CHIROPRACTIC TREATMENTS OFFERED

Chiropractic Adjustment

Chiropractic adjustments are manual procedures in which Dr. Devine uses his hands to manipulate the joints of the body, particularly the spine, to reduce pain and restore or enhance joint function. Chiropractic manipulation is a highly controlled procedure that rarely causes discomfort. Dr. Devine adapts the procedure to meet the specific needs of each patient. Patients often note positive changes in their symptoms immediately following treatment.

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Graston Technique

Dr. Devine and Dr. Moore have completed advanced training in Graston Technique, a procedure which allows them to detect and treat scar tissue and adhesions that can reduce range of motion and cause pain.

During the healing process, the body attempts to repair damaged areas by creating scar tissue. In time, this leads to a build up of this fibrous tissue, particularly in muscles, tendons and ligaments that get a lot of use. Since this replacement tissue lacks the strength and flexibility of healthy tissue, it can lead to pain and dysfunction.

The Graston Technique® allows us to better detect and treat these areas. By using a stainless steel instrument that glides along a patient’s muscle, tendons or ligaments with the right amount of pressure,we can detect just where the scar tissue or restrictions are located. When we come across bands of scar tissue, we can sense a restriction and use the Graston instrument to “break up” this restriction or adhesion and help re-align the fibers into the normal pattern of healthy tissue.

The greatest benefit of the Graston Technique® is the amount of improvement that takes place in a short amount of time. Graston sessions are quick, lasting between 2-10 minutes. A few minutes of Graston feels like an hour of deep tissue massage. Best results are achieved when treated two days a week for 4-5 weeks, and most patients notice a positive response by the 3rd and 4th treatment.

If you are experiencing pain and loss of motion and function following surgery, injury, repetitive stress syndromes, or tendinitis you will likely benefit from the Graston Technique. Other conditions which have responded well to the Graston Technique® include overuse injuries such as shin splints, tennis elbow, rotator cuff tendonitis, Achilles tendonitis, plantar fasciitis and carpal tunnel syndrome.

Learn more about the Graston Technique by clicking here.
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Kinesio Taping

Dr. Devine and Dr. Moore have taken advanced courses in Kinsio - Taping to become Certified Kinesio® Taping Practitioners. Since the 2008 Summer Olympics, the Kinesio Taping Method has taken the Rehabilitation and Sports Medicine world by storm and Kinesio Taping has become the gold standard for therapeutic rehabilitative taping. Kinesio Taping involves taping over and around muscles in order to assist and give support or to prevent over-contraction. Taping for support maintains the full range of motion, enabling patients to participate in physical activities with functional assistance, while taping to prevent overuse or over-contraction helps provide facilitation of lymph flow 24 hours per day and is most commonly used in the acute stage of rehabilitation.
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Nutritional Counseling

Nutritional deficiencies and chronic degenerative changes are commonplace in today's world. Due to stressful lives, diets that no longer resemble what our genetic coding was designed to utilize, poor food quality, and living in a toxic environment, nutrition therapy has developed as a way to support the human body in today's world. Devine Chiropractic is pleased to offer comprehensive nutritional assessments and corrective recommendations, which may include supplements and/or diet modification. We recommend Metagenics and Greensfirst supplements and supplements from other companies as well. Call Devine Chiropractic today to schedule a nutritional assessment as part of your whole body care.
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Therapeutic Exercise

Being fit helps you look and feel your best and reduces your risk for a heart attack, diabetes, high blood pressure and some cancers. Exercise is one of the best ways to help ease back pain and prevent back pain in the future. Like muscle, bone is living tissue that responds to exercise by becoming stronger. When you exercise, your muscles pull on your bones, putting weight and pressure on them. Your bone adjusts to these pressures, and builds itself stronger for the next time around. Muscle building helps you avoid injury by strengthening joints and improving bone density. It also improves balance and posture, making it easier to do everyday tasks. More muscle mass also revs up your metabolism, which helps you work toward your ideal weight and helps promote a youthful appearance as you age. Dr. Devine, a fitness fanatic himself, instructs and encourages his patients to perform exercises to build strong and flexible muscles that will add strength and support to their spine and provide much needed stability. The combination of chiropractic care with stretches and exercise allows for quicker, more complete healing with decreased chances of pain in the future.
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Stretching

