Chiropractic Equipment

Drop tables give chiropractors more control over how to move and manipulate the patient's body. It can also target different areas of the body more easily. Also known as the Thompson technique, the “drop” table is a special table used by many chiropractors. The term “drop” refers to when segments of the table are lifted and then dropped when a thrust is applied by the chiropractor. This allows gravity to assist in combination with manual adjustments. This technique provides a lighter adjustment than other options.

Cold Laser Therapy is used to stimulate nerves and increase micro blood flow to the targeted area. This type of treatment utilizes specific wavelengths of light to interact with tissue and is thought to help accelerate the healing process. It can be used on patients who suffer from a variety of acute and chronic conditions in order to help eliminate pain, swelling, reduce spasms and increase functionality.

How is laser different from light therapy?
Light therapy has its applications but is only a superficial stimulator. Cold laser therapy has been shown to penetrate over 1.5 inches at .5 watts and much deeper at higher wattage.

How does cold laser help heal?
Essentially every cell in the body has a photoreceptor. Various types of cells such as nerve cells are stimulated at certain frequencies. Hemoglobin-the iron portion of blood also has a photoreceptor. By stimulating the photoreceptors we can increase the healing activity, reduce inflammation and relieve pain.

What are the contraindications to laser?
As cold laser therapy generates no heat, it will not leave burns. There are no known studies that is adversely effects pregnancy or patients with seizure disorders.

Is it safe?
There have been over 500,000 people stimulated in various studies and no adverse events have ever been reported.

Why doesn’t the medical field use them?
Well they have finally caught on and several P.T’s have started using them.

Is it covered by insurance?
Not directly but if we use it during rehabilitative exercise the rehab is covered.

Also known as E-Stim therapy is used to help with discomfort and inflammation in a targeted area. This therapy is a process where small electric currents are sent through muscles in order to make them contract. When the muscles contract during this process, the patient experiences pain and tension relief and a reduction in swelling. Electric muscle stimulation or EMS is especially beneficial during the injury rehabilitation process. This process is not painful and can provide pain relief for multiple trigger points.

Ultrasound therapy, sometimes called ultrasonic therapy can be beneficial for muscles, tendons, and soft tissue injuries. This type of therapy produces sound waves that emanate treatment through ultrasonic vibrations to troublesome areas, creating therapeutic vibrations for targeted therapy. High-frequency sound waves create a small amount of heat and draw blood to the injured area as well as break up scar tissue. This treatment has been proven to help ease pain and stiffness in sore, injured or overworked muscles by relaxing and warming the tight muscles and soft tissue and increasing circulation to help to heal.

Percussors use trigger point therapy to relieve tightness by breaking up scar tissue and adhesions in the body’s fascia. This technique blends well with other types of treatments or in certain circumstances as a stand-alone therapy.

Some of the benefits of using this device are:

• Increased circulation

• Reduced pain

• Faster rehabilitation from injury

• Increased lymphatic flow

• Breakup of muscular scar tissue and densified tissue

• Reduced lactic acid buildup

• Tissue regeneration, soft and active tissue release, and stimulation of proprioceptive functions

The Activator provides low-impact impulses to targeted areas so that the muscles cannot tense and resist treatment. There are two theoretical advantages of the use of an activator:

• High Speed: When this instrument is using high speed the muscles are less likely to tense in response and resist the treatment, aiding in the treatment’s effectiveness.

• Controlled Force: This technique is where applied force is localized and does not put the joint in a compromising position.

The manual flexion table is a gentle non-force adjustment procedure that helps to heal the spine naturally. By using slight rotations, the joints in the spine increase in their ability to move freely. The goal of this technique is to decompress the spine and by applying gentle stretching or traction to the lower spine.

With the combination of use of this table and gentle pressure, Dr. Hennie utilizing flexion and decompression to increase disc height between vertebrae, decompressing the spinal column and restoring the spinal joints to their proper alignment and range of motion. This technique has been found to:

• Reduce pressure of the disc

• Improve range of motion in spinal joints, arms, legs, and shoulders

• Improve posture

• Increase circulation

• Improve nerve communication

This technique uses gravity assisted traction to restore the natural curvature of the spine. Abnormal cervical lordosis can be caused by many things such as car accidents, falls or poor posture, which in turn can adversely affect nerves, ligaments and muscle functions. The use of DenneRoll Traction has been shown to reverse those affects, providing much relief and improving overall health.

Dry needling treatment is specifically focused on conditions requiring muscular pain relief. Many tight, sore, overused, overworked, and injured muscular tissues develop tight knots or “adhesions”. This technique is the insertion of sterile, short, extremely thin, stainless steel “filiform” needles into the skin, either directly into the muscle knots or around the muscle knot at strategic points, to release the tightness. This is called “dry” needling because no fluid is injected into the body by these needles. Needles are inserted into or around these knots, also called “trigger points”. Some of the areas that dry needling can help are:

• Neck pain

• Back pain

• Shoulder pain

• Elbow pain

• TMJ (jaw pain and facial pain)

• Knee pain

• Foot pain (particularly plantar fasciitis)

• Hand and wrist pain (carpal tunnel syndrome)