 Dry Hydrotherapy
The term hydrotherapy, by definition, refers to the use of water in the treatment of disease or trauma. In a broad sense, hydrotherapy includes water treatment utilizing any of the three natural forms of water; solid, liquid or vapor. The most common technique for hydrotherapy involves the use of the small whirlpool tanks.
Dry Hydrotherapy Tables
Hydrotherapy tables are a technological advance over whirlpools and immersion water therapy. The effects are very similar but the patient remains dry. The patient lies back, completely clothed on the surface of the table. Just under the surface is a mattress filled with headed water. A Jacuzzi pump propels the water toward the patient through three patented hydro-jets. The pressure of the water against the patient's body provides the massage.
The combination of flotation, heat and message produce the therapeutic effects and are described below.
Flotation
Water is extremely buoyant. When the body is placed on the water mattress, there is minimal strain on the weight-bearing joints. Additionally, few if any muscles are required to hold the body up or in position. These two conditions combine to help the patient's body relax resulting in an increased physiologic response to treatment.
Heat
Water is an effective conductor of heat. As the patient is lying on the table's surface, heat is evenly conducted through the skin and into the muscles and soft tissues of the body. The heat increases blood and lymphatic circulation, increases metabolism and has a sedative effect.
Massage
The pressure of the water on the body increase venous lymphatic flow. One of the effects of the resulting stimulation is increased molecular motion in the skin that may aid the healing process.
Hydromassage works out trigger points in the muscles, which are localized area of hyperirritability that induce a cycle of spasms, pain, tension, weakness and limited range of motion in the joints.
Effects of Warm Dry Hydrotherapy
The major physiologic effects of hydrotherapy can be summarized as follows:
Thermal Effects
Relaxation
Promotion of Tissue Healing
Increase in Circulation
Analgesia
Relief of Muscle Spasm
Increase in Mobility
Sedation
Removal of Metabolic Toxins
 Physical Therapy
Certain types of physical therapy are used at Markson Chiropractic. Depending on your history and examination findings, your doctor may add a regimen of physical therapy modalities designed to help the healing process of muscles, tendons, and ligaments.
 Exercise Counseling
Learning how to use your body properly is an essential part of the chiropractic approach to health. Throughout your chiropractic care, you will be instructed in the proper use of an exercise program, custom-tailored to your individual needs. These exercises become an integral part, not only of getting well, but of staying well.
 Understanding Finances
we offer state-of-the-art chiropractic care at fair and equitable fees. Our dedicated and well-trained staff is ready, willing, and able to assist you in deciding which financial option best suits you personally.
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Specific Spinal Adjustments
Adjusting the spine is the cornerstone of chiropractic. We utilize multiple techniques in order to provide the greatest service to our patients. Along with the traditional manual adjustments, your doctor may use special tables or adjusting instruments for infants, children, and pregnant women.
Important Things
The two most important things to us are your health, and our reputation. In reality these two things are linked together. If our patients do not get results, it is not good for our reputation or for chiropractic. We have built our practice on getting results. It is very important that each and every patient we care for has the maximum chance for the best results.
Chiropractic has a great track record of helping people. But one of the cornerstones to getting such good results is cooperation between the doctor and the patient. Keeping your schedule of appointments is the major responsibility of the patient. The largest cause of less than expected results is failure to follow the recommended appointment schedule.
All healing comes from within each patient. What the chiropractor does is make adjustments to the spine to remove nerve interference caused from subluxations. Subluxations are areas of interference to the nervous system caused by pressure or irritation from spinal bones. In order to correct subluxations a sufficient amount of time and work is needed to make the changes to spinal structures.
When someone has crooked teeth, and they get braces, they need to wear those braces on their teeth continually for up to several years. In chiropractic, we do not put little braces on each spinal bone to pull them into position. To make a correction most spines require a series of adjustments to start the process changing spinal structures. These schedules are specifically designed for the spine of each patient. Missing appointments and not following your schedule, greatly reduces your chance for correction of your subluxations.
If your results are as important to you as they are to us, please make every attempt to make every visit you are scheduled for. We consider correcting subluxations to be a very high priority. Missing visits will slow or even stop your progress. After all, you came to us for results. Getting the care you need to correct your subluxations is essential. After all, our reputation, and your health depends on it.
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