Services & Techniques
Maritime Chiropractic offers comprehensive chiropractic services. Our dedicated team of professionals has served the community since 1990, providing our patients with the best tools available to ensure healthy, pain-free living. When you come in to see your Gig Harbor chiropractor, Dr. John Duppenthaler, you will always receive a detailed examination and then a customized treatment plan for your needs. Serving Gig Harbor and the greater Key Peninsula area, you can depend on us for many services including the following.
Chiropractic Care
Chiropractic care is at the heart of our practice. To create improvements to the alignment of your spine, we use state-of-the-art techniques and traditional chiropractic adjustments. With a focus on the most advanced methods possible, we’re able to safely, comfortably restore proper function of your spinal column and reduce your pain.
Class IV Laser Therapy
Laser therapy is a safe, pain-free treatment that only takes 10 minutes per visit. Laser Therapy does not require the use of drugs or surgery, and there are no side effects or risks that may occur with other forms of treatment. In addition, it can often achieve results faster and better than other treatment modalities. Many conditions show signs of improvement in even the first or second treatments.
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Spinal Decompression
Many of our patients struggle with herniated discs or back-related pain. This is often due to a compression of the fluid-filled discs located in the spinal column. When this compression occurs, it causes your nerves to send pain signals to the brain. It limits your movement and quality of life. Spinal decompression helps to restore the proper spacing in your spinal column, reducing the amount of pressure on each of those discs.
Additional Chiropractic Care and Advanced Therapies Provided
Chiropractic care is not just about adjustments. Our team offers a wide range of complimentary services to improve your whole body’s health. This includes providing corrective exercises to ensure your body is moving properly. We offer lifestyle advice and nutritional counseling services as well. We even offer whole food products to help encourage you to give your body the highest quality of nutrition possible. Our chiropractic team will offer a treatment plan that includes those services that can enhance your quality of life and improve your overall pain level.
Conditions Treated
Back pain
Back pain may be caused by chronic spinal misalignment, degenerative issues such as bulging discs or arthritis, and acute injuries that strain muscles and herniate discs. We can provide natural back pain relief through chiropractic adjustments to realign the spine, spinal decompression to bring discs back into position, and laser therapy to soothe and rehabilitate injured back muscles.
Neck pain
Many of the same issues that can afflict the back can occur in the cervical spinal column and muscles of the neck. Our non-surgical techniques can relieve pinched nerves, joint pain, and neck stiffness.
Headaches and migraines
Headaches and migraines can both be set off my muscle tension in the neck, although migraines can also be triggered by a variety of other environmental and biochemical issues. Chiropractic care can undo the neck tension that causes most chronic headaches. Chiropractic adjustments are also capable of reducing migraine pain and frequency.
Neuropathy
The pain, tingling, numbness, and weakness of neuropathy may be related to nerve impingement, nerve damage or even toxins. Once we’ve isolated the cause of your neuropathy, we may prescribe spinal adjustments, spinal decompression, nutritional/lifestyle changes or laser therapy (which can help accelerate nerve repair).
Sciatica
Sciatica occurs when the nerve roots connecting the leg’s sciatic nerve to the spine become pinched, usually by a herniated disc or other nearby abnormality. We can relieve your nagging low back pain and leg symptoms without drugs or surgery.
Auto injuries and whiplash
Auto injuries can afflict you with everything from soft tissue strains and sprains to pinched nerves and vertebral misalignment. You may also experience whiplash in the neck due to the sharp “whipping” of your head on impact. We can come up with a personalized holistic healing and pain relief program that addresses all of these injuries.
Work injuries
Work injuries may be sudden and acute, as in a herniated disc or pulled back muscle, or subtle and chronic, as in repetitive motion strains and “text neck” from incorrect head/neck posture. Our Injury Recovery Evaluation can start you back on the path to healing.
Extremity conditions
In addition to spinal corrections, we can adjust extremities and prescribe all-natural treatment for plantar fasciitis, heel spurs, carpal tunnel syndrome and more.
