THORACIC COMPRESSION FRACTURE

Compression fractures are caused by trauma to the spine, such as a car accident or fall.

Mild to severe pain may be felt in the back, abdominals, arms, and/or legs and worsens with movement. Limitations of movement, swelling, numbness, and tingling may be also present. While severe fractures require surgery, often a combination of rest and conservative treatment is effective in resolving the symptoms and restoring function.

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This innovative and patented new approach to medicine is an instrument-assisted soft-tissue mobilization technique that enables clinicians to effectively break down scar tissue and facial restrictions. The Graston Technique is performed with patented stainless-steel instrumentals designed to detect and treat soft-tissue fibrosis or chronic inflammation in order to reduce pain and restore function.

When connective tissue, such as muscle, ligaments or tendons become restricted or scarred, it can result in pain, tenderness, loss of flexibility and motion. It is not unusual to find restriction is one or more parts of the body that are producing pain and dysfunction in another area of the body. These restrictions can occur after direct trauma to the body, such as a car accident or sports injury or from repetitive stress on the body over time.

This new technology is being used by U.S. Track and Field, professional and college sports teams and in hospitals and clinics. For the patient, The Graston Technique decreases length of treatment, provides faster rehabilitation and recovery, reduces the need for anti-inflammatory medication and helps in relieving chronic conditions once thought to be permanent.

At Spine & Sport Chiropractic we believe that this approach can offer a deeper tissue treatment than we could perform using traditional methods of massage. By providing Graston Technique in addition to spinal adjustments our patients are getting better faster and are staying healthier longer.

For more information on the Graston Technique, please visit their website at http://www.grastontechnique.com/ or to view a PDF with more information click here.

We are pleased to be one of only a few metro-area clinics to provide patients with an FDA-approved neuromuscular electrical-stimulation device (The ARP), which possesses specific characteristics that are not found in and any conventional therapeutic electrical-stimulation devices. ARP is short for Accelerated Recovery Performance; a system that uses patented, FDA-approved bioelectrical current along with active range-of-motion exercise techniques to speed up the body's natural recuperative ability as well as to prevent muscle-related injuries. Treatment with ARP is the only protocol which allows injured muscles to instantly relax, elongate, and permit eccentric contractions while actively moving through active range-of-motion.

The ARP protocol is based on two fundamental principals: that injury is the direct result of the muscle's inability to absorb force, and that pain is caused by a muscle in concentric contraction that protects and injured or inflamed area. With the ARP we can diagnose where the weak muscle is, and most of the time it’s in another area, which means this is also where the compensation or "hot spot" is.

The first step in the process is to test if the nervous system is firing the muscles properly. The nervous system drives all of the energy throughout your body, it's and electrical force. Like the electricity in your house, if the main power is turned off, and you try to turn on a lightbulb, it's not going to work. It’s the same thing as here. Next we get rid of the inflammation that is causing the compensation patterns. The ARP is so unique because it allows us to simultaneously diagnose where the inflammation and "hot spot" are. Once the area is treated, the focus shifts to strengthening the surrounding muscles by sending an electrical current to the muscle and performing specific exercises.

In summary the ARP system targets injuries at the source, eliminates inflammation, dramatically accelerates the recovery of all soft-tissue injury and surgery, rapidly recovers lost strength and range of motion, and improves all human performance. The ARP System is being used by more than 400 NFL Players; as well as world-class athletes form nearly every major sport.
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Game Ready combines intermittent compression with circumferential cold therapy in one adjustable system.

RICE (Rest, Ice, Compression, Elevation) has long been used to treat acute and chronic injury and assist in orthopedic surgery rehabilitation. But traditional ice packs and other cold therapy and static compression devices can be messy and difficult to use. That's where Game Ready™ comes in. Developed by scientists and doctors using proprietary NASA spacesuit technology, the Game Ready System simultaneously delivers both adjustable cold therapy and intermittent compression, making it easy to apply the two most difficult-to-manage aspects of the RICE regimen.

Game Ready applies the same advanced technology used to regulate temperature and fluid-flow in spacesuits to comfortable “smart” wraps applied to the injured area that deliver advanced cold therapy and intermittent, active compression to keep fluids moving in and out of the affected area, with the goal of accelerated healing, decreased pain and greater comfort during the recovery process.

Get Game Ready. Maybe you’re a professional athlete who makes a living on the field. Or maybe you’re simply someone who finds fun on the ski slopes. No matter what your type or level of physical activity, when you’re sidelined following an injury or orthopedic surgery, you’ve got one goal. You want to get back in action. You want to get Game Ready.

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