Nutrition & Other Services
Functional nutrition/medicine is an emerging niche of healthcare built on biological and nutritional sciences, clinical assessment, and personalized therapies. A functional approach to nutrition focuses on a principal that each person is unique with unique needs. With this in mind, holistic approaches to dietary recommendations and choices are applied which can, for many, effectively address the root causes for numerous chronic health and mental health conditions. Functional Nutrition/Medicine is nutrition-based health care that is focused on building health by restoring proper physiological functioning of the systems of the body.
Functional nutrition practitioner's seek to identify and address the root cause of a patient's health concerns, illness and disease through the application of sound approaches to adherence to a nutrient rich diet and supplementation where indicated. One of the cornerstones of a functional approach is a belief that chronic disease is almost always preceded by a lengthy period of declining health in one or more of the systems of the body. This decline is often indicated in laboratory testing but is not addressed by contemporary medicine practitioners until the lab values are out of range or a true pathology is detected. Often interventions can be applied long before pathologic conditions become irreversible.
At Delmarva Chiropractic our goal is to help you achieve optimal health, healing, and vitality. Recommendations are individualized as we co-operatively seek to create sustainable lifestyle and behavioral changes that seek not to just treat the symptoms, but create a plan that will change the way you live.
Corrective Exercises
We teach our patients special "blueprint" exercises to help strengthen and correct their own unique problem. These exercises can be performed in the comfort of your own home and can improve the effectiveness of your spinal correction. In addition to skeletal misalignment, muscles and connective tissues can be strained by compromised function and even normal use. Specific exercises and stretches can help your body stay in balance and in health.
Massage Therapy
Massage therapy offers a natural conservative treatment approach that relieves musculoskeletal pain for many patients. Our office provides specific massage and muscular therapy that is tailored to meet the patient's condition and injury. The benefits of massage therapy may include increasing blood circulation, reducing swelling, relaxing muscles, relieving muscle pain and spasms, and aid in recovery and range of motion.
