Factor in Your Pain?

Slouching or contorting your body in unusual positions while you garden, carry supplies to your campsite, lift heavy luggage, or attempt a new waterskiing trick could cause or worsen back pain.

Spinal manipulation and other chiropractic treatments counteract the effects of poor posture and help you avoid back pain throughout the summer. Chiropractic treatments keep your body balanced and help prevent muscle strains and sprains that are more likely to occur when your vertebrae are misaligned. During your visits, your chiropractor can provide helpful advice on posture and recommend lifting techniques that will minimize strain on your back.

Chiropractic Helps You Manage Chronic Back Pain

It's only natural to want to have fun in the summer despite your chronic back pain. Unfortunately, ignoring your condition can lead to painful flare-ups that last for weeks. Keeping arthritis, degenerative disc disease, sciatica, herniated discs, scoliosis, sacroiliac pain, and other conditions under control becomes much easier when you add chiropractic appointments to your summer schedule.

Are you dealing with back pain? Relieve your pain with a visit to the chiropractor. Contact our office to schedule a convenient appointment.

Traveling Soon? These Chiropractic Tips Will Help Make Your Trip Pain-FreeAfter spending hours in a car or plane, muscle...
07/19/2022

Traveling Soon? These Chiropractic Tips Will Help Make Your Trip Pain-Free

After spending hours in a car or plane, muscles and joints become stiff and sore, making pain an unfortunate consequence of traveling for many people. If you usually spend the first day or two of your trip in pain, these tips will help you avoid travel-related discomfort.

Take Breaks

Your body wasn't designed to endure hours of sitting. Remaining in one position for too long affects your posture and may strain your joints, muscles, tendons, and ligaments. Frequent breaks reduce stress on bones and tissues and may help you avoid post-trip pain. If you're traveling by car, stop every hour for brief stretching breaks. If you can't stop frequently, schedule rest stops at least every few hours.

Traveling by train or plane? Although frequent rest stops won't be possible, you can keep your body loose and limber by taking a few laps up and down the aisles every hour.

Stretch It Out

Stretching before, during and after your trip works out the kinks, relaxes your muscles, and increases blood flow to your muscles and joints, helping you avoid neck and back pain.

During your trip, try a few simple seated exercises. Roll your shoulders back and forth, move your neck from side to side, lift your legs, and roll your ankles in small circles. If there's room, extend your arms above your head and perform a few vertical punches.

Make Good Posture a Priority

When it's vacation time, your posture is probably the last thing on your mind. Unfortunately, failing to maintain good posture when you're traveling practically guarantees that you'll be achy and irritable when you arrive at your destination. Remind yourself to sit up straight in your seat with both feet firmly on the floor.

Don't Overpack

It's amazing how much stuff your luggage can hold, even if it looks completely full. Unfortunately, the heavier your bag, the more likely you'll strain or injure muscles, joints, and tissues in your neck or back when you remove it from the trunk or try to hoist it into an overhead compartment.

Before you leave home, pick up your bag. If you can't lift it without straining, it's best to reevaluate which things you absolutely need and which can be removed or placed in another bag. Packing light not only prevents injury, but also helps you avoid additional fees for overweight luggage if you're flying.

Bend your knees, and use your leg muscles, not your back muscles, when lifting luggage or placing it in the overhead compartment in a plane, train, or bus. Spine Universe recommends placing your luggage on the seat first, then moving it into the overhead compartment rather than lifting your bag in one movement.

Make Your Seat More Comfortable

Does your head wobble because you're too short for your car's headrest? Or is the problem that you're just too tall for the seat to adequately support you? Both problems may mean that you'll end your trip with a pain in your neck.

Use a neck cushion or pillow (or a rolled-up travel blanket or towel in a pinch) to support your neck during your trip. If lower back pain is a problem for you, buy a lumbar cushion designed to fit and support the curve of your back.

If you're driving, make sure your seat is high enough. According to Geico, your eyes should be at least three inches above the steering wheel. Sit back when you drive. Leaning forward will strain your neck and shoulders and cause muscle pain and spasms that could last for days.

Visit the Chiropractor

Avoiding travel-related aches and pains can be as easy as making an appointment with your chiropractor before your trip. You're more likely to experience pain or an injury if your muscles are already tight or your spine is misaligned. Treatments like spinal manipulation, massage and soft tissue mobilization realign your spine, improve your posture, and keep your muscles and tissues loose and flexible.

Visiting the chiropractor when you get home can prevent minor pain or soreness from becoming major problems. During your visit, your chiropractor will look for misaligned vertebrae, tight tissues and knots and offer treatments that will make returning home a much more pleasant experience.

Do you have a trip planned soon? Now's the perfect time to schedule your pre- and post-trip chiropractic appointments. Contact our office to make your appointment.

How Posture Affects Your HealthCould your health issues be related to your posture? Poor posture not only causes back pa...
07/01/2022

How Posture Affects Your Health

Could your health issues be related to your posture? Poor posture not only causes back pain but may be the reason for several other health problems and conditions.

Why Good Posture Is So Important

Your bones support your weight and keep your body properly aligned and balanced. If you slouch or contort your body while you sleep or work, you're bound to experience problems with your joints, muscles, tendons, ligaments or even organs eventually.

No one has perfect posture all the time. Although occasional bad posture probably won't cause health issues, you may be more likely to notice a difference in your health if poor posture is a frequent problem.

Shortness of Breath Could Be Related to Poor Posture

Do you struggle to take a deep breath? Although asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), pneumonia, lung cancer and other conditions can cause shortness of breath, poor posture could also be to blame.

