Personal Injury

When bodily harm occurs from being involved in any type of accident, specifically outside of your workplace, it is considered a personal injury. We at Kosak Chiropractic recommend coming in for a visit as soon as possible so that he can assess the damage and get you on the road to recovery. Whether it be a single or series of adjustments, your Fairfield, CA chiropractor is one of the best options for uncovering underlying issues from your accident.

Examples of personal injuries include:

- Auto accidents

- Motorcycle accidents

- Bicycle accidents

- A slip, trip, or fall

While a doctor treats symptoms with prescriptions, a chiropractor works to correct the problem with focused stretching of the affected muscles and careful adjustments. Your Fairfield, CA chiropractor recommends against letting your injury go untreated since this can cause more problems down the line, and affect your quality of life even more than the accident already has. If you find that everyday tasks cannot be done without significant pain, it may be time to schedule an appointment with us at Kosak Chiropractic.

Do you have any questions or concerns? We are happy to help. Kosak Chiropractic is located on 1252 Travis Blvd., Suite G, in Fairfield, CA 94533. For more information or to schedule an appointment, please visit kosakchiropractic.com or call us at 707-426-1111.

 

Do You Have a Pinched Nerve?

Have you ever accidentally contorted your body in a way that resulted in a sharp pain that decreased mobility in your neck or arm? If so, you might have experienced a pinched nerve. Pinched nerves can occur anywhere along the spine, including the upper, mid, and lower back. They can even happen in any joint of your body. We at Kosak Chiropractic know all about the dreaded pinched nerve and how painful it can make doing the simplest tasks. Sometimes the nerve can move back into place naturally. However, if the pinched nerve is severe enough, you will need spinal adjustments to correct it.

Symptoms of a pinched nerve include:

- Lower back pain

- Numbness, tingling, or burning sensation in your arms, legs, fingers, or toes

- Pain radiating along your spine

- Severe headaches or migraines

- Pain that shoots down your arm or leg

- Neck pain

A pinched nerve can be caused by subluxation, disc degeneration, osteoarthritis, or disc herniation. These are silent afflictions in their beginning stages, which is why it’s important to see a chiropractor regularly. Your Fairfield, CA chiropractor will re-align your spine in an effort to correct your pinched nerve but also prevent one from happening again in the future. 

Do you have any questions or concerns? We are happy to help. Kosak Chiropractic is located on 1252 Travis Blvd., Suite G, in Fairfield, CA 94533. For more information or to schedule an appointment, please visit kosakchiropractic.com or call us at 707-426-1111.

 

Beat Back Pain by Strengthening Your Core

At Kosak Chiropractic in Fairfield, CA, we find that the majority of our patients with back pain lack core stability. A weak core can increase the risk of disc bulges and nerve damage. There are numerous exercises that can be done, even in the comfort of your own home with little to no equipment needed, to steadily build your core, relieve back pain, and ultimately prevent future back pain.

Some core-building exercises include:

- Plank

- Clamshell

- Bird Dog

- Glute Bridge Single-Leg Progression

- Pelvic Tilt/Glute Bridge

- Side Plank

- Tabletop Leg Press

- Superman

- Dead Bug

- Cat Stretches

- Reverse/Forward Lunge

These exercises can also help with balance, function, stability, and limit the chances of getting seriously injured. Your Fairfield chiropractors want to inform patients with new knowledge about their back pain and how they can treat it with an at-home regimen on days when they do not come into the office. However, it is important to remember that if any of these exercises increase pain, numbness, or weakness, you should immediately stop doing them and speak to your chiropractor.

Do you have any questions or concerns? We are happy to help. Kosak Chiropractic is located on 1252 Travis Blvd., Suite G, in Fairfield, CA 94533. For more information or to schedule an appointment, please visit kosakchiropractic.com or call us at 707-426-1111.

