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Chiropractic Care

Naturally Heal Your Pain.

Hammond Henry Hospital is very proud and excited to be offering Chiropractic Care.  Treatment involves hands-on adjustments to reduce pain, helping a person’s body heal itself naturally. The major focus is spine issues and care is often effective for back or neck pain, while reducing the need for pain relievers or more invasive treatments like surgery. Chiropractic care may help improve posture and even athletic performance. The Chiropractic Care department at Hammond-Henry Hospital is here to help you manage back, neck, and other chronic pain and conditions.

Meet Our Chiropractor

Dr. Owen McConnell uses a hands-on approach to find areas in a patient’s spine, extremities, and muscles that are restricting their movement and causing dysfunction within joints and muscles. Fixing these can reduce joint and muscle pain as well as decrease inflammation. He uses a wide variety of techniques based on an evidence-based approach and considers what the patient is most comfortable with and what will work best for their ailments. Each patient is different as are their specific injuries or chronic pain needing treatment.

PRIMARY SERVICES

    • Chiropractic adjustments - low force adjustments like activator, using drops, as well as hands on manual adjustments
    • Stretching and soft tissue massage - using soft tissue tools and massage gun
    • Patient education on their injuries and what they can do at home including several rehabilitation exercises and after-care instructions

SPECIALTY SERVICES

    • Dr. McConnell’s background as a certified athletic trainer offers expertise in diagnosis, treatment and at home exercises for sports injuries, helping successfully treat athletes
    • Experience treating a wide variety of patients from newborns to geriatric
    • Providing treatment to pregnant patients

EDUCATION

  • Graduate of Erie High School, Central College, and Palmer College of Chiropractic graduating with honors (all three levels of education)
  • Bachelor’s degree in athletic training
  • Doctorate degree in Chiropractic

CERTIFICATIONS

  • Doctor of Chiropractic (DC)
  • Licensed Athletic Trainer (LAT)
  • Athletic Trainer-Certified (ATC)
  • Basic Life Support (BLS)
  • Mackenzie Method and Mechanical Diagnosis and Therapy Part A and B
  • FAKTR (Functional and Kinetic Treatment with Rehab) certified

EXPERIENCE

    • Starting in 2018 - Hospital PRN athletic trainer covering various sports for Geneseo and Erie High Schools. Today, covering various sports (primarily for Erie/Prophetstown High Schools).
    • Diverse experience providing chiropractic care to Geneseo area patients since 2021

COMMON ISSUES TREATED

    • Low back pain
    • Sciatica, disc injuries, lower back joint and muscle sprain/strains
    • SI joint dysfunction
    • Postural tightness (upper back, lower neck tightness and pain)
    • Cervical tension headaches
    • Neck pain with numbness and tingling going into arms
    • Plantar fasciitis
    • Shoulder joint dysfunction

 

Dr. McConnell will start seeing patients in December. You can schedule an appointment now in the Geneseo Clinic. Call (309) 944-1275 to schedule. No referrals needed. Walk-ins accepted as schedule allows (scheduled at that time or later that day.) Insurances accepted, including BCBS, UHC, and Medicare. Please inquire about other insurance carriers.

 

When Should I Seek Chiropractic Care?

Chronic Low Back Pain.

Patients experiencing chronic low back pain should consider non-medication treatment first, such as chiropractic care along with other treatments listed below:

  • Spinal manipulation
  • Yoga
  • Tai chi
  • Progressive Muscle Relaxation
  • Acupuncture
  • Meditation
  • Exercise

Chronic Neck Pain.

Ease neck pain with spinal manipulation to realign your spine, easing tension in your neck muscles. Having poor posture, sitting for hours, or bending your neck when on the phone are common causes of neck pain.

3 Types of Symptoms - Headache, Osteoarthritis, and Scoliosis

  1. Tension headaches and headaches that originate in your neck.
  2. Osteoarthritis pain, caused by cartilage degeneration in a joint that makes the ends of your bones rub together.
  3. People with scoliosis may find that chiropractic care helps.

 

What Should I Expect During Initial Visit and Adjustment Sessions?

During your initial visit, we will take your health history and perform a physical exam, paying specific attention to your spine. Other examinations or tests, such as X-rays may be scheduled.

  • Patient completes new patient paperwork, describing their medical history and providing an overview of present injuries or chronic pain.

For actual chiropractic adjustment session, patient is taken to treatment room.

  • Medical assistant takes a health history and patient vitals (blood pressure).
  • McConnell conducts a new patient exam including range of motion testing, palpation of areas of complaint and several orthopedic exams to determine safest and most effective treatment.
  • Patient placed in specific positions to treat affected areas, lying face down on a padded chiropractic table.
  • Soft tissue therapy provided before, during and after adjustment.
  • For adjustments - using his hands or small instrument (activator tool), Dr. McConnell applies a controlled, sudden force to a spinal joint, pushing the affected joint past usual range of motion.
  • Popping/cracking sounds are often heard as joints are adjusted.
  • Patient education – at home rehab exercises and after-care provided along with when to reschedule next appointment.
  • Patient given the option to relax in a treatment room with cold or hot packs depending on condition after treatment.

 

THE HEALING JOURNEY

Chiropractic adjustments are scheduled more often at the beginning of the journey and then as patient progresses in treatment, appointments are spaced-out according to what works best for the patient and their injury or chronic pain.