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Robert M. Cohl, DC
Pain Relief, Injuries and Inflammation
Cohl Chiropractic Center
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Pain Relief, Injuries and Inflammation

In the chiropractic profession we are known for effective relief of acute back and neck pain. Patients present with soft tissue pain like tendinitis, ortendinosis from long standing and reoccurring overuse injuries.

The primary physician has pain medications that stop the inflammatory chemical cascade in the body. The chiropractor uses many techniques, including hands-on manipulation, soft tissue muscle work, and adjunctive physical therapy modalities.

It is the common clinical approach in all healing professions to look at the patient's local complaint(s) as a primary focus. Chiropractors trained in the post-graduate program QA (quintesssential applications) look at the local presenting problem, and then address any contributing systemic physiological conditions affecting the local symptom. For example, a runner comes in with a knee problem that is non-traumatic in origin.

The assessment appears to be an overuse problem. The QA assessment would also rule out anemia or a subclinical hypo-thyroid problem as a contributing biochemical stressor to the knee pain.

Unless these systemic conditions are corrected, the response to osteopathic manipulation, chiropractic adjustments, and/or physical therapy procedures for that knee problem may not be successful.

A clinician trained in QA and Applied Kinesiology (AK) uses very specific manual muscle testing (MMT) to determine where there are muscle imbalances in the entire lower extremity the foot, ankle, knee and/or hip joints. Any of these regions can contribute to the pain pattern.

We always look at the spinal connection to the local muscle motor dysfunction. Muscles that are hypotonic (neurologically inhibited) usually go unnoticed, and most clinicians follow the pain to the spasm/tightness of the hypertonic muscles (neurologically facilitated).

Any local complaint, i.e. knee pain, needs to be initially addressed with effective hands-on work primarily with manual therapy (joint manipulation and soft tissue mobilization).

Pain measurement (pain scale 1-10), and Range of Motion measurements gives a base line to start with.

Stopping pain is a priority and one of the techniques that are quite effective in the QA protocol involves evaluating and treating the associated

Chinese acupuncture points on the head. They are called NSB and SET POINT Techniques. NSB is for acute pain and SET POINT (Touch andTap) is for persistent and chronic pain.

After the acupuncture meridian head points are determined, the meridian imbalances are corrected through manual procedures. Erchonia cold laser therapy on the acupuncture points also demonstrates excellent results in stopping the pain. When the pain diminishes any prior objective clinical assessment will be better.

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