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At Sequim Chiropractic Clinic, Dr. Bean treats work injury patients in our chiropractic office. One of the most common kinds of work injuries are repetitive motion injuries such as carpal tunnel syndrome. Carpel tunnel is often caused when the nerves in the wrist are impinged or restricted in the tissues resulting in inflammation and pain. It affects the soft tissues in the wrist, hands and arms causing tightness and pain in those areas.

Many carpel tunnel patients will suffer from numbness and tingling in their arms and hands. They can also lose muscle strength making it difficult to type, pick up objects and work with their hands. Our median nerve that connects to our spinal cord can lose normal motion if it gets strained or damaged. Problems can develop in the wrist and fingers when spinal bones lose normal motion or position. Chiropractic adjustment can correct spinal misalignment and help restore normal motion.

Chiropractic Techniques and Massage Therapy for Carpal Tunnel Pain Relief

Our Sequim chiropractor will treat your carpel tunnel symptoms and help alleviate your pain. Chiropractic care is an effective treatment for carpal tunnel syndrome. The chiropractor will make simple adjustments to specific areas to help normalize the structure and reduce nerve irritation. Massage therapy and corrective exercises combined with chiropractic adjustment will aid in carpal tunnel pain relief. These two methods can help balance the muscles groups and in time can be more effective than surgical procedures.

Our Sequim chiropractor is concerned with the overall health of his patients. He believes in treating pain and injury with non-invasive methods instead of drugs or surgery. Whether you are suffering from back pain, neck pain, headaches or a repetitive motion injury like carpal tunnel, Dr. Robert Bean will strive to treat your pain as well as the cause of the pain so that your body can heal properly.

Have you suffered from carpal tunnel syndrome?

Whiplash can be a sneaky injury, due to the varied damage it can cause to your muscles, ligaments, and tendons, as well as its ability to result in damage without any pain. Sequim Chiropractic Clinic has seen cases where whiplash damage was done but people did not seek treatment due to the lack of pain, which can easily result to more severe damage down the line.

Our Sequim chiropractor can diagnose and treat whiplash injuries to alleviate any pain and correct damage at its earliest stages before greater issues develop. A chiropractic evaluation is important after any auto injury during which whiplash may have occurred.

Chiropractic Treatments Alleviate Whiplash Neck Pain and Back Pain

Whiplash is an injury caused by a sudden and rapid jolt to the neck. The jolt often leads to neck pain, back pain, and damage to the tendons, ligaments and muscles in and surrounding the neck area.  Such a sudden and rapid jolt can also cause damage or disruption to your joints and nervous system, with the extent of the damage dependent on the speed and amount of force behind the jolt.

The damage and pain from whiplash can be due to a number of injuries related to sudden jolt. Damage to your facet joints and spinal discs are also a possibility, as are headaches and temporomandibular joint dysfunction, or TMJ. Signs of the latter often include pain and noises emanating from your jaw when you move it. Pain in the lower back can be another symptom, due to the way the violent thrust compresses the lower vertebrae.

Our chiropractic treatments for whiplash include spinal manipulation, also called adjustments, massage therapy, and rehabilitative exercises, all of which can be part of a restorative wellness plan. Our spinal adjustments realign the spine and work to improve mobility while massage increases blood circulation and promotes healing. Rehabilitative exercises help restore movement and strength to the damaged areas.

Have you suffered from whiplash?

Massage therapy is one of the best complements to the hands-on adjustments that our chiropractor, Dr. Robert Bean, uses to help our patients on their way to whole body wellness. We offer Sequim massage therapy because it can be an excellent way to reduce inflammation, increase your ability to move freely, and to eliminate pain.

Massage for Back Pain or Neck Pain

Massage, which is simply the careful manipulation of the body's muscles and connective tissues, is often combined with chiropractics as a solution for neck pain or back pain. Our Sequim patients will frequently visit our chiropractor to get their spinal vertebrae adjusted to the proper position, which allows for pain reduction. Following that, Dr. Bean may recommend that patients visit our massage therapist for massages that are targeted for your specific pain-causing condition.

The type of massage and method of massage therapy will depend upon the patient's condition and pain problems. Massage therapy techniques include stroking and kneading the muscles and connective tissues, and, in some cases, using specialized massage therapy machines that help reduce pain.

Patients and the massage therapist will work together to achieve pain relief. The massage therapist will focus on delivering gentle pain relief to the specific problem areas that have been identified by Dr. Bean, and the patient and therapist will then discuss the therapy as it progresses. The goal of massage therapy is to provide additional pain relief, allow for improved range of motion, and to help prevent sore and seized up muscles and soft tissues in the body.

Massage therapy produces immediate results in almost all cases: After even one session, patients generally feel more relaxed and will feel less pain than they did prior to the massage. We are determined to help you achieve total wellness, and massage can be an integral part of that! Have you had massage therapy? Tell us how it helped you!

We are proud to unveil our new chiropractic clinic blog! We hope that patients and potential clients will find the information posted on this blog to be interesting as well as educational. We would like to spread the word about the cutting-edge services offered at our clinic and the many health benefits that can be gained through regular chiropractic care. We have many specialized services to offer patients at our clinic. We believe that people suffering from back pain, neck pain or headaches after a work injury or auto injury will find that chiropractics is exactly what they need to get back to their optimal physical condition.

State-of-the-Art Chiropractic Wellness Services at Our Clinic

At Sequim Chiropractic Clinic, our chiropractor and staff take great pride in providing exceptional, personalized chiropractic care to our patients. Our state-of-the-art chiropractic services include postural screenings, spinal screenings and spinal adjustment procedures. We also provide physiological therapeutic procedures, such as massage therapy, hydrotherapy, intersegmental traction therapy and cryotherapy. In addition, our chiropractic clinic offers other specialized supportive services for our clients, including nutritional counseling, weight loss assistance and detoxifying cleanses.
 
Our Sequim chiropractor, Dr. Robert Bean, is very skilled at using the principles of chiropractics to help people obtain relief from painful injuries or medical conditions that cause back pain, neck pain or migraines. Dr. Bean looks forward to meeting with you to discuss your specific medical issues. You can work together to set up a treatment plan that will improve your spinal alignment, reduce your pain and improve your range of motion.
 
We hope that you will return frequently to read our blog. We believe that our posts will increase your awareness of spinal health and the beneficial treatments offered at our clinic. We would love to read any comments you may have about chiropractic care at our clinic.