Do you suffer from chronic pain in your neck, back or shoulders? Do you have recurring headaches that just don't seem to go away? Chiropractic care can help you to manage your pain or even rid you of it without costly and invasive surgeries or prescription drugs. The causes of chronic pain vary, but we can help you live a pain-free life.

Common Causes of Neck Pain

Neck and back pain as well as headaches can be caused by a number of factors. Whiplash and other automobile accident injuries are one leading cause. Work injuries and falls can also lead to chronic pain. Even bad posture can result in pain.

Treating Pain at Our Chiropractic Centers

At CK Chiropractic Center, we offer a variety of therapies to help you manage your pain. Among these are gentle spinal adjustment to help restore the spine to its proper alignment, massage therapy to relax the muscles that support the neck, back and spine, corrective exercises that we can teach you to do at home to strengthen your neck and back area, and lifestyle counseling about such things as what shoes to wear and what desk chair to use to minimize your pain. Our chiropractor will sit down with you and map out a plan tailored to you and your specific injury.

Our chiropractor believes in a total wellness approach to when assisting San Diego neck pain patients, using the therapies mentioned above rather than relying on invasive and often ineffective surgery and potentially hazardous and expensive prescription drugs. We have three locations in southern California, so we're never far away, and we welcome personal injury as well as workman's comp cases.

Do you struggle with neck or back pain? Have you recently been injured in an auto accident? Have chiropractic techniques helped rid you of your pain? We invite you to share your experiences with our readers by leaving a comment below.

Massage therapy can be a treat in more ways than one. In addition to living up to its reputation as a way to relax and relieve stress, it can effectively complement chiropractic care as part of a restorative, rehabilitative, or wellness program. Our San Diego chiropractor at CK Chiropractic Center, offers several types of massage techniques to treat a wide range of conditions. Massage involves the pressing, rubbing, and kneading of muscles and surrounding tissues which results in improved circulation, stress relief, the promotion of healing, and the alleviation of pain.

Massage for Alleviation of Back Pain, Neck Pain and Headaches

Massage can be particularly effective for alleviating pain in the neck, back and head areas, depending on the type of massage technique used. Swedish massage is one of the gentlest techniques. It uses circular movements, elongated strokes, and can include tapping and vibration. This technique can work wonders for headaches and relaxation. Deeper pain, such as neck pain and back pain, often requires a deeper technique, which is where deep-tissue massage comes in. Deep-tissue massage is more forceful and slower than Swedish massage, with strokes targeting deeper layers of tissue and muscle.

Deep-tissue massage is one of the techniques that can be highly effective in helping muscles heal after a personal injury, as are sports massage and trigger point massage. Sports massage is specifically geared towards active and athletic types as a way to treat and prevent injuries. Trigger point massage can also help heal injuries and soothe overused muscles by relieving pressure in sensitive areas of tightened muscle fibers known as trigger points.

Just because massage works well for treating a work injury, personal or sports injury does not mean you need to be injured to enjoy the benefits. Used alone or as part of a chiropractic care program, massage can help alleviate stiffness, boost immunity, and help manage anxiety and depression. Call our chiropractor at 858-630-5286 for more information on how massage can work for you.

What is your favorite massage type?

If you are seeking, or currently receive, workers’ compensation for a personal injury sustained in your workplace, you may benefit from the trial experience gained by our San Diego chiropractor Dr. Kien Ta. Our CK Chiropractic Center in San Diego, Calif., offers patients the wealth of knowledge Dr. Ta has shared during his many depositions and trial appearances for accident victims.

Dr. Ta's Trial Experience

Our chiropractor, Dr. Ta, is a state appointed and licensed Qualified Medical Examiner who handles work-related injuries and the related workers’ compensation claims. As an expert witness, Dr. Ta has presented testimony in nearly two dozen trials and hundreds of depositions, mediations, and arbitrations (as of September 2011) regarding accident injuries. He has also consulted on the need for chiropractics to treat personal injuries and the right of accident victims to receive the level of compensation they deserve.

Benefits for Workers’ Compensation Patients

Sustaining a personal injury in the workplace typically qualifies you for workers’ compensation. Dr. Ta and his staff want to provide you with the chiropractics you need to aid you in recovery from that injury. Whether you have an injury accompanied by neck pain, back pain, or recurring headaches, Dr. Ta and his colleagues can help you.

While many chiropractic or medical centers are unwilling to treat accident victims who have workers’ compensation claims in litigation, Dr. Ta and his staff extend that oasis of compassion and professional courtesy, combined with experienced chiropractic care. In addition to providing various types of natural, non-invasive treatments and massage therapy to relieve the pain of personal injuries, Dr. Ta is also willing to testify in court on behalf of workers’ compensation accident victims.

If you have questions, or would like to make an appointment, please call us today at 858-630-5286. Our convenient office hours are 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., Monday through Friday. On Saturdays, we are open from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. We look forward to serving you at our clinic, where we can help restore your mobility and improve your overall health.

What kind of injury did you incur in the workplace? How do you think Dr. Ta's trial experience can benefit you?

Welcome To CK Chiropractic Center

This is our very first edition of the CK Chiropractic Center blog, and we are glad you've stopped by! Our patients, who are primarily from the San Diego area, may be involved in an auto accident, a personal injury, or may be a workman's compensation patient. We use the gentle healing art of chiropractics to help relieve patients of the pain conditions that often accompany an accident, such as neck pain, headaches, back pain, and whiplash.

Our Expert Chiropractic Staff

We are proud to have a staff of expert chiropractors, so regardless of which doctor you see, you will get the best of care. Dr. Ta, for example, has testified in many court cases as a chiropractor expert, and is a workman's comp claims Medical Evaluator and has his certification in the AMA Impairment System. Each San Diego chiropractor here is a Doctor of Chiropractic, and we have a staff Radiology Technologist on hand to assist the doctors and perform radiology exams.

Back Pain, Whiplash, Headaches: A Pain In The Neck!

We know how much pain in the back, neck pain, and the other pain conditions often caused by an auto accident can really impair you. These problems can keep you from living any kind of normal life -- and that's why we are primed to help. We use chiropractic care, massage therapy, and all state-of-the-art methods of natural healing to help you return to your pre-accident state of health. We are accustomed to handling cases that involve court trials and can handle litigation cases. We will make certain that your case gets the attention it deserves, and that you get the treatment you need.

Our blog is going to talk about some of the different types of therapy that we use here at CK Chiropractic Center, San Diego chiropractors. We will have advice from our staff about how to get healthy and stay that way. Do you have any particular subjects that you think would make good blog entries? We'd love to hear them, so please leave us a message here!