Can Neurology Providers Broaden the Scope of their Treatment Team by Adding Chiropractic Care?

Neurology — the study and treatment of nerves and the nervous system — is complementary to the practice of chiropractic care. That brings the question of whether an alternative form of care, like functional chiropractic, can enhance the overall treatment plan for patients suffering from traumatic brain injury, disorders of balance, and problems with the neck and spine.

Chiropractic care can be used in addition to (or sometimes even in place of) medications for ailments like migraines, epilepsy, multiple sclerosis, and Parkinson’s disease. At Amazing Life Chiropractic and Wellness, in Mill Creek, WA, we specialize in working collaboratively with specialists to provide a holistic overall program for their patients.

Can Chiropractic Care Be a Valuable Addition to Your Care Team?

Chiropractic practitioners specialize in spine, nerves, and nervous system issues with a non-invasive, gentle approach where the need for medications can often be significantly reduced. Our thorough lifestyle evaluation techniques isolate and identify changes in body mechanics, nutrition, and exercise that improve the patient’s recovery and overall life experience.

As an alternative treatment option, chiropractic care has been shown to ease pain in patients with nerve damage as well as successfully treat brain injury patients experiencing balance and vestibular problems. They can also be very successful in the treatment of Post-Concussion Syndrome as a longer-term solution to this type of head injury.

For chiropractic care and neurology, a natural partnership makes infinite sense. Their hands-on approach to gentle manipulation and holistic healing coupled with a neurologist’s commitment to treating diseases of the entire nervous system while improving patients’ lives, defines a bridged relationship that would bolster patient care.

Ways to Integrate Chiropractic Care into Your Neurology Practice

Chiropractic is a focused approach that can expand your treatment team’s effectiveness in these ways:

• Chiropractic care can relieve the pain and inflammation experienced by many neurology patients presenting with head injuries and spine/nerve damage. This non-invasive treatment can reduce the need for medications in many patients.
• Chiropractic care can be a beneficial way to address balance problems where other options have not been successful. For example, vertigo and vestibular issues respond positively to gentle chiropractic manipulation and massage.
• Chronic or episodic diseases, like Parkinson’s disease and multiple sclerosis, respond well to chiropractic care and an in-depth focus on lifestyle changes can continue the improvements for an enhanced quality of life in the long term.

Bringing A Holistic Focus

At Amazing Life Chiropractic & Wellness, our goal is to contribute our professional expertise to your team of healthcare providers. We want to support your experience, methodologies, and treatment plan with our deep knowledge of chiropractic medicine and the mind-body wellness connection. It’s one of our core tenets to professionally represent our field within the greater healthcare continuum.

Working with you and your team collaboratively, our modes of treatment may include:

• The latest techniques in chiropractic manipulation that are gentle and effective for nerve and nerve-related problems.
• Guided stretching exercises that can be translated to home care and provide lifelong relief when continued beyond the scope of treatment.
• Massage therapy used in alleviating pain, inflammation, and stress-related stiffness.
• Lifestyle support with doctor-guided weight loss solutions, stretching exercises, and activity/exercise counseling.

When you partner with Amazing Life, you, your practice, and your patients can expect extraordinary care, outstanding service, and communication throughout the care continuum. Our commitment to the healthcare providers we work with ensures that your patients are treated as if they were in your own practice.

For your patients in the Mill Creek, WA, community, please contact Amazing Life Chiropractic and Wellness about our innovative approach to dual disciplines partnering for patient success.

Your Patients are Special — They Deserve Chiropractic Care During Pregnancy

Pregnancy is a special time, but it is also a time where a woman’s body goes through a wide variety of physical and hormonal changes. Often women are experiencing symptoms like nausea, back pain, and gastric problems, like heartburn and acid reflux.

As an OB-Gyn provider, you may be looking for a gentle, non-invasive alternative that helps your patients experience an easier pregnancy and childbirth. At Amazing Chiropractic and Wellness, we specialize in reducing pregnancy symptoms for expectant mothers and helping them experience healthier, more comfortable pregnancies and births.

A Natural Cycle

While pregnancy is a natural cycle, every woman’s experience may be different and there are no points for extra discomfort. Chiropractic care has been shown to be beneficial and safe for pregnant women and complications are rare for women having a normal pregnancy.

Being adaptable, pregnant women often compensate for the added weight they are carrying by shifting their posture. They will arch their back to accommodate the baby weight which then throws their spine out of alignment. Doing this for prolonged periods further increases the pain and makes the new mother even more uncomfortable.

