Answers To Your Questions
Nagging injuries are frustrating. Nagging questions about your injury can be even more frustrating. What exactly is wrong wrong with me? Can your treatment methods help me? How long will it take to fix my problem? These are the most common questions Dr. Tarkanyi is asked. Injuries prevent training, limit our daily life and can evolve into serious injuries if not resolved completely. Answering these common questions can be quite difficult at times, because of the complexity of the human body. The honest answer sometimes is: “I don’t know." A detailed initial evaluation is just the first step to answering these questions. Each treatment session is like peeling back the layers of an onion, guiding the modification of the treatment plan to eventually expose the true cause of the injury. Below you will find a more detailed explanation of the philosophy behind how most injuries occur and how Dr. Tarkanyi diagnoses them and selects the corresponding treatments.
What exactly is wrong with me?
When determining what’s wrong with a patient, two major types of injuries are considered: acute and repetitive. An acute injury occurs after a single event such as a fall or a collision. A repetitive injury occurs over time as a result of performing the same motion repeatedly. This type of injury is what I most commonly treat. The motion can be anything—sitting at a computer, lifting heavy boxes, running, swimming etc. People usually say, “Doc, I just woke up and my neck pain started for no reason.” Generally this is an indication that a repetitive strain had been building up over a period of time. Over time repetitive forces can actually accumulate in the body and lead to the straining of muscles and ligaments, and loss of joint function. This micro-trauma is not initially painful, but may be perceived as a mild ache or tightness in the muscles or joints. Although small, this damage needs to be repaired. The body responds to tissue injury in a very predictable way—by laying down scar tissue to repair the damaged area. The scar tissue itself is not a problem; the problem occurs as the body endures the same repetitive motion day after day, which causes the same muscles to become strained and subsequently repaired over and over again. Over time this scar tissue builds up and forms an adhesion. As adhesions form, they start to affect the normal health and function of the surrounding muscles and joints, which leads to more strain on other joints and eventually spinal subluxations. This is why when someone comes in with knee pain, I may spend more time treating the hip, lower back or ankle, than I do treating the knee. The diagram below further illustrates the effects of the repetitive injury cycle.
Can Chiropractic performance solutions help? How long is it going to take?
The understanding of this cycle, and the variety of treatment methods I have available to combat this cycle allows Chiropractic Performance Solutions to get quick and accurate results for most injuries. Treatment plans vary, however, I treat most types of injuries three times a week for two weeks. After two weeks there is often a substantial change in the injury and the true biomechanical cause of the injury is identified. Most athletes then continue on a maintenance program to prevent injuries from reccurring. If after two weeks I have not identified the true cause or the treatment have not had an effect on your injury, we will discuss possible referral to another physician or further testing (MRI, CT etc.).
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Dr. Karl