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Dr. Hansen is an experienced and committed chiropractic in the Elk Grove/Laguna Area.Dr. Hansen was born and raised in Elk Grove. In Fact, Dr. Hansen’s grandparents raised 8 children here. There is a street named after Dr. Hansen’s mothers’ family, Eisenbeisz St.
While growing up Dr. Hansen developed a keen interest in staying healthy because both of his grandfathers died of strokes in their early 50’s. Then his father in his early 30’s developed rheumatoid arthritis, which caused his father a great amount of pain and deformity. His father was constantly being used as a guinea pig and was given many different kinds of drugs and experimental drugs. All of which had moderate to severe side effects. One of Dr. Hansen’s uncles and two of his aunt’s also developed rheumatoid arthritis
Also, while growing up Dr. Hansen’s mom developed headaches and anxiety and had a lot of neck, shoulder and chest pain. The medical doctors told her that she needed trigger point injections. When the medical doctors gave the injection in a chest muscle, he put the needle in too deep and collapsed her lung. Dr. Hansen’s mother spent two weeks in the hospital and almost died.
Needless to say Dr. Hansen was not very impressed with the medical profession, yet he knew he needed to learn what it took to be healthy and he figured there was no better way then to become a medical doctor. So Dr. Hansen attended San Joaquin Delta College and then Sacramento State University as a pre-med major. While attending Sacramento State Dr. Hansen sustained a severe low back injury and went to the campus medical doctor who gave him drugs and told him he had a strained muscle. Two weeks later Dr. Hansen was still crawling to the bathroom in the morning and if he sneezed or coughed he would end up on the floor in severe spasms. He returned to the medical doctor who sent him to a physical therapist who told him to put heat and ice on his back and stretch his muscles. Another two weeks went by and Dr. Hansen was not more than 5 to 10% improved since the original injury. That is when Dr. Hansen’s father took him to see an old retired chiropractor that he knew. Dr. Hansen at that time had never even heard the word chiropractic and did not know what a chiropractor did. When Dr. Hansen received his fist chiropractic adjustment he got off the table and was immediately 70% improved. Dr. Hansen then stayed with his chiropractor for the summer and was completely healed.
Dr. Hansen then returned to Sacramento State University and took a few more courses in chemistry and physics and entered Life Chiropractic College West.
Four academic years later Dr. Hansen graduated from Chiropractic College as valedictorian of his class. Dr. Hansen has been practicing chiropractic since 1986 and now has one of the largest solo practices in California.
If you are looking for a committed, passionate, and caring doctor of chiropractic who has 100% faith in his ability to help you, call today and join Dr. Hansen’s family of thousands of enthusiastically satisfied patients.
Products And Services
DRX 9000
Do you suffer from Herniated Disk? Degenerative Disk Disease? Chronic Low Back Pain? Sciatica?
Wanting to avoid surgery... the DRX 9000 just might be what the doctor ordered.
The DRX9000 system uses a multi-factored approach for relieving disc herniation. As the DRX9000 slowly decompresses the spine, a vacuum is formed within the affected disc.
This vacuum is called "negative intradiscal pressure" and relieves the disc herniation which in turn can reduce the pressure on the neighboring spinal nerves. The results are reduced pain and discomfort. This vacuum effect also draws the herniated material back into the disc, along with water and other nutrients and thus aids healing within the disc.
The technology of the DRX9000 allows it to adjust the amount of traction according to the reaction of the patient's body. Under normal traction, the patient's body will sense tension as it is being pulled and react by going into spasm. To counter this spasm reaction by the patient, the DRX9000 system will cycle through a series of pulling and relaxing as the treatment is being administered. This makes the decompression treatment much more effective since the patient's body is not fighting against the pull of the machine.
The DRX9000 is gaining immense popularity among healthcare professionals as an alternative to back fusion therapy and other invasive treatments. Many patients have reported good success with the system and feel it was a better solution for them rather using surgical techniques to address their lower back problems
Spinal Adjustments
In basic terms, the spinal adjustment or spinal manipulation refers to the process in which the doctor of chiropractic skillfully applies controlled force into one or more "subluxated" vertebrae of the spine. The adjustment is also frequently used in the pelvic region to normalize the sacroiliac joints. The adjustment is usually delivered using the hands or through the use of a specialized mechanical tool.
Spinal adjustments are applied to certain vertebrae of the spine which are no longer in their proper position or where functioning has become impaired. Vertebrae which lose their normal position or proper motion are commonly termed vertebral subluxations. The chiropractor uses a number of unique tests and procedures to determine which, if any, vertebrae are subluxated. If subluxations are found, immediate correction is generally indicated. Since like cavities subluxations are not always painful during the initial stages, even those who are not experiencing back or neck discomfort should receive periodic spinal checkups.
Adjusting helps correct vertebral subluxations. Correcting subluxations reduces pain and inflammation, reduces muscle spasm and tension, normalizes spinal biomechanics and more importantly, can remove nerve irritation and interference which can improve overall health and wellness of the individual. Chiropractic adjustments are the only way to eliminate vertebral subluxations and only the chiropractor is trained to detect subluxations and deliver the chiropractic spinal adjustment to correct subluxations.
In addition to adjusting the spine and pelvis, almost every other joint of the body can be adjusted by the chiropractor. This includes the joints of the hands and feet, wrists and ankles, elbows and knees, shoulders and hips, ribs and the jaw. In fact, some chiropractors are even trained in techniques to adjust the joints (sutures) of the skull.
Like the joints of the spine, joints in the extremities can also become misaligned and fixated. Chiropractic adjustive techniques can restore and enhance extremity joint functioning which can increase the life of the joint and keep wear and tear to a minimum. This is of special interest to athletes who generally demand optimal joint performance from highly stressed joints. Adjusting provides an immediate increase in joint range of motion and also supplies the joint with nutrients, as motion is the only way to bring nutrients into the joint cartilage and flush wastes products out.
X-Rays
While prolonged exposure to radiation can be potentially harmful to the human body, the diagnostic x-rays utilized by the chiropractic doctor pose a minimal health risk. In fact, according to radiation guidelines for diagnostic x-ray studies, it would take more than 300 full spine x-rays performed by a chiropractor for these guidelines to be met. In addition, the following steps are used to further reduce the amount of x-ray exposure:
Only necessary x-ray views will be taken eliminating unnecessary x-ray exposure
Shielding & filtration to block or reduce the x-ray beam from affecting sensitive tissues and areas of nondiagnostic interest
Rare earth (intensifying) screens can cut x-ray exposure by 50 percent
Collimation to narrow the x-ray beam to include areas of interest only
Grids to reduce scatter radiation and improve x-ray quality
High speed film lowers exposure time by up to 1/12th compared to "hospital" x-rays
Increasing kilovoltage and minimizing milliamperage further reduces x-ray dosage
Minimal exposure times of just 100ths of a second
Regular changing of processor chemicals to give high quality, diagnostic films
DOT Physicals
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