Finding comprehensive rehabilitative care when you are in pain or discomfort can be challenging. If you live in or near Anchorage, Alaska, there's a solution for you nearby. At Excellence in Health Chiropractic, we take an integrative chiropractic care approach to care. Here's how it works.

Looking for the best rehabilitation services after an injury? Reach out to EIH to discover our integrative approach!

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What Do We Mean by an Integrative Approach?

Let's start by defining "integrative." When something is integrative, it brings many separate things together in such a way that they work together in a unified way to serve one purpose.

For example, at Excellence in Health Chiropractic and Rehabilitation Clinic, we combine chiropractic care with other evidence-based treatments like massage, traction therapy, exercise therapy, and more to help you get back to wellness. For the natural path to feeling better, your best option is Excellence in Health. All these integrative chiropractic care treatments are planned and used together in a systematic way.

Could You Get All These Treatments Separately?

Certainly, you could go to a chiropractor, a massage therapist, and other practitioners for each of these therapies, though the cost would likely be higher. The real disadvantage of getting the treatments separately is that they are not working together. Each provider might try to solve a different health problem, and their individual treatments would not be coordinated to work together.

You Need One Treatment Plan

Having just one treatment plan is the ideal path to wellness. When you see Dr. William Ross or Dr. Blue Ross, they assess your condition and create an individualized plan to improve your health. All the treatments you require can be contained in this one treatment plan in a unified way.

A Team Working Together

The old saying goes, "Too many cooks spoil the broth." Well, that is true if they are all doing their own thing and not consulting with each other. If you went to several different providers, they could work against each other. What one does, the other one undoes.

Instead, an integrative chiropractic approach means everyone on the team is working together toward the common goal of your wellness. One of our chiropractors creates the treatment plan based on your unique needs. They may also consult with the other team members before they complete this plan.

Then, even after your treatment begins, the team members communicate with each other to confirm that your care is progressing well. If you went to separate care providers, they probably would each do their own thing, never speaking to each other. But with integrative chiropractic care, you know that everything they're doing goes together for the right outcome.

In the integrative chiropractic care approach, everything we do works together. We start with determining what you need and devising a way to fulfill those needs. During your treatment, we may use any of the following modalities and possibly others, depending on your physical condition.

Natural Treatments

At Excellence in Health, our integrative chiropractic approach uses all-natural treatments. Once we find the source of your discomfort or movement problems, we provide treatments that are natural, safe, and effective.

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Planning Our Integrative Approach

Before your chiropractor can begin treatment with integrative chiropractic care, he needs to find out the root cause of your current condition. Then, along with the various therapists, he can design the right treatment plan for you.

Patient Evaluation

For patient evaluation, the chiropractor starts by discussing the problems you've noticed. We look for the root cause of your pain or function difficulties. We may do various tests, including digital imaging, to see what is happening under the surface. Of course, our chiropractor also provides a physical examination. All this works together to create a detailed picture of your health issues.

Treatment Plan

If you have had an injury, our goal is to get you back to the condition you were in before the injury happened. For example, if you were in a car wreck, you need a personal injury chiropractor to get you back to the health you had before the wreck. Your chiropractor will then create a comprehensive treatment plan using any and all of the services we provide.

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Components of Our Integrative Chiropractic Care

An integrative approach can use many different kinds of treatments together. So, what do we use in our integrative chiropractic care? At Excellence in Health, we provide the following types of care, and possibly others, depending on what you need as an individual.

Chiropractic Care

Chiropractic care is at the center of our treatments. Your chiropractor is the one who evaluates your condition and creates the plan. Our chiropractors have the training, skills, and experience needed to provide chiropractic treatments, such as spinal adjustments, chiropractic manipulations, and traction, among others. The other therapists report your progress to the chiropractor so that he may change or add other therapeutic modalities if needed.

Massage Therapy

Our licensed massage therapists use various types of massage techniques that are right for you. Some of the benefits of massage therapy include the following:

• Treats muscle spasms and muscle trauma
• Reduces recovery time
• Increases blood flow to heal faster
• Alleviates back pain
• Reduces or eliminates headaches and migraines
• Helps with insomnia
• Improves your mood
• Reduces pressure
• Eliminates toxins from your body
• Improves resiliency in your joints

Your massage therapist may use any of the traditional styles of massage, including Swedish and deep tissue massage. If you come to us with an injury, your massage therapist may use medical massage therapy or injury rehabilitation with massage.

Physiotherapy

Our physiotherapy is aimed at rehabilitation through a variety of methods using several different types of equipment. For instance, we might use the following during rehabilitation with the goal of strengthening your body, stretching tight muscles, and rehabilitation to your previous state of health.

• Ultrasound
• Electrical stimulation
• Traction
• Hot and cold packs
• Resistance tubing

Your physiotherapist may also give you "homework" so that you can continue to train on your own. These exercises help you get stronger more quickly and repair damaged tissue.

Traction Therapy

If you have pressure on your spine, specifically in the lumbar, cervical discs, or joints, we may use mechanical, intermittent traction therapy. This treatment relieves pressure and improves your circulatory system. This treatment is painless and increases your overall comfort.

Exercise Therapy

Again, as with physiotherapy, we believe in the power of exercise. We know that building strength and increasing flexibility will help you recover from injuries and improve your well-being. We have exercise equipment designed for these purposes. Your chiropractor usually includes exercises in his treatment plan.

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Why Choose Our Integrative Chiropractic Care at Excellence in Health?

Located in Anchorage, Alaska, Excellence In Health Chiropractic & Rehabilitation Clinic is an award-winning chiropractic care center. Our friendly and knowledgeable staff work together to coordinate and deliver your integrative chiropractic care.

Drs. William and Blue Ross, as well as our entire team, are devoted to providing the kind of integrative chiropractic care you need to recover and heal. All our treatments are evidence-based and effective. What's more, the doctors use the best treatments together in an integrated way to serve your unique needs.

At EIH, we focus on one main goal: your health. Whether you need help recovering from an injury or have other physical complaints, we provide expert care.

Are you worried you won't fully recover from your injuries and get back to work? We welcome you to make an appointment to experience our integrative approach at Excellence in Health.