Injuries We Treat

Recovering From an Injury? We Can Help.

An injury doesn't just affect your body in the moment. Left untreated, it can shape how you move and feel for years. Whether it happened on the job, in a car, or on the field, chiropractic care focuses on finding and treating the actual cause, not just masking the symptoms.

Workers’ Compensation

Millions of people suffer workplace injuries every year. While not all are severe, they can still greatly impact both your professional and personal life: preventing you from working, making daily tasks a challenge, and interfering with family time.

The Truth About Work Injuries: The most common work injuries aren't dramatic accidents. They develop over time. Typing can lead to overuse injuries in the wrists. Repetitive lifting, twisting, and turning cause repetitive stress injuries, misalignment, herniated discs, and more.

Common Treatments: Adjustments restore alignment to the spine, relieving tension and compressed nerves. Myofascial release relieves tightness in the fascia, the connective tissue covering your muscles, a common site of workplace injury. Therapeutic exercises relieve tension, improve blood flow, and restore range of motion while helping prevent future injuries. Lifestyle guidance on nutrition and habits at work helps prevent it happening again.

Auto Injury

Auto accidents are traumatic enough on their own. The injuries they cause can leave people suffering for months, years, or even decades. Many people don't realize they need care beyond the emergency room, since EMTs and ER staff focus on life-threatening issues, not a full musculoskeletal check-up.

Getting to the Root of the Problem: The second reason people suffer for years afterward is that traditional care often addresses only the symptoms, leaving the underlying issue in place. Chiropractic care focuses on treating the actual cause (through adjustments, physical therapy, and myofascial release) using natural methods with no medication or invasive techniques, and no risk of dependence on pain relievers or surgical recovery.

Sports Injury

Athletes of all levels can easily sustain a misalignment in the spinal column or extremities, causing pain, headaches, tension, and limited range of motion. Restoring alignment throughout the skeletal system gets to the root of the symptoms.

Myofascial Release: Fascia (the connective tissue supporting your muscles and organs) often develops tension and painful knots that restrict movement and blood flow. Myofascial release gently but effectively relieves that tension.

Therapeutic Exercises: Similar to workout exercises, but with a different focus: correcting specific problems in the musculoskeletal system, for pain relief, recovery, spinal health, and improved range of motion.

Interferential Electro-Therapy: Sends low-frequency currents into damaged soft tissue, stimulating healing, reducing muscle spasms, and releasing endorphins, a natural painkiller.

Don’t wait to get checked out.

Call Big Island Chiropractic at (808) 327-9845, or request an appointment online.