The approach
You should leave your first appointment knowing what your problem is, and what the plan is.
Dr Barros treats you on the first visit. What comes before it is the assessment that makes the treatment work.
She takes your history and listens to what has been happening. She tests how you move. She runs the orthopaedic and neurological tests relevant to your presentation. She wants to know what makes it worse, what makes it better, what you have already tried, and what you need to get back to.
Then she explains what she found, and treatment begins.
You should leave that appointment knowing what your problem is and what the plan is.
Appointments consist of hands-on treatment, and a review of your rehabilitation program.
Treatment is matched to what the assessment found. Depending on your presentation that includes chiropractic adjustment, soft tissue work and dry needling.
Visits are closer together at the start and spread out as you improve.
The tools
An adjustment is a quick, controlled movement applied to a joint. You may hear a pop. That sound is gas shifting inside the joint. What the adjustment does is reduce pain and improve how the joint moves, largely by changing how your nervous system responds to that area.
Targets muscle, tendon and connective tissue. Dr Barros uses sustained pressure, soft tissue release combined with movement, and loaded stretching. She uses it when muscles are guarding, tender, and restricting how a joint moves.
A thin, sterile, single-use needle placed directly into muscle. Dr Barros uses it for muscle that is tight, tender and guarding, including the sensitive spots most people describe as knots. It reduces tightness and tenderness, settles guarding, restores range of motion, and reduces referred symptoms coming from the muscle.
Delivered through an app. Every exercise has a video demonstration. Sets, reps and progressions are set for you and tracked as you complete them. Dr Barros can see how you are going and adjust the program without you needing to come back in for it.
