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Extremity Treatments in Reno, NV
At Northern Nevada Chiropractic, we provide extremity treatment services for joints, including shoulders, knees, wrists, hips, ankles, and feet. Our Reno chiropractors use targeted care to improve joint movement, reduce discomfort, and support more comfortable daily activity.
Extremity Treatment Services
Our treatment services focus on joints throughout the body that can become stiff, painful, injured, or difficult to move. Depending on your symptoms, our chiropractors can evaluate areas such as:
Shoulders and elbows
Wrists, hands, and fingers
Hips and knees
Ankles, feet, and toes
Jaw and ribs
Rather than treating every joint the same way, we consider where your symptoms occur, how the joint moves, and how the problem affects your everyday activities.
How Do I Know I Need Extremity Treatment?
If you’re noticing that one of your extremities just doesn’t feel “right” anymore, or you’re changing how you move or stepping back from routine activities, it may be time to have it checked. Many patients come in after noticing that daily tasks, like walking up stairs, typing, lifting objects, or even getting comfortable at night, have become noticeably harder than usual.
Common signs you need to pay attention to include:
- Recurring joint pain or stiffness
- Decreased flexibility and range of motion
- Discomfort when walking, lifting, reaching, or gripping
- Inability or discomfort when putting weight on a joint
- Symptoms that return after physical activity
- Changes in how you move to avoid discomfort
An evaluation can help determine what may be contributing to the problem and whether chiropractic extremity care is an appropriate treatment for you.
Benefits Of Getting Extremity Treatments From Experts
Working with an experienced chiropractor helps ensure your joints are evaluated as part of your overall movement. Some of the main benefits of receiving expert extremity care include:
- Improved joint mobility and range of motion to support easier daily movement
- Reduced pain and stiffness in affected extremities through targeted treatment
- Better overall body mechanics by addressing compensations caused by joint dysfunction
- Lower risk of recurring discomfort by correcting underlying movement restrictions
Your treatment can also be adjusted over time based on your comfort, mobility, symptoms, and progress.
Aligning Your Whole Body for Optimal Health
When working with extremity joints, our chiropractors inspect for potential issues with misalignment, movement restriction, and joint irregularities. Your whole body is a hyperconnected system and problems in the extremities may also lead to chronic spinal issues.
NNC’s Dr. Riley takes a special interest in extremity adjustment and works with many patients who suffer from shoulder, wrist, and knee injuries. He will always check the spine to ensure alignment since it is the core and trunk of your body. Because the extremity adjustment should complement the spinal adjustment, Dr. Riley will then assess and adjust extremities as needed based on the symptoms of the patient.
The goal of the extremity adjustment is to analyze and then develop a treatment plan for the extremity that can be synchronized with the spinal treatment plan.
How Do These Treatments Help With Body Pain?
When a joint is painful or restricted, your body may compensate in other areas. Extremity treatments can improve joint movement, reduce surrounding strain, and make everyday activities feel more comfortable.
Quick Tip Exercise to Relieve Knee Pain
In this Quick Tip video from Northern Nevada Chiropractic, Dr. Riley shows us how to get knee pain relief using a rolled towel and a little bit of pressure. The exercise loosens up the ligaments and tendons in the front of the knee, creating more movement and flexibility and less pain. He suggests doing the exercise two times a day for a week to start feeling the benefits.
Meet Our Expert Reno Chiropractors for Extremity Care
Your treatment should reflect your symptoms, movement, and individual goals. Our Reno chiropractic team brings experience across spinal care, extremity and rehabilitation treatment, mobility, and injury-related concerns, allowing us to take a personalized approach to each patient.
Featured Blog: Dr. Riley Explains Common Shoulder Injuries and How to Treat Them
As a chiropractor, I work on shoulders every day. I treat chronic injuries that have been present for many years in my patients and they come to see me when the pain gets so bad that they lose their normal range of motion and they can no longer sleep on their sides due to the pain…
Looking for Extremity Treatments Near You? Let’s Make an Appointment Today!
If joint pain or stiffness is making everyday movement harder, you do not have to keep working around it. Schedule a personalized evaluation, and we’ll help find the best treatment option to move more comfortably and confidently.
FAQs
Chiropractic care helps with joint and movement issues in the shoulders, wrists, elbows, hands, hips, knees, ankles, feet, ribs, and jaw. Treatment is based on your symptoms, exam findings, and the specific joint involved to improve mobility and reduce pain.
Be ready to describe your pain, when it started, and what movements make it better or worse. This helps your chiropractor quickly identify the cause and choose the most effective treatment approach.
Insurance coverage depends on your specific plan and chiropractic benefits. Our office can help verify your coverage so you understand any costs before starting care.
Visit frequency depends on your condition, severity, and how your body responds to treatment. After your evaluation, your chiropractor will create a care plan and adjust it as you improve.
