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At Kelley Spine & Sport we pride ourselves on creating a unique, evidence-based approach to chiropractic care and sports medicine to help our patients reach and exceed their health goals-performing better in life and sport. We treat each individual person uniquely so that each patient can get the best possible results. It's care that works for you because it was designed for you.

Click on the links below to learn more about the common conditions we treat:

• Shoulder Pain
• Neck Pain
• Hip Pain
• Lower Back Pain
• Foot Pain
• Mid-Back Pain
• Knee/Leg Pain
• Hand/Wrist Pain
• Elbow Pain

From sprained ankles to shoulder injuries in overhead athletes, we see it all. Dr.Kelley has special training to restore function to injured athletes so they can get moving again as soon as possible. Although sports medicine doctors do work with professional athletes, they also treat children and teens involved in community sports and adults who exercise for personal fitness.

Common sports injuries that can result in seeing a sports medicine specialist are knee and shoulder injuries, stress fractures, ankle sprains, concussions, cartilage injuries, and more. A sports medicine specialist can also be seen for advice in other areas of health, like nutrition, exercise, supplements, and how to prevent injuries before they occur. A sports medicine specialist works to help make the performance of the athlete more advanced, as well as ensuring their safety while performing the activity.

Functional rehabilitation includes strengthening weak or inactive muscles to stabilize areas of the spine or joints that are currently being used inappropriately due to a muscular imbalance. Without appropriate rehabilitation, injuries frequently result in significant physiological and functional losses which increase the risk for reinjury of the affected area, as well as adjacent tissues and joints.

While this model has primarily been applied to sports medicine and athletes, it is also appropriate for “industrial athletes”, employees who use their musculoskeletal system to perform their jobs, in order to return the injured worker as quickly as possible without the risk of re-injury. Rehabilitation exercises paired with chiropractic adjustments are the gold standard for quicker recovery. Our patients will often be taught specific exercises they can do to "hold" the adjustment longer.

Soft tissue manual therapy is based on scientific evidence that muscles, nerves, blood vessels, and connective tissue develop adhesions within and between them as a result of various injuries that include: acute (sudden injury), cumulative (chronic injury) and pressure (due to poor posture). These adhesions cause the motion of muscles or joints to be altered, resulting in a wide variety of symptoms including pain, weakness and reduced range of motion, numbness & tingling, muscle, ligament, fascia, tendon, nerve, or joint capsules are stretched or held to break down scar tissue (adhesions).

This differs from massage by the use of active movement of the limb, or spine from the patient while the provider produces pressure on the abnormal tissue under tension Breaking up adhesions (scar tissue) in the soft tissue has been shown to reduce recovery rates in patients with acute and chronic pain and is often used in conjunction with a chiropractic adjustment.

Dry Needling: also known as intramuscular stimulation, is the use of small acupuncture needles to stimulate specific reactions in an area of muscle tissue and the surrounding fascia, or membrane, in order to alleviate pain and reduce muscle tension. Dry needling is a deeper treatment than acupuncture and is different in that it is not affecting ones "chi" but changing the patient's physiological structure.

Dry needling is a great way to reduce muscle tension and relieve pain. Stop by to see if this treatment option could work for you.

Benefits:

• Helps relieve muscle soreness and stiffness
• Improves range of motion
• Promotes circulation 
• Accelerates warmup and recovery