Our Treatments & Services

How to Choose

Which Treatment Do You Actually Need?

The right treatment depends on the type of problem, not just the location of the pain. These are the most common presentations we see and the clinical reasoning behind where we start.

You’ve been stretching for months and it hasn’t worked

Persistent tightness that doesn’t respond to stretching is usually a fascial adhesion, not a tight muscle. Fascia is connective tissue that wraps individual muscles and binds adjacent tissue layers together when injured or chronically overloaded. Stretching lengthens the muscle but leaves the adhesion untouched. Myofascial scraping (IASTM) and cupping work directly on the adhesion. This is why the tightness comes back every time.

You get adjusted, feel better for a day or two, then go right back

A chiropractic adjustment corrects the joint. But every restricted joint is surrounded by muscles, fascia, and ligaments that adapted to its dysfunctional position over time. Without addressing that surrounding soft tissue first, the tissue pulls the joint back within 24 to 48 hours. The fix is sequencing the work correctly: massage, cupping, or IASTM first, then the adjustment. The correction holds. Improvement accumulates.

You’ve had a soft tissue injury for six months or more and nothing has moved the needle

After roughly three to six months, the body reclassifies a tissue injury as background noise and stops sending active repair resources to it. The injury is no longer healing on its own. No amount of stretching, icing, or waiting changes this. Shockwave Therapy delivers focused acoustic waves directly into the damaged tissue, restarting the biological healing cascade at the cellular level: fibroblast recruitment, new blood vessel formation, and collagen remodeling. This is what it was designed to solve.

Pain that radiates, refers, or moves to a different spot than where you expect it

Referred pain usually means a trigger point. A trigger point is a region of localized sarcomere hypercontraction in a taut band of muscle that has developed its own pain sensitivity and refers that pain to a predictable distant site. The upper trapezius refers to the temple. The quadratus lumborum refers deep into the SI joint and hip. Dry needling inserts a fine filament needle directly into the trigger point and deactivates the dysfunctional motor endplate driving it. The referral pattern settles. This is a different mechanism from acupuncture, and it works on a different problem.

You’re an athlete who needs to keep training while something is wrong

The question isn’t always “how do I stop hurting.” For athletes in season, it’s “what can I load and what can’t I, and how do we fix this without losing six weeks of training.” Dr. Hall played Division I ball at Jacksonville University. He knows the difference between pain you manage and pain that turns into a structural problem if you ignore it. The athletic recovery program at Full Swing is built around that specific question: directed repair, modified load, objective markers for return to full intensity.

You’re pregnant or recently postpartum

Both states put specific mechanical demands on the pelvis and spine that general chiropractic addresses imprecisely. Prenatal chiropractic is adapted for all three trimesters: sacropelvic technique for pelvic balance, gentle work for the lumbar and SI joints under growing load, and positional modification throughout. Postpartum care addresses a different problem: a pelvis and lumbar spine that have been under sustained hormonal and mechanical stress, then subjected to the physical demands of delivery and caring for an infant. Both are offered here and frequently combined with massage in the same visit.

Multiple things are wrong at the same time

Most patients who come to Full Swing have more than one thing going on. A restricted lumbar segment and a fascial adhesion in the paraspinal tissue and a trigger point in the quadratus lumborum and a hip that’s been compensating for years. The treatments above are not alternatives to each other. They address different tissue types and different mechanisms. Dr. Muren and Dr. Hall figure out which combination is appropriate through a complete assessment on the first visit. Nobody here gets treated before they’ve been examined.