What may be difficult for people to understand about these “root cause” areas is they may not actually be painful! Some examples of these might be:

• Tight Hips pulling on your lower back, causing inflammation and scar tissue to build up.

• A “pinched nerve” in your neck causing “referred pain” down your shoulder or arm.

• An old ankle injury that didn’t heal properly, which could be causing your knee to “compensate” for your injury.

  At Synergy, this is why getting to know you and finding the root cause is so important and is the first step in our 3-step process.

  We WILL take the time to listen to you, your story, and fully understand what you’re going through and the frustrations you may have.

  We will also take the time to learn what your goals are so we can create a highly personalized plan of care that is perfectly tailored to you and your needs.

• Whether you are afraid of having to STOP exercising and want to know every possible way to continue

• Or you keep getting injured in the gym or just to afraid to START

• Or you want to enjoy life with your friends, family, kids, and grandkids without feeling the constant fear or burden of pain

We will create a plan that is catered around YOU.

How do we figure out the root cause of YOUR injury?

Motion Analysis: Using our motion capture technology, we can quickly and efficiently find out where your joints may be stiff or muscles are tight. Even more, we will find where your body is compensating with objective data points.

Hands-On Assessment: Once we capture your movement on video, we will confirm what we see through hands-on joint and muscle assessment. We will take the time to analyze not only the area of pain but also above and below to make sure we capture any compensation that we find

Watch Your ‘Sport’: While it seems obvious, a large piece of the Synergy system is watching you do the activity that troubles you. So, if deadlifting hurts, we must see you do it! If picking up your baby hurts, we want to see you do it OR at least simulate it as best we can. This ensures that we leave no stone unturned and that all possibilities are considered to get you back to doing what you love.

Step 2: Reduce and Eliminate Your Pain

In step two, our goal is to reduce and eliminate your pain…

How do we do this?

What makes us unique and different from ALL other chiropractors is that our unique treatment involves a combination of ‘hands-on’ techniques and corrective exercises.

Let’s break each one down…

Manual Therapy/Manipulations:

Our doctor has spent literally HUNDREDS of hours training various manual therapy and manipulation techniques to ensure you get the best possible results.

These techniques will help to get those chronically stiff and achy joints and tight muscles to start loosening up and end the cycle of pain you are experiencing.

Chronically stiff muscles and joints can cause problems such as:

• poor postures

• lack of flexibility, which will restrict your movements in the gym

• scar tissue and inflammation

Some of these techniques include…

• Trigger Point Release Therapy

• Instrument Assisted Soft Tissue Manipulation

• Cupping Therapy

• TheraGun Treatment

• Gentle Joint Manipulation

Will these hurt?

A common question that gets asked is whether these types of treatment will “hurt” or cause “more pain.”

I want to assure you that this is NOT the case here.

While these techniques may sometimes cause a small bit of soreness, they usually come in the form of that “good pain” in that you know something positive is happening inside your body.

We often talk to people about working out for the first time after a long time off. The muscles and joints are a ‘good sore’ when you finish, and this is what often happens with manual therapy. I also want you to know that YOU will be in control of what happens to your body.

Before we perform ANY treatment, we will take the time to explain every single technique or treatment to you thoroughly and how you will benefit from it to make sure you understand and feel comfortable with our methods.

Corrective Exercise:

When we ask our satisfied patients what makes us different than the ‘typical’ chiropractor, the unique approach to corrective exercise is most often the answer.

This is what we refer to as “Phase 2” of your treatment (and also the step where most other chiropractors, acupuncturists, and massage therapists miss the boat.)

Our system at Synergy ensures that our doctor has an intimate understanding of exercise. This includes classic weight lifting, Olympic Lifting, CrossFit training, Yoga, strength and conditioning, and high-performance training.

Some of our patients DO perform these activities at a high level, while others just want to feel good and be healthy. Either way, our Synergy system caters to each need.

And rather than just talking about it, we actually guide and coach you IN THE TREATMENT session. You see, many chiropractors claim to understand exercise, but most will claim they simply don’t have the TIME to do it with a patient in the treatment session.

We don’t subscribe to that.

We know that finding a long-term solution is about ensuring that you exercise properly and safely, and we will make sure you can do this with us!

Exercise is an important aspect of healing from an injury, but we often see and hear from people who do the “wrong exercise” or don’t understand how to exercise with “proper form,” which often leads to more pain and injury down the line.

It’s been said that “movement IS the best medicine.” It can also cause you MANY injuries if done improperly.

Our goal is that your exercise makes you STRONGER and more CONFIDENT to live the active and healthy life you desire!

Step 3: Get Back to Doing What You Love!

After steps one and two, we want to ensure we have helped you achieve your goals and are able to get back to doing what you love!

So, the last step is to make sure you have received the care you’ve been looking for.

We have been witness to people who have avoided back surgeries, even when doctors have said nothing else can be done…

We have seen people diagnosed by their doctor with ‘chronic hip and sciatic pain’ who have ‘tried everything’ and were ready for surgery become completely pain-free and get back to living the active lifestyle they want.

We have seen people who have looked online for ‘sciatic stretches’ for months, only to realize the stretches were actually making them worse! Once we got to the root cause of the problem, we watched them play golf, lift weights, and travel to the places they dreamed, PAIN FREE!

We promise that there will be no magic pill or simple fix to complex problems.

We DO promise to use every single tool, resource, and ounce of knowledge we possess in order to make improvements in how you move and how you feel so that you can achieve the outcome you are looking for.

We are NOT a practice that uses a few machines or gives out sheets of exercises.

We ARE a practice that specializes in doing everything and anything possible within our scope of practice to help people make significant transformations in their confidence, mobility, and quality of life… without needing to take pills or have unnecessary surgeries… even if all other conservative options have failed.