Chiropractic Massage Therapy

You have probably heard of massage therapy and chiropractic adjustments, but what about chiropractic massage therapy? While some chiropractors offer massage therapy in their clinic, not all offer chiropractic massage therapy. This therapy has its entity with separate methods but similar goals to both chiropractic adjustments and massage therapy.

What does Chiropractic Massage Therapy Mean?

Chiropractic massage therapy offers a combination of chiropractic care and massage therapy to maintain the health of the entire spine and body of the patient. The chiropractor employs traditional adjustments to resolve subluxations that can be causing your discomfort and pain, as well as to encourage healing of your soft tissues and muscle fibers. Massage therapy is then used to promote the healing and well-being of smaller systems in your body that a chiropractic adjustment such as the nervous and limbic systems may forget.

A chiropractic adjustment focuses on the body’s hard tissues, such as the joints in the spine and vertebrae, while massage therapy focuses on the body’s soft tissues. Regardless of your chiropractic treatment goals, using chiropractic massage as part or throughout your treatment plan can lead to better, faster results and a better sense of wellbeing and health.

Conditions Chiropractic Massage Therapy is Useful for

Chiropractic massage therapy can help with a wide range of medical conditions, giving you comprehensive treatment and a better chance of full recovery. Some common conditions that chiropractic massage therapy can treat include:

Back Pain

Chronic or severe back pain can be caused by damaged muscle fibers or subluxations in the spine. If you have had back pain for a long time, your posture can change, which can put pressure on the soft tissues and muscles of the back, causing more stiffness and pain. Treating spinal subluxations with the chiropractic adjustment and treating muscles and soft tissues with massage promote better blood flow to damaged muscle fibers, reducing inflammation and pain and speed healing.

Compressed Nerves

There are several ways to develop a compressed nerve. Certain injuries, such as those seen in car accidents, can cause nerve clamps and pain. Spinal subluxations can also pinch the nerves. Using chiropractic care to realign the spine and relax tense muscles can remove the root cause of the pinched nerve. Following this adjustment with massage relaxes the tense tissues and muscles, bringing relaxation and relief.

Headaches

One of the principal causes of tension headaches is tension in the muscles of your shoulders and neck. These tense muscles restrict blood circulation to the brain and cause the throbbing pain that you experience with headaches. Chiropractic care can relieve tight muscles in the spine and shoulders that lead to headaches. After a massage that tones the muscles of your neck and shoulders, it promotes healthy blood circulation to the brain, relieves tension, and provides a feeling of pain relief that you may not have felt in a long time.

Joint Pain

Painful and stiff joints are a common problem, especially in older people. Whether joint pain is due to arthritis, a persistent injury, or simply age conditions, it can lead to decreased mobility. A chiropractic adjustment can help correct the condition that causes joint pain, such as misalignment of the spine, which has caused postural adjustment and more pressure on some joints. Massage therapy can relieve tension and pain in the muscles around the joints, increase blood flow, and reduce inflammation that causes pain.

At Performance Chiropractic + Physiotherapy, we believe that massage therapy can support and enhance the health benefits that our patients already gain from chiropractic adjustments. Combining chiropractic care with massage can help you achieve better results and relieve your symptoms more quickly. Our experienced and fully qualified chiropractic team will work with you to create a comprehensive treatment plan that will help you achieve your health goals.