The Muscular Zone and Zone Technique in Woodstock, GA

We determine which Zone is out of balance at each visit by checking six specific spots on your head for tenderness. You will know exactly which Zone is imbalanced, and when the visit is complete, we recheck that Zone so that you know it was corrected and healing has begun.

It is always essential to get to the root cause of an issue versus treating the symptoms because addressing the root cause will almost always resolve the symptoms and prevent them from returning. Chasing and treating only the symptoms may provide temporary relief, but the symptoms will return, potentially worse than last time.

Chiropractic Care In Woodstock, GA

A subluxation is a misalignment in your spinal column that causes interference with the messages sent from the brain to the rest of the body. In our office, we find subluxations using the Zone Technique Analysis and correct them specifically and gently based on your neurological test results.

Chiropractic adjustments are our method of balancing the Zones. Each Zone has four specific vertebrae involved, and those segments are adjusted to clear the imbalanced zone.

Low Back Pain

Low back pain can have numerous causes, including muscle or ligament strain, nerve compression, bulging or ruptured discs, arthritis, osteoporosis, ankylosing spondylitis, and more. It is so prevalent today due to excessive time sitting, being overweight, improper lifting, smoking, lack of exercise or movement, and even depression.

Muscles, joints, discs, and ligaments play a significant role in low back pain as they are the cause and source of a lot of low back pain issues.

Chiropractic care gets to the root cause of low back pain by normalizing nerve supply and proper motion to the low back so that healing can begin. That said, if you are sedentary and overweight, you must address those issues to see any changes. The stresses caused by obesity and a sedentary lifestyle put the body in a continual loop of distress, as healing and stability from chiropractic adjustments can’t take hold. It would be like exercising to get healthier, but then going home, sitting on your sofa, smoking cigarettes, drinking beer, and eating fast food all night. As good as the exercise is, it can’t overcome the bad habits.

Neck Pain

Neck pain is becoming a more significant problem these days because of Forward Head Posture, also known as “Tech Neck”. This posture is one of constant neck flexion from looking down at a phone or computer. Tech Neck is especially troublesome with young children and teens whose bones are still growing and forming, setting them up for degeneration and arthritis in their 20s and 30’s, a condition usually seen in people in their 60s. Contrary to popular belief, these conditions aren’t a normal part of the aging process but happen due to preventable postural and nerve issues.

Neck pain can also come from muscle strains, worn joints, nerve compression, injuries, and even from diseases such as meningitis, arthritis, and cancer.

Chiropractic care balances the nervous system so the muscles can work properly and posture and balance normalize, relieving neck pain at its root cause.

Shoulder Pain

The shoulder joint involves not only the humerus and where it contacts the scapula and clavicle, but also numerous muscles, ligaments, and bursa, which include the well-known rotator cuff muscles.

Numerous issues, such as muscle, ligament, or tendon inflammation or damage, arthritis, inflammation of the bursa, and nerve issues such as thoracic outlet syndrome among many other things can cause shoulder pain.

Chiropractic care balances the nervous system allowing communication between the brain and all of the muscles, nerves, ligaments, bursa of the shoulder, and surrounding areas to function properly so true healing can begin to take place.

Sciatica

Sciatica is an inflammation of the sciatic nerve, which exits your lower back and runs all the way down the back of your leg to your foot. Sciatica can occur due to muscle spasms, impaired nerve flow from the spine, herniated discs, arthritis, and more.

Chiropractic care balances the nervous system, allowing the muscles of the low back to function properly and the nerves to send messages without interruption, which allows for addressing the root cause of sciatic pain.

Knee Pain

The knee is where your thigh and shin bones meet, as well as your kneecap. Numerous muscles, ligaments, and menisci make up the knee joint. Many issues, such as a foot or hip imbalance, improper walking, poor nerve supply to the muscles around the knee, arthritis, ligament and meniscus tears or inflammation can cause knee pain.

Chiropractic care restores the proper function, movement, and nerve supply to the muscles, ligaments, tendons, and other structures of the knee, allowing for healing.

Bulged and Herniated Discs

A bulging disc is like letting air out of a car tire. The disc sags and looks like it is bulging outward. As the disc continues to bulge it can tear, allowing the nucleus pulposus (jelly-like center of the disc) to leak into the spinal canal. This is a herniated disc.

Because bulging discs are considered degenerative, there is usually a progressive, gradual onset of symptoms. It can cause pain in the buttocks, legs, or back. It can also affect your ability to walk. Bulging discs usually occur over time due to poor posture, weak muscles, poor nerve supply to the spine, lack of activity, or carrying excessive weight.

Herniated discs can occur for those same reasons, along with a trauma such as a fall or accident. Pain from a herniated disc occurs abruptly and usually involves one nerve root. Herniated discs are sometimes caused by an acute injury but can also occur “overnight,” with one waking up feeling the pain.

By restoring proper nerve supply to the muscles and nerves, which allows for good posture and motion, the symptoms of disc bulges and herniations can minimize and disappear.

Carpal Tunnel

The carpal tunnel is a narrow passageway surrounded by bones and ligaments on the palm side of the hand. The median nerve travels through this passageway. Compression of the median nerve causes symptoms, including numbness, tingling, and weakness in the hand and arm. This compression can also happen in the neck as well, which is known as double crush syndrome.

Anything that squeezes or irritates the median nerve in the carpal tunnel space or where it originates in the cervical spine may lead to carpal tunnel syndrome. A wrist fracture can narrow the carpal tunnel and irritate the nerve, as can the swelling and inflammation caused by rheumatoid arthritis. Many times, there is no single cause of carpal tunnel syndrome. A combination of risk factors may contribute to the development of the condition.

Restoration of proper nerve flow from the cervical spine and down the kinetic chain of the shoulder, elbow, and wrist can eliminate the root cause of Carpal Tunnel Syndrome.

TMJ

TMJ is the temporomandibular joint, and pain in this joint is known as TMD or temporomandibular disorder. Symptoms of TMJ/TMD include jaw pain by the ear, clicking and popping of the joint with pain while chewing, and weakness of the jaw muscles. Although the causes of TMJ/TMD are not fully known, arthritis and joint damage due to trauma are believed to be major contributors.

Chiropractic care can relieve the issue of TMJ/TMD, specifically the Cranial Release Technique, by balancing the 22 moveable bones of the skull. Once they align and move properly, the jaw can move as it should, and the nerve supply to the joint may allow it to heal.