Tailored to each individual.
Dr. AXT practices traditional chiropractic utilizing multiple techniques.
Address
1875 Old Alabama Road
Suite 1130
Roswell GA 30076
USA
Chiropractic Services
Full Spine Techniques
Spine and joint manipulations that facilitate and restore proper joint mechanics to ease tension on muscles and joints allowing them to function without pain.
Thompson Drop Technique
A gentler way of adjusting that does not involve audible joint mobilization. Achieves similar results as Full spine Technique.
Extremity Adjusting
Utilizes kinesiology muscle testing to detect and correct dysfunction in the shoulders, elbows, arms, hands, hips, knees, legs, ankles, feet, and jaw.
Activator Adjusting Instrument
An extremely low force gentle form of adjusting. Mainly used on people unable to tolerate other forms of adjusting such as infants and those with advanced osteoporosis. Also utilized when patients come in with extreme inflammation from injuries sustained in car accidents or bad falls.
Toggle Recoil
A form of adjusting upper cervical (neck) segments with extremely low force and very specific direction. Utilized in our practice when other forms of adjustments are unable to be tolerated.
Flexion Distraction Technique
Used to treat conditions of the lumbar spine (low back). The technique is gentle and uses a non-forced procedure to take pressure off the spinal nerves that may be injured from a bulging or herniated disc. Often performed in conjunction with other techniques.
Physical Therapy Services
Graston Technique
Often, patients with soft-tissue injuries (***what are soft tissue injuries?) do not seek out proper treatment until the injuries have become chronic (weeks/months after injury). By this point, the body has completed most of its self-healing process. Scar tissue and adhesions are formed during this healing process, which limits motion and often causes pain.
Scar tissue and adhesions essentially act like super glue in your body. When scar tissue is created after injury, new cells are laid down excessively and in a disorganized manner. Scar tissue/adhesions prevent the muscle or other tissues from lengthening appropriately.
It is often necessary for the practitioner to restart the healing process in order to remodel the soft tissues in the affected area. By introducing controlled micro-trauma to affected soft tissue using IASTM, a local inflammatory response is stimulated. This micro-trauma initiates reabsorption of inappropriate or excessive scar tissue and facilitates a remodeling of the affected soft-tissue structures.
After IASTM treatment, scar tissue can be remodeled so that the cells become organized in a direction that better promotes movement. Studies have shown clinical benefits of IASTM with improvements in range of motion, strength and pain perception following treatment.
E-Stim
This machine generates electric impulses that stimulate your skeletal muscles to contract. Depending on the device’s program setting, the contractions may be barely noticeable or they may feel, and look, like involuntary twitches.
The primary purpose of e-stim therapy is to simulate what happens in the body when you voluntarily contract and release a muscle many times in a row. This process strengthens and repairs tissue, particularly muscles which have become shortened, weakened, or atrophied due to injury or disease. For example:
- If you’ve torn an achilles tendon, the muscles in your calf and foot may become atrophied from wearing a boot to immobilize the ankle, or from changing your gait to favor the injured ankle.
- If you have a shoulder injury (e.g., a rotator cuff tear or impingement), resting, immobilizing, or favoring the shoulder may cause the muscles in and around that shoulder to weaken.
- If you have neuromuscular dysfunction or a neuromuscular disorder (such as muscular dystrophy), muscles throughout the body may weaken progressively; e-stim can help to slow this progression and improve motor control.
Therapeutic Exercise
Therapeutic exercise refers to a range of physical activities that helps restore and build physical strength, endurance, flexibility, balance, and stability. The goal of therapeutic exercise is returning an injured person to a pain-free, fully functioning state.
Active Release Technique (A.R.T.)
Similar in nature to Graston. ART is generally performed with a direct contact from the doctor to the patient’s skin. The practitioner will find the area to be worked on and either have the patient actively move a body part or passively move the body part for the patient. The practitioner’s contact, coupled with the movement of the patient, allows the adhesions to separate.
Dr. Michael Axt
Dr. Axt has been practicing chiropractic since 2011. He has become proficient at helping people become pain free by blending various chiropractic, physical therapy, exercise, and massage techniques.
Dr. Axt understands that each person is unique and that there is no cookie cutter approach to providing the care they may need. His attention to detail and personalized approach are designed to get you back to doing the activities you love as quickly as possible.
I believe that everyone has the potential to lead full, healthy, and active lifestyles free of pain”
Dr. William Brooks
Dr. William Brooks has been in private and group practice in the Atlanta metro area since graduating from Life University in 1984.
Dr. Brooks specializes in full spine, shoulder, knee and ankle adjusting. Dr. Brooks believes in the concept that in the spine, everything affects everything so he strives to achieve total spinal balance with each adjustment allowing for much more satisfactory outcomes for patients relieving symptoms and improving overall flexibility in the body for the longer term.
When not practicing, Dr. Brooks enjoys being with his wife and 3 children, and recent grandchild.
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