We believe that it is critical that you know and understand your body and how it works.
Learning about the physical structures and physiological processes of your body means that you can make informed decisions and choices that affect your health.
Our Mission
Until we have an empowering experience that allows us to see the repairing power of our own bodies, most of us don’t realize our true healing potential. Fulfillment of this potential requires the right tools and resources, knowledge of what those are, and a little effort.
Our signature approach harnesses your body’s amazing ability to heal. To do this, we combine elements of education, alignment, balance and retraining to create patterns and habits you can maintain for life.
With our signature plans:
- Our doctors and staff act as mentors to Educate you and guide you every step of the way
- Simultaneously, we’ll address
- Alignment for optimal neurological communication
- Balance for optimal function
- Retraining for optimal performance
Addressing these elements simultaneously gives you the right tools to heal efficiently and thoroughly so that you can Maintain the vitality you’ve achieved, prevent future recurrence, and proactively sustain your health.
These programs are highly successful, individualized, and comprehensive.
They often include a combination of functional medicine and the Active Edge brand of Chiropractic care as improvement in one area fuels recovery in the other.
And most importantly, our signature programs require you to commit to yourself as fully as we commit to you and your success.
They are not for everyone, but if you are accepted into the program, you will experience health you didn’t realize you were missing.
Continue reading to learn more about how each element of our programs can have components of chiropractic, functional medicine, or both.
Our Signature Approach Combines Education With Results-Based Treatment To Help You Get Better And Stay Better.
Educate: Understand your amazing body in ways that make sense and empower you for years to come. Education
We believe that it is critical that you know and understand your body and how it works.
Learning about the physical structures and physiological processes of your body means that you can make informed decisions and choices that affect your health.
Our goal is to empower you to understand your complex and amazing body in a way that makes sense and allows you to apply that knowledge for years to come.
Understand How Your Body Works
We will work with you to develop a comprehensive education plan including some combination of the following, plus much more!
- Specific actions and their consequences
- How your digestive system functions affect the rest of your health
- How one injury can often lead to one another as our bodies adapt. Brilliant design for reaching tomorrow, but not so great for 20 years from now.
- Your future health is a combination of your previous choices, the choices you make now, and a little bit of influence from your genes
Learn how you can enhance your genes through lifestyle. Just because grandma had it doesn’t mean you have to.
- What is the right way to eat for YOU?
- Physical activity- How much of it do you really need and what kind is best for you?
- NEW Solutions for stress reduction- that’s right, there are more options than deep breathing and anxiety meds
- Everyday toxins that are dragging you down
Become educated on the benefits of:
- PROACTIVE Health Care
- Chiropractic adjustments
- Nutritional supplements
- Therapeutic diets
- Detoxification
- Exercising with proper movement and what that means
- Muscle and Fascial Health
- Neuromuscular Therapy and Massage
Our Signature Approach Combines Education With Results-Based Treatment To Help You Get Better And Stay Better.
Align: Chiropractic Care Supports The Body’s Natural Ability To Heal Itself
Chiropractic adjustments kick starts and supports the body’s natural ability to heal itself. At Active Edge Chiropractic we combine traditional treatment methods with neuromuscular therapy, massage, physical rehab, nutritional education and functional medicine to help our patients reach optimal health through optimal function.
Every move your body makes, from digestion to walking is controlled by your nervous system.
This complex network of nerves and synapses allows your brain to communicate with your muscles and organs to keep you moving and functioning.
The Whole Body Approach
By taking this whole body approach, we are able to connect the dots between…
- pain distribution
- postural analysis
- muscular quality
- movement patterns
- organ system efficiency
…to help our patients with anything from migraines to ankle injuries to adrenal fatigue and everything in between.
At Active Edge Chiropractic, we pride ourselves on our comprehensive approach. We understand the importance of determining the cause of our patient’s problems rather than simply treating their symptoms. We combine manual muscle therapies, joint manipulation, rehabilitative exercise, and nutritional counseling as needed to address the root and complicating factors of each problem. This unique approach gives our patients the tools they need to heal effectively and efficiently and to prevent future recurrences.
A 4-year study of 21,743 people found that patients whose primary physician was a chiropractor experienced 43% less hospital admissions, spent 58.4% fewer days in hospital, underwent 43.2% less outpatient surgeries and spent 51.8% less on pharmaceuticals than average Americans.
Let us give you the edge you need to reach optimal health through optimal function.
Balance
Our body is in a constant state of flux and opposing forces work together to keep us balanced inside and out. That juxtaposition is good, and we need up and down, back and forth, left and right, etc. to be communicating well for our body to function optimally.
Think about it like this… You’re watching the longest game of tug o’war in history. The teams are relatively evenly matched. There is constant shifting towards one side or the other, but neither team can quite get the other over the center line.
Now, let’s apply this analogy to our bodies. The teams can be any opposing processes in your body. Let’s do two examples. One that would apply to physical care and another for more physiological restoration.
We Address The Problem’s Source
Physical (musculoskeletal) Care: The two teams are opposing muscle groups. For simplicity sake, let’s say muscles on you front side vs. muscles on your backside. Now, let’s say you’ve been sitting a lot… studying, working, watching tv, driving, eating dinner, etc.
Those muscles that bend your hip are one team. The opposing team would then be the muscles that make you stand back up or kick your leg behind you, or walk. Our bodies are designed to move and to make it to tomorrow.
So when we spend an extended period in one position, our bodies forget how to move temporarily (you’ve noticed this when you’re stiff standing up after sitting for a while).
