FAQ
Why barefoot?
Everywhere in society, there is fluff to make life easier. Chairs to spend eight hours a day in. Instant access to food. Television for mindless entertainment. Shoes are no different.
Are they truly necessary? Or are they a crutch that weakens our bodies?
What if there as another way?
Being barefoot is about the truth. No fancy machines or other technology are needed. There is no fluff. Just a table, a doctor, a patient, and results.Being barefoot is about nature. Living naturally causes health to return. It is the answer to our problems because it works. It takes away your pain, it gets you lean, it makes you healthy, and your family happy. It makes our community thrive!
Who is our ideal patient?
- Recurrent pain/injury
- Poor or incomplete resolution from other options
- Been told “you have to live with this”
- Wish to avoid surgery
- Would like to regain fitness but afraid of injury (including seniors)
- Those desiring lifestyle rehabilitation
What are the main components of an injury and how are they treated?
The body is a dynamic, interrelated system which must function properly for athletic performance and normal activities of daily living. Injuries typically have components of soft tissue dysfunction, joint dysfunction, and movement pattern dysfunctions. All components of the injury are equally important and must be assessed and addressed to fully resolve the condition.
- Soft-Tissue Dysfunction – Active Release Techniques®
- Joint Dysfunction – Chiropractic Manipulation Therapy
- Movement Pattern Dysfunction – Functional Exercise
All injuries are a result of overload. Every tissue in our body including muscles, ligaments, nerves, and even the organs of our body have a certain capacity, or amount of work, that can be done before breakdown occurs. Just like someone’s body may be able to run for a mile and then have to stop because the body can’t go any further, our tissue behaves in the same way. Injury results from acute overload (trauma such as tearing an ACL, getting hit by a car, or falling onto the ground) or repetitive overuse (holding sustained postures like sitting or performing the same movements for long periods). Overload creates an inflammatory (healing) process, which if not allowed to heal with a sufficient enviroment, creates dysfunction.
What is Active Release Technique® (ART®)?
ART is a hands-on soft tissue technique used to diagnose and treat problems. Soft tissue includes muscles, ligaments, tendons, nerves, and connective tissue. ART is quickly becoming the gold standard for chronic and overuse injuries. For more information, go here: www.activerelease.com/what_patients.asp
What is Chiropractic Manipulation Therapy?
Chiropractic Manipulation Therapy is the act of placing a gentle force through a restricted joint to restore normal motion and function to that joint. An adjustment creates a vacuum within the joint causing some of the dissolved gasses in the synovial fluid to come out of solution and form a gas bubble. This creates the audible “cracking” or popping sound typically heard with an adjustment.
What is functional exercise?
Functional exercises are movements that translate to real life activities. We squat because we need to use the toilet. We shoulder press because we reach for things overhead. We push up because we need to get ourselves off the ground. Practicing these movements in a gym environment allows us to rehabilitate muscular weakness, perform them in everyday life without hurting ourselves, and enjoy the activities we’ve grown to love into old age.
What is Crossfit?
Crossfit is the exercise methodology Barefoot Rehabilitation Clinic has chosen because its purpose is for performance and health. Unlike bodybuilding which creates large but non-functional muscles and machines which put joints in high stress positions, Crossfit focuses on real life movements that make you efficient. After rehabilitation from injury or sedentary periods, Crossfit activities keep people healthy.
CrossFit is the principal strength and conditioning program for many police academies and tactical operations teams, military special operations units, champion martial artists, and hundreds of other elite and professional athletes worldwide.Our program delivers a fitness that is, by design, broad, general, and inclusive. Our specialty is not specializing. Combat, survival, many sports, and life reward this kind of fitness and, on average, punish the specialist.The CrossFit program is designed for universal scalability making it the perfect application for any committed individual regardless of experience. We’ve used our same routines for elderly individuals with heart disease and cage fighters one month out from televised bouts. We scale load and intensity; we don’t change programs.The needs of Olympic athletes and our grandparents differ by degree not kind. Our terrorist hunters, skiers, mountain bike riders and housewives have found their best fitness from the same regimen. – www.crossfit.com
Do you accept insurance?
We do accept most insurance coverage.
However, we are not in-network with any insurance companies. We suggest that you check with your insurance company to find out if you have out-of-network chiropractic benefits. If not, we can verify benefits for you after your first visit.
What can I expect on my first visit?
The initial visit includes consultation of goals, history, movement assessment, examination, diagnosis, and treatment and usually lasts 45 minutes. Subsequent treatments last 15 minutes. Most people can expect to have less pain and more flexibility in the first visit. Few people may not experience results. However, everyone can expect to be smiled at and told the truth about their condition.
How much care will I need?
This is a difficult question to answer because each individual presents with different variables. It is dependent on patient’s goals, age, duration and extent of current injury, physical ability to heal (diet and mental stress), occupation, activities of daily living, and adherence to doctor’s advice. A specific issue on average takes 10 visits in approximately 3 weeks.
What is a “Standard Visit”?
The Manual Therapy Session is your traditional visit designed for the relatively fit and healthy with one area of complaint.The session is 15 minutes long and consists of a movement, followed by treatment and the same movement. With this test-treat-retest model, we are able to constantly assess the progress of your injury, starting day one.
