About
About Pain
What Is Pain?
About Chiropractic
What's Chiropractic? Symptoms Chiropractic Can Be Effective
History of Chiropractic Characteristics Of Our Clinic
About Therapist
Ikuko Abe D.C.
About Pain
What is Pain?
As everyone knows, "Pain" is an unpleasant sensation. The unpleasantness of pain is the very thing that makes it so effective and is an essential part of life. It gives you fear and dulls your concentration and focus on what you want to accomplish. It also makes you move differently, think differently and behave differently.
Although pain is considered as a bad experience, it is a normal experience. Pain is a great "alert" system to preserve and protect human life from danger. Pain indicates changes occurring to your body either good or bad. The muscle pain or muscle soreness after exercising, for example, is not a sign of bad pain but it is necessary for muscles to develop.
Pain is a very subjective experience and varies from person to person depending upon the environment you grew up with, psychosocial factors, cultures, gender, age, time and so on. The amount of pain you experience may be influenced by who else is around.
Occasionally, the pain system appears to act oddly. The greater pain is not always necessarily indicating life-threatening diseases. Often, it is the smaller pain that should not be overlooked.
For example, everyone has experienced the small paper cut that gave you a great pain. The cut is not deep and there is not much tissue damage, but it really hurts. Ironically, a life-threatening condition such as cancer sometimes fails to give you a great pain to alert until it progresses to the late stage. When you are concentrating on what you are doing, you feel less pain. You have seen an athlete who keeps playing the game hard as nothing has happened, even when he is injured and bleeding.
As you see now, "pain" is such a mysterious sensation we experience. It is important to understand and actually feel "pain" rather than to hide and ignore the "pain" by pain killers or other drugs in order for us to be able to find the causes of the "pain".
We will carefully examine the painful area by inspecting, palpating and checking the range of motion. Our skilled doctor will identify the cause of the pain by asking you when it started hurting, the types and degree of pain, if there's any limitation in range of motion, small daily habits of motion.
The Quote of Edison
“The doctor of the future will give no medicine but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, in diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease.”
---Thomas Alva Edison
About Chiropractic
What is Chiropractic?
In many countries nowadays Chiropractic is one of the mainstream healthcare providers. In the U.S. Doctors of Chiropractic are trained in a high standard program in an accredited Chiropractic college or university for 4-5 years after 3-4 years of strong science background in undergraduate and have to pass all four national board examinations and a state board examination. In North America, Chiropractic is one of the “Three Doctors” (Medical Doctor, Doctor of Osteopathy and Doctor of Chiropractic) to provide primary care.
Symptoms Chiropractic Can Be Effective
Chiropractic care is used most often to treat neuromusculoskeletal complaints, including but not limited to back pain,neck pain, headaches, neck pain, upper back pain, lower back pain, frozen shoulder, tendinitis, sciatica, tingling and numbness in arm or leg, temporomandibular dysfunction, scoliosis, sports injuries, chronic discomfort from any post-injuries, post-surgery and postpartum and so on. Depending on the condition, proper and effective techniques are used. We focus on the spine and pelvis and lower extremities as a whole.
The History of Chiropractic
The history of Chiropractic began in 1895 by Daniel David Palmer in Iowa, United States of America. The origin of the word "Chiropractic" is from Greek, "Chiro" means hand and "practico" means to perform treatment.
The Characteristics of Our Center
We are neuro-musculo-skeletal professionals who treat without drugs or surgery. Instead, we offer manual therapy (with our hands), safe and effective rehabilitative exercises, and physical therapy modalities.
Our treatment objective is not only to diminish the pain you are experiencing but also to unlock your body's natural ability to heal and function optimally. We also place emphasis on active rehabilitative care and patient education in order to avoid further tissue damage and prevent them from reoccurring, and for a patient to learn how to take care of one's own health.
About Therapist
Ikuko Abe D.C.
Dr. Ikuko Abe is one of the few female chiropractors in Japan who has a Doctor of Chiropractic degree from an internationally accredited Chiropractic university and is licensed in the United States of America. Also she is the ART (Active Release Techniques) full-body certified provider with Active Diagnosis (SFMA) and Nerve Entrapment certifications as well.
She majored in Psychology as an undergraduate and then began her Chiropractic studies in the United States, where Chiropractic has gained a powerful role in healthcare for the American public. She graduated from the Los Angeles College of Chiropractic at the Southern California University of Health Sciences. She has experiences of working at the University Health Centers in Whittier and Pasadena, California, California State University Los Angeles Student Clinic, California State University Northridge Student Clinic, California State University Northridge Rehabilitation Center, La Habra Help for Brain Injured Children Center, and the Uchida Chiropractic Office in California.
She also gained valuable experience by volunteering her services as a Chiropractic team member for participants of the San Diego Breast Cancer Walk, many cyclists (1600 participants) for the AIDS Life Cycle, and patients at the "Corason" facility in Tijuana, Mexico.
Besides practicing chiropractic, she lectured Biomechanics, Diagnosis and technique skills at Tokyo campus of Murdoch University, an Australian state's university 2008-2010.
She also gained valuable experience by volunteering her services as a Chiropractic team member for participants of the San Diego Breast Cancer Walk, many cyclists (1600 participants) for the AIDS Life Cycle, and patients at the "Corason" facility in Tijuana, Mexico.
Besides practicing chiropractic, she lectured Biomechanics, Diagnosis and technique skills at Tokyo campus of Murdoch University, an Australian state's university 2008-2010.
She treated Masashi Nakayama, a former Japanese national soccer player.
Also she was involved in the treatment and conditioning of top athletes at the Shintai Reset Camp 2023 in Okinawa organized by eightis Ltd. This is a groundbreaking total body care programme where movement measurements and analysis are carried out in advance, and several specialists are involved with one athlete.
We are officially Full-Body certified in Active Release Technique® (ART®). We help athletes, dancers, musicians, artists, and many others achieve their physical activity goals. We use personalized appropriate techniques for each individual.
We help athletes, dancers, musicians, artists, and many others achieve their physical activity goals. We use personalized appropriate techniques for each individual.
Dr. Abe is fluent in English. Please feel free to call.
Publishing
Japanese translation of "Active Release Techniques: Soft Tissue Management System For Nerve Entrapments" P Michael Leahy, Active Release Techniques, LLC, 2017.
Japanese translation of "Active Release Techniques: Soft Tissue Management System For The Spine-2nd Edition" P Michael Leahy, Active Release Techniques, LLC, 2008.
Japanese translation of "Active Release Techniques: Soft Tissue Management System For The Upper Extremity-2nd Edition" P Michael Leahy, Active Release Techniques, LLC, 2008.
Japanese translation of "Active Release Techniques: Soft Tissue Management System For The Lower Extremity-2nd Edition" P Michael Leahy, Active Release Techniques, LLC, 2008.
Japanese translation of "The Aging Body: Conservative Management of Common Neuromusculoskeletal Conditions" Morgenthal and Bougie, Enterprise Publishing Co., Tokyo, 2004 January.
Article "Sarcopenia Due to Aging and its preventative Exercises", Manipulation Vol.72, Enterprise Publishing Co.,Tokyo 2004
Article "Chiropractic Approach To Whiplash Associated Disorders (WAD)", Manipulation No.76, Enterprise Publishing Co., Tokyo 2005.