Osteopathic care relies on manual manipulation techniques to treat a full range of chronic conditions, injuries, and other ailments. Treatments include techniques to loosen tight tissue, realign joints, and relieve pressure on compressed or injured nerves.
Dr. Tafler offers an integrated, natural, and holistic approach to resolving acute and chronic pain conditions, with the goal of reducing pain, expediting healing, and restoring lost movement and function. Using Osteopathic Manipulation (OMT), he will work with you to improve your body’s balance and overall health with a treatment plan customized to fit your unique situation and health needs.
Just as no two patients are exactly alike, every patient’s pain and underlying condition is unique. Because Dr. Tafler recognizes that your pain and other symptoms are unique to your condition, he will focus on creating a personalized therapy program designed to address your pain issues. That plan can include everything from manual manipulation techniques to stretches, recommended exercises, lifestyle education, and other proven strategies for managing and controlling pain.
Untold millions of Americans suffer from acute and chronic pain conditions each and every day. For many years, medical practitioners have been relying on various medications to treat symptoms like pain, with varying levels of success. Today, however, non-pharmaceutical solutions for pain are enjoying a resurgence in popularity due to a growing interest in natural solutions and increased awareness of the potential addiction side effects of many powerful medications.
Depending upon your condition, Dr. Tafler may recommend a variety of different treatment options. These options may include osteopathic manipulation, cranial osteopathic techniques, and stretching exercises to relieve tight muscles, tendons, and joints. Medical acupuncture, hypnotherapy, and individually-tailored stretches, exercises, and lifestyle recommendations can also play a role in treating chronic pain. Contact us today to make an appointment and discover which options will work best for you.
Medications treat pain by blocking the reception of nerve signals in the body, inhibiting pain sensations. However, they do nothing to address the root causes of pain. Osteopathic care takes a different approach by treating the underlying issues that contribute to pain. That approach enables more effective treatment that reduces pain while promoting faster natural healing for more long-lasting effects.
Dr. Tafler’s decades of osteopathic experience have given him expansive insight into the root causes of a wide variety of pain-inducing conditions. Throughout his practice, he has successfully treated pain and other symptoms due to:
Degenerative disc disease, facet joint syndrome, failed back surgery syndrome, herniated discs, low back pain, lumbar radiculopathy, mid back pain, and more.
Cervical disc herniation, cervical radiculopathy, degenerative disc disease, neck muscle spasms, neck pain, and thoracic outlet syndrome.
Biceps tendonitis, frozen shoulder, rotator cuff injuries, shoulder impingement, general shoulder pain, shoulder tendonitis, and bursitis.
Carpal tunnel syndrome, golfer’s elbow, olecranon bursitis, and tennis elbow.
Iiliotibial band syndrome, knee bursitis, meniscus tears, patellar tendonitis, and patellofemoral pain syndrome.
Trochanteric bursitis, Achilles heel, and other painful ailments.
Chronic tension headaches, head injuries, headaches, migraines, occipital neuralgia, temporomandibular joint (TMJ) syndrome, and whiplash headaches.
For the many patients who have received osteopathic care from Leonid Tafler, D.O., the results speak for themselves. Still, those patient testimonials are an important way for others to learn about the potential benefits they too can receive from osteopathic treatment. The following testimonials are from patients who provided feedback about their visits, delivered in their own words. These testimonials and patient results are presented as examples of osteopathy’s potential benefits.
If you are suffering from chronic pain conditions or pain-related symptoms, and other forms have treatment have failed to help, contact us today. We will schedule an appointment, confirm your diagnosis, and work with you to develop a treatment plan that can effectively reduce your pain, manage your other symptoms, and get you back on the path to an improved quality of life free from pain.
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Through the years, every one treated by Dr. Tafler has had very positive and lasting results. I can't thank him enough for myself, my mom and for every dear person to my heart I sent to him. 🙂 Thank you Doctor! Words can't express what you've done and how many lives have changed. God bless you.
I am a whole hardheartedly grateful to Dr.Tafler for this timely help in recovering the moving function of my shoulder joint. This helped me a win a gold medal and become the Champion of the world in Sambo combat in Greece 2012. I always tell my collegues and student to turn to the excellent and kind Dr. Leonid Tafler in case of any accident or injury.
