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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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» What is chiropractic

Chiropractic is an effective, conservative, holistic form of healthcare that that emphasizes the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of biomechanical disorders of the musculoskeletal system, especially the spine, through manual medicine. Trauma, acute injuries, repetitive movements, and everyday wear and tear can cause dysfunction within a joint. When this happens, the muscles surrounding the joint can spasm, causing pain to the area. Through a comprehensive evaluation and carefully calibrated manual adjustments, chiropractors are able to improve the mobility of joints and muscles, thus alleviating pain and restoring optimal function.

In our offices, we practice Diversified Chiropractic. As its name suggests, Diversified technique utilizes different aspects and styles of chiropractic from over one hundred different technique systems that exist today.

Adjusting techniques used in our practices:

- Diversified
- Flexion distraction (NJ only)
- Motion Palpation