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Personal Injury Prevention

A personal injury can occur when a person is distracted or not paying attention to his or her surroundings. This may include a slip, a fall, or an automobile accident. Upon injuring yourself, your top priority should be seeking quality chiropractic care to improve your joint mobility and decrease your chances of developing long-term chronic pain. Dr. Loren Morgan can treat personal injuries with drug-free, chiropractic therapy. Dr. Loren Morgan evaluates and treats your personal injuries. He uses manual therapy with occasional adjustments and combines it with soft tissue rehabilitation to position your joints and restore normal movement. With soft tissue rehabilitation, he includes things like spinal adjustments, massage therapy, stretching, trigger point therapy and range-of-motion and strength exercises. He provides you with education on nutritional supplements, ice packs and active range and postural motion exercises that you can do at home to speed up your recovery. If you have que...

Acute Pain

Each person has a different level of pain tolerance. Some may have a higher threshold than others, but regardless, we recognize when our body feels out of the ordinary. Depending on how a person injures his or herself, the acute pain will start suddenly and usually feels sharp. Acute pain may be mild and last just a moment, but when acute pain lasts longer than a month, Dr. Loren Morgan encourages you to explore your treatment options. If you have pain that is present in your shoulders, neck, upper back, lower back, or even in the legs and hips, Dr. Loren Morgan has a method to treat these problem areas. Once acute pain has been eliminated, the patient may carry on with their days like nothing is wrong. However, if the pain lasts more than seven days, it risks becoming chronic. If the pain is hindering your daily activities, don’t let it go untreated. If you have questions or concerns regarding chiropractic treatment or acute pain management, please give us a call. To learn about servi...

Goals of Therapeutic Exercise

At Morgan Chiropractic, Dr. Loren Morgan utilizes therapeutic exercise to correct impairment, improve musculoskeletal function, and/or maintain a healthy well-being. Therapeutic exercises differ from typical exercises one may perform in a gym. Instead, they are a variety of exercises that are mapped out by Dr. Morgan to improve and restore physical function. The types of exercises suggested will depend on the condition of the patient. Therapeutic exercises are aimed at achieving and maintaining physical fitness and fall into three major categories – endurance training, resistance training, and flexibility training. Therapeutic exercises have the ability to release contracted muscles, improve circulation, improve coordination, and improve balance. For certain conditions, Dr. Morgan will develop a custom exercise program to benefit your individual needs. If you have questions or concerns regarding chiropractic treatment, please give us a call. To learn about services we provide at the pr...