A brief list of our Chiropractic Services
• Back X-Ray and General Evaluation
• Chiropracting Adjustments
• Specializing in Sports Injuries
• Diagnostic Musculoskeletal Ultrasound Information
• What is an Ultrasound?
• What Areas are tested in Musculoskeletal Diagnostic Ultrasound?
• Reason for Test?
Back X-ray and General Evaluation
Clays Mill Chiropractic Center uses x-rays to determine areas of spinal subluxations. A very thorough examination of the x-rays would be performed not only for spinal and/or soft tissue pathologies, but also spinal biomechanical problems that can interfere with normal nervous system function.
Chiropractic Adjustments
Chiropractic adjustments are given to reduce spinal subluxations that interfere with normal nervous system function. A Chiropractor can use his hands, an instrument and other tools to produce the spinal adjustment. Once adjustments are given the usual side effect is health reflected by a return to normal function and the patient feels better physically and mentally.
Specializing in Sports Injuries
Whatever sport you are in whether it is walking, running, biking, football, hockey, soccer, lacrosse, baseball, basketball, etc, you would greatly benefit from Chiropractic Care. Many professional athletes understand that spinal adjustments make them perform better and heal faster. Dr. Paul has had specific Sports Injury training that is very beneficial to any athlete regardless of their skill level. If Chiropractic’s good enough for the pros, how much better would you be with it?
Diagnostic Musculoskeletal Ultrasound Information
Dr. Frangedakis is a specialist in Diagnostic Musculoskeletal Ultrasound. This type of sonography takes years to master with a vast knowledge of anatomy and function of the musculoskeletal system.
Ultrasound is a powerful diagnostic tool for the imaging evaluation of musculoskeletal disorders. Recently, there has been increased demand for expanding the clinical applications of musculoskeletal sonography. Continual improvement in technology, wide availability, and relatively lower cost are factors contributing to the growth of sonography, which is becoming more frequently utilized in the routine evaluation of the musculoskeletal system.
Compared to other cross-sectional modalities, ultrasound has several inherent advantages. Among these are ready accessibility, portability, quick scan time, and better patient tolerability. The dynamic, real-time nature of sonography requires personal interaction with the patient, often resulting in a more directed examination, specific for each individual. Scanning technique is easily modified, as needed, to optimize the diagnostic effectiveness of the study. Advances in technology with higher frequency transducers, color/power Doppler capability, and extended field-of-view (FOV) function have facilitated the progressive development of sonography. Newer innovative features such as tissue harmonics and 3-D imaging may prove to be beneficial in the diagnosis of musculoskeletal disorders.
What is an Ultrasound?
Ultrasound is a painless test used to examine different organs and tissues of the body. Ultrasound machines generate high-frequency sound waves. These waves are pointed to a specific area using a hand-held device called a transducer. The waves bounce off the subject area and are picked up by the transducer. The computer then processes the waves into images.
What Areas are tested in Musculoskeletal Diagnostic Ultrasound?
Areas Dr. Frangedakis can test are shoulders, elbows, wrists, hands, knees, ankles, feet and muscles.
Reason for Test?
Muscle tears, masses, rotator cuff tears, knee injuries, carpel tunnel, plantar fasciitis, deep venous thrombosis are reasons to perform a musculoskeletal ultrasound. It can also be used to help guide care and to show improvements from continued Chiropractic care.
Benefits
Chiropractic… Bringing out the best in you.
Referring Others
How Did You Find Out About Chiropractic?
Where would you be if your spine was never adjusted? What would your health be like if someone never told you about chiropractic? Would you be swallowing pills? Having surgery?
Fortunately, someone did tell you about chiropractic. And you were open-minded, looking for real health answers, sick and tired of being sick and tired, and tired of medications or failed surgies enough to seek a doctor of Chiropractic. You’ve joined the many millions of people who have found relief from dis-ease and regained their health under Chiropractic care.
Many Suffer For Years
What about those who may never discover Chiropractic? They may live on drugs because their M.D. may have told them they’ll just have to “learn to live with it.” They don’t know that the statement, “There is no cure,” means only that there is no standard medical cure. They don’t know that there may be other approaches to their problem.
