Merrifield Chiropractic Center, Inc

Chiropractic Sports Medicine

Merrifield Chiropractic Center, Inc is a Chiropractic Sports Medicine practice in Fairfax, VA with healthcare providers who have special training and skill in preventing and treating musculoskeletal, joint, and spinal athletic injuries. Sports Medicine Chiropractors at Merrifield Chiropractic Center, Inc perform pain and mobility assessment, treatment plan development, and mobility restoration treatment. Chiropractic Sports Medicine is a medical specialty focused on preventing and treating injuries typically occurring during athletics like football, baseball, basketball, and soccer. Significant diseases and conditions treated at Chiropractic Sports Medicine practices include muscle sprain, torn ACL, chronic joint and back pain, spinal disc pain, disc herniation, hamstring injury, knee injury, and nerve dysfunction. Medical tests, procedures and therapies provided by Chiropractic Sports Medicine practices include diagnostic imaging like x-ray, MRI, and CT scan, pain and mobility assessment, spinal manipulation, inflammation reduction techniques, medical massage, acupuncture, physical therapy rehabilitation, spa therapy, nerve pain block injections, and referral to other specialists as needed.

A sports chiropractor is uniquely trained to provide care and treatment of injuries or illness resulting from sports and physical fitness activities. Doctors of Chiropractic with the Diplomate American Chiropractic Board of Sports Physicians (DACBSP) or the Certified Chiropractic Sports Physician (CCSP), sport specialty certifications from the American Chiropractic Board of Sports Physicians, have advanced training in the assessment, management and rehabilitation of sports related injuries. Extremity care, rehabilitation and soft tissue procedures are common skills utilized by these doctors. The specialty training covers a broad spectrum from the pediatric athlete to professional and Olympic athletes, and everything in between, using a variety of techniques and modalities.

Nurse Practitioner

A registered nurse provider with a graduate degree in nursing prepared for advanced practice involving independent and interdependent decision making and direct accountability for clinical judgment across the health care continuum or in a certified specialty. (2) A registered nurse who has completed additional training beyond basic nursing education and who provides primary health care services in accordance with state nurse practice laws or statutes. Tasks performed by nurse practitioners vary with practice requirements mandated by geographic, political, economic, and social factors. Nurse practitioner specialists include, but are not limited to, family nurse practitioners, gerontological nurse practitioners, pediatric nurse practitioners, obstetric-gynecologic nurse practitioners, and school nurse practitioners.