Integrative Wellness Associates

Physical Therapy Clinic

An entity, facility, or distinct part of a facility providing diagnostic and treatment services related to physical rehabilitation. Physical therapy is a dynamic profession with an established theoretical and scientific base and widespread clinical applications in the restoration, maintenance, and promotion of optimal physical function. Physical therapists and physical therapist assistants are licensed health care professionals who are experts in the movement system and help individuals maintain, restore, and improve movement, activity, and functioning, thereby enabling optimal performance and enhancing health, well-being, and quality of life. Their services prevent, minimize, or eliminate impairments of body functions and structures, activity limitations, and participation restrictions. Physical therapy is provided for individuals of all ages who have or may develop impairments, activity limitations, and participation restrictions related to (1) conditions of the musculoskeletal, neuromuscular, cardiovascular, pulmonary, and/or integumentary systems or (2) the negative effects attributable to unique personal and environmental factors as they relate to human performance.

Chiropractic Orthopedics

Integrative Wellness Associates is a Chiropractic Orthopedics practice in Stroudsburg, PA with healthcare providers who have special training and skill in applying chiropractic healing methods to disorders or dysfunctions of the neck, spine, musculoskeletal, and nervous system. Orthopedic Chiropractors at Integrative Wellness Associates perform medical treatment and therapy designed to reduce or eliminate pain without medication or surgery. Chiropractic Orthopedics is a medical specialty centered on treating musculoskeletal disorder and injury using chiropractic principles and physical manipulation instead of invasive surgery or pain-blocking injections. Significant diseases and conditions treated at Chiropractic Orthopedics practices include lower back pain, neck injury, slipped or herniated spinal disc, migraine, fibromyalgia, knee and hip pain, arthritis, sciatica, and athletic injury. Medical tests, procedures and therapies provided by Chiropractic Orthopedics practices include spinal adjustment, medical massage, physical therapy, balance coordination activities, posture correction, and electric muscle stimulation.

Chiropractic Orthopedics is defined as that branch of chiropractic medicine that includes the continued acquisition of knowledge relative to both normal functions and diseases of the human body as they relate to the bones, joints, capsules, discs, muscles, ligaments, tendons, their complete neurological and vascular components, referred organ systems and contiguous tissues. This also includes the development and perfection of skills relative to health maintenance when such exists and when not, the investigations, historical review, physical detection, correlative diagnosis development and complete management of any disorder within the bounds defined herein. Also necessary is the delivery of the combined knowledge and skill on a primary basis to patients who both need and desire this service to the eventual outcome of remissions, whenever resolution is not readily achievable. In addition the certified chiropractic orthopedist provides consultation services at the request of other qualified doctors seeking assistance in the care of their patients. The chiropractic orthopedist may also engage in the teaching and or research of subjects and materials relevant to pursuing the quest for knowledge in the ever changing field of the orthopedic specialty.