Acupuncture involves the insertion of extremely thin needles through the skin at strategic points on your body. A key component of Traditional Chinese medicine, acupuncture is most commonly used to treat pain and reduce inflammation.

Traditional Chinese medicine explains acupuncture as a technique for balancing the flow of energy or life force – known as qi or chi (CHEE) – believed to flow through pathways (meridians) in your body. By inserting needles into specific points along these meridians, acupuncture practitioners believe that your energy flow will re-balance.

Non-Surgical Spinal Decompression is a revolutionary new technology used primarily to treat disc injuries in the neck and in the low back. This treatment option is very safe and utilizes FDA cleared equipment to apply distraction forces to spinal structures in a precise and graduated manner. Distraction is offset by cycles of partial relaxation. This technique of spinal decompression therapy, that is, unloading due to distraction and positioning, has shown the ability to gently separate the vertebrae from each other, creating a vacuum inside the discs that we are targeting. This “vacuum effect” is also known as negative intra-discal pressure.

Riverwalk Physical Therapy has hired pelvic floor physical therapy specialist Zarina Vitebsky. There’s a growing field of medicine devoted to treating these unique complications. Practitioners of pelvic floor health help women and men who have problems with sexual intercourse, pelvic floor pain, prostatitis, urination, pregnancy preparedness, postpartum recovery and cancer recovery. They deal with the concerns that we may be too embarrassed to discuss, and because they’ve seen it all, they can reassure patients that their issues are at least treatable, if not always curable.