Functional Medicine

Chiropractic Medicine

Chiropractic Medicine Plus Conventional Medicine = Better care

Chiropractic medicine is a form of manual or physical medicine that seeks to remove biomechanical dysfunctions from the joints, particularly of the spine and extremities.  When stress and/or injuries causes an imbalance in muscle tone, muscles, acting as guide wires, may pull on the joints that they attach to and lead to strain on the ligaments that support the joints.
Further, improper positioning of these joints may induce increased pressure on surrounding nerves causing more pain, tingling, numbness, and weakness of the affected area.  This most certainly will lead to a decrease in function and wellness.  Manipulation of the affected areas helps realign the dysfunctional joint, and restores normal tone in the muscle.  The net result is decreased pain and spasm as well as regeneration of the joint that would otherwise lead to arthropathy.

What is unique about the care at Solaris Med Spa is the manual medicine delivered by Dr. McWilliams can be coupled with conventional medicine.  This integration of disciplines allows the patient, suffering from pain, to not only benefit from the relief and regenerative abilities that manipulation affords, but also achieve relief from medications and injections that are also known to provide pain relief.  Whereas chiropractors (DC’s), can NOT prescribe medications nor inject, and whereas most medical doctors (MD’s & DO’s), cannot manipulate, and neither can provide advice in exercise, a doctor who is medically trained, licensed, and experienced in all 3 disciplines, can provide the structural relief of manipulation, the pain relief of medications and injections (trigger point and Prolotherapy), and the advice of rehabilitative exercise.

Dr. Kenneth McWilliams, has degrees in medicine (NMD), chiropractic (DC), and exercise physiology (MEd).  Further, he is a Diplomate in the American Academy of Pain Management, and a past Fellow of the American Back Society.