Dr. Lawrence Teixeira might change your idea of what a chiropractor can do for you. As a Certified Chiropractic Sports Physician, Teixeira has treated many professional and Olympic athletes with a variety of techniques, including chiropractic, acupuncture, Kinesio tape, rehabilitation, and a variety of therapies such as massage and decompression.

Teixeira focuses not just on the area of pain, but on its biomechanical cause or the effect it has on other areas of the body. "For example, low back pain may have hip or knee involvement that needs to be addressed," he says. "So not only do I find bone misalignments and soft-tissue restrictions in the spine, I find it in other joints, as well."

One of the key therapies Teixeira uses to treat athletes is Active Release Technique, or ART. A hands-on technique that releases soft-tissue restrictions and entrapped nerves, ART alters tissue structures by breaking up restrictive adhesions and restores normal function to the area, releasing pain.

"I have found that ART is the most effective thing out there to treat pain," Dr. Teixeira says. "ART is used by most profes­sional sports teams to prevent surgery and to get athletes performing at their highest level."

ART can work for anyone, not just athletes. An experienced ART practitioner like Teixeira can improve most conditions in two to three treatments, and successfully resolve most conditions in six to 12 visits.


Lawrence Teixeira, DC, PA
817 Douglas Ave., Ste. 179, Altamonte Springs; 407.331.5050; teixchiropractic.com.

To ensure your practitioner is certified in ART, visit: activerelease.com.

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