Our Services
Chiropractic Care
Our Chiropractor takes a functional and biomechanical approach to assessing, diagnosing, and managing neuromusculoskeletal conditions, ranging from back, neck pain and headache, to repetitive strain disorders from work, and acute and overuse injuries from sports training and competition.
Modern Chiropractors are not just back specialists anymore. Using various hands-on soft tissue and manual techniques, in combination with appropriate patient education and exercises, Chiropractors restore the natural function of the body to allow it heal properly, recover from injury, and improve overall health and performance. As modern Chiropractors, we combine the art and philosophy of Chiropractic practice with the latest scientific literature in Chiropractic and Sports Medicine to provide a well-rounded and evidence-based approach to correcting neuromusculoskeletal conditions.
Laser Therapy
If you have chronic or acute pain caused by disease or injury, Deep Tissue Laser Therapy could eliminate your pain and speed your healing. Canada's best class 3b Deep Tissue Laser offers advanced pain relief and promotes rapid healing through a process known as photobiostimulation. Ideal for enhanced relief of neck, lower back, wrist, knee, elbow and joint pain, muscle spasms, foot and ankle pain, post-operative recovery and sports injuries.
Dr. Benn Drysdale uses a Theralase-2000 laser; A class 3b laser that offers the best in tissue healing and response.
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People with chronic or unexplained pain generally experience true, drug-free relief with laser treatments. Research also shows laser therapy to be a remarkably effective treatment for acute and chronic wounds and sores that won't heal. The laser attacks the inflammation around wounds, while the endorphins it stimulates can help to immediately ease the pain. It's also ideal post-surgery as it will decrease pain and speed the healing process.
Shockwave Therapy
It is estimated that at least 4 million North Americans each year seek care for treatment of symptoms of tennis elbow alone, one of the more common locations for chronic tendinitis. Until recently, treatment options for chronic tendinitis have been limited to non-steroidal anti-inflammatory medications (NSAIDS) such as ibuprofen, stretching exercises and avoidance of activities that can cause pain. Occasionally, injections of corticosteroids are performed and, rarely, surgical therapy is attempted – all with the goal of reducing the patient’s pain to enable them to return to the activities and sports they love. But a newer treatment for chronic tendinitis has been developed that may bring greater relief to patients with chronic tendinitis pain. It’s called Radial Shock Wave Therapy.
Radial shock wave therapy, or RSWT, is an innovative non-surgical technique developed for the treatment of localized musculoskeletal pain. Since the early 1990s, investigators in Europe have studied the use of shock waves for the treatment of painful musculoskeletal disorders. Initially, treatments were administered with modified kidney stone lithotripters. This was cumbersome, since the devices were not designed for use in the arms and legs. In addition, the very high-energy shock waves produced by these devices caused the patients such pain that administration of an anesthetic was necessary to accomplish the treatment.It soon became apparent that treatment with lower energy shock waves was also effective in the treatment of musculoskeletal pain. These findings led to the development of low-energy RSWT machines designed specifically for use in the arms and legs to treat chronic localized musculoskeletal pain such as that associated with chronic tendonitis. During the olympic games in Sydney and Atlanta the german athletes had the opportunity to be treated with this special therapy. Radial Shock Wave Therapy (RSWT) uses an electromagnetic generator to physically deliver the shock wave to the skin, and from there it passes into the body. It is perhaps most analogous to a tiny pneumatic jackhammer striking the skin to create the shock wave.