What does a chiropractor do?
A chiropractor can appropriately assess and treat acute or chronic pain in the muscular and skeletal systems. Dr. Forest Eaton has been in clinical practice for over 15 years and has seen thousands of patients recover from painful conditions. A chiropractor will use adjustments, activator, flexion-distraction and more to restore much of your back’s mobility. Additionally, we understand that seniors can require a little extra, we also offer custom orthotics to correct your back and posture even when you aren’t at the chiropractor. A referral for acupuncture can also be fed into treatment processes to target certain nerves and muscles that require extra relief.

What does a massage therapist do?
While a chiropractor can help with issues related to body structure, a massage therapist will deal with the soft tissue portion of your body. Using massage techniques can provide relief once again for chronic, and acute pain. With communication between patient and massage therapist, treatment will be even more effective. Once your massage therapist is able to understand what helps with your pain and/or swelling, they will be able to work off of that. Massage therapy can be more effective in combination with chiropractic treatments

How does massage therapy and chiropractic care help seniors?
Chiropractic and massage therapy treatments are a great option for seniors in search of relief. Each patient is unique and requires treatment tailored to their own personal condition. Our services are customizable and patients can choose the preferred frequency that works for them. Out treatments are drug free and pair excellently together. Our doctors take extreme pride in the level of quality of care they provide. Feel secure knowing that you or a loved one is safe in the healing hands of the Burnaby Heights Chiropractic clinic.

Conditions that visiting a chiropractor can help with

• Improper posture: Regular visits can help your posture stay strong, sturdy, and sustainable
• Scoliosis: while the condition itself cannot be cured, it can be managed with chiropractic visits
• Joint deterioration: help to slow joint deterioration by making sure the body mechanics are working as best they can
• General pain: Enjoy pain free living as you age gracefully
• Lack of mobility: regain lost mobility due to a multitude of conditions

Looking for a long term solution to back and hip pain? Call the Burnaby Heights Chiropractic practice to book your first appointment and feel the difference.

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Checking to see whether your neck pains are the reason you are having headaches is important to consider when having a health care practitioner investigate your headache issues. You may think that your headaches derive from dehydration or just stress in general, and while this may be true, sometimes, the true culprit can be neck pains. If that is the case, it is often easily treatable, and will often significantly reduce the severity and frequency of your headaches. Sometimes, it will make those headaches go away all together!

At the base of the skull, there are four muscles called your suboccipital muscles. These muscles are often the cause of neck dysfunction and headache pain in many people. These muscles are responsible for the subtle but slight movements of the head as well as the first and second vertebrates of your neck. Your suboccipital muscles can become tense and tender, and can lead to other symptoms like a feeling of strain to the eyes, tension in the temples, and a headache. Tension in these muscles is often also related to tightness in the upper shoulder and upper back areas, which your chiropractor can also help with. 

In order to diagnose your specific condition, as part of your first visit your chiropractor will perform a thorough history taking and physical examination to see if there is any relationship between any neck pain and headaches you may be experiencing.  By determining the nature and relationship of these, your chiropractor will then be able to provide you with a treatment plan, specific to you. The most common ways that Dr Eaton will treat people at Burnaby Heights Chiropractic to help relieve them of headaches that are a result of neck pain include manual therapy and soft tissue therapy. As well, he can provide many recommendations on self care and rehabilitation: helping you learn what is bad and what isn’t for your neck, giving advice on healthy lifestyle changes, and what you can do at home when acute neck pain and headache symptoms arise. The final treatment is referral and co-management; helping you find the right care if chiropractic is inappropriate or not effective for you. These are all options that any chiropractor would be able to help you with.

Burnaby Heights Chiropractic offers chiropractor and registered massage therapy services in Burnaby, British Columbia. We offer our services to everyone and try to give the best care to our patients. If you are looking to get rid of those headaches and neck pains, don’t be afraid to contact us and see when you can book your next appointments.

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