Stretching is performed for joint mobilization and to increase range of motion. Gradual and controlled elongation of the muscle though the full range of motion (without pain) is used to relax muscular spasms which limit joint range of motion. A muscle is brought to slight resistance at its end range and is held, after which the patient relaxes. Stretching and relaxing the muscle is repeated as new barriers are reached. Homework, restrictions and other advice
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FirstLine Therapy®

Do you have 12 weeks to change your life?
Do you want to feel better?
Do you want learn what a good diet is and what good nutrition really means?

Give us the next 12 weeks to partner with you as you:

• Lose weight
• Increase muscle tissue
• Increase mental alertness and calmness
• Lower your blood pressure and cholesterol
• Reduce your risk of diabetes, high blood pressure, heart disease, and other chronic illnesses
• Decrease your joint pains
• Decrease your panic attacks
• Decrease your emotional breakdowns

FirstLineTherapy® really works. It’s like a lifeline with supportive people helping you get on board. And it actually addresses the underlying causes of chronic disease. FirstLineTherapy® is based on scientific research. It was created from the desire to prevent disease, rather than “manage the disease,” with drugs and expensive medical procedures.

This is not a diet. We will show you how to embrace a lifestyle modification so you feel better now and have a higher quality of life in the future.

Give us 12 weeks and we will:

• Show you how to make healthy choices when you go to restaurants and to friends’ houses (that one is a little trickier).
• Show you a social structure for nutritional and lifestyle change, so that it is easier to stay “on the wagon” of health.
• Improve your body composition by reducing the total fat and increasing the total amount of muscle in your body, so that your shape changes – you lose the spare tire, the abdominal fat, and gain shapeliness.
• Address symptoms of chronic inflammation:
• Allergy symptoms typically improve or disappear
• High blood sugar and high insulin levels typically become normalized
• Joint pain lessens
• Help you get started on an exercise program.

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Orthotics

At Devine Chiropractic Center, we are proud to offer Footmaxx custom orthotics. Footmaxx orthotics are worn by 29 out of 30 major league baseball teams and 13 teams in the NFL. An 'orthotic' is a form, custom-made for your foot, that is inserted in your shoe to restore your natural foot function. Common walking complaints such as heel pain, knee pain and lower back pain are caused by poor foot function. Orthotics re-align the foot and ankle bones to a neutral position and restore natural foot function, which helps alleviate problems in other parts of the body. Orthotics provide a more even weight distribution, taking pressure off of sore spots and they provide some shock absorption.

Orthotics benefit people with foot, heel, and ankle pain or those who experience discomfort due to walking imbalances such as flat feet, heel pain, knee pain and shin pain. Since walking imbalances can cause pain and discomfort in an upward fashion, they often lead to hip and low back pain and dysfunction.

People who stand or walk all day will benefit greatly from orthotics as do people who suffer from pain during any form of sporting exercise. Orthotics also help to counteract extra stress being placed on the feet of overweight individuals.

Orthotics can help alleviate achilles tendonitis, corns, metatarsalgia, sesamoiditis, ankle sprains, flat feet, neuroma, tendonitis, arch pain, heel pain, pronation, top of the foot pain, bunions, knee pain, shin pain, and toe pain. Orthotics may also eliminate posture problems and foot and leg pain.
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Massage Therapy

Massage Therapy and Chiropractic are both holistic in nature and based in the belief that the body, when given the chance, will heal itself. At Devine Chiropractic & Rehab Center, we have three massage therapists on staff and often recommend massage therapy for treatment of stress reduction, headaches, chronic muscle tension and fatigue, or as part of the recovery process for sports injuries, automobile and work injuries.

Massage is helpful before or after chiropractic adjustments. Before an adjustment, massage relieves muscle tension and warms the soft tissues, making the joints more pliable and easily adjusted. Following an adjustment, massage can be used to further relax the patient, allowing the chiropractic adjustment to be more effective.

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