Services
Chiropractic Care / Webster
The chiropractic adjustment is a type of therapy that can affect the nervous system as well as the musculoskeletal structures that it controls.
With the chiropractic adjustment, we see that there are reflexive effects that occur, which ultimately help to reduce local inflammation and improve function of restricted joints. Joints can be restricted due to poor posture, bad form during exercise, or repetitive movements. By maintaining proper mechanics, we help to ensure your joints and the rest of your body continue to function properly throughout your life.
The Webster technique is a specific chiropractic sacral analysis and chiropractic adjustment. The goal of the adjustment is to reduce the effects of sacral/SI joint dysfunction. In doing so, neuro-biomechanical function in the pelvis is facilitated. Si joint function can be especially critical during PREGNANCY.
Functional Rehabilitation and Sports Performance Sessions
When Patients get injured during athletic activities (running, climbing, martial arts, weight lifting, cycling etc..) often times there are underlying compensations and less than perfect motor patterns involved. At Northcenter Healthcare we utilize functional rehabilitation in the form of DNS (dynamic neuromuscular rehabilitation) to help assess and restore proper motor control to help heal from and prevent injuries. Once Injuries have resolved we continue to focus on maximizing performance and improving on movement dysfunctions that may be preventing you from performing at your peak in a given activity or sport! The goal is always: rehab to train, train to move well, move well to excel in the things you love.
Prenatal + Postpartum Rehabilitation and Exercise
Pregnancy and giving birth are both beautiful, and natural phases in a woman’s life if she chooses to have children. With that said physically preparing for these times in ones life can be extremely beneficial and help to reduce complications during and post pregnancy.
It is particularly important to rehabilitate postpartum considering giving birth can be extremely taxing and on occasion during the process we can see things like diastasis recti, uterine prolapse and many other complications occur. We can help to retrain your body to recover from those conditions and more. We can also help to ensure that you do not form compensations after giving birth when transitioning back from moving around with a pregnant belly.
Low Back Pain, Sciatica,
and Bulging Disc
The McKenzie method of mechanical diagnosis and therapy is a system for spinal and extremity pain syndromes that addresses the complete assessment, classification, treatment and prevention of the condition. After a review of your history of symptoms, the assessment and treatment both involve the use of repeated movements in one direction rather than a single movement. How your symptoms and range of movement changes with these repeated movements provides the clinician with information that they can use to categorize your problem and then treat with appropriate end range loading exercises. These are prescribed in a specific way to restore full range of motion and joint mobility, reduce pain due to joint decentralization, and decrease radiating symptoms (seen in conditions such as SCIATICA, DISC HERNIATIONS, DISC BULGES, nerve entrapment).
Acupuncture
Acupuncture is a technique that involves the placement of hair-thin needles along specified acupuncture points that are charted from a traditional chinese medicine framework. After placement, needles are then manipulated via manual needling, electrical stimulation (electroacupuncture), or heat.
Acupuncture has been shown to release muscle spasm and result in pain inhibition. The specific points chosen by the acupuncturist target skin and nervous system regulation; creating a release of “happy hormones” or endogenous opiods. This balances the body's stress response and dampens the brain’s pain signal for the specific area and related organs.
Acupuncture is a great way to integrate the mental aspects of your health with the physical responses to pain and stress, with the added benefit of improved digestion, sleep, and tissue tension!
Dry Needling
Dry needling is a specific type of acupuncture treatment targeting trigger points around the shoulder musculature, which may be contributing to tightness, pain, and muscular imbalance! This can be a great first step to get the shoulder joint moving more naturally and pain-free!
Dry needling is a technique used by chiropractors for the treatment of pain and movement impairments and trigger point reduction. The technique uses an acupuncture needle, one without medication or injection, inserted through the skin into areas of the muscle in order to stimulate muscles. This in turn will often reflexively cause a release of tension in the area treated.
Dr. Sandeep will use this to release trigger points throughout the body as part of a whole body approach to reducing your pain and improving movement!
Soft Tissue Work / Myofascial release
Instrument Assisted Soft Tissue Mobilization (IASTM)
This modality can improve lymphatic drainage, help mobilize matted-down and stuck areas of fascia away from muscle tissue, improve over all function of soft tissues, help reduce pain sensation, and finally help neurologically reduce the amount of base level tension in a muscle.
In a nutshell, this can both help with the healing process in an acute injury as well as alleviate symptoms including pain.
Soft Tissue Work/Myofascial Release
Cupping
Instead of using a compressive force to mobilize the fascia and other soft tissues in the two previous forms, cupping uses a decompressive force (suction) to achieve change in the tension of the fascial network.
This kind of therapy can help with dysfunctional joints, improve range of motion, and reduce pain in localized areas.