Integrated Spine Care

The Institute for Athletic Medicine combines chiropractic care with physical therapy to teach you how to strengthen your body and maintain the corrections provided through chiropractic. By getting you involved in your own healing, IAM helps you learn how to prevent injury. Most patients complete their chiropractic care in four to five visits.

Chiropractic care seeks to restore mobility and maintain normal function of the spine, head to tail. Chiropractors use hands on manipulation to reduce pain and inflammation in such areas as the back and neck, restoring range of motion and stretching muscles, ligaments and tendons. Treatment includes exercise, massage and self-care strategies.

Physical therapy is used to help people return to work and play after an injury, surgery or illness. Hands on treatment by a physical therapist may include massage, myofascial release, muscle and joint manipulation and exercise helps to reduce pain, improve fitness, strength and flexibility.

Our physical therapists and chiropractors work together with physicians to create a treatment plan to:

• evaluate acute and chronic muscle and joint conditions
• reduce inflammation and pain
• restore posture and balance to muscles and joints
• improve circulation and stretch tight muscles, ligaments
• promote muscle strengthening, endurance and flexibility
• teach proper body mechanics and self-care to prevent re-injury

Contact Us
For more information or an appointment with our spine care team, call 612-672-7100. Chiropractors see patients at these Institute for Athletic Medicine clinics: Apple Valley; Eden Prairie; Eagan; Robbinsdale, St. Paul; and Minneapolis-Uptown.

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