When pain and stiffness disrupt your day, consider chiropractic treatment. The experts at Sentara can help bring immediate relief.
Chiropractic Care: Why Choose Sentara?
Our chiropractic experts use specialized therapies to treat pain and mobility issues that occur with back problems or after injury. Program highlights include:
- Personalized treatment: Your care begins with a conversation. Our doctors talk with you about your symptoms and goals for chiropractic treatment. Your comfort is our top priority.
- Streamlined care: If you need specialized care, our chiropractors refer you for testing and consults with Sentara orthopedic rehabilitation and neurologic rehabilitation specialists. You can get all the care you need in the same place.
- Convenience: When you're in pain or discomfort, we offer quick appointments-including walk-in availability-at Sentara Therapy Centers throughout the community.
Chiropractic Services and Treatments
Our specialists design the gentlest treatment to help you feel better. We make sure you're comfortable with every therapy we perform. We offer:
Diagnostic services
We start by talking with you about what you're feeling. Our experts consider your age, condition and circumstances before deciding how to treat you.
We may use hands-on techniques to see how your body responds in areas where you feel pain. If we need more information before treating you, we might refer you for imaging tests, including:
- CT scan
- MRI
- X-ray
Manual therapy
Our specialists use their hands to relieve pain and improve range of motion. We use:
- Active release technique® (ART): Doctors press on affected areas while you gently move. Our specialist can feel any restrictions in your muscles and soft tissues.
- Deep tissue stretching: Experts stretch you to lengthen muscles and soft tissue. Stretching helps prevent adhesions (scar tissue) and improves flexibility.
- Flexion-distraction therapy: We have you lie on a special table that moves as the doctor manipulates your spine. This therapy takes pressure off your back, relieving pain and stretching tissues.
- Spinal manipulation: Doctors position your body and then apply sudden, controlled force to the joint. You may hear a pop or cracking sound as space opens in the joints, releasing gas.
- Spinal mobilization: Specialists move your spinal joints through a slow and steady range of motion.
Electrical stimulation
We sometimes use mild electrical stimulation to relax tight muscles and loosen tissue. This stimulation helps increase blood flow and relieve pain.
Exercise programs
Sentara's chiropractic care experts develop specific exercises for you to do at home. We design these personalized exercises to build strength and increase mobility.
If an injury could benefit from physical therapy, we may refer you to one of our specialists. We may also recommend dry needling or soft tissue mobilization.
Conditions We Treat With Chiropractic Care
We use chiropractic care to treat pain, stiffness and decreased mobility resulting from:Degenerative conditions
Our specialists help relieve age-related aches and pains. We also treat:
- Disc problems: Cushioning discs in the spine become thin, causing instability and pain
- Osteoarthritis: Pain and stiffness that occurs when cartilage (protective tissue) between bones wears away
- Rheumatoid arthritis: Swollen, painful joints that result from an immune system disorder
Injuries
Treatment can help you feel better after traumatic injury, such as a car accident or a fall. We also help ease pain from overusing a body part through repetitive motions.
Nerve-related conditions
We help relieve pain from nerve problems or injuries, including:
- Brachial plexus injury: Damage to shoulder nerves that causes pain or weakness in the hands and arms
- Nerve entrapment syndrome: Pain or weakness that occurs with pinched or compressed nerves
- Peripheral nerve pain: Weakness or numbness in the hands and feet
- Sciatica: Nerve compression in the lower back that causes pain in the back, hip and leg
Neurological issues
Sentara chiropractic experts help relieve painful symptoms of certain neurological conditions, such as:
- Headaches (including migraines)
- Multiple sclerosis
- Parkinson's disease
If you have neurological symptoms, our specialists may refer you to Sentara's neurological rehabilitation experts. We may also recommend that you see an occupational therapy specialist.
Benefits of Chiropractic Care
Chiropractic care services help you:
- Feel less pain
- Get stronger
- Improve flexibility
- Recover after injury
Our chiropractic specialists work closely with other Sentara experts to ensure you get all the care you need. Meet our experts.
Request an Appointment
Schedule a chiropractic care appointment at a Sentara Therapy Center near you. Learn more about our locations.