Rehabilitation
We believe we are serving the best patients in the world. People who live in Colorado are active, athletic, educated and always looking for what they can do for themselves to stay out of pain and prevent reinjury. We are specialists in exercise rehabilitation.
The medical literature is full of studies that demonstrate the benefit of employing active exercise for faster recovery and injury prevention. Whether you suffer from an acute sports injury or chronic pain, a rehabilitation program is customized to meet your individual needs. We draw from the best medical science worldwide to employ the most advanced, most beneficial reactivation strategies for our patients. Our Doctors of Chiropractic, in consultation with one another daily, make sure your rehabilitative exercises to meet your individual recovery and performance goals.
What is rehabilitation?
Rehabilitation is phase two of your care. The first phase included the initial pain control therapies such as chiropractic adjusting, ice, the MRS 2000, and other forms of electrical muscle stimulation. In the rehabilitation phase, we help you reactivate your muscles and build the coordination, flexibility, strength, and endurance you had before your problem started.
The key difference in rehabilitation at our Chiropractic Sports Medicine center of excellence is our ability to diagnose and correct your structural problem. Non-chiropractic rehabilitation can build strength and flexibility, but if your injury involves a structural problem, it will remain even if you are stronger or more flexible. Because our chiropractors are recognized experts at identifying and eliminating underlying structural disorders, injuries recover more completely and do not recur. Athletes treated at our center simply perform better. And that's our goal!
Your first visit
In your first rehab session you'll discuss your current status and review the treatment you’ve had to get you to that point. You'll talk with your Doctor of Chiropractic about prior injuries, your life’s activity demands, ergonomics, and anything else to find out what underlying problems may have contributed to your pain in the first place.
You may be asked to perform a variety of physical activities to test your strength and coordination of the painful or injured area. This is how the physical therapist will identify a weak muscle, stiff joint, postural problem, or poor control of a certain body movement.
Finally, you'll learn specific activities and movements you can do on your own to start to rebuild the strength and endurance you need to get back to normal, pain-free life!
Our unique approach
Our unique approach to rehabilitation stems from the fact that every person, injury, and life demands are unique. Good, safe movements require a combination of strong bones and joints that are moved by muscles with good strength and endurance, all tied together with good coordination. Getting all these parts working together is like making sure your computer has the correct hardware components and compatible software programs to do what you want to do.
The rehabilitation activities you'll be taught are carefully designed to ensure that your "hardware," such as your joints, are as stable and flexible as possible so they're not painful while you are training your muscles. At the same time, your “software” (proprioception) will be trained with balance and coordination activities to make sure the strengthened muscles do their job of moving you around smoothly and safely.
It is important to use the proper technique and apply the exercises you'll learn to movements you do on a daily basis. These are called "movement skills." Perfect practice makes for perfect skills. Quality is much more important than quantity! Being consistent with your home exercise routine is also very important. The more often a skill is practiced, the faster you’ll get good at it. Once you can do activities with good coordination and skill, you'll progress to exercises that will train endurance, strength, power, and agility. Most of the exercises you'll do require no special equipment so you’ll be able to do them easily whether at home or on the road.