Treatment Modalities

Many people think that chiropractors simply adjust the spinal column, but we do much more than that. For example, with the assistance of modern technology, Dr. Trumps can deliver gentle adjustments to any joint in your body, even if your body's injured and in pain.

Other services and techniques provide supplemental support, by preparing your body to receive an adjustment, by helping to maintain the benefits of your adjustment and by teaching you new ways to take care of yourself, for improved health and well-being.  Below are brief descriptions of most of our treatment modalities:

• For Your Body

• For Your Mind

• For Your Spine
  
  

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For Your Body

Myo-Fascial Release

Slower light or deep massage that mobilizes restrictions in the soft tissue, provides pain relief and relaxation, and improves structural balance and movement.

Active Release Technique (ART)

Movement-based soft tissue re-education for problems with muscles, tendons, ligaments, fascia and nerves.

Rain Drop Therapy

Pressure point and massage therapy with antimicrobial essential oils, dispensed like little drops of rain from a height of about 6 inches, then massaged in, to reduce inflammation and bring your body into structural and electrical alignment.

Therapeutic Exercise

Recommended activities that are based on your specific health needs, in an effort to improve your current status to the state of wellness you experienced, prior to a medical problem.

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For Your Mind

Activities of Daily Living

Instruction designed to improve your quality of life, following ongoing assessment of your capacity, rhythm and patterns in the performance of daily tasks - at play, at work and at leisure.

Instruction in Nutrition

Information about foods recognized to be inflammatory, or problem-causing in other ways, and alternate foods that may help you move toward your wellness goals.

Attitude Adjustments

We help you put your condition into perspective, to gain a sense of empowerment, feeling capable of changing your condition to one of well being.

Listening Program

In 1991, Dr. Trumps was trained in the use of the Tomatis Method by its inventor, Dr. Alfred Tomatis, and is the only American chiropractor trained in the use of this unique tool.  For nearly 20 years, she has included this Method in her work and has helped many people from the Greater New Orleans Area and around the world.

The Tomatis Method is well known for its ability to help people with sensory integration and auditory processing problems, and can also: 

•         reduce your stress and improve your peace of mind 
•         improve your learning skills and your memory
•         improve your enjoyment when you read and your ability to sing in tune

This amazing program has its own website page, to tell you more about it.  Click on Listening Program at the Services tab, top of the page.

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For Your Spine (& Other Joints)

Cranial Sacral Therapy (CST)

A form of gentle massage that reduces the stress that pain and spinal fixations put on your nervous system. It induces a restful state that can reduce the frequency and severity of headaches, improve mobility and deepen a sense of your well being.

Neuro-Muscular Technique

Massage technique specifically designed to reduce muscular pain and improve circulation, so that a muscle tendon can smoothly and easily move the bones of a joint.

Manual or Mechanical Traction

Manual or mechanical stretching of tight spinal muscles resulting from spasm, to relieve nerve root impingement and allow for greater ease of movement in a constricted joint.

Electrical Stimulation

Muscles are like pulleys that contract and relax to move a joint. By providing the right kind of stimulation, the doctor helps a muscle do its work. Electrical stimulation can:

• help contract overstretched muscles, so they can move the bones of a joint together
• coax bunched up muscles to relax and elongate, so the body can stretch out straight

Activator Method Chiropractic Adjustments

A chiropractic Activator is a small, hand-held instrument, designed as a specific alternative to techniques that other chiropractors use to manipulate the spine. The Activator has a small rubber foot with an adjustable spring tensioner to pre-set an applied force. When released, it delivers a gentle, controlled “thump" that's designed to restore natural motion to the area it’s in contact with. This Activator "thump" can be used to correct every joint in the body - including ribs and jaws and fingers and toes. The Activator’s low-force thrust is comfortable for patients of all ages, including infants. In fact, adjustments with the Activator are so quick and measured, the body’s muscles are less likely to resist, allowing for a more precise and accurate chiropractic adjustment.

Chiropractors must attend annual continuing education seminars on the use of the Activator, and are tested and certified in the use of the Activator and proficiency rated for its use. Dr. Trumps is Advanced Proficiency Rated, the highest level attainable.

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