After an injury or trauma, the type of treatment you decide to receive is vital to the natural healing process of your body. Unlike prescription pain medication or physical therapy, chiropractic targets the misalignments of the spine that may contribute to each individual problem. Your Eriksen chiropractor knows that treatment of these misalignments is the way to allow the soft tissues surrounding the spine to heal in their proper place, thus correcting the biomechanics of the spine and decreasing the risk of future complications.