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Chiropractic Services
Traub Chiropractic Care Center Doctors provide the following:
Chiropactic Techniques
- Traditonal Adjustments
- Low Force Activator Technique
- Ultrasound
- Electrical Stim- speeds pain relief
- Myotherapy - reduces muscle tension
- Exercise Instruction- to reduce injury recurrence
Relief for
- Low Back Pain
- Sciatic Pain
- Bursitis
- Rotator Cuff Syndrome
- Neck Pain
- Headaches
- Tennis Elbow
- Plantar Fascitis
- Achilles Tendonitis
Massage Therapy Services
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ACUPRESSURE
Acupressure is an ancient healing art that uses the fingers to press key points
on the surface of the skin to stimulate the body’s natural self-curative
abilities. When these points are pressed, they release muscular tension and
promote the circulation of blood and the body’s life force (sometimes known as
qi or chi) to aid healing.
AROMATHERAPY
The use of essential oils (extracted from herbs, flowers, resin, woods, and
roots) in body and skin care treatments is known as aromatherapy. Used as a
healing technique for thousands of years by the Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans,
essential oils aid in relaxation, improve circulation, and help the healing of
wounds.
CHAIR MASSAGE
Known as seated massage, chair massage, or on-site massage, this technique
involves the use of a specially designed massage chair in which the client sits
comfortably. Seated massage includes bodywork and somatic techniques A 5-15
minute chair massage is available in our office. We also offer onsite chair
massage in your place of business.
EAR CANDLING
improve general health and well-being by lighting one end of a hollow candle and
placing the other end in the ear canal. It helps remove old and hardened ear
wax.
RAINDROP TECHNIQUE
Originated by D. Gary Young, raindrop technique is a noninvasive tool that helps
heal the spine and the surrounding tissue.. Antimicrobial essential oils are
used to reduce inflammation , thus bringing the body into structural and
electrical alignment. The oils (primarily thyme, oregano, birch, cypress,
peppermint, and basil) are dispensed like little drops of rain from a height of
about six inches above the back and massaged along the vertebrae. The oils used
in this 1 hour session continue to work for the next five to seven days.
REFLEXOLOGY
Based on an ancient Chinese therapy, reflexology involves manipulation of
specific reflex areas in the foot, hands, and ears that correspond to other
parts of the body. Sometimes referred to as zone therapy, this bodywork involves
application of pressure to these reflex zones to stimulate body organs and
relieve areas of congestion. Similar to acupressure principles, reflexology
works with the body’s energy flow to stimulate self-healing and maintain balance
in physical function. This technique is used to reduce pain, increase
relaxation, and stimulate circulation of blood and lymphatic fluids..
Reflexology is also convenient in cases where an area of the body is traumatized
or diseased to the extent that direct manipulation is not appropriate.
SHEN THERAPY
SHEN is the acronym for Specific Human Energy Nexus and was developed by
American scientist Richard Pavek. A scientifically researched form of energy
healing, SHEN aims to release emotions trapped in the body, leading to freedom
from pain and tension. SHEN teaches that most emotions are held in the torso, at
four main sites: the heart, the solar plexus, the kath (below the navel), and
the root (the perineum). The practitioner places hands in paired positions on
the fully clothed client who’s lying on the table. The practitioner ascertains
the locations of somatically held emotions and determines an appropriate
physio-emotional release plan. A naturally occurring energy flows from the
practitioner’s hands through the emotional centers of the client’s body in a
precise way to discharge debilitating emotions.
ST. JOHN'S NEUROMUSCULAR THERAPY
St. John’s neuromuscular therapy seeks out the cause of pain, focusing on
creating a balance between the muscular and nervous systems. This bodywork
focuses on five basic principles--biomechanics, ischemis, trigger points,
postural distortion, and nerve entrapment and compression--that are important
factors in the body’s physical homeostasis. Also, attention is given to hormonal
balance, nutrition, and elimination of toxins. This therapy is used to treat
soft-tissue pain throughout most of the body.
SWEDISH MASSAGE
One of the most commonly taught and well-known massage techniques, Swedish
massage is a vigorous system of treatment designed to energize the body by
stimulating circulation. Five basic strokes, all flowing toward the heart, are
used to manipulate the soft tissues of the body. The disrobed client is covered
by a sheet, with only the area being worked on exposed. Therapists use a
combination of kneading, rolling, vibrational, percussive, and tapping
movements, with the application of oil, to reduce friction on the skin. The many
benefits of Swedish massage may include generalized relaxation, dissolution of
scar tissue adhesions, and improved circulation, which may speed healing and
reduce swelling from injury.
