Active care that works on what the adjustment cannot reach on its own — the strength, the mobility and the movement patterns that decide whether an improvement holds. Prescribed from your examination findings and adjusted as your case changes, not run as a fixed circuit everybody passes through.
Physiotherapy is part of most active plans in this office rather than a separate service you are sold. It carries the most weight in cases where weakness, deconditioning or daily mechanics are doing as much to the problem as the injury itself.
If your pain has come back more than once, the question worth asking is not what relieved it but what kept re-creating it. Each of the below helps some people, and some of them may still belong in your care.
Rest is the right call early on for a lot of injuries, and pain often does settle with it. What rest does not do is rebuild what was already weak before you got hurt — and a muscle that has been guarding for weeks is weaker at the end of it, not stronger.
Medication can make daily life manageable while you sort out what is wrong, and that is a legitimate role for it. It changes what you feel rather than what you can do. Many patients tell us the problem is waiting for them when the bottle runs out.
Some of them are genuinely good exercises. The difficulty is that the same complaint can come from a disc, a facet joint, a nerve or a straightforward strength deficit, and those do not all want the same movement. An exercise aimed at the wrong one is at best wasted effort.
A muscle that feels tight is not always short — it is often working overtime to cover for something near it that is not doing its share. Stretching it can feel good briefly and leave the actual load exactly where it was.
Heat and hands-on work make an area more comfortable and more workable, and that is why they are used here. On their own they are things done to you. Nothing in that list asks the tissue to get stronger, which is the part that changes what happens next month.
Training around an injury is a reasonable instinct and the fitter patients recover well. The trouble is that a movement pattern which is already compensating gets reinforced under load, so the compensation gets stronger along with everything else.
Rehabilitation here is prescribed from your examination rather than picked off a protocol. Your doctor identifies what is weak, what is restricted, and what your daily mechanics are doing to it, then builds the exercise and manual work around that — coordinated with whatever else your plan calls for, whether that is adjusting, decompression, laser, ShockWave or EMTT, all of it in this building.
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Several therapies used together, each doing a different job. Which of them apply to you is decided by your examination — not everyone receives all of them.
Specific exercise chosen for the muscles, joints and movement patterns your examination flagged. Done in the office where it can be watched and corrected, then given to you as a home program so the tissue is still being worked between visits.
Hands-on work on muscle and fascia — myofascial and trigger point release, joint mobilization — used to restore mobility and settle tension in an area before it is asked to do more. It makes the exercise possible rather than replacing it.
Where a disc or a nerve root is involved, controlled traction is delivered on a computer-driven table that manages the angle, the force and the cycle across a session — not by hand and not on a fixed weight.
How you sit, stand, sleep, lift and work, looked at specifically rather than in general. For a number of patients this is the part that decides whether the rest holds, because it is what the body does for the other twenty-three hours.
Rehabilitation is rarely the whole plan. Where the examination supports it, it runs alongside chiropractic care, Class IV laser, ShockWave or EMTT — all in this office, sequenced deliberately rather than stacked because they are available.
No surprises. Here's exactly how it works from your first call to your recovery.
A full history and examination with your doctor, including assessment of strength, mobility and how you actually move — alongside orthopedic and neurological testing, and X-rays if they are clinically indicated. The purpose is to establish what is driving your symptoms before anything is prescribed.
Visit 1Your doctor goes through what the examination showed, what appears to be causing it, and what he recommends — including whether rehabilitation belongs in your case at all, and what the plan costs. For most patients hands-on care begins at this visit. Both visits are part of your new patient exam.
Visit 2Sessions combine the manual work and modalities that prepare the area with the exercise that loads it, and you are corrected while you do it. You leave with a home program you have been shown rather than handed.
OngoingYou are re-examined against the plan you agreed to. If your case is not responding the way it should, the plan changes or you are referred — it does not simply continue because sessions remain.
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Book My New Patient Exam →Therapeutic exercise, hands-on soft-tissue work and supporting modalities, prescribed as part of your care plan and aimed at the strength, mobility and movement patterns behind your complaint. Adjustment restores motion to a joint; physiotherapy works on what happens between visits — what holds that motion, and what keeps loading it the wrong way.
They do different jobs. An adjustment addresses a restricted joint. It does not, on its own, rebuild a deconditioned muscle or change how you lift, sit and sleep. Where your examination shows those are contributing, your doctor prescribes physiotherapy alongside the adjusting rather than instead of it.
Usually, yes. A home program is part of most plans, and the exercises are chosen for your case and reviewed with you rather than handed over on a photocopied sheet. Your doctor will go through what you should feel, what you should not, and when to stop.
Therapeutic exercise is worked at a level you can actually do — the point is to load the tissue, not to overload it. Hands-on soft-tissue work over an area that is already irritated can be tender. You are talking with whoever is treating you throughout, and the approach changes if you say so during the visit.
That depends on what your examination shows, and any office quoting you a number beforehand is guessing. Once your doctor has your findings he gives you a plan — what he recommends, why, and what it costs. You are then re-examined against that plan: if your case is not responding the way it should, the plan changes or you are referred.
The rehabilitation here is provided as part of your chiropractic care, by the doctor managing your case. If your case calls for something outside that scope, you will be told and referred rather than kept here. Call the office at (951) 817-9815 if you want to know whether what you need is something this office provides.
Coverage varies by plan. Richter Family Chiropractic accepts cash payment, insurance, and attorney liens on personal-injury cases. Your doctor gives you the cost of the recommended plan in full before you commit to it. Call the office at (951) 817-9815 and the front desk will go over what applies to your situation.