Pacific Blue Cross Insurance Coverage? We need your help! Protect your rights for Chiropractic, Registered Massage Therapy, Acupuncture and Custom Orthotic coverage. Please contact me directly on how you can help. It's your health care right to have these options. Please protect them!! Message me directly on how you can help. Thanks! If you have a Question you’d like to Ask Dr. Michael Horo ...

The P-Word, Posture, it's one of the most common interests & concerns our patients have. How to have "Perfect Posture", "Better Posture", "Postural Correction", what "Postural Exercises" are best? All patients at our clinic start off with a Chiropractic Postural & Spinal Evaluation. This begins with a careful evaluation as to what's looking good & what needs improvement. Everyone hol ...

Sciatica (or sciatic neuritis) is a set of symptoms including pain that may be caused by general compression and/or irritation of one of five nerve roots that give rise to the sciatic nerve, or by compression or irritation of the sciatic nerve itself. The pain is felt in the lower back, buttock, and/or various parts of the leg and foot. In addition to pain, which is sometimes severe, there ...

Scoliosis (from Greek: skolíōsis meaning "crooked") is a medical condition in which a person's spine is curved from side to side, shaped like an "s", and may also be rotated. Conservative treatment of scoliosis through chiropractic, massage, stretches and activity modification can help prevent the progression of a scoliotic curve and in some cases reduce the degree of that curve. I ...

Hycroft’s newest (RMT) Registered Massage Therapist is Demis Cabrele, a graduate of the West Coast College of Massage Therapy 3000-hour RMT program.   Demis believes that massage therapy facilitates the body’s natural healing process. Incorporating modalities such as myofascial release, trigger point therapy, deep tissue massage and stretching, Demis is able to create a treatment pl ...

Stretch of the Day: The Cat-Stretch Stretch! Cats & Dogs do this stretch all the time. They must know something. This stretch has two components. 1) kneel on all 4’s with your hands shoulder width apart and close to your knees. Now tilt your pelvis to your belly by contracting your abdominal muscles and lower spine reaching for the sky. Hold for 15-seconds. 2) still in the kneeling posit ...

Pinched Nerve - describes a type of  injury to a nerve or set of nerves. The injury may result from compression, constriction, or stretching. Symptoms include numbness, "pins and needles" or burning sensations, and pain radiating outward from the injured area. One of the most common examples of a single compressed nerve is the feeling of having a foot or hand "fall asleep." Otherwise, pain ...

Swedish Massage is a relaxing and flowing massage that focuses on the superficial muscles, helping to increase the flow of oxygen in the blood and release toxins from the muscles. The five basic strokes of a Swedish massage are effleurage (sliding or gliding), petrissage (kneading), tapotement (rhythmic tapping), friction (cross fiber) and vibration/shaking. All strokes must travel towards ...

Registered Massage Therapy Services in Vancouver Deep Tissue Massage RMT Massage Therapists at Hycroft Chiropractic & Massage offer a variety of styles of massage techniques including "Deep Tissue Massage". Deep Tissue massage is designed to relieve severe tension in the muscle and the connective tissue or fascia. This type of massage focuses on the muscles located below the surface of the ...

If you've been in a motor vehicle accident (MVA) and are filing an icbc claim in British Columbia you are entitled to the best healthcare available to treat the aches & pains you are experiencing. This holds true even months & sometimes years after the motor vehicle accident. Whiplash, Neck Pain, Headaches, Back Pain, Shoulder, Rib, Arm & Leg Pain, General Aches, Chronic Recurrent Pain & Dis ...