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Bellevue Chiropractic Services by Non-Surgical Spine Care Center
The Non-Surgical Spine Care Center utilizes a breakthrough non-surgical and non-invasive technology known across the world as Spinal Decompression Therapy. Spinal Decompression was developed a specialized team of physicians and medical engineers, for the treatment of low back and sciatic pain. Clinically Spinal Decompression alone has shown to have an excellent success rate.
Non-Surgical Spine Care Center is also the first in the region into integrate LiteCure laser treatment. The laser works by flooding the tissues with photons, energizing the damaged cells and increasing circulation to the painful area. This produces a cascade of healing responses in your body, reducing inflammation, thereby reducing or even eliminating your pain.
We Offer:
- Spinal Decompression Therapy
- Deep Tissue Laser Therapy
- Chiropractic Correction Therapy
- Physical Therapy
- Surface EMG (Myovision)
- Aqua Med (Water Massage)
Today, you don't have to live with that pain anymore. Thanks to the concerted efforts of a team of top physicians and medical engineers, Spinal Decompression along with Deep Tissue Laser Therapy can now offer you a non-surgical option that truly has the power to eliminate or significantly reduce your pain.
"What is a 'Surface EMG'?"
A Surface EMG is similar to an "EKG" for the heart. It uses a hand held instrument (static test) and electrodes (dynamic test) that are placed over the muscles of lower back to identify the exact location of abnormal muscle activity. The benefits of this test are that it is painless, quick. Most importantly, it helps us determine what further evaluations or tests may or may not be necessary! Discover how you "measure up" to normal! You'll get to take a copy of your neck and back "picture" home with you!
The Myovision is the absolute latest and most high tech tool available in chiropractic spinal analysis.
WHAT DO THE RESULTS OF THE MYOVISION MEAN?
The Myovision is the absolute latest and most high tech tool available in chiropractic spinal analysis. Originally developed for use by NASA to measure the effects of zero gravity and fatigue on their astronauts it has recently been shown to correlate with neurological reflexes that occur with injury. For our purposes, we are concerned with injury of the spine.
Chiropractors specialize in the analysis, detection, and correction of vertebral subluxations or subluxations for short. The subluxation is the key problem to find and correct for the chiropractor, much like cavities are for the dentist. A subluxation is a misalignment of one of the 24 vertebrae of the spine causing nerve pressure. Nerve pressure causes interference or alterations to the messages sent from the brain to the body and results in a decrease in proper body function. Decreased function may cause various health problems and symptoms. Since the nervous system controls every function of your body (either directly or indirectly) and regulates every muscle, organ, and cell it is important for your nervous system to be free of nerve pressure in order to enjoy optimal health.
The doctors of Specific Family Chiropractic specialize in finding the areas of nerve pressure and the subluxations causing it. Using the Myovision helps this process. The Infrared Thermography measures 400 skin temperature points on each side of the spine to check for differences. When nerve pressure occurs, it sets up a number of reflexes. One of these reflexes is increased pooling of blood in the capillaries (small blood vessels) of the skin. Since blood is very warm, this will result in warmer temperatures in this area of skin compared to others. This process is much like if you were to rub your arm in one area for a while, this stimulates blood flow and makes the area warmer. The second reflex in thermography occurs in virtually all joints of your body. When you have an injury, inflammation (swelling) of the damaged joint occurs. As you have probably experienced, this inflamed area is hotter than the surrounding skin surfaces. This reflex occurs just the same in the joints of the spine. More heat is created and thus there will be higher temperature readings by the Myovision. You can find research validating this fact at the bottom of your Myovision scan.
The next portion of the Myovision study is the Surface Electromyography or sEMG for short. What this test does is measure the amount of muscle activity (or inactivity) going on within a particular group of muscles. If problems are long standing, abnormal muscle fatigue will be displayed in the graph. If problems are more recent, it will show up as abnormally strong, or in spasm. Usually when a muscle has spasms it is to protect a weakened joint and/or nerve. This is due to the laxity (stretching) that occurs in the damaged ligaments that hold the spine in place. Ligaments are somewhat elastic, much like a rubber band. If you have ever stretched a rubber band too far you noticed that it either broke or lost its normal ability to rebound back to the same level of tightness. In your body, the brain notices this loss of elasticity and the instability to the surrounding joints by creating muscle spasm to provide support and protection to these injured and loose areas. These abnormal patterns in muscle activity can give solid evidence that there may be nerve irritation. Both chiropractors and medical doctors have performed a tremendous amount of research to validate this fact.
Once the scan is complete the computer deciphers the information and displays it in a graphical format that is easy to understand for both the doctor and the patient. Interpretation relies on combining the information about both portions of the scan. Usually in most cases, an area of elevation in thermography will have an elevation in sEMG as well. This sEMG elevation is usually a few vertebral segments above or below the elevated thermographic signal. The same is true for areas of abnormally low skin temperature and muscle activity.
Abnormally high skin temperature is usually seen with a blue or red bar on the left portion of your scan labeled "thermography". Abnormally low skin temperature, although a rare occurrence can exist and is reflected in areas where there is no signal present on either side of the graph.
With muscle activity, abnormally high levels are displayed with a red bar under the "sEMG" portion of your scan and have a number above 7. Abnormally low sEMG readings can occur and are shown on the graph with a green bar below 3 (the normal contractile range is between 3-7).
By combining the information on both portions of the scan we can get a pretty good idea about what is going on with your body. This allows us to correctly outline a customized treatment plan just for you.
How do I get started?
Contact our office at (425) 455-3472 to schedule an initial consultation with the Doctor to determine your individual situation. Medical Evaluation and Diagnostic testing procedures should be performed prior to beginning any treatment in order to determine the most effective process. After carefully studying your case history and exam findings, the Doctor will sit down and explain his recommended plan of action for you. After answering any questions you may have about the recommended plan, you may begin your care.
