NW Sports Rehab – About
NW Sports Rehab expertly combines chiropractic care, soft-tissue work, and rehabilitation exercises so you can return to your sport or work activity as quickly as possible — all while increasing your athletic performance.
NW Sports Rehab will help you get better, stay better, and perform better.
OUR PHILOSOPHY OF CARE
NW Sports Rehab desires the best possible chiropractic care for you – our valued patient. That’s why we stay up to date with cutting edge treatment techniques like: ART, Graston, FAKTR, NKT, DNS and functional rehabilitation to help get you better faster.
We combine manual therapy (AKA soft tissue treatment) with manual manipulation and adjustments, taping, and corrective exercises to get you better, faster, and help you stay that way. We continually strive to provide the best care possible by advancing our examination and treatment techniques through continuing education and staying current with the latest research.
Chiropractors typically see patients for both acute and chronic musculoskeletal problems, meaning concerns involving muscles, ligaments, tendons, disc, nerves, joints, or a combination of multiple tissues. Musculoskeletal imbalances are by far the most common causes of dysfunction, yet are poorly understood and often mismanaged conditions. After many years of clinical practice, working in professional sports, and staying current with research, we have found that the key to managing musculoskeletal pain is by combining both a traditional and a functional approach to treatment.
In musculoskeletal medicine, there are two main approaches: structural and functional. In the structural approach, which is the typical orthopedic approach, the emphasis is placed upon the pathology of a specific structure, often a single location. This emphasizes diagnosis based on localized evaluation and special tests ( e.g. x-rays, MRI’s and CT scans, etc).
The functional approach recognizes the interrelationships between MULTIPLE systems and structures, such as soft tissues, joints and how movement patterns are coordinated by the nervous system, rather than just focusing on a single site of pathology.
While the structural approach is necessary and valuable for managing acute injuries or exacerbations, the functional approach is more valuable for managing chronic musculoskeletal pain and determining the root cause and reoccurrence of a complaint.
A functional assessment generally takes into account structural pathology, as this can affect function. However, it also includes a full body movement screen that identifies aberrant moment at all the major joints, (e.g. an Overhead Squat Test) isolated joint range of motion, manual muscle testing, and detailed palpation. These all take years (time, effort, and dedication) to develop an eye and feel for what is normal or abnormal in the body’s functional movement.
A functional approach also considers the regional interdependence of joints, where seemingly unrelated areas, distal or proximal to the area of complaint may contribute to or be the source of the problem. This takes a bit of detective work and can take additional time, but we think the results are well worth it!
