People contact us with a myriad of symptoms that frequently include both spinal and extraspinal involvement. Listed below are symptom summaries and commonly found dysfunctions. At SCIO, we are well prepared to deal with commonly associated chiropractic conditions, as well as conditions not typically associated with chiropractors.

Spinal Symptoms

Spinal symptoms can typically be narrowed to 3 specific regions; neck, mid-back, and low back. Sometimes symptoms can feel like they are right on the spine, causing neck stiffness, aching low back pain, or tightness and difficulty breathing. Other times, symptoms can travel elsewhere creating shooting pains, pins and needles, or even numbness. The spine is the anchor for most of the body’s structures - muscles, ligaments, nerves, etc. More often than not, patients present with a combination of these different tissue dysfunctions. Through taking a thorough history and examination, we can best understand and address these dysfunctions through a combination of interventions.

Common diagnoses include, but are not limited to:

Extraspinal Symptoms

Extraspinal symptoms include any complaint located away from the spine. We at SCIO actually specialize in extremity, or extraspinal, conditions. Sometimes patients come in after spraining an ankle going down the stairs or irritating a shoulder when grabbing something off the top shelf. Other times, pain located in regions such as the knee or elbow are presenting due to compensatory patterns - meaning a problem elsewhere. Although we will conduct an in-depth assessment of your primary complaint, we will also take into account global mechanism that may be contributing to the way that you are feeling.

Common diagnoses include, but are not limited to:

Symptoms continued

Aside from musculoskeletal symptoms, we address other symptoms that may be not as straight forward to our patients. In modern healthcare, the biopsychosocial approach is utilized more and more. This approach takes into account three spectrums of factors - biological, psychological, and socio-environmental.

These symptoms can present as the following: