Hi, I am Justin Backstrom, a Chiropractic Physician whose purpose is to help you get back into the driver’s seat of your body and live in ways that decrease pain and dysfunction while increasing longevity and resilience. Just like sailing or riding a horse require tiny adjustments and conscious changes for an optimal and enjoyable ride so too does steering the human body. Pain is our body’s way of communicating that something is off and that things needs to change in our behavior to bring balance back to the way our bodies are functioning. By the time we get to experiencing pain, our bodies have actually been in a state of disfunction for quite some time. Whether it be through postural habits, overuse/underuse of different muscle groups, chronically tight muscles from poor stability, lifestyle choices (diet and inflammation), injury, or genetics, usually a combination of these things bring us to the point where we need to seek help or turn to drugs.
My work is to identify and assess your patterns by finding which areas in your body are restricted (not moving well) as well as which areas are moving too much (instable and hypermobile). By providing adjustments/manipulations and targeted soft tissue work to the restricted areas and conscious strengthening to weaker hypermobile areas we can begin to retrain the nervous system to start to exist in a new healthier pattern. I will teach you exercises during our sessions that you can do on your own to both mobilize restricted areas and strengthen the weak points. Whether it be the joints in our neck, back, hips, shoulders, knees, or feet there is an optimal (centrated) position for these joints to exist in, and this is what I will help you to find.
