Chiro-Health - Amelia Mazgaloff

Our Chiropractic services in San Francisco and San Ramon are designed with you in mind. While we treat individual areas for pain, we also work to improve your overall wellness during and after your visit with us. We pay special attention to the entire complex system of joints, muscles, and nerves in your body.

The low back can withstand tremendous forces without injury. However, if the low back is out of adjustment or has weakened supporting muscles, something as simple as taking a bag of groceries can cause a low back injury. Eighty percent of people suffer from back pain at some point in their lives. Back pain is the second most common reason for visits to the doctor's office, outnumbered only by upper-respiratory infections.

Most neck and upper back pain is caused by a combination of factors, including injury, poor posture, chiropractic subluxations, stress, and in some instances, disc problems. Most people do not realize how much they move their neck during the day until they are unable to do so. The degree of flexibility of the neck, coupled with the fact that it has the least amount of muscular stabilization and it has to support and move your 14 - 16 pound head, means that the neck is very susceptible to injury.You can picture your neck and head much like a bowling ball being held on top of a stick by small, thin, elastic bands.

The term frozen shoulder encompasses a wide variety of restrictive shoulder disorders and can also be referred to as adherent bursitis, pericapsulitis, obliterative bursitis and periarthritis. Regardless of what it is called, manipulation of the joint and physiotherapy are needed to resolve the lack of mobility.

Chiropractors will always seek to treat shoulder pain with the most gentle and drug-free methods possible. The ultimate goal of chiropractic care for shoulder pain is to bring the patient's shoulder back to full function while reducing and eliminating the pain caused by the injury. Shoulder pain can have a number of different causes, ranging from an injury like a car accident, to a chronic problem like arthritis.