Dr. Burkholder's primary objective in practice is help to ensure that you remain healthy and able to engage in the activities you love throughout your lifetime. He specializes in the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of conditions of the spine, joints, and muscles. He works with patients of all ages. Common conditions that he treats include: back pain, neck pain, tension and migraine headache, disc problems, sciatic pain, pinched nerves, carpal tunnel syndrome, shoulder pain, tennis elbow, hip pain, knee pain, and plantar fasciitis.
Chiropractic
To be healthy, your spine, joints and muscles must be able to move normally. When they lose that ability pain, inflammation and ultimately degeneration will gradually set in. Chiropractic care helps to relieve and even prevent pain because it restores normal mobility to areas that have become stuck or misaligned. Dr. Burkholder utilizes a variety of techniques including: Activator Methods (light-force instrument), diversified (hands-on), and Thompson (drop-table assisted hands-on) among other chiropractic and manual therapy techniques to relieve/prevent pain and to restore normal mobility to the spine, joints and muscles.
Therapeutic Exercise
The second aspect of a healthy spine and joints is stability. Restricted movement leads to pain, inflammation and degeneration. Excessive movement resulting from instability can also cause pain, inflammation and degeneration. When a joint lacks stability it is more prone to injury. Moreover, the instability of the joint causes micro-injury each time that joint moves. Ultimately those little injuries can add up to a lot of pain. Therapeutic exercises strengthen and balance the muscles that stabilize your joints, resulting in a more complete and longer lasting recovery. Dr. Burkholder will teach you specific exercises that will help you to achieve a long-lasting recovery from your condition.
Physiotherapy
In some cases Dr. Burkholder will recommend other therapeutic procedures such as electric muscle stimulation, ultrasound, or traction. These therapies offer benefits for specific conditions but are typically utilized to reduce problems such as pinched nerves, inflammation or painful tightness.