Why won’t their M.D. refer them to a chiropractor? Unfortunately, medical education doesn’t teach M.D.s and nurses about Chiropractic’s benefits and they are not trained to refer a patient to a chiropractor. There is hope with the new M.D.’s coming out of school. They are now taught and make rounds with Chiropractors to get to know exactly what a Chiropractic Physician does. In fact, hospitals around the country now have Chiropractic Specialists working in them.
A Special Tragedy
Many of your friends and relatives suffer with spinal subluxations and nerve damage that a chiropractor could easily correct. The answer to their health problems may be literally around the corner, down the block or across the street. They may never have the good fortune of having someone suggest that they see a doctor of chiropractic. That is up to you.
Children and Chiropractic
Chiropractic’s success with children is well documented. Many medial treatments fill children with pills and chemicals of all kinds while the young spine may remain full of spinal subluxations.
How can we tell our children that it’s wrong to take drugs when we ourselves resort to them? For the sake of our children’s health, we should show them that non-drug alternatives are valid and should be explored before resorting to drug therapy. It is a true horror story that alot of children are on very dangerous drugs with many side affects. Antidepressants, ADHD medications, etc… Most symptoms can be alleviated through an integrative approach of proper nutrition, exercise, staying away from processed foods and spinal adjustments.
Without a friend or a caring relative to give advice, fewer people might enter a chiropractor’s office for the first time. And without support or encouragement, safe, painless chiropractic care may seem more frightening than the prospect of major surgery!
You Took That First Step…
…and entered the world of chiropractic – this natural, safe, drugless healing art that has saved so many people from drugs, surgery and suffering.
He’ll Crack You?
Will you bestow on others the good fortune that has become yours? Are your family members’ spines being ignored while your spine is getting healthier?
But, please, don’t say things that will scare off the very people you’re trying to help such as, “I always tell my friends that if you crack them they’ll feel better.” Ugh!! Telling people that the doctor will “crack” their necks or “break” and “crunch” their bones is not only scary, it’s wrong! Doctors of chiropractic take pre-med courses before entering a Chiropractic University and spend more than four years and thousands of hours studying anatomy, physiology, spinal biomechanics, neurology and many other subjects in order to deliver a precise, scientific, artistic spinal adjustment to relieve spinal subluxations. Your Chiropractor is well educated, but does not give out drugs that can cause dangerous side affects.
What the doctor gives the patient is not a “crack.” If and when a sound may be heard, it is simply the releasing of gases in the joints, similar to the “cracking” of knuckles. However, many spinal adjusting techniques do not cause any sound at all but are quiet, very gentle and barely felt.
Finally
Chiropractic is by far the safest health care around. Over 100,000 people a year are killed by our current health care system from drug interactions, botched surgeries, hospital infections… and the list goes on. Your Chiropractor is a whole health specialist using modern techniques, nutrition, exercises, rehab and other integrative means to get you healthy. Life sustaining drugs should only be used when you absolutely need them. If you need other expertise, your Chiropractor can make the proper referrals, order labs and diagnostic testing to point you in the right direction. Some people need a multi-discipline approach. So what are you waiting for? Get healthy the natural way through Chiropractic!
Become A Health Revolutionary
Become a health revolutionary and turn someone you care about to chiropractic. Please pass the message on to someone you know who is suffering so that chiropractic can awaken their health potential too. After all, someone told you…
Postscript
No matter what disease or condition you have, you can benefit from a healthy spine. Spinal health can be as important for your overall healing as proper nutrition. Are you and your family carrying the vertebral subluxation complex in your spines? Only a chiropractic spinal checkup can find out.
Among the many things contributing to your health: the quality of the air, food and water you take in; how you handle emotional stress; your inherited weaknesses and strengths; your use of drugs; exercise; and relations – a healthy spine is absolutely essential. In some people it is a major factor and can make the difference between a life of health, strength and vitality or a life of disease, weakness and disability.
A healthy spine can improve your life – see your chiropractor for your initial care and be sure to continue care at a wellness level to keep you healthy.