Softwave Treatment is the most advanced, highly effective, non-invasive treatment cleared by the FDA to treat degenerative conditions and chronic pain. Softwave is a min lithotripsy device that delivers the most effective Extracorporeal Shock Wave Therapy (“ESWT”). During treatment, the ESWT produces high-energy sound waves applied to painful and injured body areas to stimulate healing and regeneration. It helps stimulate and improve your body’s healing capability by enhancing blood circulation. It has also been shown to promote increased stem cell production (see link below) to regenerate damaged tissue. Beneficial effects are often experienced in only one or two treatments, and no downtime exists! This non-surgical treatment can eliminate pain, restore mobility, and significantly improve a person’s quality of life.

Benefits

• Non-invasive
• No anesthesia required
• No risk of infection
• No scarring
• No downtime
• High patient satisfaction
• Cost-effective

Common Conditions Patients Are Trying Softwave For

• Faster, easier healing
• Knee Pain
• Heel Pain
• Foot Pain
• Ankle Pain
• Achilles Tendon Injuries
• Plantar Fasciitis
• Hamstring Pain
• Back and Neck Pain
• Tennis and Golfers Elbow
• Shoulder Pain
• Elbow, Wrist, and Hand Pain
• Sports Injuries
• Arthritis
• Male Erectile Dysfunction (ED)
• Male Sexual Health
• Female Sexual Health
• TMJ
• Muscle Pain
• Overuse Injuries

See this page for the studies and possible health benefits list: https://softwavetrt.com/research/.

At Ford Chiropractic Corp., we use advanced treatments like SoftWave Therapy and MedWave (Red Light Therapy) to effectively address sports injuries in both children and adults. SoftWave Therapy is a non-invasive, FDA-cleared treatment that promotes healing by stimulating the body’s natural regenerative processes, reducing inflammation, and enhancing blood flow to injured tissues. MedWave Red Light Therapy complements this by accelerating recovery, reducing pain, and improving tissue repair at the cellular level. Together, these therapies provide a comprehensive, drug-free approach to quickly getting athletes of all ages back in the game. 


• Sports Medicine 
• Shoulder Pain
• Knee Pain
• Low Back
• Ankle Sprains 
• Sports Injury Pain

A chiropractic adjustment, also known as chiropractic manipulation, manual manipulation, or spinal manipulation, is the primary chiropractic treatment method for back pain.

Spinal manipulation relieves pressure on joints, reduces inflammation, and improves nerve function. It has been a trusted form of treatment since the ancient Greek Hippocrates documented manipulative techniques in his writings in 1500 B.C. Today, spinal manipulation is used to treat conditions such as allergies, menstrual cramps, and headaches.

How Does Spinal Manipulation Work?
Chiropractors worldwide use well over 100 types of adjustment techniques. Some practitioners use force and twisting, while others are more gentle. Regardless of how they are performed, these techniques are intended to restore or enhance joint function, reduce pain, and resolve joint inflammation.

When vertebrae shift out of place, the muscular system responds to the central nervous system systemically. Without proper alignment and flow, our nerves, immune systems, and minds cannot function at their highest peak.

Overall, spinal adjustments and manipulations are an excellent way to keep the body functioning at its highest level without discomfort. When the body is adequately aligned, it can respond and perform as it was built to do.

Structural Balancing


We all live our day to day and tend to get into habits with the way we sit, walk, stand, and sleep. These habits create patterns in the way that the muscles support our bodies. A great example is someone who sits at a desk all day. The tension from sitting at a desk creates patterns in the lower back and hips, upper back, and neck muscles. When the muscles tighten, the joints of the spine in that region lock up. This spinal locking increases inflammation in the area. This inflammation irritates the surrounding nerves and tissue, creating pain and affecting the surrounding nerves' ability to communicate with the body. 

These nerves often innervate the muscles along the spine. Inflammation interrupts the signal from the brain to the muscle, telling it to relax so the muscle stays in contracture. Most treatments use an outside-in approach, meaning we address the symptom (tight muscle) rather than the cause (nerve irritation). As long as the nerve is irritated, the muscle will remain in chronic contracture. 

Chiropractic increases spine mobility, reduces inflammation, allows the nerve to communicate with the tight muscle, and enables it to relax. With regular chiropractic treatments, the nervous system can function more efficiently, thus allowing it to communicate with the muscles, reset the patterning of the spinal musculature, and create balance in the spine.

What is Degenerative Disc Disease?

Degenerative disc disease is not as much a disease as it is a name for the changes that can happen to the spine as we age.
Our discs have a tough, rubbery exterior and a soft interior. They sit between the vertebrae and act as shock absorbers. As we age, the spinal discs begin to degenerate, causing herniated, bulging, spinal stenosis, and osteoarthritis.


Degenerative Disc Symptoms

Spinal disc degeneration may cause no symptoms at all, and symptoms depend on each patient and the severity of their case.
Pain may occur at the site of the affected disc in the back or neck. Compressed nerves often cause this pain, which can also travel to other body areas, such as the buttocks, arms, and legs. Numbness and tingling in the arms and legs may also be experienced. Pain can range from mild to severe and debilitating.

Degenerative Disc Causes

As mentioned, our spines can degenerate as a natural part of aging. Tears in the more rigid outer layer of the disc are common as we grow older, and when the discs begin to lose fluid, they become smaller and less flexible. In addition to aging, other factors may come into play, including obesity, smoking, repeated physical work, and injury.


Degenerative Disc Treatment

Pain caused by degeneration is often treated with hot or cold packs and an anti-inflammatory medication. Other forms of treatment may be beneficial when disc degeneration causes problems like herniated or bulging discs, spinal stenosis, or osteoarthritis. This may include physical therapy, stretching, and, in some cases, surgery. While degenerative disc disease is a natural part of aging, there are things you can do to prevent pain and stay healthy. If you are experiencing frequent back or neck pain, visit our office for an examination so we can create a treatment plan for you.

Therapeutic exercises are specific exercises meant to correct particular problems. Depending on your concern, your chiropractor may give you a list of exercises to perform to reduce discomfort. Therapeutic exercise focuses on regaining flexibility, strength, and endurance related to specific physical problems. It aims to improve, restore, and prevent loss of bodily function. Therapeutic exercise can also enhance a patient's health, fitness, and well-being.

Additional objectives of Therapeutic exercise include:

• Increasing mobility
• Releasing contracted muscles, tendons, and fascia
• Mobilizing joints
• Improving circulation
• Improving respiratory capacity
• Improving coordination
• Reducing rigidity
• Improving balance

Therapeutic exercises are classified into three major categories:

• Endurance training
• Resistance training
• Flexibility training

No matter what type of exercise is prescribed to remedy a patient's specific condition, the final goal of rehabilitation is to acquire a maximum level of physical fitness without using more invasive methods. Therapeutic exercise can be performed at home and gives you the power to improve your quality of life