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A Combination Approach to Pain Relief

Teamwork and dedication to helping others are their prescriptions for success

The goal of The Center for Manual Medicine and Regenerative Orthopedics is not only to treat patients’ pain, but to find the root cause of what’s causing it. By doing this, patients can start to heal, avoid relapses, and improve mobility.

“One of the main things we really put an emphasis on is diagnostics,” says Dr. Doug Frye, MD. “So physical diagnostics, which is putting your hands on people, seeing what works, what doesn’t work, and where they’re tender and not tender.”

The Center, located in Topeka, offers a combination approach to pain relief. “What we stress is that imaging doesn’t show pain, so it’s up to the physician, the chiropractor and the physical therapists to determine where the pain is coming from,” says Seth Harrison. Besides being the office manager, Harrison has an extensive background in musculoskeletal rehabilitation and has been with the practice for over 20 years.

“We get to see people get better faster by having multiple entities to attack the problem as well as more hands and eyes,” says chiropractor Dr. Dani Steffen. “First, there is an evaluation to determine what area I need to address, if it’s safe to treat, or if I need to get other members of our team involved.

“After the evaluation and being cleared to treat, there’s different things we can do. There’s the traditional diversified technique that most chiropractors use, and there are instrument assisted treatments with tools and blocks.”

Matt Elniff and Courtney Simon are the physical therapists on the team. “You have to address the joint motion and try to fix muscle and postural imbalances which is really key to preventing joint dysfunctions from returning,” says Elniff. “If you continue to move abnormally, and have the same faulty postures, you will always fall back into the same dysfunction.”

Elniff’s training goes well beyond what many other physical therapists attain. “The training that I’ve completed and Courtney is going through is one of the highest levels a physical therapist can complete in orthopedic manual therapy. What that means is we have a lot better ability to see with our hands. We can feel things moving or not moving much better than your average therapist because of the training. We also know how to correct those movements and posture.”

Adds Simon, “I have patients tell me they’ve been dealing with their issues for a year or two and they’ve been to so many different doctors and physical therapists and then they finally get referred here and it’s the first time they haven’t had pain in years. That’s rewarding for me.”

The Center also has the distinction of being the first practice in Kansas certified for musculoskeletal ultrasound. “As far as we know,” says Dr. Frye, we’re still, 13 years later, the only one.”

He is often called upon by the other practitioners to help with a diagnosis through the use of ultrasound. “Instead of spending thousands on an MRI, an ultrasound costs a few hundred,” says Harrison. “It’s vastly cost saving for the patient and greatly improves the speed of timing to feel better.”

In addition to the manual medicine side of the practice, there’s also the innovative regenerative orthopedics aspect. “Basically you have wear and tear on your joints and you have repair that your body does,” says Dr. Frye. “If you get out of balance and don’t have the ability to repair it, you get pain. Regenerative treatment is where we’re trying to boost that repair process.

“We do that with injection therapies with your own cells, either plasma rich platelets or fat cells which have stem cells. We have the ability to do things most people can’t.” The Center also has a sterile lab on site where the materials for these injections are prepared.

“What sets us apart from others is that we’re using patients’ own biologics, so we’re injecting their own platelets, their own stem cells,” says Harrison. “And these are living cells, whereas other places use cells that are cryogenically frozen and shipped so there are no living cells in there.”

While focusing on pain relief and mobility, the Center is also following all guidelines to keep their patients and staff safe during COVID-19. “We feel like we’re doing a really good job,” says Dr. Frye. “We haven’t had anybody test positive here.”

To find out more about The Center for Manual Medicine and Regenerative Orthopedics, go to its website at www.ctrmm.com. Here, you can also find its YouTube page containing many helpful videos.

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