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Understanding Muscle Injuries:

There are three ways in which injuries of the soft tissues in the body can arise:

• 1 - Acute Conditions: pulls, tears, crush injuries.
• 2 - Repetitive Stress: accumulations of small tears over time (micro-trauma).
• 3 - Posture: Your body's response to bad posture and stresses that occur over time directly related to the way one holds their body, and the body's response to it.

Each of these can cause the body to produce scar tissue. Scar tissue is a tough, dense network of collagen fibers that develops to repair/protect the area that has been injured.  Excess scar tissue can prevent the muscles and other structures from working properly, which can lead to changes in normal movement, muscle shortening and weakness, misalignment of bones, and even disruption of the movement/structures in the surrounding areas. A compromised muscle, or muscles, not only places more tension on the tendons that attach muscle to bone, which can cause tendonitis/tendonosis, but can irritate nerves that pass though or supply the muscle.  This injury process can cause the following symptoms:

• Loss of range of motion;
• Loss of strength;
• Aching, pain, tingling, numbness;
• Swelling;
• Spreading of symptoms if untreated;
• Further injury.

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Dr. Andrew Veech is a graduate of Palmer College of Chiropractic West in San Jose , CA. Originally from San Francisco , Dr. Veech completed his undergraduate work at the University of California , San Diego where he was a member of the Crew team. It was in this arena that he learned the value of conservative musculoskeletal therapy over more invasive alternatives and developed a desire to help all athletes, from professionals to weekend warriors, return to action as quickly as possible. He was impressed with the effective and reliable results found with chiropractic, and he set out to help others to reach their optimal potential.

Upon graduation, he's had the good fortune to work under Dr. Rob DeStefano and specialize in Active Release, a state-of-the-art technique focusing on the evaluation, diagnosis, and treatment of muscle-related injuries. He's also had the pleasure of treating triathletes at the Ironman World Championship held in Kona, HI.

Dr. Veech decided to take the path towards sports chiropractic, looking at the body as a single kinetic chain and taking into account the biomechanics of funtional movement patterns. There is a simplicity to this type of logical approach that often gets overlooked in other aspects of chiropractic, and working with athletes who want to get healthy can be a very rewarding experience.

ART is Andrew's protocol of choice because of the excellent results; injuries are most often resolved in less time than expected. The approach is non-invasive, and allows athletes and non-athletes alike to return quickly to their sport and their activities of daily living.