Now let’s say this continues and the amount of time you spend sitting outweighs the amount of time you spend standing or walking. Those muscles that are on your front side are constantly being shortened and don’t have the opportunity to lengthen fully, so they eventually shorten.
You know this as being “tight” or “inflexible.” Well when those muscles are tight or shortened, it’s like you have a team of cheaters on your front side. They went ahead and wrapped the rope around a pole, so the back side team couldn’t possibly pull them even to center.
Find Imbalances In Your Body
Meanwhile, the back side team is working extra hard, in fact, they’re working so hard that they’re starting to get frustrated and yell at each other. This yelling is what you’re hearing your body tell you when you sense that what you’re feeling isn’t quite right.
Your run feels lopsided or back is hurting after shopping, or you’re getting shooting pains every now and again.
In this case, as in many other musculoskeletal injuries, your problem is not where you are feeling the pain, it’s that you are out of balance. Those cues are your body’s way of telling you that it can’t work like it should because somebody is cheating and somebody else isn’t pulling his/her weight.
Comprehensive Physiological Care
The two teams in this example may represent different organ systems that work together or chemical reactions in your body that counter one another.
For simplicity let’s look at your adrenal system as a whole. Your adrenal system is your stress coping system.
There are three types of stress physical, chemical, and emotional.
- Physical means aches, pains, and injuries
- Chemical refers to food, pharmaceuticals, supplements or other things we’re putting into our bodies
- Emotional is what you typically think of when you say you’re “stressed.”
Those three stressors are one team. On the other team is your stress mitigating/balancing adrenal system.
For every pull from a stressor, the adrenal system has to release some energy to then pull back and repair or restore.If the adrenal system is not being replenished by nutrients being brought in and broken down or the stressors are just so abundant that the adrenal system cannot replenish fast enough, the stressors win.
That means you notice a whole lot more physical discomfort, the foods you’re eating that your body doesn’t love make you even more bloated, and little emotional stressors that you usually handle with ease make you snap!. You’re not “crazy, ” and you’re not “getting old.” You’re just out of balance.
Now, in either example, what if we could have gotten reinforcements into the weaker side before the overpowering side dragged them through the mud?
Would the recovery have been much easier right? Could the reinforcements have helped the struggling team while they were still on their feet rather than having to pick them all up and dust them off right?
Think about sending in reinforcements as being proactive about your health. You’re noticing that something isn’t quite right, but the pain is only there sometimes, or your bloodwork is still “normal.” The earlier you restore balance, the less effort and clean-up you have to do later.
We’re here to locate where your imbalances stem from so that we can work together to actively and help your body reorganize, regroup, and get back in the game.
Retrain
Every move your body makes, from digestion to walking is controlled by the nervous system.
Our bodies are amazing. They are designed to adapt so that if we’re injured today and need to run from a wolf tomorrow, we can. It only takes us about two weeks to develop a compensation pattern that reduces our awareness of an injury so that we can be ready to defend, save, or feed ourselves if danger should arise.
Our bodies are designed to make it to tomorrow and aren’t so concerned with 20 years from now. If we can’t make it through tomorrow, it doesn’t matter that the compensation we developed today will cause degeneration in our knee, or shoulder or back.
Just like it’s a lot easier to stop smoking after one pack of cigarettes than it is after 40 years of chain smoking, the longer a problem persists and the longer your body has been using its current processes or patterns, the longer they take to break.
Restore Basic Health Patterns
This principal of retraining from the root of the problem and restoring basic pathways and patterns applies to your systemic health as well.
Often, the two are interrelated. For example, a gall bladder doesn’t just get sick or develop stones overnight. That happens over a period as a result of continued insult to the digestive system or prolonged deficiency of certain minerals, vitamins, and nutrients. Gall bladder stress can easily present as chronic shoulder pain before you ever knowing you have an issue with you gal bladder.
Another example: If you’re in a constant state of stress, your body recognizes that this isn’t a great time for you to reproduce, so it steals from your reproductive systems to feed your stress coping systems. This may present as migraines, brain fog, chronic pain or a host of other physical complaints.
In each of these cases, identifying all underlying elements is essential to restoring balance. Once that first step is achieved, retraining means re-establishing healthy patterns and habits are essential for long-term wellness and prevention of relapse or future recurrence.
Retraining at Active Edge Chiropractic includes rehabilitative exercises specific to each patient.
Our physicians evaluate muscular strength, balance, and firing activity in conjunction with movement patterns, form, and flexibility to retrain and reinforce other in-office treatments such as massage and adjustments.
Additionally, we empower our patients to take their recovery and health into their hands. Through education and home rehab programs, we give our patients the edge they need to heal efficiently and prevent further injury.
Maintain
We help our patients reach optimal health through optimal function.
We believe that you should be your biggest and best advocate for your health. We believe that education is at the root of your understanding and decision-making process. We also believe that knowledge without action is useless.
So we strive to help our patients not only learn how to stay well but to implement practices and habits that help them apply the things they’ve learned and maintained the vitality they’ve discovered.
We encourage our patients to take their health into their hands. In addition to the home exercise programs we recommend to prevent re-injury, we encourage our patients to receive regular adjustments and soft tissue work to address minor problems as they arise.
Recognizing Your Symptoms
This means knowing how “great” feels and recognizing “not quite right” before there is a “problem.” Pain is the last symptom to show up and the first symptom to disappear when your body is under stress.
Finally, we are here to be your mentors for life. As new stressors cause new problems to arise, we will be a constant resource for you.
We also pledge to continue providing educational opportunities by inviting guest speakers and hosting special engagements and workshops so patients may continue learning and renew your inspiration to continue propelling yourself towards your optimal function and optimal health.
