The following conditions have had successful results with the combined use of MATRIX treatments and Chiropractic Care:

Health Centered Chiropractic provides an alternative to drugs and surgery for the daily discomfort of back and neck soreness, headaches, shoulder, arm, hip and leg pain, carpal tunnel syndrome, and a host of similar ailments. By using bioelectric therapy in the MATRIX machine we can change a life of discomfort into a normal one, or at least one with minimal distress. The matrix promotes healing at a much quicker rate than anything used previously. By lessening your recovery time, the Matrix ultimately saves you time and money.  Although limited throughout southern Indiana, the Matrix is offered at all Health Centered Chiropractic locations, Greensburg, Salem, Scottsburg, and Versailles.

FDA approved, and researched for 17 years in Germany, the MATRIX utilizes 4,000 to 10,000 impulses per second. These higher impulses work at a cellular level and create better effects to chronic and acute pain. The process is comfortable and performed without needles, surgery or medication.

With the flexibility and accuracy provided by the MATRIX, we can perform advanced rehabilitation, physical therapy, promote better nerve communication, and increase strength to muscles, ligaments, and tendons. These capabilities allow tremendous success in treating many health problems such as arthritis, carpal tunnel, headaches, bursitis and injuries occurring from auto accidents.

The MATRIX is extremely effective in pain management due to its versatility. We now have the capability to specifically address singular muscles or large muscle groups. By increasing nerve productivity we have the ability to help a variety of conditions without the use of injections or other medications. We can perform nerve blocks, increase circulation, break up arthritis and scar tissue, and move fluid in and around the joints to increase the healing process.

The advanced technology of the MATRIX combined with chiropractic care, nutritional therapy and massage therapy is creating a safe and effective way to get people out of pain. At Health Centered Chiropractic we encourage your body to heal itself. Our approach is safe, cost effective and gives you the quickest recovery possible. It makes sense to let your body heal itself, we're helping make it affordable, too.

HISTORY

A wide variety of medical conditions have been successfully treated with electrical stimulation for nearly 2,000 years. The first reported application of electromedicine was by medical doctors in ancient Greece. Using electrical impulses for the treatment for pain and circulatory disorders, electric eels were placed in footbaths. Doctors Largus and Dioscorides (circa 46 AD) documented substantial therapeutic results with electrical currents in both pain and circulatory conditions.

In the 1700's, European physicians used controlled electrical currents from electrostatic generators almost exclusively for the treatment of pain and circulatory dysfunction. During that period, Benjamin Franklin also documented pain relief by using electrical currents for "frozen shoulder."

By the late 1800's, more than 50% of all American physicians used some form of electromedicine in their daily practices for pain management and wound healing. This continued until 1910 when a misleading report was published which discredited the value of electromedicine and nutritional therapy in the human body. This report was responsible for the decline in the use of electromedicine in the physician's private practice.

Only in the last ten years have these valuable treatments regained acceptance in the medical community, and are now being taught in medical teaching facilities such as the King-Drew Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA., and the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio. The Bethesda Naval Hospital in Washington, D.C. is now successfully using electromedicine as an effective treatment for pain management.

The modern age of clinical electromedicine actually began in Germany around 1950 when electrical signals or impulses could be generated mimicking the electrical impulses which naturally occur in the human body. Using this type of electrical current, medical treatments could be applied safely and comfortably to the human skin, while the benefits could be delivered to the deep tissue, i.e. shoulder, hip and low back.

Electromedical treatment gained wider acceptance in the 1960's when medical researchers Melzak and Wall published the "Gate Control Theory of Pain." These researchers found that certain cells in the spinal cord act as gates through which pain travels to the brain. Overloading these neural transmitter cells will block the naturally occurring electrochemical pain impulses and thus relieve pain. The Gate Control Theory was accepted by the medical community and helped popularize the use of transcutaneous electric nerve stimulation (TENS) in the United States. Typically TENS units are portable battery operated devices worn continuously by the patient. They are commonly used to relieve pain via nerve counter-irritation and by stimulating morphine-like chemical substances, i. e. endorphins, which are naturally created within the human body.

These mechanisms of actions are only theory and have not yet been proven with valid scientific data