Auto Accidents

Auto Accidents

When you are involved in an auto accident, physical pain can often take a back seat to the stress of dealing with insurance, taking your car to the mechanic and possibly missing work, but seeking medical attention should be a priority. Whether you feel intense pain from your accident or not, seeing a chiropractor is important for restoring your health and preventing future injury. Bezak Chriopractic and Rehabilitation specializes in helping those who have been in automobile accidents and will help you work your way back toward normalcy.

 

Auto accidents can definitely shake bodies up, and it is very likely that misalignment or an injury resulted from yours. When the body is jerked forward and backward quickly, whiplash, misalignment of the spine and tears to ligaments can occur, and if they are left untreated, these injuries can turn into chronic pain or lead to a worse injury down the line. In addition to pain, the misalignment of your spine could also lead to a loss of mobility, especially if you’re older.

 

Chiropractic can reduce pain and increase mobility after an accident. By fixing your alignment and treating the source of your injuries, your body’s total health can be restored, which can resolve accident-related issues and prevent future ones. Even if you don’t feel pain after an accident, it is still important receive treatment. If you don’t, a simple slip or fall later on could cause a great deal of pain.

 

Car accidents are never planned, but by coming to our office, you can restore your health and regain some normalcy with chiropractic. Schedule an appointment by calling 301-220-0496. For more information, visitwww.BezakChiroandRehab.com. 

Sports Injury

Sports Injury

Athletes constantly strive to better their performance, and, in the process, they push their bodies to their limits. However, even if rigorous training and strict diets help them improve their abilities, without chiropractic, an athlete cannot reach their peak physical form and may suffer injuries that will leave them on the sidelines. At Bezak Chiropractic and Rehabilitation, we help athletes recover from injuries quickly and effectively, by treating problems at the root and by ensuring that the spine and joints are in proper alignment.

 

Even with meticulous care, musculoskeletal injuries during training or play can occur. If you find yourself suffering from an injury or nagging pain, chiropractic might be the best option you can take. With the ability to treat sports injuries effectively, our doctors treat the root of the problem and not just the individual injury. Since the body is an integrated system, the misalignment of the spine or other part of the body can cause injuries to seemingly unrelated areas. By treating your entire body as a whole and paying special attention to the spine, joints, muscles, nerves and tendons, chiropractic and physical therapy can help sports injuries heal more completely and prevent further injuries down the line.

 

Chiropractic should be a vital part of an athlete’s routine to ensure that the body functions at peak levels. Whether you’re suffering from an injury or not, if you’re an athlete, schedule an appointment by calling 301-220-0496. For more information, visit www.BezakChiroandRehab.com. 

Trigger Point Therapy

Trigger Point Therapy

Trigger point therapy is a method of chiropractic treatment that is typically used on patients with pain, discomfort, tension and “knots” in specific muscle groups and nerve sites of the body. These knots are called trigger points, and they often form in overused or injured muscles. At Bezak Chiropractic and Rehabilitation this therapy is used for a variety of conditions.

 

Typically employed on patients with myofascial conditions or fibromyalgia, trigger point therapy focuses on patients’ individual trigger points, using static compression to gradually release the trigger points. Static compression involves pressure being applied in 10-second intervals to the area. This motion releases endorphins, which helps to release tension among the muscle fibers and nerves. It is a specialized technique designed to gradually release the existing trigger points and prevent the chronic tension and strain that creates these inflexible points.

 

Trigger points often present themselves with sharp pain, dull aches or sensations of pins and needs. Sometimes these points are latent and won’t be noticed until a stressor activates them. By combining chiropractic and physical therapy knowledge, our doctors are able to successfully treat and prevent painful trigger points and can help you restore your muscles to peak function. Schedule an appointment at our practice to treat and prevent these painful trigger points by calling 301-220-0496.

 

For more information, visit www.BezakChiroandRehab.com. 

Electrical Muscle Stimulation

Electrical Muscle Stimulation

Chiropractic treats the body as an integrated network of systems and aims to treat pains and illnesses at their route while promoting the overall health of the body. By correcting misalignment of the spine and joints and utilizing non-invasive treatment methods, our chiropractors at Bezak Chiropractic and Rehabilitation help the body heal from a variety of issues, including soft-tissue injuries and muscle spasms. One common method that our practice uses to achieve healing is electrical muscle stimulation.

