Forty years of experience & dedication to natural healing!
Forty years of experience & dedication to natural healing!
Stress aggravates any condition or injury and is often a key component in producing a painful condition, neck pain, low back pain. Constant stress produces deep patterns of muscle tightness, limited range of motion, and postural misalignment and “frozen” postural patterns. In addition to addressing the effects of stress. Dr. Mata teaches one-on-one meditation to relax the mind and calm the personality. He also offers hypnotherapy sessions to relearn “how to relax,” and relax the whole body and whole person deeply, enlisting the help of the unconscious mind. Hypnotherapy is really self-hypnotherapy and involves deep breathing, deep relaxation and a willingness to accept suggestion.
The neck and lower back are the two most common areas of pain, both acute and chronic. Victims of lack of proper use, exercise, movement; compounded by the chair, sitting and bad posture. Injuries usually involves muscles, tendons and crucially ligaments - and additionally, often, “nerve impingement.” Pain, tingling, numbness radiates down the neck to the arm, or from the low back to the legs and feet (sciatica). Treatment and rehabilitation must address all factors mentioned: muscles, tendons, ligament, nerves, posture and exercise.
Most headaches and even migraines, involve neck disorders: mis-alignments and compression, muscle spasms, irritated ligaments, bad sitting posture, especially for people sitting all day with computers and STRESS! Migraines almost always involve the neck though other components are also involved, like hormones. Even when people need medication, proper alignment and release of neck compression and tension, can help prevent or lessen the migraine.
Alas, we are human and subject to accidents and falls. About half of chronic recurrent pain problems (back or neck), that I treat, are due to unresolved injuries from car accidents or falls, or blows. Injuries that were not properly or fully treated. But, even when they have become chronic, they can be treated. I endeavor to undo acquired patterns of misalignment and muscle tightness, and myofascial constrictions and adhesions. The patient often, to some degree, must learn to use their bodies and posture correctly. Rehabilitation can involve yoga, pilates, physical therapy. We have developed a working relationships with a qualified network of practitioners in those fields.
Joint pain are treated precisely as that, “joint” issues. Beyond adjusting the bones involved, the whole mechanism is addressed, that is, the tendons, ligaments, and nerves involved, and of course, the joint space. Various soft-tissue therapies and physiotherapy modalities are used. X-ray’s and MRI’s are ordered as needed. We work with medical pain management doctors when necessary. With chronic or recurrent conditions, we have to see how the patient uses that joint or body part, in terms of the whole body. This is particularly important with athletic joint injuries such as tennis elbow.
Rib injuries involve a misalignment of a rib, rib “twisting”, or a bruise or a fracture, usually a hairline fracture. The pain can be excruciating, with every breath and with almost any body position. The treatment is straight forward, releasing the tissue around the rib, realigning the rib, soothing the tissue, usually using ultrasound, electrical stimulation and infrared heat. X-ray’s may be necessary if a fracture is suspected on examination. Displaced fractures may need mechanical/surgical intervention. Most of the time, hairline fractures are treated as described previously. Have you opened a new location, redesigned your shop, or added a new product or service? Don't keep it to yourself, let folks know.
The neck and lower back are the two most common areas of pain, both acute and chronic. Victims of lack of proper use, exercise, movement; compounded by the chair, sitting and bad posture. Injuries usually involves muscles, tendons and crucially ligaments - and additionally, often, “nerve impingement.” Pain, tingling, numbness radiates down the neck to the arm, or from the low back to the legs and feet (sciatica). Treatment and rehabilitation must address all factors mentioned: muscles, tendons, ligament, nerves, posture and exercise.
Most headaches and even migraines, involve neck disorders: misalignments and compression, muscle spasms, irritated ligaments, bad sitting posture, especially for people sitting all day with computers and STRESS! Migraines almost always involve the neck though other components are also involved, like hormones. Even when people need medication, proper alignment and release of neck compression and tension, can help prevent or lessen the migraine.
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