This isn’t your stereotypical doctors office. Not only in aesthetics but also in our approach to treating patients. We take an aggressive, proactive approach to alleviating symptoms, resolving problems, and returning patients to their daily or extra-curricular activities as quickly and as well-prepared as possible.
We spend a lot more time with our patients then one might be accustomed to at other clinics. Our physicians do most of their own modalities and procedures. This allows us to become more involved in the patients specific treatment and allows plenty of time for the patient to interact and participate more in their own recovery.
Some other quick facts about us:
There are no treatment contracts to sign or treatments packages to purchase. We treat aggressively to get our patients out of pain quicker and back into therapeutic activities faster. On average, most soft tissue injuries have a positive reaction in 3-5 visits. Continued care is to help strengthen the injured area and eventually protect that area from future injury.
We don’t have a machine adjust you. We use a light hand contact to produce a low impact, quick adjustment to joints. This type of adjustment is ideal to get past your muscles instinctively blocking the motion and low impact so that it’s comfortable to you. We don’t adjust everyone. We all think of the adjustment as another instrument in our medical bag that we choose to use when appropriate, on patients that best benefit from it. Reasons we choose not to use an adjustment would be because of patient’s comfort, patient acute tenderness, patient’s frailty, patient’s past medical history, or preexisting factors. We are extremely well versed in properly screening patients before using adjustments. The patient’s best interest and comfort are never anything less than our first priority.
We always treat on the first visit. Since we have imaging equipment in office and are extremely well versed in performing orthopedic examinations, we have the tools to properly diagnosis you and begin treatment on the same visit. Simple reason is we hate to see our patients in pain so at the least we start treating symptoms as soon as possible.
We don’t over-treat. There is such a thing as too much of a good thing. Over-treatment can leave a joint hyper-mobile and susceptible to just as many injuries as a joint that was hypo-mobile (what the treatment was trying to correct). Another precaution for over-treating our patients is that they become dependent on the treatment and are unable to sustain a healthy level of activity. Therefore, we make sure that we don’t abuse the treatment. We set a precise treatment protocol for each individual case and we execute that plan in the least amount of visits so that the patient can return to activity before other systems begin to fail. For example, a simple sprain can lead to a limp the over time can cause havoc all the way up to the low back.
The second phase of care will involve re-introducing proper biomechanics. Often after an injury, swelling can put strangling pressure on surrounding nerves and therefore damaging the nerve cells which leads to long lasting dysfunction. With our continued care, patients will learn preventative measures to take. This is our plan of attack with every patient. Unless a patient crawls into my clinic, I won’t treat a patient three times a week.