Meet Steve
Steve is a unique health care provider.
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This is NOT a traditional Chiropractic office.
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There was a time when a doctor PRACTICED the art of medicine. This implied that the doctor was continually evolving, learning from patients, challenging previous beliefs and treatment methods.
Steve started his practice in 1997.
Since that time his practice has continued to evolve, constantly improving and learning from his patients based on treatment results.
This pursuit has pushed him to move outside of traditional chiropractic care, and into many other physical medicine professions.
He has come to realize that it takes a true multifaceted approach to deliver effective health care.
He feels when treating physical pain, it takes much more than MRI, CT scans, and X-ray imaging to properly diagnose and offer correct treatment.
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Treatment success requires more than a standard consultation. It requires an investigation into a person's patterns and habits. That is where you will find the true source of their pain...
Services
Changing your relationship with chronic pain
Functional Dry Needling
This treatment is a highly specialized clinical procedure using a thin solid filament needle precisely inserted into damaged muscle tissue, with the intention of sparking a neurophysiological reflex.
This automatic physical response is unique to this treatment process. Creating this reflex has an astounding physical effect on chronically damaged muscle and nerve tissue.
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This treatment is highly effective in conditions such as migraines, neck, back pain, Shoulder, elbow, hip, knee/foot pain, sciatica, and numbness in upper/lower extremities.
Functional
dry needling
Movement Specialist
Moving correctly is rarely discussed outside sports.
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Movement is a necessary action in everyone's life. It's one of the keys to having a healthy lifestyle.
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Whether it's gardening, walking, getting in/out of your vehicle, cleaning your home, etc...
Dr. Blandford specializes in showing people how to perform basic movements with a better strategy for their recovery.
Movement
specialist
Posture/Gait
Assesment
Posture is a fundamental focus in Dr. Blandford’s treatment system.
It’s role is vital when discussing physical pain and human performance.
Shockingly a persons position in space “posture” has a profound impact on physical pain.
We are creatures of habit. Posture is habit-forming like many other activities performed on daily basis.
Poor posture provokes subtle but constant tension within your body, which over time creates a state of physical pain and tightness that is resistive to traditional health care.
Posture/Gait assesment
Biomechanics & Ergronmic Specialist
This topic is rarely discussed outside the world of sport and fitness.
However, it has tremendous implications with physical pain regardless if your an athlete.
The human body is mechanical by nature. Virtually every movement we make in our daily lives has an affect on our body good or bad. Throwing a baseball, hitting a golf ball, making dinner, vacuuming, raking leaves, etc, all involve biomechanics.
In sports, coaches Demonstrate to their athletes techniques to improved performance, while creating maximal efficiency lowering risk of injury.
Dr. Blandford serves as a coach to his patients showing them improved Methods for basic daily activities, for same reasons athletic coaches do.
Biomechanics & Ergronmic Specialist
Technique
Coach
Dr. Blandford is passionate about fitness.
He's a strong advocate for regular exercise. With certification as a Crossfit Coach Level 1.
He recognizes that in virtually all of his chronic pain cases, muscle weakness and lack of stability are a major contributing aspect to their issues.
A significant aspect of Dr. Blandford's treatment strategy is teaching his patients home-based exercises specific to their issues.
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Demonstrating and helping patients activate their muscles correctly to improve strength and endurance is key to injury prevention as well as stopping chronic pain.
Technique
Coach
What Patients Say
"You must take personal responsibility. You can not change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself."