The key to implementing rehab is to plan what to do with a patient from start to finish. Begin with muscle tests, justifying rehab to insurance companies, showing a baseline, and most importantly to build patient compliance by paving their visual path to recovery and how they can participate in their own healing process by doing active rehabilitation right in your office.

The most tedious part of rehab is actually doing and re-challenging patients with exercise 3 times a week for up to 8 weeks and keeping patients compliant for that time. Proper progression and patients gaining more range of motion with less pain will help build office compliance.

Also, changing exercises as they progress helps reduce monotony. Changing up the exercises and rehabilitation often include stretching, balance work, and isotonic strengthening exercises both with equipment and without. If warm ups are included, it is a good idea to have a heart monitoring system ($60 at CVS).

Most DC's focus primarily on cervical, thoracic, and lumbar injuries and symptoms can include: whiplash, headaches, variety of lumbar instabilities. Other concerns can include the shoulder, hip, ankle, and wrist.

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