Consider these ways chiropractic care may enhance your patient’s overall experience:

• Chiropractic care can reduce nausea and morning sickness by improving digestive issues through realigning the spine and improving the function of the nervous system. This can positively impact symptoms of heartburn and acid reflux as well.
• Back and joint pain in the knees or ankles from the increased weight and the change in a woman’s center of gravity as the baby grows and develops. This also helps further along in the pregnancy as the patient experiences the effects of the natural development of relaxing – the hormone relaxing muscles and ligaments in the pelvic region meant to aid in labor and delivery.
• Easing labor and delivery and reducing the pain and complications by favorably aligning the pelvis and spine. Chiropractic care can also ensure that nerves are properly functioning so that the delivery experience goes faster and more smoothly.
• Healthier environment for baby by alleviating (or preventing) intrauterine constraint and giving baby plenty of room to position for birth.

Confidently Adding Chiropractic Care to Your Team

At Amazing Life Chiropractic & Wellness, our clinicians are board-certified and have deep knowledge and experience in treating a wide array of musculoskeletal issues, as well as pregnancy-related symptoms. We take a holistic treatment approach and listen to the patient about the how their pregnancy is progressing, as well as their lifestyle and health goals.

We value these skills and include them in our overall treatment planning process:

• Chiropractic manipulation using the latest techniques that are proven gentle and effective for muscle aches and pains that are specific to pregnant women while being mindful of their special positioning needs. We also hope to reduce (or completely alleviate) the need for medication to control pain leading up to the actual birth.
• Massage therapy for pregnant patients to help relax while alleviating pain and soreness that develops during pregnancy.
• Lifestyle support with doctor-guided weight loss solutions, stretching exercises, and activity/exercise counseling.

At Amazing Life, our goal is to keep you fully informed on your pregnant patient’s treatment plan, progress, and final outcome. We are committed to open communication throughout the pregnancy of your patient.

If you are an OB-Gyn provider in the Mill Creek, WA, community, please contact Amazing Life to discuss how we can partner with you as part of your holistic care team or stop by for a visit — we’d love to show you around!

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Referring Your Patients to Chiropractic Care as a Nurse Practitioner

As the ambulatory healthcare team has evolved and expanded, the position of nurse practitioner has taken on the role of trusted advisor and patient advocate within the leadership team of many primary and specialty care practices. With the skill and knowledge to diagnose, treat, and manage illnesses and injuries, nurse practitioners develop deep and long-term relations with their patients as health partners.

There are over 290,000 nurse practitioners practicing today and almost 90% of them are certified in primary care health delivery. They are an integral part of a practice’s care team managing patient health and preventing disease.

A Natural Fit

With this holistic and preventive focus, nurse practitioners and chiropractors make a natural, complementary team. Open to a full range of alternative options, nurse practitioners find a collaborative relationship with a team like Amazing Life Chiropractic and Wellness, in Mill Creek, Washington, that brings a valuable synergy that exceeds patients’ expectations.

In fact, many patients seek out chiropractic care on their own or through their insurance provider when faced with musculoskeletal injuries, car accident injuries, or work-related issues. To ensure thorough case management and a holistic, overall approach, patients are better served when there is a reciprocal, collaborative relationship between their primary care provider and their chiropractic team.

Chiropractors Make Terrific Holistic Referrals for Advanced Practice Nurses

At Amazing Life Chiropractic & Wellness, our clinicians are board-certified and have deep knowledge and experience in treating a wide array of musculoskeletal issues. When you send a patient for evaluation and treatment, we look at the overall picture and incorporate the patient’s lifestyle, socioeconomic environment, and their mind-body connection.

In working as part of your healthcare delivery team, we see our role as contributing to healing the whole person — it’s our guiding priority.

Our expertise includes:

• Chiropractic manipulation — We incorporate the most up-to-date techniques in our treatment regime. Our manipulation process is outstanding for back, neck, and extremities problems. When a patient is faced with pain from exercise or work-related strains or injuries and is experiencing muscle aches and pains, chiropractic care can provide non-invasive relief – often without medications.

• Lifestyle support — Our team is highly knowledgeable about weight loss solutions coupled with overall exercise counseling to support a patient in holistic healing.

• Custom orthotics — We have found that chronic musculoskeletal pain is often a subset aggravated by posture issues and even problems with the feet. Our custom orthotics program provides an easy assessment process to identify options that will positively impact the patient for work and leisure activities.

• Neuropathy care — Amazing Life has broad experience in treating patients, like diabetes patients, that struggle with nerve pain and weakness, numbness, and acute pain.

As fellow practitioners, we acknowledge that when referring patients to another practice, your expectation is that you will receive timely follow up.

At Amazing Life, we strive to keep our partner providers extensively informed about a patient’s progress. Our goal is to keep you fully informed on your patient’s treatment plan, progress, and final outcome. Please rest assured that your patients will be directed back to you when treatment is complete.

If you are a nurse practitioner in the Mill Creek community, please contact Amazing Life to discuss how we can partner with you as part of your holistic care team or stop by for a visit — we’d love to show you around!

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