Spinal Health

To achieve true spinal health -Rehabilitative exercise is necessary both during and after your spinal treatments to make sure the correction you achieve is a lasting one. Most chiropractic practices you’ve visited likely just focused on pain relief and spinal adjustment, essentially short-term fixes that ensure you’ll soon be back seeking more treatment.

At Chiropractic Kansas City, our goal for you is a more permanent structural correction followed up by educating you , demonstrating and implementing rehabilitative exercise protocol’s to maintain your spine’s health. This is where spinal rehab comes in.

Our rehab exercises are done both in clinic and at home. They involve the application of heat, cold, massage , stretching and stabilization and strengthening exercises. Dr. Tomlinson will prescribe exactly the right balance of these treatments to strengthen, relax and help heal your muscles.

Exercise: Dr. Tomlinson will demonstrate and prescribe specific therapeutic exercises to support your ongoing treatment and recovery. Therapeutic exercises can be done in the office under supervision.The doctor will also give you an exercise and stretching plan to follow at home, a necessary part of your healing.

Important Message to Patients:

It’s important to remember that spinal misalignment’s can take years to develop, and so it takes time to correct them. Once your pain has subsided, you may think all is well and abandon your efforts, returning to your old habits.

But if you end your care before fully healing the muscles and soft tissues, you invite a relapse. Many people that work with the majority of chiropractors make this mistake and end up coming back again and again for further chiropractic and/or physical therapy treatment, not realizing that ongoing home rehabilitative exercise can prevent the relapse and pain from returning.

When you come to see Dr. Tomlinson, we’ll carefully explain the right way to do your rehabilitative “homework” and we will help you stay on track.We want to treat you for your injury and release you as soon as we can to a home based stabilization and strengthening program as our goal is for you to be healthy strong and independent not dependent on us to feel good.