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Smith Chiropractic and Occupational Medicine
CHIROPRACTOR Breese IL
Our clinic is a Breese, IL, medically-oriented chiropractic practice that combines diagnostics and the incredible benefits of chiropractic treatment to provide fantastic outcomes for Clinton County, Illinois patients.
With 36-years of experience, Dr. Smith can rely on his vast knowledge of patient presentations to reliably diagnose your problem and recommend treatment plans that are effective and quick.
Our goal is to provide the best diagnostic and treatment healthcare in Clinton County, Illinois by engaging with our patients on an individual basis and determining together our best path forward to full resolution of their problem. Contact our Breese IL chiropractor today!
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Can Your Health Condition Be Helped With Chiropractic?
A good Chiropractor is also a physician. Dr. Smith is just that, a Chiropractic Physician, trained in all the basic diagnostic tests, to include labs, MRI, CT scans, etc. Only once all of the potential causes of a problem are solved, can a treatment program be started. Dr. Smith has a high success rate with most problems, he feels, are treatable. We have a very good relationship with specialists throughout the St. Louis area in orthopedics, neurology and arthrology. Once determined that Chiropractic manipulation will assist a patient, our system ranks as one of the top Chiropractic Physicians offices in Clinton County, IL with an impeccable reputation of serving our patients well.
Why do I need chiropractic care when I’m not in pain?
Think of maintenance care just like you would a tire on your vehicle. When tires run on one side unevenly, they wear out much more quickly. Only by rotating them and balancing will they give the mileage needed. Your spine is the same way. When life pulls one way or another, the spinal vertebrae will shift causing wear. Once they align and move freely, the feeling is incredible and you can go for miles feeling so much better all over.
Conditions We Help
Both acute onset and chronic lower back pain have unique problems associated with them. Pain is the number one complaint. Range of motion loss is a close second. By utilizing laser therapy, dry-needling and spinal decompression with manipulation, we can “make room” for the nerves that are being affected thereby reducing pain and increasing function.
Neck pain is a chronic problem most patients will have in their lives. We utilize dry-needling and traction to reduce muscle spasm and get vertebrae moving again. Lifestyle changes are massively important and with Dr. Smith’s experience, he knows the triggers for neck pain.
Knee Degeneration is one of the most common ailments in the senior population. Our unique approach utilizing dry needling and cold laser extends the time a patient may be considering surgical intervention. We like to call it ‘injection replacement therapy.’ Some patients say the therapy is better than the injectables otherwise provided.
Lateral epicondylitis or ‘Tennis Elbow’ is an incredibly painful condition of the outside of the elbow that responds well to Ultrasound and myofascial scraping (a technique utilizing a dull scraper to break up scar tissue.
Plantar Fasciitis and other foot problems. Incredible results are being shown with a combination of laser therapy and myofascial scraping and manipulation to avoid painful foot injections. Surgery for this condition is now greatly reduced as necessary when a conservative approach such as our fasciitis system is applied.
Generalized muscle soreness and pain? Touch-less Massage is gaining in popularity because of the stigma applied from massage providers due to physical contact concerns. Our Nomano Massage System provides an incredible massage with no undressing or manual massage or uneasiness with a masseuse.
Balance and gait disorders. Our program works on the premise that balance and gait go hand in hand with knee and lower back pain. We will teach our patients how to, by using inexpensive tools they can purchase online, manage and even improve their likelihood from falls that so many seniors fear. No expensive physical therapy, just common sense aids to improve your balance and gait and prevent falls.
Lumbar Stenosis and Peripheral Neuropathy. Two very hand-in-hand conditions that cause substantial problems that lead into balance and gait disorders resulting in an increased likelihood of falling. We address the entire problem by diagnosing the cause, and the severity and then working with our neurosurgeons and our own clinic to alleviate symptoms caused by generalized disc degeneration.
Services We Offer
The bread and butter of a good Chiropractic Physician is the ability to feel fixated vertebrae and joints and provide gentle but effective adjustment to those areas.
Dr. Smith is a certified acupuncturist and utilizes needles placed in joints or sore areas and application of electrical muscle stimulation current through those needles into the sore areas. Speeds up healing substantially.
Deep stimulating in the joints and muscles, helps alleviate inflammation with no injections.
Computerized and gentle, this system helps make room for nerves that have become entangled or compressed and relieves the pressure placed on them causing pain.
For anxiety and smoking cessation to prevent long and drawn out medication usage.
A more superficial wave form is used to clear inflammation.
By utilizing a thin, dull blade – scar tissue that builds up and then surrounds nerves and compresses them, can be utilized to break up restrictive tissue.
A chair that is unlike anything you have seen or felt. Total body massage with no mess, no disrobing and no need for a masseuse.