TRAGER APPROACH
Trager is an approach to bodywork developed in the 1920s by American medical
practitioner Dr. Milton Trager. It makes extensive use of touch-contact and
encourages the client to experience the freeing-up of different parts of the
body. The approach consists of simple exercises called Mentastics and deep,
nonintrusive hands-on work, including fluid, gentle, rocking movements. The idea
is to use motion in the muscles and joints to produce positive sensory feelings
that are then fed back into the central nervous system. The result is a feeling
of lightness, freedom, and flexibility. A Trager session takes from sixty to
ninety minutes. No oils or lotions are used. The client wears a swimsuit or
underwear and lies on a well-padded table in a warm, comfortable environment.
Extreme pressure and rapid thrusts are not used and pain is not necessary to
make this approach effective. During the session, the practitioner makes
touch-contact with the client in such a gentle and rhythmic way that the person
lying passively on the table actually experiences the possibility of being able
to move each part of the body freely, effortlessly, and gracefully on her own.
The practitioner works in a relaxed, meditative state of consciousness. After
getting up from the table, the client is given instruction in the use of
Mentastics, or “mental gymnastics,” a system of simple, effortless movement
sequences, to maintain and enhance the sense of lightness, freedom, and
flexibility instilled by the table work. It is a powerful means of teaching the
client to recall the pleasurable sensory state that produced positive tissue
change. Because it is this feeling state that triggered positive tissue response
in the first place, every time the feeling is clearly recalled the changes
deepen, become more permanent, and are more receptive to further positive
change. Changes described have included the disappearance of specific symptoms,
discomforts, or pains; heightened levels of energy and vitality; more effortless
posture and carriage; greater joint mobility; deeper states of relaxation than
were previously possible; and a new ease in daily activities.
PRENATAL/PREGNANCY MASSAGE
Performed by a trained perinatal specialist, many methods of massage and somatic
therapies are both effective and safe prenatally and during labor and postpartum
periods of women’s pregnancies. Prenatally, specific techniques can reduce
pregnancy discomforts and concerns and enhance the physiological and emotional
well-being of both mother and fetus. Skilled, appropriate touch facilitates
labor, shortening labor times and easing pain and anxiety. In the postpartum
period, specialized techniques rebalance structure, physiology, and emotions of
the new mother and may help her to bond with and care for her infant.
Specialized, advanced training in the anatomy, physiology, complications,
precautions, and contraindications is highly recommended, and many practitioners
require referrals from physicians prior to therapy.
NEUROMUSCULAR THERAPY
This comprehensive program of soft-tissue manipulation balances the body’s
central nervous system with the musculoskeletal system. Based on neurological
laws that explain how the central nervous system initiates and maintains pain,
the goal is to help relieve the pain and dysfunction by understanding and
alleviating the underlying cause. Neuromuscular therapy can help individuals who
experience distortion and biomechanical dysfunction, which is often a symptom of
a deeper problem. It is also used to locate and release spasms and
hypercontraction in the tissue, eliminate trigger points that cause referred
pain, rebuild the strength of injured tissues, assist venous and lymphatic flow,
and restore postural alignment, proper biomechanics, and flexibility.
MEDICAL MASSAGE
Performing medical massage requires a firm background in pathology and utilizes
specific treatments appropriate to working with disease, pain, and recovery from
injury. The therapist may work from a physician’s prescription or as an adjunct
healer within a hospital or physical therapy setting.
MASSAGE & MASSAGE THERAPY
Massage or massage therapy are systems of structured palpation or movement of
the soft tissue of the body. The massage system may include, but is not limited
to, such techniques as, stroking, kneading, gliding, percussion, friction,
vibration, compression, passive or active stretching within the normal
anatomical range of movement; effleurage (either firm or light soothing,
stroking movement, without dragging the skin, using either padded parts of
fingertips or palms); petrissage (lifting or picking up muscles and rolling the
folds of skin); or tapotement (striking with the side of the hand, usually with
partly flexed fingers, rhythmic movements with fingers or short rapid movements
of sides of the hand). These techniques may be applied with or without the aid
of lubricants, salt or herbal preparations, hydromassage, thermal massage or a
massage device that mimics or enhances the actions possible by human hands. The
purpose of the practice of massage is to enhance the general health and
well-being of the recipient. Massage does not include the diagnosis of a
specific pathology, the prescription of drugs or controlled substances, spinal
manipulation or those acts of physical therapy that are outside the scope of
massage therapy.
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