We Provide More Then Just Chiropractic Care!
We offer many other treatments to help relieve pain through more natural and therapeutic means to avoid addictive medications. Click the Treatment below to learn more!
MASSAGE THERAPY • REHAB / PHYSIOTHERAPY • DOT PHYSICALS, DRUG AND ALCOHOL TESTING • THERAPEUTIC LASER • MECHANICAL TRACTION (DECOMPRESSION) • ADDITIONAL TREATMENTS AND SERVICES
In our office we are equipped to offer massage therapy in conjunction with chiropractic care. We are staffed with three highly experienced and talented Licensed Massage therapists. They are committed to helping each and every patient they see improve their quality of life and reach their goals.
They also have the unique ability to work with the doctors on any case so the patients get a more specialized treatment. These treatments may include gentle relaxation with a Swedish or Hot Stone massage, a Therapeutic massage after an injury or an auto accident, to promote healing and get them back on track faster to a pain free life. For the athletes who need to keep their body injury-free and healthy, we provide Sports and Cupping Massages to keep them in the game.
Specialized Pregnancy massages are also offered upon request.
Massage Therapy
Let’s recap. You’ve had back pain for years, you have tried everything, yet your pain persists. You finally come to our happy, loving office. First we adjust your spine, you feel great results. Then you get massage therapy to relax your soreness, maybe laser or spinal decompression, and now you literally feel 10 years younger. Now you want to get active yet your muscles and tissues need to be strengthened.
In our new Therapy Suite, our trained assistants can put ultrasound on your joints, electrical stimulation on your strained tissues, and then finally do rehabilitative exercises on an advanced AMT II machine to heal your inner core tissues and strengthen them. Now you are ready to travel, exercise, lose weight, and enjoy life again. We don’t just fix backs, we restore lives—it is exhilarating to see people joyfully resume activities that they thought they couldn’t do anymore.
That’s why we recently built our new addition. We put our patients first; we bought the laser, decompression table and ATM II but needed more space, so we added on. Many more people can now be served that weren’t getting help before.
Rehab / Physiotherapy
DOT Physicals, Drug and Alcohol Testing
Other offices charge $75. We charge $50, to serve you in this tough economy. Dr. Alex and I are both Medical Examiners for CDL truck drivers. So that allows us to do Physicals for your Learners Permit. Other doctor offices make you wait 3 weeks. We will take you in the same day you call. And we are open 70 hours a week! So please call us today!
We are available during our regular business hours:
Monday & Friday 6 a.m. - 7 p.m.
Tuesday & Thursday 8 a.m. - 8 p.m.
Wednesday 6 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Saturday 9 a.m. - 12 p.m.
Also for your DOT drug and alcohol needs, Drugalyzer offers these services at the same convenient location. These services can be scheduled by calling 570.454.2474.
Most truck drivers have little free time. They work long hours on the road. Traditionally they would call their family doctor, and have to wait three weeks for an appointment. Then when they get there, they tell me they have to wait three hours! And many times they forget and have to get their CDL license before it expires the next day. So the law of supply and demand comes in.
We offer you a convenient location to I-80 and I-81, we have very accessible hours, we can fit you in the same day you call and you do not have to wait once you are here, that is service at its finest! Our prices are competitive with other facilities and our exams are just as thorough.
In fact, once we see when your next license will expire, we will put that data in our computer and mail you a post card one month in advance to remind you to make an appointment before you get too close to your expiration date.
We love to serve. Come and see for yourself!
How many doctors would purchase an instrument that would reduce inflammation, scar tissue, and promote the growth of healthy tissue — we did! The laser is the strongest that the federal government allows by law, and that is why it is so expensive. But that is why it gets results when normal physiotherapy doesn’t.
Therapeutic Laser
We have so many people who have irritated joints but they aren’t getting results with the usual routine. They first try anti-inflammatory medication, but that doesn’t always help and that affects their stomach. Some have tried cortisone shots, which may not have helped, some just "wean off", while other patients are leery of the damage it can do to their lives. So we know people are looking for safe, natural options to healing their joint pain. This is where the laser comes in.
It is a bright, warm light which is rubbed directly over the inflamed area usually for eight minutes. The deep heat instantly draws blood, nutrition, and oxygen to the area. Many people feel improvement after one visit, while the more chronic conditions may take 6-12 visits to heal totally. If you haven’t been able to lift your arm above your head in 20 years, and 9 laser treatments would allow you to—would you do it? Many have and are excited by it. Here is where we have seen the best results with the laser:
1. TMJ—chronic cracking in the jaw. The laser is applied to one or both sides of the face to reduce inflammation and heal the damaged cartilage. What a thorough way to heal the area so you can chew normal food and open your mouth wide with no pain.
