Chiropractic Services
Through Live Well Chiropractic I offer natural health care services that strengthen the body and encourage an active lifestyle. Treatment is tailored to the individual and seeks to identify the root cause of musculoskeletal pain.
As a Certified Chiropractic Sports physician, I help clients with muscle, tissue, joint, nutrition, and fitness concerns. I work with people who are tired of long-term treatment plans and ready to take charge of your health by making proactive changes. My sessions can be tailored to men and women of all ages, but I particularly enjoy working with moms and athletes. I am also Webster certified which is an adjustment protocol specifically tailored for pregnant women.
Throughout treatment, I equip my clients with the knowledge and skills you need to manage their pain on their own. Some patients will benefit from a 4-8 week maintenance plan, but others can get by without it if they do their homework!
Chiropractic adjustments
Chiropractic adjustments restore normal motion to joints that are restricted (stuck) either through hands-on adjustments, activator, or gentle mobilizations. An adjustment can alleviate pain and restore motion in areas where postural correction and exercises alone may not do the trick. When you are stuck or restricted in one area of the spine or extremities, other joints nearby make up for this and become hypermobile. Hypermobility can lead to more degeneration in hypermobile joints. This is another reason why adjustments/mobilizations can be very beneficial to patients.
Postpartum Rehab
Infants and postpartum women have the SAME needs. Babies are born with NO bowel/bladder control and a DIASTASIS RECTI. Yes, you heard that right. Mommas, this is why Postpartum care after EACH baby is a MUST. After having her own baby’s (two boys under two), Dr. Kelli uses a research-based approach to prenatal prehab/postpartum rehab was what allowed her to connect with her new body and understand the beautiful unique changes that occur through conception to postpartum. She utilizes a DNS, which can reboot our nervous system after babies. DNS is the best way we can treat mom pee and Diastasis recti because we start doing very basic foundational movements we all did as babies with whole body movements and utilization of breath. Babies naturally treat their own diastasis recti and bowel/bladder innately with these hardwired movement patterns, just a little slower as they are doing it for the first time. After mastering and restoring the foundational movements, we can transition you into the more advanced training.
Functional dry needling
Trigger Point Dry Needling is an effective treatment for acute and chronic pain, injury rehabilitation, and injury prevention. It has also been shown to lower inflammation.
This therapeutic technique uses dry acupuncture needles to treat tight muscles that are affecting other areas of the body. By advancing a needle through a trigger point, scar tissue, or dysfunctional tissue, Dr. Kelli is able to correct muscle action and remove unnecessary strain and pain.
Dr. Kelli has completed specialized training in Kinetacore Functional Dry Needling.
Soft tissue therapy
Soft tissue therapy can treat a wide number of ailments, such as backaches, carpal tunnel syndrome, headaches, shin splints, plantar fasciitis, knee issues, tennis elbow, shoulder pains and more.
Dr. Kelli has been extensively trained in Active Release Technique, Graston, Functional and Kinetic Treatment with Rehab, Cupping, Functional Dry Needling, and Post Isometric Rehabilitation. These soft tissue therapies address issues/pain within the muscles, tendons, ligaments, nerves, and fascia in different ways. All these therapies have proven to offer quicker healing as patients recover – and maintain – full body motions. These therapies are effective for patients with acute and chronic conditions.
You may have scar tissue caused by repetitive micro tears or injuries that have caused you to have pain. Postural imbalances and repetitive motions can also lead to certain muscle groups over working. When big muscle groups take over and/or core and glutes are not doing their job. This can create problems at the joint whether it be restrictions that need adjustments or instability that needs rehabilitation. Manual therapies can help to reduce the tension or break up scar tissue.
rehabilitation
Functional rehab is for you if you are looking to decrease pain, live better, or preform better. Anyone can benefit from Functional rehabilitation. I combine different science based rehab methods including Pilates, DNS, and BIRTHFIT to create a treatment plan that is based on your unique needs and goals. We want you to reach these goals and address these activity limitations you may have giving you a strategy to use moving forward.
Pilates
If taught correctly, Pilates can very effectively engage/retrain the core and glute muscles. Pilates takes it back to the basics of breathing and posture. If breath and posture are correct performance/movement will excel. At Live Well, we use Pilates more in a rehab setting. Because we use an integrated rehab approach combining multiple therapies, we do not teach actual Pilates specific workout classes, but during your treatment plan, we will give you specific exercises that will apply to your unique goals and needs. This does not mean that you won’t get your sweat on… My patients can attest to this! We can make most people you sweat in less than 5 minutes! For a great Pilates workout, be sure to check out Hilary at Little Apple Pilates. You won’t be disappointed!