Massage therapy works well as a supplement to chiropractic treatment. When you receive a massage, a therapist gently applies pressure to the muscles in the neck, back and shoulders to help release built-up tension. After receiving a massage, you may feel relaxed and less pain from previous injuries, such as car accident injuries or a sports injury.

Because the muscles throughout the neck and back are able to relax, they offer up less resistance to chiropractic adjustments and spinal manipulations, which in turn can reduce discomfort during an adjustment and also accelerate the healing process for patients with subluxations and injuries. In fact, massage works well in addition to chiropractic to treat car accident injuries, such as whiplash. Improved circulation following a massage means the body is capable of healing itself more effectively and faster than when muscles are tense.

How Holistic Treatment Can Help Staten Island Patients

Our Staten Island chiropractor utilizes the benefits of massage to complement chiropractic treatment. Because we believe in non-invasive and holistic treatment, we believe that the combination of multiple natural therapies, such as massage and reflexology, can help the body achieve optimal health, wellness and healing. That is why when you visit us here in Staten Island, you reap the benefits of chiropractic care and a massage therapist in a single location.

We offer all of our patients a consultation and customized treatment or preventive care regimen that often involves more than one therapy. For patients with injuries, we may recommend a series of massage treatments in addition to chiropractic adjustments until the injury improves. On the other hand, healthy individuals with no alignment problems may not need as many massage treatments, but may instead get them occasionally to promote health and help prevent future injury.

Have you ever received a massage? If so, how did you feel afterward?

At our Touch Stone Rehabilitation & Health Center, we offer a wide array of services all aimed at helping you live a life of optimal health. In addition to traditional chiropractic treatments, we offer a range of holistic treatments including massage therapy, reflexology and acupuncture. Our chiropractor may suggest sessions with the acupuncturist, or you may book sessions with him as your only form of treatment.

How Acupuncture Works

Recent studies have shown that this ancient form of therapy does indeed have a place in modern medicine. It has been shown to not only alleviate pain in your lower back or elsewhere, but it can also help you lose weight and stop smoking. Ancient Chinese medicine believes that the body has a flow of energy in it, and by manipulating that flow of energy, an acupuncturist can send pain relief and healing energies to the areas that most need it.

Our fully licensed acupuncturist Thomas Guarcello uses hair-thin needles that are placed barely into the skin at various points, to guide healing energy to the areas of your body that require it. When the needles are inserted at specific pressure points, the body's nerves, muscles and connective tissues are stimulated. This stimulation causes the body to create and release endorphins that help to alleviate pain. This Staten Island holistic treatment is a painless procedure and many patients report feeling energized or relaxed after a treatment. Depending on your specific condition, treatments may need to be carried out over several weeks.

Acupuncture is gaining in popularity as the myriad of benefits of this form of holistic treatment become more widely known. Now that it has been accepted by the medical community as a viable treatment option, there are more and more acupuncturists available. Our licensed acupuncturist is committed to helping you live a life that is pain free.

How has an acupuncturist helped you live pain-free?

Welcome back to our Touchstone Rehabilitation & Health Center blog. We’re using this communications opportunity as a way of reflecting our name by having it serve as a touchstone, or standard, for the way we believe a chiropractor should share information about health and wellness. If you have a question for our Staten Island Chiropractor or any of our team members, please send it in and we’ll be happy to answer.

Dr. Angelo DiMaggio and the staff here at Touchstone Rehabilitation & Health Center provide holistic treatment through chiropractic care, pain management and rehabilitation services so everyone can experience the benefits of improved wellness and a healthier lifestyle. Our focus is on treating patients who have injuries from an auto accident, sports injury, work-related accident, physical injuries or back and neck pain.

A Caring Practice that Meets All of Your Staten Island Health Care Needs

At Touchstone, we provide wellness care and preventative health care so you can enjoy a long, happy and pain-free life. We offer holistic treatment which combines the best approaches such as acupuncture, reflexology, physical therapy, rehabilitation services and massage therapy to treat each patient’s individual needs. Chiropractic care can help patients improve wellness in all areas of their lives, whether they have a specific problem they want to address or just want to feel better. Our core approach follows a pattern of relief care, corrective care and wellness care.

For car accident injuries or work related injuries, we relieve the immediate source of pain and then focus on restoring mobility and improving muscle strength. Once a patient is feeling better, the doctor provides insight and recommendations for a healthy lifestyle that will help him or her live as pain-free as possible. We don’t just prescribe pain medications that may only mask the pain but restore the body’s natural functioning and alignment.

Are you suffering from some type of pain and wondering if chiropractic care could provide a solution?

Send us a question and we’ll discuss your specific concerns and show you how to return to a healthy and active lifestyle.

What would you do if your car's low oil light came on today? Would you top off your engine with some 10W-30 weight or put some black tape over that little annoying light so you wouldn't have to deal with it any more?

Ignoring the warning sign will cause your engine to seize down the road. And if you were checking the dipstick regularly and adding oil when needed, the light might not have come on in the first place. The same goes for your spine and regular Chiropractic check ups. When your spine gets too low on adjustments, pain is the warning light. Unfortunately by the time the pain shows up you've been out of adjustment too long. If that's the case, don't 'black tape' the pain with Tylenol or any other pain killer for that matter.

Bring your spine in for a proper Chiropractic Adjustment to Touchstone Rehabilitation and Health Center today and avoid a catastrophic seize event tomorrow.