Chiropractic Care, Ltd.
At Chiropractic Care, Ltd., our goal is to help you achieve and maintain optimal health through natural chiropractic care. We determine the cause of your symptoms and treat it with gentle, effective, and drug-free therapies.
Dr. Ralph Kruse is a Board Certified
Chiropractic Physician, Chiropractic Orthopedist, Acupuncturist, and Cox
Flexion-Distraction practitioner and instructor who has been in private
practice since 1991. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Chiropractic
Orthopedists, a Member of the American Pregnancy Association and on the
editorial board for the Journal of the Academy of Chiropractic
Orthopedists. Dr. Kruse lectures around the country and has authored
numerous papers documenting the positive effects of chiropractic care
for disc herniations in the neck and back. He has authored a chapter on
the care of back pain in pregnant patients and a case study showing how
Cox Flexion Distraction helped a pregnant woman with sciatica. His most
recent publication was a research study in JMPT documenting the
effective treatment of patients who had already underwent spinal
surgery. He has been involved in federally funded research studies along
side medical doctors and researchers at Loyola Stritch School of
Medicine, National University of Health Sciences and Palmer College of
Chiropractic.
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One of the premises of chiropractic is that when the flow of nerve impulses to parts of the body is hindered, illness, pain, numbness, weakness and tingling can result. Causes of these 'pinched nerves' include herniated, bulging and degenerated discs as well as spinal misalignments (subluxations) and muscle tightness. Chiropractic manipulation, including Cox Flexion-distraction decompression, helps remove this interference and restores normal nerve flow to the musculoskeletal system. Cox Flexion-distraction can also be modified to treat pregnant patients with back pain and sciatica.
As a Chiropractic Orthopedist, Dr. Kruse
frequently treats issues unrelated to the spine such as rotator cuff
impingement and tendonitis, hip bursitis, knee pain and plantar
fasciitis. At both of our offices your therapy may include massage,
electric stimulation, heat, therapeutic ultrasound, custom-molded foot
orthotics, kinesio tape, muscle activation technique, nutrition, and
rehabilitation. Acupuncture is also a treatment option for pain and
stress reduction as well as an aid to help quit smoking. The Homewood
office contains an x-ray facility which allows for faster diagnosis and
treatment.
Our goal is to help you learn more about the benefits of Chiropractic
care. We invite you to schedule an appointment with us to discuss if you
can benefit from our care. We are a preferred provider for most
insurance plans and bill your insurance company directly. We accept
assignment for Medicare and treat worker's compensation and motor
vehicle accident injuries such as whiplash.
We maintain practices in south suburban Homewood
(708-798-5556), and 30 North Michigan Avenue in Chicago directly across
from Millennium Park (312-269-5556). The Homewood location offers free
on- site parking and we pay for your parking at the Grant Park North
garage when you visit our Chicago location.
Feel free to visit the many pages of this web
site for information regarding our offices, our staff, our services as
well as links to the many papers Dr. Kruse has authored.