Seattle Chiropractor for dogs

How can chiropractic help a dog? Well...dogs, cats, horses and all other animals have a body that is run by nerves just like people. The really cool thing is that they respond to chiropractic adjustments just like people. This is how we know that chiropractic works and is not just a "placebo" because animals can't be "fooled into believing". Most people have been taught to think that humans are somehow physically different than animals. Forgetting that animals have brains and nerves that control their eyes, ears, hearts, and movements too. At Sound Chiropractic of Seattle, Dr. Silliker discusses "Survival Value", which is how humans are physically similar to animals and how important health and vitality is to survival. To find out if Chiropractic can help increase your survival value, call to schedule an appointment with Dr. Jason Silliker at Sound Chiropractic Center of Seattle.

Seattle Chiropractor for leg pain

Pain in the legs is always caused by irritated nerves. Pain in your tooth, shoulder, and anywhere else in your body is always caused by irritated nerves. You can't feel pain without an irritated nerve! The nerves that go down into the leg originate in the brain and exit the central nervous system from the lower back into the leg. Chiropractors remove nerve irritation by using spinal manipulation and working with the soft tissues of the leg with exercise and stretching. At Sound Chiropractic Center, Dr. Silliker and Dr. Early are trained in diagnosing spinal related leg pains and are able to safely treat and manage muskuloskeletal and spinal related leg pain. Feel free to call and schedule an appointment today at 206-440-7700. We look forward to helping you soon.

seattle chiropractor for joint pain

Chiropractors work with the joints of the spine to reduce pain and restore motion. Why? Movement of joints is very important for the health of joints. Cartilage cells don't have a blood supply and rely on movement in order to imbibe or "sponge" nutrients like water, oxygen, and sugars into the cells. Movement also lubricates the joint by moving synovial fluids. When a joint doesn't move over time, it can develop connective tissue adhesions that make the joint "gummy" and not move properly. This is called a "fixation" that not only restricts movement but can cause pain. Call for an appointment with Dr. Jason Silliker at Sound Chiropractic Center. Dr. Silliker uses spinal manipulation to gently restore motion to these joints to reduce pain and disability. We look forward to helping you soon.

Seattle Chiropractor for facet pain

Chiropractic helps reduce facet generated pain using spinal manipulation. The mechanism of action does three things that help reduce pain and restore range of motion without using injections or surgery. First, spinal manipulation separates the facet joint resulting in a release of energy and creating joint cavitation usually associated with a popping noise. The second mechanism involves stretching of paraspinal muscle resulting in forced muscle relaxation. Finally, there is a decrease in pressure of the disk, which can press on nerves. To learn more about evidence-based chiropractic and how it helps reduce nerve pressure and back pain. Call for an appointment with Dr. Jason Silliker at Sound Chiropractic Center of Seattle.

Seattle Chiropractor for Low Back Pain

Chronic lower back pain is a leading cause of job related disability and a leading contributor to missed work. Back pain is so common that the condition is often times considered "normal". For those whose pain doesn't go away with time, the pain can be unbearable and disabling. Activities and quality of daily life are diminished leading to fear avoidance behavior and depression.

Self care advice, physical therapy and medications while helpful to some are not always successful. For those who fail to respond the choice is between chronic mediacation usage and surgical procedures.

Evidence based research has shown chiropractic management of chronic pain to be effective in a short period of time, safe and cost effective. The results from the study highlighted above illustrate that patients can have faster relief of symptoms and disability without the use of medication. This chart illustrates the benefits of chiropractic management for chronic lower back pain.

Feel free to contact Dr. Jason Silliker or Dr. Paul Early at Sound Chiropractic Center to find out if chiropractic could help you. We are located 2 blocks east of Northgate Mall in Seattle on NE Northgate Way. We look forward to helping you soon.

Seattle Chiropractor for pregnancy

Chiropractic has great results with pregnancy related pain when performed by a licensed, professional chiropractor at Sound Chiropractic Center of Seattle. Dr. Jason Silliker remembers one of his first chiropractic miracles involving a young lady in her 3rd trimester suffering severely from low back pain. He recalls, "the pain was so bad she could hardly walk." Of course, she did not want to take any pills because she didn't want to damage the baby.