 

Therapeutic Exercise

Therapeutic exercise is important for restoring and rebuilding strength, balance, endurance, flexibility, and stability, all in an effort to correct a patient-specific problem. These exercises can also improve your overall health, fitness, and quality of life. We at Kosak Chiropractic want you to achieve the highest point of rehabilitation and physical fitness with our non-invasive methods. Contact your Fairfield chiropractor to begin your road to optimal health!

With therapeutic exercise, Dr. Michael Wilson will work with you to:

- Increase your mobility

- Improve your balance

- Reduce your overall rigidity

- Release any muscles, tendons, or fascia that are contracted

- Mobilize your joints

- Improve your circulation

- Improve your respiratory capacity

- Improve your coordination

- Improve your posture

Therapeutic exercise has also been proven to reduce stress and improve sleep quality. With all of its numerous benefits, everyone should be partaking in therapeutic exercise. Think you might be a good candidate? Dr. Wilson is more than happy to discuss this non-invasive treatment further with you!

Kosak Chiropractic is located on 1252 Travis Blvd., Suite G, in Fairfield, CA 94533. To see if therapeutic exercise is right for you or to schedule an appointment, please visit kosakchiropractic.com or call us at 707-426-1111.

 

Electrical Muscle Stimulation (EMS)

Nowadays there are many different treatments help alleviate aches, pains, and injuries of the body. One such treatment is called Electrical Muscle Stimulation. EMS involves special technology to help reduce pain, swelling, and recovery time. We at Kosak Chiropractic are committed to offering our patients different treatments and technologies to help them feel their best, which is why we are proud to offer EMS in the Fairfield area. 

EMS works great for muscle spasms, soft tissue injuries, and athletes who are looking for a quicker workout recovery time. EMS is popularly used on the back and neck muscles, and has been successful in relieving acute and chronic pain. EMS is a simple treatment that only takes a few minutes to perform. Electrodes are placed on the affected area and an electrical current is transmitted into the soft tissue or muscle. The strength of the current depends on the type of injury, its location, and how deep the therapy is going to be. The muscles experience small but quick contractions, which may make the patient feel a prickly or tingling sensation.

EMS is a great option for patients suffering from:

- Arthritis

- Nerve inflammation

- Cancer-related pain

- Dysphagia

- Fibromyalgia

- Muscle injury from trauma

- Back pain

- Spinal cord injury

- Stroke recovery

- Muscle injury from disease

- Urinary incontinence

- Poor muscle strength

- Surgery recovery

Kosak Chiropractic is located on 1252 Travis Blvd., Suite G, in Fairfield, CA 94533. To find out if EMS is right for you or to schedule an appointment, please visit kosakchiropractic.com or call us at 707-426-1111.

 

Whiplash Symptoms and Treatment

Kosak Chiropractic is readily available to you when accidents happen unexpectedly, such as a whiplash injury due to a sporting mishap or auto accident. According to Mayo Clinic, “whiplash is a neck injury due to forceful, rapid back-and-forth movement of the neck, like the cracking of a whip.” The sooner you come in to see your Fairfield chiropractor, the sooner we can get you on the road to recovery!

Symptoms of whiplash include:

- Neck pain and stiffness

- Worsening of pain with neck movement

- Loss of range of motion in the neck

- Headaches, most often starting at the base of the skull

- Tenderness or pain in the shoulder, upper back or arms

- Tingling or numbness in the arms

- Fatigue

- Dizziness

- Blurred vision

- Ringing in the ears (tinnitus)

- Sleep disturbances

- Irritability

- Difficulty concentrating

- Memory problems

- Depression

We offer a variety of services to help manage pain and treat whiplash damage, such as chiropractic adjustments, therapeutic exercises, electric stimulation, and therapeutic ultrasound. If you are showing signs of whiplash for several days to a couple weeks after an accident, X-rays, CT scans, or MRIs are required to diagnose how severe the damage is.

Kosak Chiropractic is located on 1252 Travis Blvd., Suite G, in Fairfield, CA 94533. For more information or to schedule an appointment, please visit kosakchiropractic.com or call us at 707-426-1111.

