First impressions are made within the first few seconds of meeting a new person or being in a new environment, and patients, whether new, prospective, or current, form an impression of your office based on a thousand small details that together set the tone of your clinic environment.
by Mary Biancalana
For athletes who are training hard, the stabbing pain of plantar fasciitis is all too common. Most often, when pain is felt into the bottom of the foot, it is instantly diagnosed as “plantar fasciitis.” I say, let’s take a hard look at all the reasons there might be pain in the bottom of the foot and try to eliminate those reasons. And, let’s not be too quick to give a medical condition to everyone who experiences pain or discomfort.
So before you pull out that cold pack, ask yourself: What about trigger point therapy?
Pivotal Health Solutions, (PHS) a leading provider for the health and wellness industry, has been named Master Distributor of Niel Asher Education (NAT®) throughout the United States. PHS has been working closely as Master Distributor with The Pressure Positive Company since 2010. Now these three companies will join forces to provide the most advanced, trigger point manual therapy education series and self care trigger point tools worldwide.
The ErgoStyle™ ES2000 Gen II takes the table you know one step further, with smooth electric elevation and easy upgrades so you can customize your table to your practice setting. Our patented ErgoStyle drop elevates across the entire cushion, rather than a single pin, allowing for improved accuracy and a smoother adjustment with less force--for less stress on you and your patient. It's also fully modular, allowing for easy modifications and upgrades in the field, both now or later as your techniques and practice grow. Choose from drops, auto-cocking, head pieces, chest and pelvic elevation, dual foot pedal elevation (standard with auto-cocking drops) and super silent air compressor options.
It’s no lie that the tables medical practitioners use are expensive. However, when such a table is putting up with the beating of human bodies all day, these tables must be the best of the best to sustain such use. Although expensive, tables used by medical professionals is arguably the most important investment for their practice.
This article excerpt, by Dr. Alexandra K. Schnee, was originally published on spine-health.com and can be found here.
Cold Laser Therapy or Low Level Laser Therapy is a treatment that utilizes specific wavelengths of light to interact with tissue and is thought to help accelerate the healing process. It can be used on patients who suffer from a variety of acute and chronic conditions in order to help eliminate pain, swelling, reduce spasms and increase functionality.
This is the sixth blog in the "Take the Lead: Tech Neck to Perfect Posture" series focusing on engaging and challenging doctors around the world to Take the Lead in their communities to begin changing people’s lives by integrating cervical curve remodeling and posture correction into their existing treatment protocols.
Do you work with children in your office? Are you overlooking significant comorbidities associated with poor posture and back pain that can be seriously affecting your pediatric patients’ development?
Your body is designed to work well and take care of itself, as long as you take care of it. In part, this means eating a balanced diet, exercising regularly, and getting the right amount of sleep. But sometimes you do need outside help to keep your body working at peak efficiency. Chiropractic care serves as an excellent example. Your chiropractic visits do more than crack your back. Your treatment sessions can help improve your overall body structure and health.
See The Difference?
These are the before and after-treatment cervical x-rays of a 35 year-old woman who had suffered a relatively minor whiplash injury in an auto accident five years ago.
