Chiropractic Treatments

Elite Sports Medicine is a patient-focused group of chiropractors, physical therapists, pain management specialists, and orthopedic doctors with clinics in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles (LAX), Montebello, West LA, Orange, and South Central LA. Our chiropractors treat a wide range of musculoskeletal conditions, including back and neck pain, sciatica, headaches, and muscle and joint pain. Rather than relying on a single treatment for every patient, we take an integrated, individualized approach to chiropractic care based on your condition, symptoms, mobility, and recovery goals.

Chiropractic Treatments at Elite Sports Medicine

Chiropractic treatment is not limited to a single technique. Depending on your symptoms, examination findings, and treatment goals, your chiropractor may use adjustments, joint mobilization, soft tissue techniques, therapeutic modalities, spinal decompression, and functional rehabilitation.

The goal is to select the treatment or combination of treatments that is appropriate for your condition rather than applying the same approach to every patient.

What Is a Chiropractic Adjustment?

Chiropractic adjustments, also known as spinal manipulation, use a controlled force applied to a joint with restricted movement. Adjustments may be performed on the spine or other joints depending on the patient’s condition.

The goal of an adjustment is to improve joint mobility and function and, when appropriate, help reduce musculoskeletal pain and stiffness. Patients sometimes hear a popping or cracking sound during an adjustment. This sound, known as cavitation, results from a change in pressure within the joint and is not the objective of the treatment.

How Is Physiotherapy Used with Chiropractic Care?

Physiotherapy modalities may be used alongside chiropractic treatment to help manage pain, muscle tension, stiffness, or inflammation during recovery. Depending on the patient’s condition, these may include heat, cold therapy, and electrical muscle stimulation.

These therapies are generally used to complement hands-on chiropractic treatment and rehabilitation rather than as standalone solutions.

What Is Muscle Relaxation Technique (MRT)?

Muscle Relaxation Technique, or MRT, is a hands-on soft tissue treatment used to address restrictions involving muscles, tendons, ligaments, and fascia.

The chiropractor evaluates the affected tissues for areas of tension, tenderness, restricted movement, and other abnormalities. Treatment combines specifically directed pressure with controlled movements performed either by the chiropractor or the patient.

MRT may be incorporated into treatment when tight or restricted soft tissues are contributing to pain or limited mobility.

What Is Myo-Bar Treatment?

The Myo-Bar is a stainless-steel instrument used by Elite Sports Medicine chiropractors as part of instrument-assisted soft tissue treatment.

The tool allows the chiropractor to work on areas of muscular tension and restricted soft tissue. It may be incorporated into treatment for certain overuse and sports-related conditions, including tennis elbow, runner’s knee, and other conditions involving muscles, tendons, or fascia.

What Is Spinal Decompression?

Spinal decompression is a non-surgical treatment that uses controlled traction to gently stretch the spine. It may be considered for selected patients experiencing disc-related back pain, herniated discs, or sciatica.

During treatment, the patient lies on a specialized table that applies controlled traction to targeted areas of the spine. The objective is to reduce mechanical stress and provide an environment that may help relieve symptoms for appropriate patients.

Spinal decompression is not appropriate for every type of back pain, which is why an examination and proper diagnosis are important before treatment begins.

How Does Functional Rehabilitation Support Chiropractic Treatment?

Functional rehabilitation combines therapeutic exercise with movements designed to improve strength, flexibility, balance, coordination, and functional mobility.

For athletes and active patients, rehabilitation may progress toward more complex movement patterns involving agility, proprioception, and sport-specific activity. For other patients, the goal may be returning comfortably to work, walking, household activities, or other everyday movements.

Functional rehabilitation can complement chiropractic treatment by helping patients maintain mobility and improve the strength and movement patterns needed for longer-term function.

How Does Elite Determine Which Chiropractic Treatment Is Right for You?

Chiropractic care should begin with an evaluation rather than a predetermined treatment.

Your chiropractor may assess your symptoms, health and injury history, posture, range of motion, joint mobility, muscle function, strength, and other clinical findings. Diagnostic imaging or evaluation by another healthcare provider may be appropriate when your examination or symptoms indicate that additional information is needed.

Those findings help determine whether chiropractic treatment is appropriate and which techniques may be most beneficial.

Two patients with similar symptoms may have very different underlying problems. Lower back pain, for example, describes a symptom rather than a specific diagnosis. That’s why Elite Sports Medicine develops treatment plans around the individual patient rather than relying on the same chiropractic treatment for everyone.

What Conditions Do Elite Sports Medicine Chiropractors Treat?

Elite Sports Medicine chiropractors evaluate and treat a wide range of musculoskeletal conditions affecting the spine, joints, muscles, and surrounding soft tissues. Treatment recommendations depend on the cause of your symptoms, examination findings, and individual needs.

• Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
• Elbow Pain
• Foot Pain
• Golfer’s Elbow
• Headaches and Migraines
• Hip Pain
• Knee Pain
• Low Back Pain
• Neck Pain
• Numbness and Tingling in the Arms and Legs
• Pediatric Chiropractic Care
• Plantar Fasciitis
• Posture Correction
• Runner’s Knee
• Sciatica
• Shoulder Impingement
• Shoulder Pain
• Herniated Disc
• Soft Tissue Injuries
• Sprained Ankle
• Tendonitis
• Tennis Elbow
• TMJ and Jaw Pain
• TMJ Disorders
• Wrist Pain

Is Chiropractic Care Only for Back and Neck Pain?

No. Although chiropractic care is commonly associated with back and neck pain, chiropractors evaluate musculoskeletal problems involving many other areas of the body.

Depending on the condition, chiropractic care may be appropriate for problems involving the shoulders, hips, knees, elbows, wrists, ankles, feet, and surrounding muscles and soft tissues.

Elite Sports Medicine’s multidisciplinary structure also means that patients who need care beyond chiropractic can be evaluated for physical therapy, pain management, or orthopedic care when appropriate. Elite’s current About page confirms these four disciplines as its principal multidisciplinary services.