Chiropractic Care in Mt Sterling KY

Are you wondering if chiropractic care can help you in Mt Sterling KY? We want to be completely open and honest here. If you present into our office with back pain, but that back pain is being caused by an infection in the kidneys then chiropractic care does not help that problem. If that makes sense, we’d like to ask you a couple questions? This is not medical opinion: if it’s medically related and you need medication our job is to see to it that you’re able to get that medication for your condition. Wouldn’t you want that from your family member?

Can Your Condition be Helped with Chiropractic in Mt Sterling KY?

In other words, if your problem is chemically related such as your body needs insulin then Chiropractic is not the place for you. That’s why we take a unique approach and looking at everyone not only holistically, but we’re looking at treating the problem from a physical standpoint. Your problem in our office is assessed using five different biomarkers.

1. Pain. Pain is assessed by the model of one to 10. One is the least and 10 is the most. Chiropractic is known for helping patients alleviate pain, but it is important to understand that as pain levels improve that does not necessarily mean that the sensitivity of the pain has yet to be resolved.
2. Sensitivity to pain. As soon as pain levels begin to improve next will be the sensitivity of that pain. In other words, you may feel pain relief while standing and doing no motions, but as soon as you bend forward or backward and aggravate that area of concern, then you may feel the pain.
3. Range of motion. We uniquely identify which range of motion that you are suffering the most discomfort. Most likely when we identify the range of motion, we can also identify the injury upon which that motion caused the injury.
4. Orthopedic and neurological examination. In this portion of the doctor’s examination your condition will be assessed using expert trained evaluation standards that should identify the pain and injury in accordance with the fifth edition of the impairment guides upon which we measure our standards.
5. X-ray evaluation. Our doctor is not only taking the x-ray. We perform the measurements upon which there could be improvements on those x-rays and we will tell you if there are results on your x-rays that you should expect to see to be permanent.

Common Conditions we help

1. Car Accident Injuries:  After a major trauma, muscles, ligaments, joints, and the spine can experience an inflammatory cascade that leads to major restrictions and can cause devastating morbidities to patients.
2. Car Accident Whiplash: The delicate nerves of the neck pain experienced by a sudden impact which stretches the spinal cord, nerves, and soft tissues of the human anatomy. These injuries are uniquely evaluated by our Physical Medicine team.
3. Auto injury pains: Back pain that begins after an accident is often elusive. Patients can walk away from the accident, not feeling pain due to the sudden nature of such trauma shock often overrides any pain signals. We uniquely understand your situation if you’re now beginning pain after your injury, and it’s been several weeks to months since you had that injury.
4. Back pain from restrictions: Often times your problem begins with restrictions in your mobility what most patients call stiffness in their day-to-day activities such as working, sleeping, bathing, and showering will advance to more severe levels of pain.
5. Neck pain: Next to back pain, neck pain accounts for roughly 30% of all our patients in our office. We identify whether this neck pain is coming from the muscle, ligament, joint or nerves
6. Headaches: There are 12 different kinds of headaches that present into our office some of which are not in the category of what we can help. It is our job to identify if your neck pain is causing your headaches. Headaches that are caused by allergies or reasons that may fall outside of our scope or referred to the provider that can help you.
7. Arthritis: There are many different forms of arthritis, but the primary one is osteoarthritis that begins with an initial trauma earlier in your life. That injured area over time gets a God given repair but is then repair injures because your life is dynamic. This repeat of injuring the area forms scar tissue that eventually hardens to become a cheap bone known as spurs and arthritis. Although we cannot cure arthritis, we help many return back to normal activities of daily living by working the outermost layers of that recent injury, and then recommend a course of care that will maintain a healthy lifestyle.
8. Hip and shoulder pain: The hip and shoulder are unique joints in that it has 360° of motion because it is a ball and socket joint. Many sports injuries, such as running injuries from basketball, injuries from baseball, injuries from football, injuries from wrestling all exist because of a contact sport that puts forces into these joints, causing sprains and strains, and then limitations of ranges of motion that are felt during the activity. These injuries can affect performance of the athlete.