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Curtis Haake D.C.
Hello – and let me introduce myself. I’m Dr. Curtis Haake D.C., and I am the owner and founder of Total Health Chiropractic Center, Walnut creek, CA. I am a Chiropractor who incorporates an online therapy program for all patients and as a separate program, an online Training Website for people to manage their exercises.
I have been practicing in Walnut Creek, CA for the past 18 years with the sole purpose to help as many people as possible restore their health naturally. So, you can live healthy-be healthy.
This website is an extension to our main office website yourwalnutcreekchiropractor.com. This website is part of our chiropractic lifestyle or chirolifeNow. I believe in the power of movement, exercise, and a healthy mindset for building and maintaining health and vitality. Google +
All current patients can login at this website or the app to view their current exercise and therapy programs free of charge, after that the website times out. If current patients like this site and all it offers with built in health coaching, then inquire at the office for the price of setting up and using the website and the accompanying app for therapy or gym training.
If non patients wish to sign up and use this website then we ask that you contact us on the first pager of this website or call out office at 925-930-7902, or email at dr.haake@gmail.com. I can then contact you for some basic intake information and health goals, then set up the website and app. The price for a 1 year program where we put your training exercises online with example diet, and health coaching feedback to questions and goals is 179.00.
Qualifications
Dr. Curtis Haake D.C. is a member of the Online Personal Training Association and licensed chiropractor specializing in therapeutic exercise and post therapy 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. Therapeutic exercise is managed by a chiropractor.
chiropractor begins therapeutic exercise by taking a medical history and evaluating a patient’s physical condition and capabilities. Based on an initial assessment, the care provider will determine a treatment plan that includes an exercise program tailored to the patient’s needs. Therapeutic exercise programs are carefully monitored and emphasize slow progression. A provider may assist the patient with some physical movements, if warranted, and will continuously modify the treatment plan according to the patient’s progress.
The first goal of any therapeutic exercise plan is to reduce pain and inflammation. Next, the goal may shift to regaining range of motion, rebuilding muscle strength, and developing endurance.
Therapeutic exercise programs may include:
- Strengthening exercises: To develop strength, the emphasis is on heavy resistance and a limited number of repetitions.
- Endurance exercises: To develop endurance, large muscle groups are engaged for a longer period of time.
- Flexibility exercises: To develop flexibility, stretching and movement are emphasized.
- Balance and coordination exercises: To develop balance and coordination, the emphasis is on center of gravity.
- Functional movement assessment: The Selective Functional Movement Assessment (SFMA) is a movement-based diagnostic system that assesses seven movement patterns. This system quickly identifies the root cause of musculoskeletal pain symptoms, allowing providers to select therapeutic exercises that will address the underlying problem.
Neuromuscular Reeducation Therapy
The American Medical Association defines neuromuscular reeducation as the use of therapeutic exercise techniques to improve impaired movement, balance, coordination, decreased kinesthetic sense, and impaired proprioception (sense of one’s location in space). Two key approaches for neuromuscular reeducation therapy are proprioceptive neuromuscular facilitation (PNF) and muscle energy techniques (MET).
Proprioceptive Neuromuscular Facilitation (PNF) retrains the nervous system in two ways. First, it stimulates proprioceptors, which are receptors in joints that relay information about the body’s position through the nervous system to the brain. Second, it uses a particular pattern of stretching to help increase movement. PNF can be a particularly effective treatment modality. Patients who are in pain are often unaware of the various ways that their bodies compensate for that pain, and these unconscious adaptations can introduce new sources of pain. The stretching patterns and sense of body positioning can help make patients aware of the unhealthy, painful postures and promote greater strength and flexibility.
Muscle Energy Techniques (MET) is a form of active resistance that involves a patient resisting a gentle force that a provider applies. Contracting muscles against the provider’s resistant involves an active, voluntary action on the part of the client that engages higher brain function. The idea behind this technique is that involvement of higher brain function empowers the client, making the patient an active part of the treatment process, which can result in changing chronic pain patterns. MET has numerous positive benefits for injured tissues. It stimulates the growth of new cells, helps realign and strengthen connective tissues, lengthens tissues if necessary, increases range of motion, and balances muscle strength across joints. Overall, it provides a gentle alternative to traditional manipulation.
Remember the chiropractic adjustments restore proper joint movement and reduce nerve irritation and soft tissue inflammation. Once the joints move more correctly then you can strengthen what is between them; muscles, nerves and ligaments. Over time the tissues will begin to heal and re-model. The muscles become stronger, the ligaments gain more elasticity and strength, and the nerves fire more completely to better control joint movement. With chiropractic care and proper exercise, you can slow down degeneration, correct and strengthen posture to Live Healthy - Be Healthy!
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