We can help you recover and perform better
At Innovation Health and Wellness, we believe walking out of our clinic doesn’t mean your treatment stops. We provide an in-depth guide on how to perform these exercises in the comfort of your home. Spinal Rehabilitation at Innovation Health and Wellness is broken into three main stages; stretching, strengthening and restoring.
These three stages play a fundamental role in your recovery and allows your chiropractor to roughly gauge where and how your injury is recovering.
The first phase is stretching which requires stretching the muscles that span the joint affected. Stretching is scientifically proven to help promote blood flow to the area. Getting blood to the affected muscles will help flush out inflammatory waste and promote healing.
The second phase is strengthening, correcting spinal misalignments, as the muscles and ligaments would be out of balance once an injury occurs. To combat this, strengthening muscles and ligaments will help reduce spinal dysfunction, as the main role of muscles within the human body is to protect and span over joints for movement.
Finally, the last phase- restoring. This phase consists of tailoring individual exercises that utilise full ranges of motion and increasing your function for your daily needs in life.
We will create individualised exercises that will benefit you but also prioritise the highest evidence-based research to help you feel and look better.
A few facts
Extensive research within the last 8 years of showed that regular exercise is a necessary post injury to help promote healing for two reasons.
Firstly, post injury, inactivity within the muscles can be seen as affected due to pain, reduction of muscle strength, muscle flexibility and a decrease in fresh blood supply to the area. Ultimately, increasing the recovery time and cause the condition to worsen.
Secondly, exercise is a free and natural way for our body to help combat pain. Exercise causes the release of a specific neurotransmitters in our brains; endorphins; a specific chemical that interacts with other receptors to reduce the perception of pain.