Chiropractic Care

Chiropractors focus on your musculoskeletal (MSK) system and treat the bones, muscles, cartilage, tendons, ligaments, joints and connective tissues that you use every day. The MSK system supports your weight, provides physical stability, enables you to move your body, and protects your vital organs. Your MSK system connects directly to other vital systems in your body, which is why medical professionals, researchers and the health community at large trust the spine care expertise of chiropractors to assess, diagnose and treat musculoskeletal conditions.

Specific training in spinal (SMT) and extremity manipulative therapy allows chiropractors to provide adjustments using highly-skilled and precise movements to the vertebrae of the spine and the joints of the upper and lower extremities, correcting joint motion to restore proper movement and improve function.

At Winnipeg Spine and Sports Therapy, Dr. Holliday utilizes only evidence-based manual therapy techniques.

Active Release Techniques / A.R.T.

Active Release Techniques / A.R.T. is a patented, state of the art soft tissue system/movement based massage technique that treats problems with muscles, tendons, ligaments, fascia and nerves. Headaches, back pain, carpal tunnel syndrome, shin splints, shoulder pain, sciatica, plantar fasciitis, knee problems, and tennis elbow are just a few of the many conditions that can be resolved quickly and permanently with ART. These conditions all have one important thing in common; they are often a result of overused muscles.

Every ART session is actually a combination of examination and treatment. We utilize a number of functional and diagnostic tests along with our hands to evaluate the texture, tightness and movement of muscles, fascia, tendons, ligaments and nerves. Abnormal tissues are treated by combining precisely directed tension with very specific patient movements.

These treatment protocols - over 500 specific moves - are unique to ART. They allow us to identify and correct the specific problems that are affecting each individual patient.

Dr. Jeff Holliday is Full Body ART Certified.

Flexion-Distraction Technique

Flexion-Distraction, is a gen­tle, chi­ro­prac­tic pro­ce­dure often uti­lized for lower back pain. The doc­tor is in con­trol of the treat­ment move­ments at all times, employing a specific chiropractic table to achieve the desired result. Flexion-Distraction is uti­lized for many con­di­tions includ­ing: low back pain, lumbar disc bulging and her­ni­a­tion, sci­at­ica, lumbar spinal steno­sis, spondy­loles­the­sis and tran­si­tional seg­ment dys­func­tion.

Flexion-Distraction works to increase the inter­ver­te­bral disc height by remov­ing tension on the spinal nerve roots and annu­lar fibres in our discs, thereby improv­ing spac­ing and increas­ing cir­cu­la­tion. Prop­erly applied Flexion-Distraction stretches the lig­a­men­tum flavum, reduc­ing steno­sis and opens the zygapophy­seal (facet) joints to reduce pos­te­rior disc stress. Flexion-Distraction improves pos­ture and loco­mo­tion while reliev­ing pain.

Dr. Jeff Holliday has extensive training and clinical experience of the Flexion-Distraction Technique.

Therapeutic Exercise & Injury Rehabilitation

Regular exercise is an important part of life. Exercise keeps us healthy. When an active individual suffers an injury, our body requires a specific exercise program of re-introduction and re-education for the affected soft tissues and skeletal structures to return from injury and optimize performance.

As part of your complete care, you will be prescribed a Therapeutic Exercise program to address your individual needs. These exercises may be done in the clinic or at home, in the gym or at the pool. Evidence indicates that adherence to a therapeutic exercise program can dramatically improve recovery and speed up return-to-activity.

Benefits of therapeutic exercise include:

• Improved range of motion

• Correcting muscle imbalance

• Reduced postural strain

• Reduced soft tissue tension

• Improved elasticity of soft tissue

• Reduced pain

• Accelerated healing

• Increased strength of soft tissues

Shockwave Therapy

The high-energy acoustic pulses produced by our Extracorporeal Shockwave Unit improves the metabolism in the pain region, increases blood circulation and  effectively stimulates the body’s intrinsic repair mechanisms. Damaged tissue gradually regenerates and eventually heals. In other words, Shockwave Therapy is all about activating the body’s self-healing abilities.

Shockwave Therapy effectively treats the following conditions:

• Feet - heel spurs, plantar fasciitis, achilles tendonitis

• Elbow – tennis and golfers elbow

• Shoulder - calcific tendinosis of rotator cuff muscles

• Knee - patellar tendonitis

• Hip – bursitis

• Lower Leg - shin splints

• Upper Leg - Iliotibial band friction syndrome

• Back Pain - lumbar and cervical spine regions and chronic muscular pain

Dr. Jeff Holliday has extensive practical experience of Shockwave Therapy for chronic musculoskeletal pain.

Instrument-Assisted Soft Tissue Managment / Graston Technique

IASTM techniques provide an effective complement to manual soft tissue mobilizations. These techniques utilize custom stainless steel instruments to assist in soft tissue therapy.

IASTM is not aggressive and does not cause excessive tissue damage. It is readily integrated into other manual therapy techniques to provide safe, effective soft tissue treatment and mobilization.

Dr. Jeff Holliday has extensive practical knowledge of Instrument-Assisted Soft Tissue Management.