Chiropractor West Lafayette IN
Welcome to Mattern Chiropractic located in West Lafayette IN. Chiropractic is one of the most amazing healthcare professions, but very few people understand what it's all about. This article is here to help you gain a basic understanding of how our West Lafayette IN chiropractors can help you and your family.
Mattern Chiropractic
At Mattern Chiropractic we provide therapy, instrument, and hands on chiropractic care for natural pain relief, wellness, and health. Here in West Lafayette, Indiana in the heart of Purdue University Discovery Park, Dr. Mattern has toiled, for 37 years. Proudly providing his wonderful community safe, effective, and natural and non-invasive healthcare. Serving the patients and neighbors local to West Lafayette, Lafayette and the surrounding bergs and towns of Pine Creek, Dayton, Otterbein, Oxford, and Fowler.
Dr. James Mattern D.C.
How Can Chiropractic Care Help You?
Many people dismiss chiropractic as being something only for back pain, but chiropractic care can be used to help a wide variety of physical issues, such as migraines and headaches, chronic pain, carpal tunnel, pain due to injury or muscle strain, and much more.
Back Pain
Headaches
Pregnancy
Family Care
About Chiropractic Care
Chiropractic is just plain weird. Even its name is odd. Chiro=”by hand,” and “practice” =the practice of. It would have been swallowed alive years ago by traditional medicine-funded by big oil and the captains of industry like the Rockefellers. It held out against all odds. Not because the profession could spend big money to buy politicians like big-pharma, it survived simply because it worked, and still does. Chiropractors were treated as second class pariahs, many old timers prided themselves on the fact the they spent time in jail for “practicing medicine without a license” BJ Palmer ran the school I attended, Palmer College. The AMA, American Medical Association was sued and at the level of the Supreme court was finally found guilty of attempting to contain and eliminate a competing health care profession, the chiropractors. Truly a David vs Goliath situation. Palmer was painted at the time, as the most dangerous man East of the Mississippi. It is never about safety. As always, it is about money, who controls the healthcare pie and who gets to profit from it.
Dr. Matten's Story
I was injured in a high school wrestling practice. My dad, a millwright had to fix giant machines often from the inside out where he waged hand to steel combat with belts and press components using crowbars and wenches. Sometimes he lost the battle, a trip to the chiropractor would have him walking upright again. He took me to old doc Wells, his chiro, he helped me tremendously after my injury too. Chiropractic has become my calling and profession for more than half of my life now.
I am a senior bald left-handed white male Christian chiropractor of German immigrants residing in the rust belt of a hollowed out middle America. That combo given me the opportunity to develop some thick skin and enough insight to keep my opinions to myself. I do not care about your race creed color gender nor political persuasion; it has no pertinence. If you have a heartbeat and a spine, there is probably something I can do to help you and will give it my best effort.
Dr. Matten's Mission
I reduce unnecessary human suffering by stimulating joint mechanoreceptors, distupting fascial adhesions, supporting lax ligaments, improving posural opposition to gravity and encouraging reductions in dietary simple sugars and inflammatory mediators.
Conditions We Help
- High front pain (Headache): as opposed to Low back pain, which I also help.
- Jaw pain: A dentist will say it’s your bite, a chiropractor will say it’s your neck, it’s probably a little of both. I can usually help.
- Neck pain and stiffness: Range of motion restrictions, whiplash, text-neck, or that kinked up neck feeling, pain referring to skull, shoulder blade, elbow or to finger(s).
- Hip pain: aka sacroiliac joint dysfunction, or as my Aunt Betty use to say, my Lumbago, “it’s killin me.”
- Shoulder pain: rotator cuff frays, partial thickness tears. Imbalance & overuse repetitive motion injuries, upper cross syndromes from chronic bad posture. Impingements, and various conditions that end in -itis, -osis and -esis.
- Shoulder blade pain, weakness, and imbalance: Mid back aches, stuck ribs, collar bone, breastbone, and armpit pain
- Low back pain-common sources: iliolumbar ligament sprain, spondylolisthesis, facet joint fixations, osteoarthritis, myofascitis, disc herniations with or without discogenic radiculopathy that drives very unpleasant shooting electric pains down one or both legs.
- Upper and lower extremity pain and joint dysfunction: carpal tunnel and its cousins, nerve entrapments, fascial adhesions, scars driving a persisting dull ache even though healed long ago. I can usually get good results working with hip bursitis, iliotibial band syndrome, piriformis syndrome, shin splints, plantar fasciitis, and hip and knee issues that are non-orthopedic and not to the total joint replacement level.
Services We Offer
- Bodywork/massage with clothes on: Vibrational/percussive therapy to improve circulation/lymphatic drainage and block transmission of a signal your brain perceives as pain.
- Manual adjusting/aka spinal manipulation: This is traditional chiropractic, induce a controlled about of force into a joint lacking proper motion.
- Myofascial release: Fascial adhesions gum up tissue limiting motion and stressing surrounding areas. Manual therapy is used to improve mobility.
- Leander Chiropractic Table Adjustments: Leander is a brand name motion assisted chiropractic table with built in drop mechanisms to make mobilizations of joint dysfunctions more comfortable.
- Hand-Held Instrument Therapies: Whole nerve glides, manual/hand held instrument reduction of scars, stiff and dried out ligament and tendon insertions of bone and joints.
- Reduction/corrections of soft tissue lesions: enthesis and herniated trigger point reductions of various types.
- Cupping and scraping: the use of manual devices (IASTM)-instrument assisted soft tissue mobilizations-used for chronic scars or poorly recovered injuries.
- Strapping & Support: Strapping and support for ligaments that move too much from pregnancy, or new and chronic injury. Leucotape, Kinesiotape, Serola Sacroiliac belts, Protech orthotic for rolled ankles, flat foot, and knee support etc.
- DNPT: dry needle trigger point therapy-reduced facilitated lesions deep in tissue hard to reach with alternate therapies.
- Interferential therapy: for pain inhibition &/or edema reduction, joint/muscle-controlled range mobilizations.
- Physical Therapy: simple exercise and rehabilitation as applied and demonstrated in office and for self-directed home-based applications. To help you help yourself.
- Lite-Body Work: effleurage, DAS-doctor assisted stretches, PIR-post isometric relaxation etc. Basically, a variety of techniques used when someone is too sore for more aggressive therapies, patient preference or underlying issues like debility, age, medications that may contraindicate heavier types of manual care.
- Nutrition & Wellness Guidance: General do’s/don’ts with dietary recommendations, herbal/botanicals, and mineral recommendations for supporting energy pathways, immune support, recovery, endocrine and anti-inflammatory support and support of a normal microbiome in the gut for skin, and digestive issues.