Andersen Chiropractic, LLC

This device used for pain relief, to improve flexibility, and strengthen core muscle groups. Most people are familiar with the term “core” muscle but rarely know what that term means. Majority of the time the core muscles are strong enough, but they just are not firing properly. When the spine is injured, certain muscles will contract to protect the rest of the spine. In time the spine may heal, but this protective muscle-firing pattern will continue. This type of therapy is designed to correct these protective-firing patterns. The initial goal is for immediate and lasting pain reduction for the patient while stabilizing large global muscles of the body. When this stabilization occurs, the Central Nervous System (CNS) now has better communication with the core-muscle groups for support and protection of the spine. Please contact Andersen Chiropractic at (801) 572-5696 and schedule your Free Consultation with our Sandy Chiropractor.

The purpose of manipulation is to restore joint mobility by applying a controlled force into joints that are not moving correctly or restricted in their movement, thereby alleviating pain and muscle tightness to allow the tissues to heal. Contrary to popular belief, spinal adjustments/manipulations are not painful. Chiropractors are trained as experts in the spine. They do not merely “pop” or “crack” bones until something “snaps” back into place.

Just as lasers have replaced scalpels in some surgeries, advanced technology has become available to chiropractic to assist in delivering chiropractic adjustments. We have incorporated the Impulse Adjusting Instrument to assist in care of our patients. This patented and FDA registered device is specifically used to deliver a gentle and precise chiropractic adjustment to the joints of the spine and extremities to relieve pain and restore function. Impulse instrument adjustments are high tech where no popping or cracking will be heard, but rather very precise and targeted adjustments are delivered to specific areas of the spine.

The excruciating pain from spinal discs can make a person be in agony and feel helpless. The pain can be constant with everything making the pain worse. Between each spinal bone (vertebra) is a very strong cartilage called intervertebral disc. These discs can be injured due to trauma or just to a person’s lifestyle. In addition, this cartilage will slowly “wear out” or degenerate with age (this process can start in our mid 20’s). Chiropractic treatment for these types of conditions restores proper motion between the disc and vertebra to slow this “wearing out” or degeneration process down as well as decreasing the pain and inflammation. Dr. Andersen has been specializing in treatment of these types of conditions since 2001.

Nine out of ten Americans suffer from headaches and is one of the most common conditions seen in chiropractic offices. Over the last decade, headaches represent 13% of chiropractic patient’s presenting complaints. Headaches not only have a significant adverse impact on adults but “frequent or severe headaches including migraine in the past 12 months were reported in 17.1% of children.”

Chiropractic care is conservative safe and effective low back treatment to reduce pain, decrease medication and increase overall function. In fact, after an extensive study of all currently available care for low back problems, the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research—a federal government research organization—recommended that low back pain sufferers choose the most conservative care first. And it recommended spinal manipulation as the only safe and effective, drugless form of initial professional treatment for acute low back problems in adults.