General Practitioners

• Headaches
• Arthritis
• Fibromyalgia
• Plantar Fasciitis
  We see a large variety of conditions ranging from plantar fasciitis to lower back pain, carpal tunnel syndrome to headaches and neck pain. To handle this wide variety, we utilize a multitude of therapies in addition to Chiropractic joint manipulation. All treatments are hands-on, one-on-one with the physician and all treatment plans are specific to the patient. A typical treatment session may involve joint manipulation, soft tissue mobilization (Active Release Technique or tool-assisted mobilization) and/or active functional rehabilitation exercises. The goal of each session is to not only alleviate pain but to improve function for better performance and to decrease the likelihood of recurrence.
• Nutritional Counseling
  Jessica will be presenting on “Nutritional Considerations for the In-Season Athlete”. Sports Performance and Sports Medicine services are steadily improving while Sports Nutrition services for adolescent athletes seem to slowly be crawling forward. There is a litany of reasons why a young athlete may not adopt healthy eating habits including but not limited to time, knowledge, finances, and resources. Is there a way to education and make this process easier? Can we make these changes despite the challenges listed above? Jessica Napolitano will address these questions in her presentation.
• Primary Care
  Dry needling uses the same needles as acupuncture. However, dry needling is typically used to treat trigger points and tight muscles. Dry needling is a western form of medicine and, therefore, will use the same diagnoses as you would hear from your primary care physician. In most cases, dry needling is used to treat musculoskeletal conditions such as sciatica or shoulder impingement. While dry needling is different from acupuncture, they are both powerful, conservative treatment options for patients.

Neurologists

• Neurology
  In late 2017 Dr. Muse decided that more was needed to truly pursue his passion and with that in mind enrolled in the Doctor of Chiropractic program at Logan University in St Louis. While at Logan he served as the President of the Motion Palpation Institute Club, an international continuing education company aimed at developing world-class adjusting and rehabilitative specialists. Now Dr. Muse is happy to finally be home in Columbus working as a physician at Columbus Chiropractic & Rehabilitation Center. His passion continues to be the athletic population, focusing on not only treating the acute injuries suffered in sport but also apply his knowledge of biomechanics and neurology to help the athlete reach their full potential in performance. Not only for the benefit of the patient, but also due to his competitiveness Dr. Muse will continue to seek out more knowledge and continue his study of various techniques.
• Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
  Right. So, it kind of helps guide us in the treatment. We want to see those symptoms come up towards the spine. If we’re taking someone through a repeated movement, and those symptoms are beginning to go in the wrong direction, well, fine, we’re taking the guesswork out of this. Now we know we’re heading in the wrong direction, we still get information from that so we need to change our approach and figure out the direction that’s going to bring those symptoms up or centralize them. So, some of the common things we may see are like carpal tunnel syndrome. The number of cases we see walk in this door who have carpal tunnel syndrome, who may have even had the surgery for and still have symptoms, actually end up being a peripheralization coming from the neck. And the only way that we can figure this out is through doing a really thorough exam like the McKinsey Method. So, if you want to learn a little bit more, make sure you hop over to one of our other videos to learn more about what the McKinsey Method is, and then, we have another video that’s going to detail what the actual exam looks like. So, if you are experiencing any symptoms in the extremity, whether it’s the arm or the leg, it may actually be the spine that’s causing those symptoms, especially if you’re not having any sort of changes with the typical treatments that are going after those specific areas. So, if you guys want more information, visit our website. You can book a discovery call with us if you just want to chat a little bit more about it, or just give our office a call and you can find that on our website. Thank you guys.

Radiologist

• MRI
  We treat a lot of athletes/active people at CCRC, ranging from professional athletes to people training for their first 5K. In many of these cases, people will injure bones, joints, cartilage and/or ligaments. To properly identify the structures damaged and to assess if further imaging (such as an MRI or a bone scan) or a second opinion is necessary, we will use orthopedic tests. Orthopedic tests are movements either performed by the physician or by the patient that stress and test the integrity of a structure such as a meniscus or an ACL.
• X-Rays

Surgeons

• Sciatica
  The McKenzie Method, also known as Mechanical Diagnosis and Therapy (MDT), is a classification and treatment protocol for problems of the spine, such as low back and neck pain, herniated discs, radiating leg or arm pain/numbness, and sciatica. A key component of the McKenzie Method is patient education in proper exercise and posture in order for patients to treat their own pain, rather than relying on various therapists. Each of the physicians here at CCRC has been trained in McKenzie. It is a central part of both our assessment and treatment.