Breathing issues are more common in people who hunch over when they work, watch TV, or use their laptops or smartphones. As you hunch over, you round your shoulders and hold your head forward. These positions tighten the chest muscles that help you breathe and make it harder for the diaphragm to expand fully. (The diaphragm is a large, dome-shaped muscle under your lungs. Every time you inhale and exhale, the diaphragm contracts and expands.)

Researchers who studied the effects of cellphone use on breathing discovered that study participants had reduced breathing function after just one hour of phone use. They noted that changes in breathing muscles and the rib cage in cellphone users could play a part in the breathing problems. Their work appeared in the May 2016 issue of the Journal of Physical Therapy Science.

Aches and Pain May Be Caused or Worsened by Posture Issues

Poor posture strains muscles, joints, ligaments and tendons, causing pain, stiffness, loss of flexibility and reduced range of motion. If your body is imbalanced, one muscle may become stronger while the corresponding muscle on the other side of the body weakens.

Neck, hip, back or leg pain may be caused by bad posture, as can arthritis. When you have poor posture, you're much more likely to suffer a misalignment of the vertebrae in your spine. These misalignments can press on nerves or tighten muscles or tissues, increasing pain.

In recent years, more and more people have headed to the chiropractor's office for treatment of text neck. The condition gets its name from the way people bend their necks to look down at their smartphones and other digital devices. Text next causes pain and stiffness in the neck and shoulders, headaches and eye pain and increases wear and tear on the vertebrae in your neck.

Other Health Problems That Can Be Traced to Poor Posture

Poor posture can lead to several other health problems, including:

Frequent Headaches. Muscles in the head and neck tighten if you hold your head too far forward or in unusual positions. Tight muscles are a trigger for tension headaches and can make migraines feel worse.
Temporomandibular Joint Dysfunction (TMJ). The way you hold your head and jaw may put you at risk for developing TMJ, a painful condition that affects the hinged joints in your jaw.
Incontinence. Stress incontinence (leaking urine when coughing, laughing or sneezing) may also be caused by poor posture, according to Harvard Health Publishing.
Digestive Problems. Slouching or hunching over places pressure on your stomach and intestines and can cause acid reflux, constipation, gas and bloating.
Follow These Tips to Improve Your Posture

It's never to late to change the way you sit or stand. Improving your posture can be as simple as:

Reminding yourself not to slouch or hunch over when sitting or standing
Holding your cellphone at eye level
Performing stretches every day to make your muscles more flexible
Strengthening weak muscles, especially core muscles, with exercise
Choosing a mattress that's firm enough to support your spine without sagging
Selecting ergonomic office furniture that correctly supports your back and neck
Visiting the chiropractor for treatments that correct spinal misalignments, ease pain, balance your body, and loosen tight muscles and tissues.
Are you tired of living with posture-related health problems? Give us a call and we'll schedule a convenient appointment with the chiropractor.

What is Scoliosis?Scoliosis is a three dimensional deformity of the spine which presents as a lateral curvaturewhen view...
02/21/2022

What is Scoliosis?
Scoliosis is a three dimensional deformity of the spine which presents as a lateral curvature
when viewed from behind. The spine typically has curves when viewed from the side and these
curves distribute the mechanical stress across the body. Scoliosis affects between 2-3% of
people and typically starts between the ages of 10-15.
Scoliosis can occur for several different reasons including degeneration, congenital or
embryological malformations, or it can be idiopathic meaning the cause is unknown. About 80%
of those diagnosed with scoliosis fall into the idiopathic category and these curves usually begin
to develop around puberty.
Common signs or symptoms of scoliosis include back pain, muscle spasms, uneven shoulders,
waist, and/or hips, leaning to one side, a prominence of the ribs on one side when leaning
forward, amongst other possible physical deformities.

How is Scoliosis Diagnosed?
Scoliosis is determined via several tests which can include a physical examination, an x-ray, CT
scan, and/or MRI. The standard test used by pediatricians, chiropractors, and in school
screenings is called the Adam’s Forward Bend Test. As the individual bends forward the doctor
looks for asymmetries and abnormal curvatures in the spine. Although an important and helpful
tool for identifying scoliosis, this test cannot tell the doctor the type, degree, or severity of the
deformity. A positive Adam’s Test is usually followed up with an x-ray to determine the exact
degree and severity of the curvature.

Treatments
Treatment for scoliosis depends on a number of factors including age, degree of curvature, and
the location of the curvature. Depending on the severity of the scoliotic curve or curves and how
these impact the individual, several different treatment options may be available. Conservative
care can include chiropractic adjustments, soft tissue work, physical therapy, and/or observation
with periodic x-rays.
Other treatments that may be called for can include bracing and surgery. Braces are used for
individuals who have not yet reached skeletal maturity in order to prevent the curves from
progressing which is successful about 80% of the time. Surgery is usually only required in
severe cases where curves are 40 degrees or more and expected to progress or if the curve
affects the organs or nerves. The type of surgery done is based on the age and health
conditions of the individual but usually includes rigid rods to straighten the spine as well as
spinal fusion. Surgery risks and benefits should be carefully weighed, some of the risks include
pain, infection, severe blood loss, nerve damage, and paraplegia. There is no guarantee that
surgery will stop curve progression and symptoms in every individual but many patients do
benefit from surgery in severe cases.

How Chiropractic Can Help
Chiropractors utilize a variety of treatments including spinal adjustments, massage and other
soft tissue techniques, and exercises in order to treat a variety of conditions including scoliosis.
Chiropractic adjustments are used to increase joint motion, support the nervous system,
decrease muscle spasms, and decrease discomfort. Soft tissue techniques are used to alleviate
pain, increase range of motion, assist in tendon healing, and decrease adhesions and scar
tissue in and between layers of soft tissue. Exercises are used to correct muscular imbalances,
increase strength, and enhance stability of the spine.

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