Chiropractic Therapy — How It Works & What It Treats
Also known as Chiropractic Therapy. What Chiropractic Therapy is, how it works and what it treats — explained by CB Physiotherapy's clinical team.
How Chiropractic Therapy works
Chiropractic Therapy is one of the treatment approaches our physiotherapists draw on — always as part of an assessment-led plan, never as a standalone fix.
What makes any therapy work is the decision-making around it: whether it fits your diagnosis, at what dose, and combined with what. At CB Physiotherapy, Chiropractic Therapy is prescribed after a movement assessment and paired with active rehabilitation, because passive treatment alone rarely produces lasting change.
Chiropractic Therapy — techniques & equipment
What the treatment actually involves — your plan combines the pieces your assessment calls for.
Assessment before application
Your physiotherapist first confirms Chiropractic Therapy suits your diagnosis — and screens for anything that rules it out.
Targeted application
The treatment is applied to the specific structures your assessment identified, at a dose set for your case.
Paired with active rehab
Exercise and movement retraining run alongside, so the gains each session makes are kept.
Reviewed and progressed
Your response is checked every session; the plan is adjusted rather than repeated on autopilot.
Conditions Chiropractic Therapy treats
Where it fits best — your assessment confirms whether it belongs in your plan.
- ✓ Cervical Spondylosis →
- ✓ Frozen Shoulder →
- ✓ Arthritis →
- ✓ Osteoarthritis →
- ✓ Plantar Fasciitis →
- ✓ Spinal Stenosis →
- ✓ Pain or stiffness that has not settled with rest
- ✓ As part of a wider, assessment-led recovery plan
- ✓ When your assessment identifies the specific problem Chiropractic Therapy addresses
What a Chiropractic Therapy session looks like
Step by step — from screening to treatment to what comes next.
Screening and consent
A quick reassessment and safety screen — you will know what the session involves and why before it starts.
The treatment itself
Chiropractic Therapy applied to the targeted area — most patients find sessions comfortable, and you can speak up at any point.
Active follow-through
Exercise or movement work right after, while the treatment effect is fresh.
Response check
What changed and for how long — the answer shapes your next session and the plan.
Benefits of Chiropractic Therapy
- ✓ Dosed to your case after a proper assessment
- ✓ Always combined with active rehab, for results that last
- ✓ Available at CB clinics near you — and at home where equipment allows
- ✓ Drug-free support for pain relief and recovery
- ✓ Delivered by certified physiotherapists, never unsupervised
Safety & contraindications
How CB Physiotherapy delivers Chiropractic Therapy
You will not walk into CB Physiotherapy and simply receive Chiropractic Therapy — you will receive an assessment, and Chiropractic Therapy if your case calls for it. That order matters: it is how we make sure every session moves you towards a goal rather than just filling a slot.
Your plan runs on Fizo IQ™ — diagnosis, root cause, milestones, goals — and Chiropractic Therapy is combined with hands-on care and exercise as indicated, at a clinic near you or at home where the equipment allows.
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Chiropractic Therapy is a hands-on technique that focuses on the diagnosis and treatment of Neuromuscular disorders through manual adjustment and manipulation of the spine. This therapy focuses on the structures of the body, especially the spine. Chiropractors usually manipulate the body's alignment to relieve pain, improve function and help the body heal itself.
The main focus of chiropractic therapy is spinal manipulation, it also includes other treatments like manipulative therapies, postural exercises, ergonomic training, and patient education. Chiropractors can treat pain anywhere in the body such as the head and jaws, shoulders, elbows and wrists, hips, pelvis, knees, and ankles.
This method is primarily used as a pain relief alternative for muscles, cartilages, ligaments, tendons, joints, and bones. Chiropractic therapy is also sometimes used in conjunction with conventional medical treatment.
Chiropractic therapy usually involves the treatment through the following methods:
Spinal Manipulation and Manual Manipulation: This type of technique involves high velocity, short lever arm thrust that is applied to the abnormal parts of the body to improve functionality, reduce nerve irritability, and restore range of motion. Chiropractic therapy is also commonly known as Chiropractic Adjustment.
Mobilization: It involves low-velocity manipulation, movement, and stretching of the muscles and joints, to increase the range of motion within the affected area.
The chiropractor goes through the medical history and examines the individual physically. He might also ask a few questions and might go through other lab tests such as X-rays and more. After all the investigations the chiropractor determines if an individual should undergo chiropractic therapy.
During the treatment session, one or more adjustments might be done. Adjustments are also called manipulations. The therapy is done manually, i.e. by hand. The adjustments are done to increase the range of motion and to improve the quality of the area being treated.
Apart from manipulation, chiropractors may use other treatments such as mobilization, massage, modalities like ice therapy, heat therapy, and electric stimulation.
- Improves neck pain.
- Reduces blood pressure.
- Decreases inflammation.
- Reduces back pain
- Reduces scoliosis symptoms.
- Improves posture.
- Reduction of osteoarthritis symptoms.
- Eases headache symptoms.
A chiropractor treats various spinal disorders that cause musculoskeletal or nerve pain. The problems evaluated and treated by chiropractic care are:
· Back sprains and strains.
· Cervicogenic headaches.
· Sciatica.
· Herniated disc.
· Degenerative disc.
· Spondylosis.
· Myofascial pain.
· Coccydynia.
· Spinal osteoarthritis.
· Subluxation
· Fibromyalgia.
· Myofascial pain.
· Plantar fasciitis.
· Sports Injuries
An individual diagnosed with the following conditions should consult the doctor before undergoing chiropractic therapy. An individual on anticoagulants may have a higher risk of stroke caused by the manipulation of the spine.
· Weak bones.
· Osteoporosis from breast cancer.
· During chiropractic therapy after breast cancer, the chiropractor has to be extra cautious with the adjustments near the area where the surgery is done.
Chiropractic treatment usually does not have any severe side effects. Some side effects may include:
· Temporary discomfort.
· Fatigue.
· Dizziness.
· Headache.
These side effects go away in 1 or 2 days.
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