Dermatologists

• Lesions
  Right. Or like a neutral position of the joint where all the muscles around that joint can co-activate and stabilize the joint. So, I would say, when we talked about different diagnoses, whether it be jumper’s knee, medial epicondylitis, stenosis, whatever it may be, I would label those as the ‘what.’ People come in wanting a diagnosis, the actual diagnosis would be the ‘what.’ Now, what DNS does, I think that more so approach is the ‘why.’ Because, oftentimes, it’s pretty easy to get the what, you can get an image, you can go to your orthopedic physician, they’ll do their different orthopedic tests to determine what structure is at play, but that’s such a small part when it comes to the actual management of these cases because, for the most part, you can probably use Dr. Google and figure out, “Well, I have inside the elbow pain, what could it be?” So, you can figure out your ‘what’ or your diagnosis, what DNS does is give us more of a lens into the underlying reasons why this condition may have developed. Because, if we only focus on the diagnosis itself, well then, we may just go down the rabbit hole of prescription of different medications, or passive therapies that may be good for that specific condition. But, oftentimes, therapy that is only focused on the diagnosis itself are more often not just going to provide a bandaid for the situation, DNS gives us this lens where we can look at human function, and then we can determine what are some of the key dysfunctions in the system that may have led to your medial elbow pain, your knee pain, your stenosis, whatever it may be. So, once again, to tie this up in a bow, DNS, in a way, could treat just about any condition that comes in the office outside of some kind of insidious or like cancerous lesions or stuff like that. We’re not treating cancer with DNS, but any sort of musculoskeletal condition that comes into the office, at some point, we’re going to look at it through a DNS lens to try to figure out what’s the key link, or what’s the dysfunction that may have led to the development of whatever diagnosis that you might have. If you guys want more information on the DNS exam, or the overview of DNS, go back to our YouTube page, click on some of those links, and learn a little bit more about DNS.

Physical Therapists

• Sports Medicine
  Raised in Delaware, Ohio by Doug and Jeanette Muse, Dr. Muse has taken a less-beaten path to being a Chiropractic Physician. Initially having the intent to attend school for a degree in Photojournalism, after suffering a broken leg playing soccer Dr. Muse decided to pursue education in Sports Medicine. He soon found himself in Westerville working towards a degree in Athletic Training at Otterbein University. After obtaining his Bachelor’s Degree in 2011, Dr. Muse made the move to Dayton to act as a Graduate Assistant for the Wright State University Athletics Department for two years until graduating with a Master’s Degree in 2013. Upon graduating, Dr. Muse became a full time Athletic Trainer for the Raiders.  It was over the seven years he spent as a Division 1 Athletic Trainer that his interest and drive in learning more about the human body and function grew substantially.
• Physical Therapy
  Yeah. So, if you saw our previous video on this topic, I mentioned the shoulder briefly. And another good example of this idea of isolationism is like, if you tore your rotator cuff, or there’s something wrong, let’s just say it’s not even a tear of your rotator cuff, but there’s something wrong with your shoulder and we thought it was that, in the past, in physical therapy, and chiropractic, and other forms, we will just focus on just treating the shoulder and the shoulder on its own. So, it might look really, really simple. We’re barely moving anything else on our body, and we’re just treating that joint only. So, it might be like I have abandoned my hand and I’m working on external rotation on my shoulder, I might work on internal rotation on my shoulder. Very slow movements, not really getting the rest of the body involved. And there may be times where that’s effective, that’s useful, but there’s oftentimes too where we see people that do those things and they’re like, “I got better, but it wasn’t like all the way better.” Or maybe they were returning to a sport, and they’re just not quite where they want to be. That’s where I think functional rehabilitation comes in where we’re looking at you more dynamically, a whole-body approach.
• Frozen Shoulder
• Tennis Elbow
  This will involve movement assessments such as watching a patient walk, lunge or squat to identify improper movement patterns. Often, patients will not move with ideal patterns or strategies, which can result in decreased performance, injury or both. Movement dysfunction such as a loss of joint range of motion or joint instability frequently causes the problems which the patient experiences (i.e. neck pain, sciatica, tennis elbow, shin splints). If the movement dysfunction is not addressed, the problem is destined to return. Functional evaluation and proper movement restoration are of central importance to the physicians at CCRC, which sets us apart from other chiropractors and physical therapists in the area.
• Shoulder Pain
• Neck Pain
• Back Pain
• Manual Therapy
  Joint manipulation (adjusting) is used to release restricted joints of the spine and extremities. Joints often become restricted due to improper posture, trauma and/or poor muscle activity. A restricted joint can also cause nearby joints to move excessively, which can lead to degeneration and pain. By applying an adjustment to a restricted segment, we can gain motion in the joint that could not be gained with only exercise or posture correction. Besides increased motion, adjusting also relieves pain and relaxes over-active muscles. If the patient prefers, we can instead provide mobilization to the restricted joints, which uses less force and usually does not produce a cavitation (popping sound).

Podiatrists

• Achilles Tendonitis
• Plantar Fasciitis
  Technically, the principles can be applied to any joint in the body. So, if that’s runner’s knee, or plantar fasciitis, or tennis elbow, we can apply those techniques to help those issues. But primarily, it’s most powerful in the spine. So, mechanical spine pain, chronic lower back issues, disc issues, radicular pain down your leg, neck pain with sitting, tension headaches.