Chiropractic is part of a larger field, known as "Manual Medicine." As such, we use many techniques outside the body to affect the inside of the body.

Some of the techniques I use in my clinic are Matrix Repatterning, Instrument-Assisted Soft-Tissue Mobilization, Chiropractic Manipulative Therapy, Neuromuscular Reeducation ("NMR"), Graston Technique, Physiotherapy and Rehabilitative therapy.

The most exciting new technique that I am able to offer is Collateral Meridian Therapy, ("CMT") This remarkable therapy was developed by Dr. Shan- Chi Ko, an M.D. who has practised Anesthesiology in Japan for 30 years. Disappointed with results for chronic pain patients, he sought to improve effectiveness with acupuncture. That therapy also proved disappointing. By analysis and insight, Dr. Ko discovered how to combine acupuncture meridians (the collateral meridians) to achieve dramatic relief for his patients with intractable pain. His results for thousands of patients have been so remarkable, in fact, that over 1,000 physicians in Taiwan have sought and obtained in Dr. Ko's method of Two-point Acupressure, known as Enrac Ko Medicine. In 2006 Dr. Ko was invited to teach the first of several seminars in Enrac Ko Medicine to physicians at Duke University Medical Center.

I'm very pleased to announce that I have obtained certification as a practitioner of Enrac Ko Medicine, one of only eight physicians so recognised in the United States

The science behind these therapies is very well-supported. If you follow the links below, you will find studies published in the most-respected peer-reviewed scientific and medical journals, such as Spine and the AMA's Annals of Internal Medicine.

Today, extremely exciting research is showing the inseparable nature of structure and function throughout the body. It's known as "Biotensegrity," and it's how all living things are structured, even biological molecules such as DNA and proteins. Moreover, the body is an architectural structure, a fabric, even a liquid crystal. As odd as this sounds, it's the first reasonable explanation of how our frictionless joints and small muscles can manage the crushing forces of leverage in our bodies. (If you'd like to know more about biotensegrity, start by reading this article from Scientific American)

I tell you all this to explain why no chiropractic physician, (or any physician, for that matter,) can look for the source of dysfunction only in the spine. In fact, the source of someone's pain or dysfunction is very likely to be found in a place far away from the painful part.

Very often, both my patients and I are surprised how well and how quickly these therapies work. Sometimes, patients who have not benefited from other therapies gain dramatic relief in just a few treatment sessions.