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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...

Car Accidents

Car accidents that aren’t major collisions are too often overlooked by those involved.  More worried about an insurance claim or being late for work, we don’t always stop to assess what damage may have been done to our bodies. Because of the sudden and unnatural movement of a body during a car accident, anyone involved should visit a chiropractor for evaluation. The staff of Morgan Chiropractic knows that some passengers feel the effects of whiplash injuries immediately following an accident, while others may walk away not feeling injured and experience pain later. This is why a chiropractor should always be consulted. The most common site of pain and stiffness for passengers involved in an accident are the neck and back.  A chiropractor can evaluate these injuries, as well as treat damage to both hard and soft tissue. Depending on a patient’s evaluation the chiropractor may perform an adjustment or assign exercises to help heal a particular injury. If you have been involved in a car a...