Why the Program?

At sometime during their lives, nearly 80% of the population will experience recurrent episodes of back pain, with chronic neck pain occurring nearly half as often. In many cases, as a result of trauma, family history, lifestyle and occupational stress, neck and back pain evolves into persistent, recurring pain that can become debilitating on a day to day basis. Healthcare treatment methods range from chiropractic care, prescriptions, physical therapy, epidurals, trigger point and facet joint injections, and ultimately to surgical intervention. For those patients who have exhausted these available treatments with limited success, there is manipulation under anesthesia – not a last resort, but the best option when all else fails. This oftentimes underutilized procedure directly confronts the cause of chronic joint and muscle pain by allowing for the restoration of ranges of motion (with manipulation) while at the same time reducing adhesions (with stretching and joint mobilization). In chronic pain cases, these two methods used separately may not have been effective; performed together they result in increased motion, increased function, and decreased pain. How does this work? By combining twilight sedation (from new advances in anesthesia) that removes the guarding response from chronic pain with the clinically proven manipulative and stretching technique in Adhesion Release and Recovery Program, these two procedures once used independently are now combined with excellent results.