Dr. Patricia Lotufo mission statement is to provide excellent holistic chiropractic care and to educate patients about their condition and health. Her goal is empower her patient by bringing knowledge and awareness about their condition and about the things that will help them get better quickly.
After reviewing your medical history to be sure nothing serious is causing your pain a personalized treatment plan will be created to treat your condition. Treatment typically involves chiropractic adjustment, therapeutic modalities, soft tissue therapies, nutritional therapy and rehabilitation exercises.
Adjustments or joint manipulation has been repeatedly shown to be effective for a wide variety of musculoskeletal conditions. If you have not been adjusted before I will answer all your question about this remarkable procedure and in the end it will be your decision whether or not you want to be adjusted.
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Clinical Nutrition is the use of diet as a therapy. There is an ever-increasing body of knowledge that supports the use of whole foods and nutritional supplements in the maintenance of health and treatment of disease. Nutritional Therapy is a complementary therapy that uses food and supplements to encourage the body’s natural healing. It does this by:
• Detoxifying the body.
• Correcting vitamin and mineral deficiencies.
• Restoring healthy digestion.
• Developing a positive attitude.
Supplements may be suggested to encourage your body to heal itself. Learn more about Clinical Nutrition Therapy
Soft Tissue techniques are used during treatment to reduce muscle adhesion, scar tissue and reestablish
normal muscle and joint function. Dr. Lotufo uses Active Release Technique (ART), Post Isometric
Relaxation (PIR) and a variety of joint mobilizations and muscle stretching techniques that have been
extremely effective in her treatments. Chiropractic Adjustments when in conjunction with Soft Tissue
Techniques has a improved effect in correcting faulty movement patterns, joint dysfunction and pain.
ART is a patented, state-of-the-art soft tissue system that allows the practitioner to diagnose and treat problems with soft tissue injuries. Soft tissue refers primarily to muscles, tendons, ligaments, fascia and nerves. Abnormal tissues are treated by combining precisely directed tension with very specific patient movements. These treatment protocols - over 500 specific moves - are unique to ART. They allow providers to identify and correct the specific problems that are affecting each individual patient.
In acute conditions in conjunction with chiropractic treatment therapeutic modalities such as ultrasound, electro stimulation and soft tissue techniques may also be used to promote quick pain relief and to decrease inflammation.
Once your condition begins to improve I will show you what things are important for maintenance. This may involve prescription of exercises such as "core stability training" and yoga-based flexibility exercises as well as nutritional counseling and whole foods organic supplementation.
Chiropractic care benefits all aspects of your body's ability to be healthy. This is accomplished by working with the nervous system--the communication system between your brain and body. Doctors of Chiropractic work to correct spinal, pelvic and cranial misalignments (subluxations). When misaligned, these structures create an imbalance in surrounding muscles and ligaments. Additionally, the resulting nerve system stress may affect the body's ability to function optimally. Sacral misalignment causes the tightening and torsion of specific pelvic muscles and ligaments. It is these tense muscles and ligaments and their constraining effect on the uterus which prevents the baby from comfortably assuming the best possible position for birth. The Webster Technique is defined as a specific chiropractic analysis and adjustment that reduces interference to the nerve system and facilitates biomechanical balance in pelvic structures, muscles and ligaments.
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