Accidents occasionally occur, handing the victims life-changing conditions often connoted by bodily pain, reduced body function, and inability to enjoy good health to its potential.
However, the medical industry has developed innovative and rehabilitative treatment methods, including massage therapy and medication management, to help patients recover from injuries, relieve chronic pain, and better manage their health needs.
Albeit patients have varied needs, at Woodridge Injury Treatment Center, we are compassionate and experienced enough to provide individualized care to all our patients, improving their performance and seeing them through a speedy recovery journey.
What Are Some Different Types of Treatments Available at Woodridge Injury Treatment Center?
We prioritize your journey to recovery with a diverse range of specialized treatments. Understanding that each injury is unique, we tailor our approach to offer a spectrum of treatments that address a wide array of conditions.
From cutting-edge therapies to well-established techniques, our center is committed to providing personalized care to optimize your healing process. We have different types of treatments available at Woodridge Injury Treatment Center, outlining how we customize these treatments to your specific needs, helping you regain functionality and embrace a pain-free life.
Medication Management
The goal of our medication management services is to assist patients in avoiding the risky and negative impacts of drug-related events such as overdosing, underdosing, or missed medications. We highly recommend medication management to patients taking different prescription drugs to treat distinct conditions.
Our work is to create a detailed and patient-specific medication list and schedule and partner with family members and qualified caregivers to help in medication reconciliation and medication management during the treatment duration.
Our medication management services can also help patients to anticipate the side effects they may experience and know how to deal with them.
Injection Based Therapy (Minimally Invasive)
We also offer injection-based therapy, a nonoperative and minimally invasive treatment method to counter pain where the orthopedic injury is located. We use injections to administer medications and therapies directly to the injury site, ensuring the patient effectively heals, improves body function, and deals with pain without surgery.
Injection-based therapy is recommended for patients with inflammations and injuries involving tendons and ligaments, as they may take longer to heal and cause extreme pain. Such injuries include fractures, muscle injuries, acute ligament injuries, knee arthritis, and chronic tendon injuries. There are a good number of types of injections for pain that can help relieve your suffering.
Massage Therapy
Our massage therapy treatment involves rubbing and manipulating tissues and applying pressure on various body parts. Science shows that massage therapy lowers stress, relaxes muscles, improves blood circulation, and alleviates stiffness, pain, and discomfort.
It also encourages the release of endorphins that act as natural painkillers or feel-good hormones. We recommend massage therapy as a critical component of integrative medical treatment for patients with injuries involving soft tissues like muscles, tendons, and ligaments.
At Woodridge Injury Treatment Center, we only work with licensed massage therapists to guarantee our patients quality care services. Examples of the massage therapies we offer include deep-tissue, Swedish, myofascial release, and lymphatic massage, among others.
Orthopedic Surgery
We can also recommend orthopedic surgery to diagnose, prevent, and treat conditions that affect the health and functioning of a patient’s musculoskeletal system, including bones, muscles, tendons, ligaments, cartilage, soft tissues, or joints.
Without a well-functioning musculoskeletal system, the patient may lack body balance, proper posture, and weight distribution. They can also lack the free movement of particular body parts. Often, problems involving the musculoskeletal system result from an traumatic injury or another medical condition like congenital malformation.
Examples of the orthopedic surgeries we offer include ACL surgery and knee, hip, hand and wrist, spine, shoulder, and elbow replacement surgery. Patients dealing with joint pain, bone fractures, shoulder pain, neck pain, back pain, or soft tissue injuries can call us today and talk to our orthopedic treatment team and get the professional help they need.
Chiropractic Adjustments
We may also recommend chiropractic adjustments to heal and prevent musculoskeletal conditions, particularly those involving the spine.
Chiropractic adjustments are non-invasive and rely on manual body adjustments and manipulations to help the patient recover their joint movement, reduce pain, and increase their range of motion, enhance general body functions.
Our chiropractic services can help treat back pain, joint issues, neck pain, and whiplash. Sometimes, chiropractic adjustments may be combined with complementary treatment strategies like exercise and nutritional counseling for maximum impact.
What Conditions Do We Treat at Woodridge Injury Treatment Center?
Recognizing the diverse spectrum of injuries that individuals may encounter, we stand dedicated to providing specialized care for an extensive range of conditions. Whether resulting from accidents, sports-related incidents, workplace mishaps, or chronic issues impacting daily life, our center is steadfast in delivering personalized treatment approaches for each unique condition.