 

Massage Therapy for Burn Scars

Don’t let your burn scars be a lasting reminder of the trauma you went through. Combined with traditional treatment from your doctor, burn scar massage therapy effectively controls the development of scar tissue by helping victims heal faster. We at Kosak Chiropractic are committed to assisting our burn patient victims in feeling more comfortable with an improved range of motion.

Safe stretches and massages are combined to promote loosening of the burn scar tissue, allowing for a more comfortable range of motion to occur. This is the most common reason why a burn scar victim may want to see a chiropractor. When skin burns and then begins the healing process, it puckers and tightens to form those all too familiar scars. But massage therapy for burn scars can do a lot more than help with range of motion.

Other benefits include:

- Reduces itching

- Prevents compensatory structure dysfunction

- Reduces spasms in surrounding tissue

- Preps burn scar for stretching and strengthening exercises

- Promotes development of a “good quality” scar

- Reduces swelling

- Reduces skin hypersensitivity

- Helps manage psychological symptoms

- Reduces pain and joint stiffness associated with edema

- Prevents and/or reduces contractures

- Pain management

Kosak Chiropractic is located on 1252 Travis Blvd., Suite G, in Fairfield, CA 94533. For more information on our burn scar massages or to schedule an appointment, you can visit kosakchiropractic.com or call us at 707-426-1111.

 

Chiropractic Care for Allergies

We know what you’re thinking: how are the two even associated? Well, it all has to do with building up your immune system to combat pollen, molds, and other sneeze-inducing allergies. There happens to be a close relationship between the nervous and immune systems, and chiropractic adjustments can get these two systems more in sync. You shouldn’t have to deal with practically a year-long runny nose, itchy eyes, and constant sneezing. We at Kosak Chiropractic are happy to help alleviate some of those symptoms associated with allergies!

It’s important to note that chiropractic care for allergies does not work like an anti-histamine for short term relief of allergies. It simply helps reduce the severity and frequency of your allergies. For example, when your spine is misaligned, it greatly affects your nervous system. The nervous system has a direct effect on how well your immune system functions. Like a chain reaction, if you correct spine misalignment, this improves the nervous system and in turn, the immune system.

Benefits of chiropractic care for allergies:

- Helps strengthen your immune system

- Helps regulate your stress hormones

- Helps support your respiratory system

- Dietary and lifestyle recommendations

Kosak Chiropractic is located on 1252 Travis Blvd., Suite G, in Fairfield, CA 94533. For more information on chiropractic care for allergies or to schedule an appointment, you can visit kosakchiropractic.com or call us at 707-426-1111.

 

Ice Pack Cryotherapy

Most likely, you are familiar with icing a freshly sprained ankle or busted shin to reduce swelling and pain. Cryotherapy, or “cold therapy,” works in the same way to reduce inflammation and pain, but on injuries suffered long ago. Start your road to recovery with Dr. Michael Wilson and Kosak Chiropractic today. There are many benefits associated with ice pack cryotherapy that it’s become a popular treatment option!

Ice pack cryotherapy is also an effective way to help with muscle spasms. Benefits can be obtained from just one session of cryotherapy, but it is most effective when used regularly. Commonly used in treatment for sports injuries, some athletes use cryotherapy twice a day, while others may go once a day for ten days and switch to once a month after that time. Listen to what your body says as it reacts to the treatment, as well as any advice given to you by your trusted chiropractor. 

Other benefits of cryotherapy include:

- Reduces pain attributed to arthritis

- Helps treat mood disorders

- Decreases symptoms of migraines

- Numbs pain associated with nerve irritation

- Treats certain skin conditions

- Potential to help treat low-risk tumors

- Potential to help prevent dementia and Alzheimer’s

Kosak Chiropractic is located on 1252 Travis Blvd., Suite G, in Fairfield, CA 94533. For more information on ice pack cryotherapy or to schedule an appointment, you can visit kosakchiropractic.com or call us at 707-426-1111.