Can a chiropractor help with THAT?!
In short, a great chiropractor can assess and treat anything on your body that moves!
If theres a muscle, joint, nerve around your area of complaint, a chiropractor is qualified to assess and treat it with conservative, non-surgical methods including dry needling, adjustments, mobilization or strengthening exercises, hands-on therapies, and even high-tech therapeutic devices like class-4 laser and shockwave therapy in order to facilitate healing, decrease your pain, remove movement restrictions and increase your functional abilities!
The chiropractors “bread and butter” is obviously complaints of the spine like neck, mid-back, and low back pain but we also regularly treat the shoulders, hips, wrists, elbows, knees and ankles of the limbs as well.
Chiropractors can even help with things like TMJ or jaw pain issues because the jaw is technically a joint, surrounded by muscles, that has intimate ties to the function and movement of the upper neck. In fact, we helped Shawn get back to being able to eat a burger (which she loved but hadn’t done in months) without fear that her jaw would lock up and be in pain for days at at time, using needling, adjustments to her neck, intra-oral muscle work, and home-exercises!
Here are a few other things that you may not think of that a chiropractor is more than well-suited to treat! 👇🏼
Sciatica or radiating symptoms ⚡️ from your low back down your leg, or down the arm from the neck
That persistent muscle knot near your shoulder blade or in your upper traps (seen in TONS of people who work at a desk for their job)
Carpal tunnel syndrome ⌨️ (Mallory was scheduled to have carpal tunnel surgery but she came to us as a last effort for relief and got so much relief that she cancelled her impending surgery and is back to knitting and gardening!)
Tendonitis and other inflammatory tendon issues (golfers/tennis elbow, runners knee, IT Band syndrome) — Michelle’s flared up every time she did a few particular lifts, but we got her sorted back out with dry needling, adjustments to her exercise form, and properly loaded rehab exercises.
Sprained ankles
Headaches and migraines 🤯 (We helped Chrissy go from having weekly debilitating migraines that would cause her to need to leave work, to just one minor headache every couple of months!)
Plantar fasciitis, shin splits, or other running injuries 🏃🏽
Muscle strains or pulls (Liam was able to wrestle in an upcoming tournament a few days after a muscle tweak at practice after some needling and exercise!)
Another great benefit of seeking care from a great chiropractor first is that they are a fantastic resource for (non-emergency) triage. A great chiropractic provider should be able to recognize yellow/red flags that may indicate that a particular patient’s issues are beyond their scope, and make an appropriate recommendation or referral to someone who is better suited to help you if needed, such as orthopedics, functional medicine, or .
Above is hardly an exhaustive list of all the things a chiropractor could help with — if your wondering if we can help with your particular issue, just give us a phone call or shoot us a message and we can have a chat about if we may be able to help!
Bottom line — a great chiropractor using well-rounded care should be one of the first places to turn for triage, diagnosis and effective treatment of neuromusculoskeletal (nerves, muscles, bones, joints) aches and pains anywhere throughout your body — not just your spine!