 

Electrical muscle stimulation is an effective way to relieve pain and help the body heal. It works by sending a small electrical current into the affected muscles, which causes the brain to send a nerve impulse to the motor point of the muscles and tell it to expand and contract. The expanding and contracting leads to the release of the body’s natural pain relievers, such as endorphins, which helps reduce swelling and release trigger points that may be causing the muscles to lock up.

 

While the amount of electricity used in this method is minute, it is enough to serve as an effective therapy for treating soft tissue injuries, muscle spasms and associate pain. When combined with other chiropractic procedures, affected muscles are relaxed and returned to a natural, healthy state.

 

Schedule an appointment with Bezak Chiropractic and Rehabilitation to receive quality chiropractic care combined with physical therapy knowledge. Call 301-220-0496 to schedule. For more information, visitwww.BezakChiroandRehab.com. 

Wrist Pain

Wrist Pain

One of the most common reasons patients come see us in Greenbelt, MD is forwrist pain. This is because wrist pain can be caused by so many different things, ranging from medical conditions and injuries to simply using the hands or wrists regularly for work or sports.

 

At Bezak Chiropractic and Rehabilitation, we start with minimally invasive treatments for wrist pain, such as cortisone injections, exercise, massage, and encouraging more rest. Surgery is only recommended in severe cases. The treatment also depends on the cause of the wrist pain, as well as the severity.

 

Some of the common causes of wrist pain include:

• Overexertion or overuse
• Tendonitis
• Repetitive motion injuries
• Arthritis
•  Sprain
• Carpal tunnel syndrome
• Ganglion cyst
• Fractures

Patients should visit us for wrist pain if they are having trouble carrying objects, see a deformity of their joint, cannot flex or straighten the wrist joint, have pain that is worse at night, experience numbness, tingling, or burning, or notice swelling, warmth, redness, or inflammation in the wrist area.

 

Call our chiropractic office to schedule an appointment with Dr. Brian Bezak for a diagnosis and treatment plan for your wrist pain.

Knee Pain

Knee Pain

Because the legs are used in everyday life and the knee is such a complex joint, we see a lot of patients here at Bezak Chiropractic and Rehabilitation complaining of knee pain. While it can be more common in middle aged and senior adults, knee pain occurs at any age, and for many different reasons.

 

Knee pain also varies in severity from mild annoyance to severe and debilitating pain. Some pain in the knees is experienced only while doing certain activities, such as running or bending, while other patients have chronic and consistent pain in their knees.

 

Some things that might cause knee pain include vehicle accidents, work-related injuries, falling and having fractures, overuse or exertion, improper alignment, flat feet and lack of stability, disease, or genetic weakness of the knees. Some patients also find that they start getting pain in their knee from an old sports injury occurring 15-20 years prior.

 

Treatments for knee pain at Bezak Chiropractic and Rehabilitation start with finding the cause of the pain and treating that cause. It may be cortisone injections, therapeutic exercise and physical therapy, massage, or encouraging a change in their diet, such as increasing anti-inflammatory and antioxidant foods.

 

You don’t have to live with knee pain. Contact our chiropractor Dr. Brian Bezak in Greenbelt, MD to discuss your knee pain treatment options.

Shoulder Pain

Shoulder Pain

At Bezak Chiropractic and Rehabilitation, we provide wellness and chiropractic services for many different types of pain experienced by our patients, including pain of the shoulder. This is a very common reason patients visit us, as shoulder pain can involve the ligaments, tendons or muscles. There are also many activities that tend to cause pain in the shoulder.

 

You make a good candidate for shoulder pain treatment by our chiropractor Dr. Brian Bezak, if you are having any of the following signs:

 

1. Shoulder pain lasting several days.

2. Pain in the shoulder that is increasing in severity.

3. Shoulder pain that recurs.

4. Not being able to carry objects.

5. Lack of mobility or use of the arm.

6. Deformity of the shoulder joint.

7. Pain worsening at night or during rest.

8. Swelling or obvious inflammation of the shoulder.

9. Warmth, redness or other signs of infection.

 

Recommended treatment for shoulder pain is dependent on the cause, whether it is chronic pain, from an injury or trauma, or due to overuse or exertion. Massage, therapeutic exercises, physical therapy, and cortisone injections are all possible treatments.

 

If you are experiencing shoulder pain, call us at 301-220-0496 to schedule an appointment.