Discover Life Chiropractic offers a variety of services to help your journey to better health. After the doctor works with you and finds blocks in your road to recovery, he may recommend some of the other services that are offered by Discover Life Chiropractic.
Located in the heart of Tacoma, Dr. Hendrickson has been providing high quality chiropractic care since 1991. Using his years of experience, he has trained in chiropractic techniques such as: Manual, instrument, cranial, drop table, and traction. Using these techniques, combined with soft tissue rehabilitation, he has successfully treated thousands of patients with a variety of conditions.
His greatest satisfaction is helping patients see changes in their ability to:
- Sleep better
- Manage stress
- Increased energy levels
- Mood enhancement
CRANIAL ADJUSTING
Cranial adjustment is another important aspect of chiropractic work
It involves analyzing and adjusting the skull plates. Adjusting the plates of the skull has proven useful in many health conditions, both chiropractic and non-chiropractic.
Cranial adjusting helps perfectly with chronic health conditions as well as excruciating headaches.
CHIROPRACTIC ADJUSTMENTS
The most important aspect to chiropractic work and the most important to your holistic healing is having your back adjusted
This one thing will do wonders as you switch your treatment from harsh medicines to chiropractic. Chiropractic equipment such as drop table techniques, as well as manual applications, can help you successfully heal.
Chiropractic adjustments can help a lot of aspects, such as: Headaches, blood pressure, stress, back pain, neck pain, pregnancy pain and much more. It will help to stabilize your body and make you feel better.
Pain can be very uncomfortable and get worse if quality care is not taken, especially for chronic pain in specific areas of your body.
A chiropractor can also help with pain or pressure that is related to internal parts of the body, such as: Muscles, joints and so on. Chiropractic adjusting can help to treat many different types of pain.
NUTRITION
Nutrition plays an important role in the proper healing of your body
There are certain foods that can speed up the healing process. There are also foods that will slow down the healing process and you need to stay away from such foods.
You may have your nutrition needs down pat, and that is fantastic! However, if you need help, we at Discover Life Chiropractic recommend a simple nutrition program for both during and after treatment. Our staff will complete a computerized analysis and x-rays that our chiropractors can use to recommend a nutrition program to help you heal fast.
Our Tacoma chiropractors will let you know what to eat and help you with a proper food plan.
STRESS MANAGEMENT
Up to 80% of Americans are stressed at work, according to Gallop.com, and the numbers are constantly rising
Stress is going to happen at times due to deadlines, hectic schedules, balancing work and life, etc. The trick is learning how to properly deal with, and alleviate, stress.
Physical and mental breakdowns can become difficult to handle without proper stress management. Your stress level could increase every day if you do not know how to lower stress, and you need to learn how to put it under control before it controls you.
At Discover Life Chiropractic, we help you learn how to manage stress and avoid things that lead to it. Stress is known to make back pain worse. Dr. Hendrickson teaches a stress program every month. This is to help patients to learn how to reduce and manage stress with simple steps.
EXERCISES
Proper exercise cannot be stressed enough, it can help you stay agile and alert
Three factors work hand in hand in the journey of health and wellness to help make you physically and mentally fit: Nutrition, sleep and exercise.
Neurorehabilitative exercises can be used to correct poor spinal function and help with improving posture. Our Tacoma chiropractors offer a beneficial exercise program for patients that want to help contribute to their care at home. This will help to improve your spinal health.
Proper exercise cannot be stressed enough, it can help you stay agile and alert. Too little exercise will not help the healing process; but too much exercise could cause even more complications. Talk to our chiropractors about which type of exercise is best at your stage of healing, and how often it should be done.
Our Specialties
Discover Life Chiropractic offers chiropractic adjustments by utilizing Activator, Pettibon, manual adjusting and extremity adjusting. Massage therapy is also offered with deep tissue, craniosacral, and facial massage services available.
Contact us at (253) 472-4400 to talk about other specialty areas that we offer.