There are diverse conditions we treat at Woodridge Injury Treatment Center, emphasizing our commitment to holistic healing and improved quality of life for every patient we serve.
Back Pain
Back pain is one of the most frequently-occurring forms of body pain globally. It can cause disability and greatly hinder the patient’s free body movement when walking, lifting, or bending.
Back pain can be caused by an accident or a fall and may affect the vertebrae, intervertebral discs, spinal cord, ligaments, tendons, or muscles. Worse, it can become a more severe spine issue if not treated promptly.
At Woodridge Injury Treatment Center, we have the experience to diagnose different forms of back pains and provide the suitable treatment options that our patients need.
Neck Pain
Neck pain, also known as cervicalgia, can last for months or years, severely limiting patients’ ability to turn their heads or freely move their arms and shoulders. Sometimes, the pain is accompanied by spasms, headaches, numbness, and neck stiffness.
Traumatic occurrences, including automobile accidents, can damage the spine’s vertebral joints, disks, and ligaments and thereby cause neck pain.
At Woodridge Injury Treatment Center, we start by examining the source of the neck pain including the possibility of cancer, infection, or pressure on the spinal cord causing the pain.
We review the patient’s medical history and may conduct various tests, including physical examinations and imaging through X-rays, or Magnetic resonance imaging, to identify the root cause of the pain and recommend appropriate treatment.
Shoulder Pain
The shoulder is a combination of muscles and tendons linked together to provide the right arm movement. But pain around the shoulder joint can severely limit your arm’s range of motion and make it difficult to carry out simple tasks like scratching your back or enjoying fun activities like bowling.
Common sources of shoulder pain include a broken shoulder bone, shoulder separation, dislocation of the shoulder, or damaged shoulder tendons.
Our specialists will be at hand to conduct a physical examination of your shoulder or imaging tests like MRI or X-rays to diagnose the problem and recommend the best treatment procedure for you.
Hip Pain
Hip pain often originates from the hip joint and can be caused by physical stress from rigorous sporting activities, falls, or traumatic accidents.
As one of the most prominent joints in the body, the hip joint connects the thigh bone to the pelvis and gives an individual the ability to move around, support their weight, and maintain body balance.
Typical hip injuries include hip labral tears, hip dislocations, hip muscle strains, and broken bones. If you are experiencing constant hip pain, we encourage you to seek treatment with us and allow us to alleviate the pain using trusted treatment solutions.
Sciatica
Patients with sciatica experience numbness, pain, weakness, or tingling in their legs. This pain or discomfort often occurs when the sciatic nerve is injured or subjected to intense pressure.
When the pain is unbearable, the patient’s walking ability is significantly hampered. When diagnosing and treating this condition, our technicians will examine the strength of the patient’s knee when bending, their ease of walking on toes, and the possibility of weak or abnormal reflexes or loss of sensation.
They will take X-rays and other imaging tests and may recommend non-invasive treatment options to manage the condition. They may also recommend physical therapy to the patient.
Joint Pain
Joint pain is the discomfort, stiffness, or soreness a patient may experience in their joint, either due to physical injury (strains, sprains, or fractures) or sicknesses like arthritis. The joints commonly affected by this type of pain include the spine, hips, feet, hands, and knees.
After examining you, our medical team may recommend various treatment options, including anti-inflammatory drugs, topical treatments, diet changes for weight management, or exercises.
Neuropathy
Patients with peripheral neuropathy often experience pain, weakness, and numbness in their feet and hands. This health condition occurs when the nerves outside the brain and the spinal cord get damaged, usually from traumatic injuries or infections.
Patients with peripheral neuropathy need to seek quick medical help to boost their chances of fully recovering and averting continued damage to the peripheral nerves. Our medical experts will analyze your case, review your medical history, and recommend ways of dealing with the condition, including limiting exposure to toxic chemicals or lowering alcohol intake.
Spinal Disc Injuries
Spinal disc injuries are problems that affect the intervertebral discs, which are like small and round pillows located between the bones of the spinal cord. These discs act as shock absorbers, enabling an individual to move around, bend, or sit.
Disc injuries often occur when the intervertebral discs are strained or sprained by a heavy load or sustained physical trauma, causing pain and irritation to a patient.
Our team will conduct a physical examination to diagnose the disc problems. They may recommend heat treatment, massage therapy, or particular back-strengthening exercises to help manage the pain.
Migraines
Migraines are a form of headache that causes a throbbing pain, usually on one side of the head. It may also be accompanied by neck stiffness, nausea, vomiting, and extra sensitivity to sound and light. We encourage you to contact us today and let us diagnose and treat your migraine headaches.
