Treatment Options

Depending on your condition and severity, we will customize a specific treatment plan for you.

At DISC, we offer more services than your typical chiropractic office. When it comes to your health, we don’t take any risks, and we want to offer the best solution. All treatment is rendered by licensed health professionals with extensive training. Click the images below to learn more about our in-house treatment options.

Chiropractic Adjustments

Acupuncture & Dry-Needling

Acupuncture involves the insertion of very thin sterile needles through your skin at strategic trigger points on your body. The needles when inserted into specific acupuncture points will stimulate nerves, muscles, and connective tissue, as well as boost your body’s natural painkillers. 

Originating from traditional Chinese medicine, acupuncture is most commonly used to treat pain, improving overall wellness, and reducing stress management and fatigue. These needles help restore energy flow and re-balance your body’s systems.

Traditional Chinese medicine explains acupuncture as a technique for balancing the flow of energy or life force (chi) believed to flow through pathways, or meridians in your body. 

Soft Tissue Therapy

Physical Rehabilitation

A key element to recovery is your active physical therapy. You will be prescribed a specific strengthening and stretching regimen based on your condition. This rehabilitation will help improve your pain, prevent muscle deterioration, promote healthy motion and strength, and protect against new or recurring injuries. Therapeutic exercises are essential to prevent scar tissue from forming which leads to lost motion. Even after you have fully recovered from your injury, it’s vital you maintain your tissues’ flexibility by continuing with your prescribed regiment. 

Spinal Disc Decompression

Traction and non-surgical spinal decompression helps distract specific regions of the spine. This treatment gently separates the vertebrae resulting in disc decompression, reduced nerve root pressure, and less pain.

A specific instrument and table will create a negative pressure inside the involved disc, allowing it to absorb fluid and nutrients in order to facilitate healing and decrease inflammation. This non-surgical procedure is aimed at treating disc bulges, herniations, and degenerative disc disease in the neck and lumbar spine. The treatment is very gentle and you will experience several cycles of stretch and relaxation, which progresses to a deeper decompression over a period of several minutes.

Spinal decompression and traction is best for pinched nerves, sciatica, shooting radiating pain into the arms or legs, spinal arthritis and degeneration, spinal stenosis, neck or low back pain, or postoperative complications.

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Y-Axis Traction

Y-axis traction (also known as Y-Strap) is a non-surgical manual spinal decompression treatment. It is a Pettibon Technique, which Dr. Shiau had extensive training in during his time at Palmer College. Decompression of the cervical spine allows pressure to be released from the intervertebral discs and spinal nerves. The head rests comfortably on the padded strap while spinal traction reduces nerve pressure and decompresses the spine, also relaxing the muscles. This type of traction allows joints and muscles to recuperate their natural tone. 

Other Therapies

Electrotherapy

Electrical Muscle Stimulation (EMS) uses a light electrical current to cause a single muscle or a group of muscles to contract. By placing electrodes on the skin in various locations to recruit the appropriate muscle fibers, this allows the electrical pulses to block the pain signals traveling from your injured body to your brain. 

Along with increasing muscle function, the contraction of the muscle also promotes blood flow to the area that assists in healing. EMS will decrease muscular spasm by artificially tiring your muscle in spasm, allowing it to relax.

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Cupping

Special cups create a vacuum suction in specific locations of the body to increase blood flow and reduce pain and deep tissue inflammation within the body. Cupping produces improved mobility and decreased muscle soreness.

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Taping

Kinesio-taping over the injured site allows for improved muscle awareness by providing different feedback from local receptors of the injured tissue, which causes increased awareness of the weakened muscle. Taping allows for pain relief by modulating the body’s receptors under the elastic tape, and decreased inflammation by creating a microscopic separation of the skin and fascia. It is a very effective and popular treatment among pro-athletes and Olympians.

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Moist Heat Therapy

Therapeutic soothing application is very effective at treating exercise-induced delayed onset muscle soreness and reduce pain. The moist heat helps calm muscle spasms and stiffness of joints by promoting blood flow and accelerating healing. Moist heat penetrates deep tissue faster than dry heat, therefore its more efficacious at reducing tissue damage and promoting pain relief.