2. Bursitis—in the shoulder due to calcium deposits or a partially torn rotator cuff. Again, as inflammation
is reduced, more nutrition is brought to the area. On a MRI, partial tears will heal, not total tears, that requires surgery.
3. Tendonitis—of the elbow from golf, tennis, or any repetitive activity. Gone in a few visits.
4. Knee pain—due to arthritis or a partial tear in the meniscus.
5. Plantar fasciatis—pain in the heel that radiates up to the ball of your foot where you can barely walk when you first wake up in the morning. The laser heals it after months of physiotherapy hasn’t or cortisone shots, orthotics or even night boots didn’t help.
6. Trigger Fingers—where your finger locks, instead of surgery.
MRI studies will reveal that 50% of people above 40 will have either a bulged or herniated disc in their lumbar spine. It used to be so frustrating to look at a MRI, see multiple disc damage in a patient’s lower back and even after chiropractic got their spine in place, the pain in their groin or down their leg persisted. We used to refer many patients for epidural shots, which is a cortisone shot that tried to reduce the swelling of the discs. But that had three drawbacks. People were so afraid to get a long needle into their back, the shots didn’t always help, if they did help at first, the benefit would wear off. Along came a beautiful option—spinal decompression.
Once the chiropractor decides the "gravitational pull" on your damaged disc, you are placed either on your stomach or back, the table gently pulls (no pain at all, promise), on either your lumbar or your cervical spine (neck) to gradually allow the bulged or herniated disc material to shift back into place so it can begin to heal. We rarely refer a patient for epidural shots now. We have gotten such great results that many patients have canceled their disc surgeries. Many older people get a "monthly stretch" to gradually undo the pain and tightness they feel in their back from stenosis, arthritis, degenerative disc disease or gravity’s daily compressive damaging effects.
Do you suffer from Plantar Fasciitis?
What is it first? There is a tendon on the bottom of each foot that runs from the heel up to the toes. From overuse, people who stand on hard floors for years like teachers, nurses or athletes who run a lot, this tendon swells. The pain is always worse when you first get out of bed or out of a chair after resting for an hour.
Most people try steroids shots. They usually don’t help, or the pain in the heel returns later .So I had plantar fasciitis on and off for 20 years and I always felt it would just go away on its own. But after 42 years of working on my feet, jogging for 20 years and playing soccer for 20 years an MRI showed my plantar tendon swelled to 6 times its normal size. I literally had to crawl to the bathroom in the morning to take a shower, I couldn't put weight bearing on either foot.
I saw foot doctors and foot surgeons. Steroid shots didn’t help me. I bought six different kinds of sneakers, multiple types of orthotics, did stretches, P.T. , ice, and I limped at work wearing a soft boot. Then I heard about a machine called “shock- wave therapy”. You lay down, take off your socks and shoes, the machine does 2,000 repetitive taps in 10 minutes to the bottom of the heel. The patient ices their foot in cold water 1 hour each visit. They can walk barefoot, and in 6 visits usually, no in your foot! Insurance doesn’t cover it, and it is $50 each session. I thank God every day, now when I walk at work with no pain, I can hike again, I can walk on a beach again. Healthy feet give you normal gait and helps keep your back strong.
Do you suffer from swollen ankles or feet?
I had this woman, only 32 years old who had very swollen ankles and feet. It made her “wobble” when she walked, and I felt her back pain wouldn’t heal until her gait was normal. She saw doctors, they tested her heart and liver, gave her Gabapentin and Lyrica, but nothing helped. So I suggested she try our Detoxification Machine. She was out of medical options, so she was anxious to try it.
She took off her socks and shoes. We placed both feet into a small basin of warm water and salt. The Detoxification Machine has an “Array” that goes into the water. Through an ionization process, the machine draws the toxins through the pores in her feet. All the medications in the past have heavy metals in them. So after about 15 minutes, the clear water looks like iced tea with black flakes of iron. She saw and felt improvement after the first session. But after about 6 sessions the redness in her ankles was gone, all the swelling disappeared, she didn’t “wobble” anymore, her back adjustments held in place and her back pain is gone. Insurance doesn’t cover it. It is $20 a session or $100 for 5 sessions, which it usually takes to remove the swelling in both feet and ankles. You need good feet, to help your entire body to feel better!
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1749 East Broad Street, Hazleton, PA 18201
Phone: 570.454.2474 - Fax: 570.454.0097
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