Chiropractic, Rehabilitation and Massage Services

Emergency

 Back adjustment

Richetto Chiropractic provides emergency chiropractic for auto accidents and work injury cases. Our goal is to provide our patients with the best possible care and to get you back to a full and healthy life as quickly as possible. Motor Vehicle Accidents (MVAs), or auto accidents, can be life changes disasters that will unfortunatley leave you in tremendous amounts of pain and discomfort. Presenting to our office with injuries sustained in an auto accident, you can rest assured that RCR will be able to provide you with Chiropractic, Medical Massage, Physiotherapy modalities to address your ailments.

At RCR, we work with Law representatives that can help guide you through the arduous process related with these accidents. Let our team worry about the treatment and medical paper work, while you get better!

Treatments

Chiropractic

Dr. Richetto utilizes the diversified technique, which is the 'gold standard' of what the majority of the profession uses. Diversified Technique combines a variety of techniques in a concerted effort to provide the patient with a well rounded adjustment. Some of the other techniques Dr. Richetto performs are Gonstead and Thompson drop techniques. Each patient will present a unique condition which will require a specific approach of adjusting. We do not perform non-chiropractic techniques such as Applied Kinesiology or muscle/food allergy testing.

The following is a list of the regions of the body that Dr. Richetto can adjust:

Full Spine

  • Cervical spine (neck)
  • Thoracic spine (midback)
  • Lumbar spine (lowback)
  • Sacroiliac joints (lowback pelvis)

Extremities

  • TMJ
  • Shoulder joints
  • Elbow joints
  • Wrist/phalangies

Extremities

  • Ribs
  • Ilio-femoral
  • Knee
  • Ankle/phalangies

Physiotherapy

Physical Therapy

Physiotherapy modalities are utilized to provide the patient an additional discipline of healthcare. These modalities are designed to increase the rate of recovery while decreasing their overall treatment frequency and duration. Active care is viewed as one of the healthcare industries most successful modalities at normalizing the patient’s function, range of motion, and pain levels. At RCR, Physiotherapy will be incorporated into your treatment plan and be specific to your body’s needs. We will encourage you to carry it over into home use upon your release from care.

Therapies include:

  • Therapeutic active and passive stretching
  • Core stabilization
  • Mckenzie exercises
  • Erchonia Percussion
  • Cervical Traction
  • Electric Muscle Stimulation (EMS)/ TENS units
  • Therapeutic Massage
  • Heat/Ice modalities
  • Foam roller/exercise ball

Massage Therapy

Back Massage

Massage Therapy is the practice of soft tissue manipulation with physical (anatomical), functional (physiological), and in some cases psychological purposes and goals. Massage involves acting on and manipulating the body with pressure – structured, unstructured, stationary, or moving – tension, motion, or vibration, done manually or with mechanical aids. Target tissues may include muscles, tendons, ligaments, skin, joints, or other connective tissue, as well as lymphatic vessels, or organs of the gastrointestinal system. Massage can be applied with the hands, fingers, elbows, forearm, and feet. There are over eighty different recognized massage modalities.

Therapies/Techniques offered:

  • Neuromuscular Therapy (NMT)
  • Medical Massage
  • Deep Tissue
  • Trigger Point
  • Myofascial Release (MRT)
  • Reflexology
  • Swedish

Techniques

Diversified Technique

  • Diversified Technique combines a variety of techniques in a concerted effort to provide the patient with a well rounded adjustment.

Gonstead and Thompson Drop Techniques

  • These 2 Chiropractic Physicians have created a specific protocol and style of adjusting that provide alternative adjusting techniques to accomodate patients' specific needs.

Graston Technique® (GT)

Back MassageGraston Technique® (GT) is an interdisciplinary treatment used by nearly 5000 clinicians—including physical therapists, chiropractors, occupational therapists, and certified athletic trainers.

The curvilinear edge of the patented Graston Technique® Instruments combines with their concave/convex shapes to mold the instruments to various contours of the body. This design allows for ease of treatment, minimal stress to the clinician's hands and maximum tissue penetration.

The Graston Technique® Instruments, much like a tuning fork, resonate in the clinician's hands allowing the clinician to isolate adhesions and restrictions, and treat them very precisely. Since the metal surface of the instruments does not compress as do the fat pads of the finger, deeper restrictions can be accessed and treated. When explaining the properties of the instruments, we often use the analogy of a stethoscope. Just as a stethoscope amplifies what the human ear can hear, so do the instruments increase significantly what the human hands can feel.

The Graston Technique® (GT) Instruments, while enhancing the clinician's ability to detect fascial adhesions and restrictions, have been clinically proven to achieve quicker and better outcomes in treating both acute and chronic conditions, including:

  • Cervical sprain/strain (neck pain)Graston Technique
  • Lumbar sprain/strain (back pain)
  • Carpal Tunnel Syndrome (wrist pain)
  • Plantar Fasciitis (foot pain)
  • Lateral Epicondylitis (tennis elbow)
  • Medial Epicondylitis (golfer's elbow)
  • Rotator Cuff Tendinitis (shoulder pain)
  • Patellofemoral Disorders (knee pain)
  • Achilles Tendinitis (ankle pain)
  • Fibromyalgia
  • Scar Tissue
  • Trigger Finger

Outcome Studies

TherapyCare Resources (TCR) has analyzed the results of patient care by utilizing the outcome analysis system of the Graston Technique® for licensed clinicians. The positive clinical results achieved thus far have led to additional research that explores patient responses  to the Graston Technique®. Patient outcome data that measures pain and function — including activities of daily living — continues to be gathered. The following link will provide a detailed synopsis of recent outcome studies.

http://www.grastontechnique.com/Outcome_Data.html

Is the treatment painful?

As personally being a Graston patient, I have found it common to experience minor or NO discomfort during treatment sessions, however, bruising almost always follows the treatment, which is to be expected. This is a normal response to the inflammation process and is an essential part to the healing process.

What is the frequency of treatment?

Depending on the specific injury, patients can expect treatment frequency to be two times per week over four or eight week period.

How soon will I feel better?

A majority of patients will experience improvement in 3 to 4 treatments. Moreover, a minority of patients see positive change after the initial visit.