How can chiropractors help? Well, not only is there a tremendous amount of structural changes such as added weight to the uterus and breast tissue, but there is also a release of a hormone called "relaxin". It's job is to loosen the ligaments of the pelvic outlet during the birthing process, but can also cause subluxations of the sacroiliac joints between the sacrum and pelvic bones. Also, due to increased breast size, the mid-back regions can also become painful. This can all be helped using gentle spinal manipulation to restore normal function and position of the spinal joints.

How do you adjust people during pregnancy?

Well, obviously we cannot have you lay on your stomach or take x-rays. Instead, we use motion palpation to feel joint restrictions and use modified techniques to accomplish the same results to mobilize the joints. At Sound Chiropractic Center, Dr. Jason Silliker is trained to treat pregnancy related back pains to help keep you feeling great and drug free during this monumental time in your life. If you are having pregnancy related back pain, call Dr. Jason Silliker and schedule an appointment at Sound Chiropractic Center of Seattle now! We look forward to helping you and your family soon.

Whiplash and Chiropractic in Seattle

Capsular Ligament Stretching May Perpetuate Chronic Whiplash Pain Whiplash, defined as an injury caused by stretching of the tissue beyond its physiological limit, but less than its failure point, can cause a variety of symptoms and severity. Understanding the structures that can cause pain has been a topic of debate and the focus of many previous studies. Involvement of the facet joint and the surrounding capsular involvement have been documented. The focus of this research brief is to review literature that extends this knowledge of the damage to the capsular ligament to provide a biomechanical mechanism of chronic whiplash pain. __________________________________________________________________ Whiplash causes increased laxity of cervical capsular ligament Paul C. Ivancic,a, Shigeki Ito b, Yasuhiro Tominaga b, Wolfgang Rubin a, Marcus P. Coe c, Anthony B. Ndu a, Erik J. Carlson a, Manohar M. Panjabi a, a Biomechanics Research Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA b Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, St. Marianna University School of Medicine, Kanagawa, Japan c Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH, USA Received 7 May 2007; accepted 10 September 2007 Goal of the Study: To determine whether whiplash caused increased capsular ligament laxity by applying quasi-static loading to whiplash-exposed and control capsular ligaments.

Chiropractic care: Chiropractors have long studied these same effects, describing them as the vertebral subluxation complex. Research has illustrated that the altered mechanoreceptive afferent driven motor mismatch can be corrected by the firing of the mechanoreceptors of the facet joint capsules which are activated by means of a chiropractic adjustment (Indahl, Spine 1997).

Sound Chiropractic Center 820 NE Northgate Way Seattle, WA 98125 206-440-7700 info@soundchiropractic.com • http://www.soundchiropractic.com/

Conditions Likely to Respond to Chiropractic Care:

 Back Pain  Neck Pain  Headaches  Herniated/bulging Discs  Spinal Stenosis  Sciatica  Auto Accidents  Pregnancy-Related Pain  Muscle Tightness/Weakness/Imbalance  Some types of radiculopathy  Sports Injuries  Thoracic Outlet Syndrome  Whiplash  Plantar Fascitis (Foot and Arch Pain)  Shoulder Pain (Rotator Cuff Pain)  TMJ Pain  Elbow Pain (Tennis/Golfer Elbow)  Wrist Pain  Finger/Toe Pain  Hip Pain  Carpal Tunnel Syndrome  Ankle Pain  Knee Pain  Iliotibial Band Syndrome  Quadriceps Pain/Tightness  Other Acute and Chronic Injuries Therapies Offered in Our Clinic:  Spinal Manipulation  Spinal Rehabilitation  Extremity Manipulation  Injury Prevention  Sports Conditioning  Core Strengthening  Postural Correction  Stability Training  Nutritional Counseling  Advanced Myofascial Release We Accept with the Following Insurance Plans:  PI  Labor & Industries  Premera  First Choice  Regence  Aetna  Cigna  ACN (now Optum Health)  Plus many more, please call to inquire. Map to our office: Clinic Hours: