If you are suffering from acute or chronic pain or functioning below your optimal level, Dr. Tahseen Moin at Midwest Physical Medicine and Rehab in Glendale Heights, IL, offers personalized chiropractic care to get you on a healthy, pain-free path.
Quick Guide to Chiropractic Care
Some of the chiropractic field’s techniques have been used for over a century and have provided natural relief from many types of pain and conditions. Below, Dr. Moin and the team at Midwest Physical Medicine and Rehab in Glendale Heights, IL, provide a quick overview of chiropractic care’s purpose and approach.
The Chiropractic Belief
The chiropractic field understands the human body has many incredible abilities – one is the ability to repair and heal itself. However, there are various issues and injuries that act as roadblocks to this natural healing. Chiropractors, therefore, aim to remove the roadblocks by restoring balance and alignment to the musculoskeletal system, which then allows the body to function healthily as normal.
How Is Balance and Alignment Restored?
Chiropractors use a range of natural techniques to achieve balance and alignment, including those below.
- Adjustments: Adjustments are a manual or instrument-assisted method of realigning any bones or joints that have shifted out of place.
- Massage therapy: Massage therapy relieves tension in the soft tissues, restores range of motion, removes undue pressure on the bones caused by tension, and increases blood flow.
- Physical therapy and therapeutic exercises: These include movements that are done in and out of the office to correct specific issues. Typically, they are a combination of stretching and strengthening movements that can help with everything from rehabbing an injured ankle to improving posture and decreasing back pain.
- Spinal decompression: Decompression therapy is a gentle method of comprehensively stretching the spinal column to relieve tension, remove pressure from spinal discs, and draw healing nutrients to the spine.
- Therapeutic ultrasound: Ultrasound therapy utilizes sound waves to penetrate deep into the soft tissues. It helps break up tension, adhesions, and scar tissue while improving blood flow and stimulating healing.
Symptoms, Conditions, and Injuries Chiropractors Treat
Chiropractors can address issues involving the interplay between the nervous and musculoskeletal systems, including but not limited to:
- Sports injuries
- Work injuries
- Auto injuries
- Degenerative disc disease
- Sciatica
- Chronic neck and back pain
- Hip and knee pain
- Shoulder pain
- Headaches
- Herniated discs
- Muscle strains, sprains, and more
Dr. Moin at Midwest Physical Medicine and Rehab in Glendale Heights, IL, is dedicated to helping you find relief from head to toe through chiropractic care. Call (630) 671-0555 to schedule an appointment today.