Concussions
A concussion is an example of a traumatic brain injury after one’s head has been hit by a blow or bump, causing the head and brain to shift back to forth quickly. Concussions affect the brain’s normal functioning.
They can also make it difficult for the victim to maintain concentration, coordination, balance, or memory. Also, a headache or blurry vision may accompany a concussion.
It is essential to seek medical help following a head injury before the pain worsens. Also, talk to experts at Woodridge Injury Treatment Center to find ways to keep your head safe when participating in vigorous activities like playing soccer or bike riding.
Whiplash
A whiplash is a form of neck injury caused by quick and robust back-and-forth movement around the neck and upper spine region and strains the neck ligaments and muscles. As per experts, rear-car accidents and specific sporting activities are some of the leading causes of whiplash.
Our experts at Woodridge Injury Treatment Center may recommend exercises and prescribe pain medication during treatment.
Muscle Injuries
Muscle injury occurs when the muscle or tendon is pulled or strained, causing it to overstretch or tear. This injury can happen when you run, jump, or stumble. It can also be caused by an accident like a laceration, overuse, or fatigue of the affected tendon, ligament, or muscle.
The commonly affected muscles are the shoulder, neck, hamstring, or lower back. More often, muscle injuries are accompanied by stiffness, swelling, or soreness. Our medical team will physically examine the affected muscle and may recommend treatment options like ice or heat treatment or prescribe anti-inflammatory drugs.
Spider/Varicose Veins
Varicose veins refer to puffed-up and twisted veins that come too close to the skin’s surface. They are often caused by increased pressure in the veins in the legs. They can cause pain and discomfort or worse issues if not treated.
Call Woodridge Injury Treatment Center through (773) 482-5800 to have the varicose veins removed by a qualified professional. We will also advise you on suitable weight management methods and recommend the correct exercises and high-fiber diet.
Most Common Causes of Injuries Requiring Treatment
Accidents and injuries are an unfortunate part of life, often occurring when we least expect them. Understanding the common causes of injuries is the first step towards prevention and creating a safer environment for ourselves and those around us. There are various factors that contribute to injuries, but here are few of the most common.
Car Accidents
Car accidents can cause impact injuries like head injuries. This can happen when the driver or other car occupant hits their head on the dashboard or side window. Examples of impact injuries from car accidents include whiplash or concussions.
Truck Accidents
Due to their extra size, truck accidents can have more enormous repercussions than car accidents and can cause traumatic brain injuries, spinal cord injuries, or paralysis.
Motorcycle Accidents
Some injuries likely to arise from motorcycle accidents include broken ribs, neck and chest injuries, sprains, and strains.
Rideshare Accidents
Rideshare accidents can result in whiplashes, broken bones, shoulder injuries, dislocated joints, etc.
Bicycle Accidents
Common injuries from bicycle accidents include bruising, facial injuries like dental injuries, broken noses, eye injuries, sprains and strains, chest and neck injuries, and loss of ribs.
Pedestrian Accidents
Pedestrian accidents can cause knee injuries, broken collarbone, fingers, wrists, ankles, arms, or legs.
Workplace Accidents
At the workplace, anyone can slip and fall, injuring their back or fracturing a bone. Back and neck strains are also common when workers regularly lift heavy loads without the right equipment. Cuts and lacerations are common where staff members are constantly working with sharp tools and equipment. Serious injuries can occur with even minor workplace accidents.
Why Choose Woodridge Injury Treatment Center?
Advanced Treatment Options
We rely on an extensive range of practical and innovative treatment procedures to help the patient recover and effectively manage the pain.
Largest Injury Treatment Provider in Chicago
Over the years, our experience and professional standards have endeared us to becoming Chicago’s biggest injury treatment provider, helping thousands of patients recover fully, alleviate pain, and restore their body performance.
Personalized Injury Treatment Plans
We provide patient-specific diagnosis and treatment methods to ensure the patient recovers fully. We review each case individually, understanding the patient’s medical history before recommending the best treatment options.
Contact Woodridge Injury Treatment Center to Schedule an Appointment Today
Unfortunately, accidents occur occasionally and can result in injuries, some with far-reaching implications on our health and ability to live wholesome lives.
At Woodridge Injury Treatment Center, we are committed to providing state-of-the-art patient care to help accident victims heal from an extensive range of musculoskeletal injuries and illnesses and return to everyday life.
Call Woodridge Injury Treatment Center today through the number (773) 482-5800 and let us get you through your recovery journey.
