Welcome to our family practice!
At Spangler Chiropractic & Massage Therapy, we believe that health starts with a strong foundation - your spine. We invite you to take a look around here to learn how chiropractic can restore function and enhance your quality of life.
Stages of care
Relief/Stability Care
Relief care is the first stage of care for most patients. The primary goal during this initial stage is to provide the individual with symptomatic relief. Treatments focus on specific techniques and soft tissue therapies that quickly and effectively reduce pain, inflammation and stiffness. This will allow the majority of individuals to continue their daily activities with little to no interruption. Patients are encouraged to stay mobile and functional so long as there is not a risk of further injury or tissue damage. At the end of this care we slowly start to add stability exercises and activities that will boost our patients into the next phase of care.
Function/Performance Care
The second stage of care consists of correcting the problem that contributed to the condition. This is the functional and performance stage of care. This stage is vitally important to ensure that we correct the issues to allow every patient to function properly in their daily lives. It is extremely important that our patients comply with and follow the instructions given by the doctor during this stage of care. Functional and Performance care will require in office exercising, one on one with the doctor or therapist, which is specific to each individual condition. This will also require "homework" exercises that will be prescribed by the doctor. When we see a patient with pain it is vital to understand that pain is the last to come and is the first to go with chiropractic. Maintaining proper biomechanical function and performance keeps the pain away long term!
Maintenance Care
Once we have decreased the pain/inflammation/stiffness, added stability, and reached a point of proper function and superior performance we want to keep you that way! For some this might mean seeing you once per year, for others this may mean once per month or once every other week. This is the stage of care we strive for all our patients to reach as quickly as possible. Chiropractic maintenance is like proper hygiene or brushing your teeth, it keeps what we have healthy, healthy.