THERAPY AND REHAB

What is BrainTap?

This extensively researched light & sound technology creates a perfect symmetry of sound frequencies and light synchronization for the ultimate in binaural brainwave entrainment and relaxation. The combination helps guide your brain to a perfect balance of left/right brain synchronization and relaxed brainwave activity. In other words, BrainTap produces the relaxation response, giving your body precisely what it needs to get back in balance and reverse the effect of stress on the body.

Each session builds on the last, taking your brain waves from beta (awake, alert) to alpha (conscious, meditative) to theta (subconscious, impressionable) to delta (deep sleep).

Why BrainTap?

Referred to as “SRT”, or stress-relief therapy in our office, BrainTap is a powerfully effective brain/mind development tool designed to help you overcome the ill effects of the fight-or-flight response while achieving physical, mental and emotional balance. One of our favorite benefits to using this modality: a 20 minute session has the same effect on the brain and body as 3-4 hours of deep, restorative sleep.

What to expect:

Most sessions are about 20 minutes in length. You will be taken to a quiet area and given a headset to wear. The headset contains flashing lights in the goggles, auriculotherapy lights in the earpieces, and headphones. During the session your eyes will be closed, though you will still be able to sense the lights. One or two voices will guide you through the session. You do not need to attempt to retain information, or even listen to the words at all. Many people drift off to sleep during the process, and this is actually the goal. After a session you will wake naturally within seconds of the headset turning off, feeling alert, energized, and focused. Patients report they sleep better at night and feel less fatigued through the day.

BrainTap Benefits:

BrainTap brainwave entrainment technology, used in combination with the specially encoded Self Mastery Technology sessions, provides a variety of benefits such as:

• Access a deeper meditative state without years of disciplined practice

• Increase mental clarity of thought and develop your intuition

• Enhance sleep so you can awaken feeling rejuvenated and energized

• Reduce your stress, worry, frustration and irritability while achieving emotional stability, psychological balance, and mental harmony

• Attain the right mindset to achieve your life goals

• Overcome bad habits, fears, and phobias

• Significantly decrease negative self-talk and self-destructive impulses

• Explore and expand your self esteem awareness and higher states of consciousness

• Attract and learn how to manifest your desires

• Enhanced concentration, memory and recall

What is FSM?

FSM is a system of treatment using micro-amperage current and the resonance effect of frequencies on tissue and conditions to reduce symptoms and improve health. Microcurrent devices deliver frequencies and current in millionths of an amp and have been shown in published studies to increase energy (ATP) production in cells by 500%. Two channels are used; one channel delivers a frequency to address a specific tissue, and the other channel delivers one to neutralize a specific condition
or pathology.

What to expect:

You will have warm towels placed on your skin in the area to be treated. Wear loose clothing that can be moved, or dress in layers to allow accessibility.

Hydration is critical. Drink at least one quart of water in the hour preceding treatment. If you are chronically dehydrated, you will need to drink large amounts of water in the days before your treatments.

Microcurrent is the current in millionths of an ampere. Micro-amperage current is the same kind of current your body produces on its own so you can’t feel the current.

Conditions that can benefit from FSM:

• Achilles tendonitis
• Abdominal adhesions
• Asthma
• Bell’s Palsy
• Benign Prostate Hypertrophy (BPH)
• Bronchitis
• Carpal tunnel syndrome
• Complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS)
• Concussion
• Diabetic Neuropathy
• Emotional issues
• Endometriosis
• Fibromyalgia
• Fractures
• Goiter
• Gout
•  Headaches
• Herpes
• Interstitial Cystitis
• Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS)
• Kidney stone pain
• Low back Pain
• Liver Inflammation
•  Lymphedema
• Migraine headaches
• Muscle pain
• Myofascial pain and trigger points
• Neck pain
• Neuromuscular pain and inflammation
• Nerve pain
• Osteoarthritis
• Peripheral Neuropathy
• Post Herpetic Neuralgia
• Post-stroke thalamic pain syndrome
• Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
• Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy (RSD)
• Scar tissue
• Sciatica
• Shingles
• Shoulder Pain
• Sinusitis
• Spinal Disc Pain
• Sports injuries
• Sprains/Strains
• Temporomandibular Joint (TMJ) Pain
• Tendon & Ligament Injury
• Tension Headaches
• Tennis Elbow
• Thoracic Outlet Syndrome
• Whiplash
• Wound Healing

Kinesio Tape is a therapeutic procedure using special tape invented by Japanese chiropractor Dr. Kenzo Kase, DC. Iowa Family Chiropractic offers Kinesio Tape to help complement your chiropractic adjustment by supporting muscles and joints while removing congestion (swelling) from areas of inflammation. Kinesio tape is ideal for athletes, people with achy muscles and joints, migraine sufferers, and more. 

Kinesio Tape:

• Reduces pain by causing the body to release endorphins and encephalons (the body’s natural pain relievers)
• Helps adjustments hold by gently supporting the area
• Reduces swelling by improving lymphatic flow.
• Corrects muscle function by reducing muscle fatigue and over contraction

Electrical stimulation to the muscle also stimulates local nerve cells and can have a pain reducing/analgesic effect due to potentially blocking the transmission of the pain signals or by stimulating the release of pain reducing endorphins. It increases localized blood flow, and can help to rehab muscle tissue that has been injured.

Near-infrared (NIR) light therapy is a form of treatment that employs light and heat generated by the near infrared light to treat numerous medical conditions. For example it has been known to strengthen and intensify DNA and protein synthesis in addition to increasing cellular growth. Near-infrared light therapy, utilizes the near infrared light to increase blood perfusion, oxygen partial pressure and tissue temperature. It also hastens cell repair process by directly stimulating the mitochondria.

In near-infrared light therapy, infrared radiation is focused on the injured part of the body for a certain period of time. This brings the feeling of relief to the patient. The best thing about this treatment is that it is a simple procedure and is painless. It also gives an instant relief to the patient.

What is PEMF?

PEMF stands for Pulsed Electro-Magnetic Force. PEMF devices use electrical energy to safely direct magnetic pulses through injured tissue. Each magnetic pulse induces an electrical signal that stimulates cellular repair.

A NASA study showed that PEMF devices were ideal to stimulate cell growth, repair and healing.

PEMF Significance

Having healthy cells is not a passive process. Active, regular tuning-up of our cells is not only feasible, but also necessary to slow aging and reduce the risk of cell dysfunction. We are, after all, only as healthy as our cells. Imperceptible cell dysfunction that is not corrected early can lead to disease. Fine-tuning can be done daily in only minutes, using pulsed electromagnetic fields (PEMFs). In addition, when there is a known imbalance (when symptoms are present) or there is a known disease or condition, PEMF treatments, used either alone or along with other therapies, can often help cells rebalance dysfunction faster.

How can you use PEMF?

• Healing of damaged and inflamed tissues
• General muscular and nervous system health and function
• Stimulate the body’s natural healing processes
• Reduce stress and relax muscles
• Increase immune system function
• Reduce pain, inflammation, the effects of stress on the body, and platelet adhesion
• Improve energy, circulation, blood and tissue oxygenation, sleep quality, blood pressure and cholesterol levels, the uptake of nutrients, cellular detoxification and the ability to regenerate cells
• Balance the immune system and stimulate RNA and DNA
• Accelerate repair of bone and soft tissue

Ultrasound uses high-frequency sound waves to create deep heat within the body. This stimulates healing for acute conditions such as bursitis and tendonitis by increased blood flow to the injured area as well as decreasing pain and swelling.