Ottawa Chiropractor
Get treated by one of Ottawa's most qualified practitioners.
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Doctor of Chiropractic
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Diplomate of the American Chiropractic Neurology Board
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Board Eligible for the Fellow Of American Brain Injury and Rehabilitation
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Board Eligible for the Fellow of American Vestibular Rehabilitation
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Why Chiropractic Care
Dr. Guillemette is a chiropractor with the goal to help you regain and/or maintain a healthy lifestyle.
Chiropractors make sure the joints and bones of your body are moving freely and without restrictions. When restricted motion is diagnosed, we apply manipulation to those areas in order to restore proper biomechanics. Motion is restored primarily through specific adjustments that are performed manually or instrumentally.
Soft tissue therapies are often used in conjunction with adjustments to break down any adhesions found within the joints or muscles.
Is chiropractic care only for people who are in pain?
The reasons for visiting a chiropractor are not always apparent. For the most part, individuals seeking chiropractic care often have some sort of health complaint or concern for which they require help. However and equally important, chiropractic care is a great lifestyle choice for individuals as a preventative solution to chronic pains and ailments. Receiving regular chiropractic care can enable your body to maintain proper homeostasis to avoid potential health concerns such as the common cold, neck pain, back pain, migraines, balance problems, and many more common everyday health concerns.
Ottawa Sports Chiropractor
What is a sports chiropractor? When it comes to chiropractors that deal with sports injuries you must be knowledgable in all musculoskeletal injuries that can be sustained from playing different sports. Another important aspect to dealing with sport injuries is a chiropractors ability to adapt to the patients needs. Sports chiropractor needs to be able to help their patients with exercises, stretches, and many different kinds of therapies.
Sports Chiropractic Treatments
Chiropractic Adjustments
Sports Chiropractors need to be able to adjust or manipulate any joint in the body to fit the sports injury. Neck, back, shoulder, wrist, knees, feet can all be manipulated and adjusted. There are very few joints in the body that can't be manipulated by a sports chiropractor. Locked joint can cause extreme amount of pain and discomfort. simple manipulations can help relieve those pains quickly.
Soft Tissue Therapies
Athletes are in peak physical shape. Typically when they get injuries there's almost always a muscular component to the injury. At the very least the patient could benefit from some soft tissue therapies. Sports chiropractor often perform soft tissue therapies with their patients in order to loosen up the muscles and break up adhesions between the muscles, tendons and fascia.
Electrical Stimulation
Electrical stimulation can be extremely helpful for treating sports injuries. Depending on the severity of the injury electrical current can be applied to the area of injuries to help reduce pain, relax muscles, or even help building up muscular strength.
Cold Laser Therapy
Some injuries are deep, making them difficult to treat with superficial modalities. Cold laser therapy has the ability to penetrate deep within the muscular layer to help treat and even heal injuries. Cold laser therapy can be used on muscles, joint, disc, meniscus, skin, and many other areas of the body. Cold laser helps reduce inflammation, speed up recovery, increase circulation, increased mitochondrial production, and increased neurogenesis.
Ultrasound Therapy
Ultrasound therapy is often performed for muscular injuries. This type of treatment uses sound waves to help treat different kinds of conditions. Ultrasound can help heal muscles pain and treat different kinds of chronic inflammatory conditions.
Fascial Scrapping
Fascial Scrapping often uses a metallic device to help your sports chiropractor perform deep or superficial changes to your tissues. Often times fascial scrapping leaves the patient a light discolouration on the skin as it has a tendency to break superficial capillaries on the surface of the skin.
