Continuum Chiropractic
Chiropractic care is designed to use the spine as a tool to access and affect the nervous system in beneficial ways. When we use our hands or an instrument, our goal is to positively impact and change the output of the nervous system through spinal adjustment.
Your body is unique, so we can’t speak to how you specifically will feel after an adjustment. Most people, however, would say that adjustments do not hurt, and in fact feel quite good and often offer immediate relief. There may be soreness after the first few visits for the next day or so, but pain is not common.
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Anyone under corrective care will be here around 2-3 times per week, for about 2-6 weeks. While we typically start you off with a couple of visits a week, frequency will decrease as you progress through care and start to hold your adjustments better. Once you have entered the maintenance phase of your care, you may come as frequently as once a week or as infrequently as once a month, depending on what you and your doctor determine is best for you.
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Class IV Laser Therapy
In addition to our standard chiropractic adjustments, we also offer Laser Therapy for patients needing extra help with pain relief and tissue recovery. Laser Therapy uses focused light to support healing in a variety of ways, such as reducing inflammation, speeding up tissue repair, improving circulation, and more. It's a precise, non-invasive treatment—no surgery required!
How does this work? Laser therapy uses a focused light to trigger a process called photobiomodulation (PBM). The process modifies the condition of the damaged tissue and speeds up recovery through cellular metabolism. Photons enter the site of damage and react with the mitochondria. The goal is ultimately produce a beam near-infrared frequency, and then the cells absorb the light. This will allow the cellular energy production to increase and allows the body to better handle inflammation and pain by increasing circulation.
Who is the ideal patient for Laser Therapy? Laser Therapy is safe and effective for almost everyone. Since it is non-invasive and has no side effects, it's a great option for anyone suffering from chronic pain or injuries. Laser therapy can be used alongside other treatments, and it won’t interfere with medications or other procedures. Whether you're dealing with muscle strain, joint pain, tendonitis, or any other chronic condition, this therapy may be right for you.
Chiropractic Care
Our patients often experience better immune function, less pain, fewer headaches, more energy, and better sleep, however the benefits of chiropractic care are different for everyone and often depend on your unique condition and lifestyle.
When our patients first arrive, we offer immediate corrective care to help address the specific reason that they came in and help get them out of pain quickly if we can. Because we want our patients to benefit from less pain as soon as possible, this level of care is often more intensive and more frequent. Once we are able to manage pain or deal with the specific condition you came in for, we offer maintenance or wellness care.
We greatly encourage patients simply seeking maintenance or wellness care without an immediate health concern to come in, as we find this type of care can often set you up for greater long-term health and a happier, higher quality of life!
Prenatal Chiropractic
Prenatal chiropractic is a very safe, noninvasive, minimal, and gentle approach to maternity care. We offer prenatal adjustments to support healthy pregnancies and offer relief from prenatal pain and discomfort. Our approach to prenatal care is different from regular care, because the prenatal body is flooded with hormones and physical changes.
As your ligaments prepare the pelvis for birth, your body is setting your baby up to move easier, which is an incredible function of the body. The downside of this is that it can be easier for your pelvis or sacrum to shift in ways that are not necessary or appropriate, and we check for this and other ways that we can facilitate the body’s process as it prepares for birth.
Pediatric Care
Dr. Hayes is passionate about providing expert, compassionate pediatric chiropractic adjustments in the Greenville area. Pediatric chiropractic care is really about starting your kids early on a healthy lifestyle path by assessing and addressing the spine and nervous system. This sets kids up to take a lifelong proactive approach to wellness, and to connect the way they live to the way that they feel.
Children, like adults, live their lives through their nervous system, so we find it very beneficial to join them early and nudge their spinal growth in the right direction as they develop.
We treat kids for the same reason we treat adults: to offer a natural way to feel, move, and live better. While kids don’t typically have present or immediate pain, much of our adjusting is to align for growth and development or injury prevention. For young children and infants, we provide gentle adjustments to help assist in recovery from the trauma of birth, and check to make sure development and milestones are on track.
We never force an adjustment on a child, and we always go at their pace. If it takes a few visits for your child to get comfortable enough and trust us enough to adjust, that’s part of the process, and we do not charge extra if your child needs this extra time.
All children respond to new situations differently, so your child could climb right up and be perfectly comfortable getting an adjustment immediately, or could take 5-6 visits of just hanging out with us in the office before we can get started with chiropractic care. No matter what your child’s pace is, we meet them where they are and adjust readily to their needs.
We will let your child hold our Activator instrument and use it on a stuffed animal, so if they are nervous they can hear the sounds and see how it works prior to getting adjusted. We patiently talk them through their concerns and let them handle the table and the equipment and explore the room if it helps them feel less afraid and more at ease.
Pediatric chiropractic visits are very age-dependent, but usually take about half an hour. With older kids and teenagers, we run the same neurological scans that we do for adults, but usually avoid x-rays unless they are specifically required. We never perform scans or x-rays on infants or babies, so those visits are usually shorter.
We recommend that pregnant women come in for care weekly. We change frequency as your pregnancy progresses or to your specific requirements, including breach considerations or extra pain. Because prenatal care is one of our primary specialties, we offer lots of carefully curated resources with strategies on holding your adjustments and facilitating birth with stretches, exercises, websites, handouts, and devices.
We offer guidance on diet and body preparation to help ensure a generally healthy pregnancy as best we can, and we work with doulas to help you access all of the resources, information, and support you may need.
We use special pillows that allow you to lay on your stomach at any stage in pregnancy and use the Webster technique. Dr. Hayes holds advanced certifications in this technique and has worked regularly with prenatal patients for the duration of their careers, so you can rest assured that you are in educated, experienced hands.
Our prenatal visits take about 20-30 minutes and involve extensive communication, comfortable positioning, and general stretching and motion exercises prior to your adjustment. We always offer extra information and time for our prenatal patients because we want to ensure your comfort and set you up for a healthy pregnancy as best we can.
We always include a newborn checkup as part of our prenatal care plan, and our prenatal chiropractic service line is our only offering with a dedicated emergency line and emergency hours. Our care plans extend beyond birth and through recovery, to help get you on track for efficient and effective healing.
Laser Therapy offers a holistic approach to pain relief and recovery. Unlike medications or surgeries that may just mask symptoms, laser therapy works to heal the root cause of your discomfort by speeding up the natural repair process. It's a safe, effective, and drug-free way to get your body back on track.
Talk to our doctor today to see if Laser Therapy is a good fit for you! We'll help you explore all the options to get you feeling better and back to your best self.
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If aftercare is required, your doctor will outline exactly what you need to do. Aftercare often involves exercises, traction, or outside interventions that we assign, explain, or refer out for.