Cardiff By The Sea & Encinitas Back Pain, Sciatica, and Herniated Disc Patients Benefit with Spinal Warm-Ups

Just as you would not run a marathon before warming up your leg muscles, you can benefit best from chiropractic care by first warming up your spine at Gold Coast Chiropractic. Our lead chiropractor Dr. Melendez has been treating back pain and related conditions in the Encinitas and Cardiff by the Sea communities for more than two decades.

Our office also offers two forms of spinal warm-ups: cervical repetitive traction, or CRTx, and the wobble chair. CRTx focuses on the cervical vertebrae while the wobble chair works the lumbar area. Our spinal warm-ups are part of the range of services offered by chiropractors, Dr. David Melendez and Dr. Lorraine Melendez, who are both experienced in various methods of treating a herniated disc, fibromyalgia, sciatica, and back pain, with techniques that include adjustments and spinal decompression.

Decompression, A Treatment Plan Serving Cardiff by the Sea and Encinitas

Both of our spinal warm-ups, known as pre-hab, prime your spine for corrective care and exercises so it is at its most supple and receptive. Warming up the spine is a safe and comfortable way to ease into more in-depth chiropractic care, such as decompression, adjustments or manipulations, and strengthening exercises you perform in our office or at home.

Both CRTx and our wobble chair rehydrate and re-inflate your discs, add height, reverse rapid aging, and keep your discs young and strong. They also help with the healing of bulging discs and disc tears, known as a herniated disc. Each chiropractor will assist with the proper techniques and adjustments for either device to best reap the benefits.

Cervical Repetitive Traction, known as CRTx, consists of warming up your cervical vertebrae with a supportive collar attached to a wall unit. You fit the collar behind your neck and beneath your chin while you bend your legs and grasp the collar’s chin bar to gently work your neck area. As CRTx is enhancing the suppleness of your neck, it is also helping to restore the cervical “arc of life” and relieve tension on your spinal cord. It re-stimulates the production of endorphins, body chemicals best known for relieving pain.

Our chiropractic wobble chair is another way to get your spine ready for more in-depth treatments, such as decompression, which treat sciatica, fibromyalgia, or other conditions that lead to back pain. The wobble chair is fairly self-explanatory. It resembles a backless office chair on which you sit and wobble.

The wobble chair adds height, strength, and dynamic flexibility to the lumbar discs, ligaments, and deep postural muscles of your lower back. It also helps circulate cerebral spinal fluid that nourishes the brain and spinal cord; enhances oxygenation of the blood; stimulates your metabolism; and massages your heart via the central tendon, which reduces the chances of heart attacks.

Our spinal warm-ups can be part of a treatment plan for fibromyalgia, sciatica, or a herniated disc, or can serve as a healing treatment on their own. Call us today at 760-944-0563 to find out more about our unique and effective treatments.