Rehabilitation
We believe we are serving the best patients in the world. People who live in Colorado are active, educated and always looking for what they can do for themselves to stay out of pain and prevent reinjury. We have a specialists in physical therapy and exercise rehabilitation on site for just this purpose!
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 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 and Physical Therapists, in consultation with one another daily, make sure your rehabilitative exercises are modified to meet your individual needs and diagnosis.
What is rehabilitation?
Rehabilitation is phase two of your care. The first phase included the initial pain control therapies such as chiropractic adjusting, ice, and electrical muscle stimulation. In the rehabilitation phase, it’s time to reactivate those tired, sore muscles and recover the coordination, flexibility, strength, and endurance you had before your problem got started.
Your first visit
There are a lot of things to do during your first visit. First, we’ll discuss your current status and review the treatment you’ve had to get you to that point. We’ll also talk 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.
Next, we’ll do a variety of physical activities to test the strength and coordination of the injured area especially in the way your life’s activities challenge it. We’ll be looking closely for a weak muscle, stiff joint, postural problem, or poor control of a certain body movement.
Finally, we’ll show you a few specific activities you can do on your own to start to rebuild the strength and endurance to need to get back to living the way you remember.
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 we’ll show you are carefully designed to ensure that your "hardware," such as your joints, are both stable and flexible as possible so they're not painful while you are training your muscles. At the same time, your “software” will be trained with balance and coordination activities to make sure those strong muscles do their job of moving you around smoothly and safely.
It is important to use the proper technique when doing these exercises as they relate to movements you do on a daily basis. These are movement skills and perfect practice will make for perfect skills. Quality is much more important than quantity! Being consistent with your home rehabilitation activities is also very important. The more often a skill is practiced, the faster you’ll become good at it. Once you can do activities with good coordination and skill, we’ll move on to exercises that will train endurance, strength, power, and agility. Most of the exercises require no special equipment so you’ll be able to do them easily wherever you are.. The goal is to get you back to what is important to you and empower you with simple tools to keep you there!