When tension or soft tissue injuries get you down, Dr. Austin Simmons at Simmons Chiropractic Clinic offers natural and safe soft tissue treatments to residents of Granger, South Bend, Mishawaka, Elkhart, Niles, Edwardsburg, and Nappanee, IN.
Role of Soft Tissue Treatments in Chiropractic Care
Although you might not realize it, many forms of pain and suffering are linked to problems within the soft tissues. Muscles, ligaments, and tendons can often be damaged during daily or other activities. Dr. Simmons at Simmons Chiropractic Clinic in Granger and Nappanee, IN, explains below how soft tissues can affect your life and how they can be addressed.
What’s the Deal With Soft Tissues?
Your soft tissues are activated with every move you make. Whether you’re working, cleaning your house, exercising, or playing a sport, soft tissues are right in the mix. Muscles become tense or strained, ligaments get bent beyond their normal range of motion, and tendons get overused.
And sometimes, misalignment or issues in the skeletal system puts additional stress on the soft tissues, creating even more problems. When an injury isn’t properly addressed or tension remains, scar tissue often builds up. Likewise, a problem within the soft tissues can put undue stress on the skeletal system, leading to misalignment and more.
No matter the cause of the soft tissue injury, it can cause many problems. These include chronic pain, stiffness, limited range of motion, tenderness, joint problems, and more.
Chiropractic Soft Tissue Treatments
When your soft tissues cause trouble, a chiropractor has various ways of treating them. One of the first is to restore alignment to the skeletal system. Doing so ensures that there is no undue pressure on the soft tissues.
Cold laser therapy is a type of soft tissue treatment that harnesses the power of light. It stimulates tissue repair, relieves inflammation and pain, addresses trigger points and scar tissue, and more.
Electrical stimulation therapies are used to send small electrical currents to the soft tissues. These currents help relieve muscle spasms, stimulate nerve function, decrease pain, and reduce inflammation.
Soft tissue injuries are also treated with therapeutic exercises. These are very specific movements that target the damaged or weakened area to stretch and strengthen it. They improve blood flow, enhance healing, increase range of motion, ease joint pain, relieve tension, and much more.
Schedule your soft tissue treatments in Granger or Nappanee, IN, with Dr. Simmons at Simmons Chiropractic Clinic. You can reach our Granger office at (574) 271-4628 or our Nappanee office at (574) 500-1009.