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Master the 2-Minute Knee Exam: Essential Tests & Techniques for Knee Pain

ChiroUp

Direct blows and deceleration forces can lead to ligamentous ruptures and cruciate ligament injuries; Noncontact actions like sharp turns or stops can sprain or rupture the ACL; A knee hitting a vehicle dashboard stresses the PCL. Lateral or medial forces typically result in collateral ligament damage.

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The 18 Most Popular Chiropractic Tools and Equipment

ChiroTouch

These tools include care tools like chiropractic tables and activator adjustment tools as well as technology items like computers, iPads, and X-ray machines. Activator Adjusting Tool The Activator adjusting tool uses a spring-loaded thrust to gently push targeted vertebrae or extremity joints back into proper alignment.

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Combating forward head carriage

Chiropractic Economics

Winners were picked not only by their apparent beauty and their X-rays but also by their standing posture. In the lateral plane, the center of gravity should fall from the external auditory meatus, crossing the AC joint of the shoulder, the greater trochanter of the hip, the lateral knee and the lateral malleolus of the ankle.

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7 Common Car Accident Injuries (& How Chiropractic Can Help)

Oviedo Chiropractic

For most cases, your chiropractor will treat any joint misalignments and may administer ultrasound or E-stim treatments to accelerate healing. To provide you with effective treatment, your chiropractor should look at imaging of your body (either an x-ray or MRI) to evaluate what is happening within your body.

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Who Pays For A Chiropractor After An Accident?

Oviedo Chiropractic

Even in a slow-moving fender bender, there can still be damage to your joints. Other hidden injuries caused by a car accident include soft tissue injuries, stiff and sore muscles, disc injuries, damaged ligaments, and more. However, these injuries may not show up on an initial X-ray taken in the hours right after the accident.

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Frequently asked questions

ABCA

They also care for patients with a wide range of injuries and disorders of the musculoskeletal system, involving the muscles, ligaments and joints. Chiropractors are being recognized to admit and treat patients in hospitals and to use outpatient clinical facilities (such as labs, x-rays, etc.)

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Shining a light on back pain

Musculoskeletal Australia

Pairs of small joints (facet joints) connect vertebrae to one another. Ligaments, tendons and muscles, provide further support to your spine and help protect it from injury. The pain comes from the muscles, ligaments and joints. x-rays, CT or MRI scans) isn’t useful or recommended in most cases of back pain.