Dr. Michael Francis, DC is the Wilmington DE Chiropractor for Peak Performance, with a focus on both Sports and Auto Injuries.

The Spine Spa

The Spine Spa has recently expanded to offer our patients more therapy options on their road to recovery. Our space now features private sauna and changing rooms, private dream pod soaking tubs and showers, and designated areas for therapies like normatec, HBOT, exercises and massage beds. Below is a detailed list and explanation of all of our therapy options. For more information or if you any questions call us at (302)475-3200
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THERAPY OPTIONS CURRENTLY AVAILABLE

Whole Body Cryotherapy / Localized Cryotherapy

Whole-body cryotherapy is a treatment that cools the body by exposing it to subzero temperatures (typically between -200° to -300°F) for brief three-minute sessions in our cryo chamber. This therapy helps reduce inflammation and swelling, relieves sore muscles, boosts metabolism, improves blood flow, and may even aid in weight loss. For more targeted treatment, we also offer localized cryotherapy, which focuses on specific areas of the body, providing those same benefits.

Infrared Light Therapy (with Halotherapy option)

Infrared Light Therapy, also known as red light therapy, involves exposing the body to infrared light that penetrates beneath the skin's surface. This therapy can offer various health benefits, including improving circulation by increasing the flow of oxygen-rich blood, promoting faster healing of deep tissues, and providing pain relief. An additional option is Halotherapy, which involves breathing in salt-infused air to support better respiratory function and relieve breathing difficulties.

Intersegmental Spine Table (IST table) & Hydromassage Bed

The IST gently helps restore the natural alignment of the spine, promoting better posture. This table also supports muscle relaxation and can reduce muscle spasms. The Hydro Massage bed offers a convenient, dry, full-body massage using pressurized water. It has been reported to provide a wide range of benefits, including pain relief, improved circulation, reduced stress and anxiety, and support for conditions like migraines, digestive issues, high blood pressure, and flexibility.

Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT) / Oxygen Therapy

Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT) is a medical treatment that involves using oxygen in a pressurized environment. It enhances the body’s ability to utilize its natural defense mechanisms to combat both acute and chronic illnesses, infections, and diseases. For those who prefer an alternative to the HBOT chamber, we also offer Oxygen Therapy. This treatment works by delivering pure oxygen through a mask, which can help reduce shortness of breath, boost energy levels, and enhance cognitive function.

Normatec Pulse Therapy

Normatec Pulse Therapy uses dynamic air compression to replicate the muscle pump of the legs and arms, promoting the movement of fluids and metabolites out of the limbs after intense workouts. The Normatec systems combine this dynamic air compression with a patented Pulse massage pattern, which includes three key techniques: pulsing, distal release, and gradients. Research indicates that this therapy can help alleviate muscle soreness and pain, temporarily boost circulation, and improve flexibility and range of motion. It also aids in injury prevention and accelerates recovery time.

Dreampod Soaking Tubs Cold Plunge & Hot Mineral Soak

Boost your body’s recovery and rejuvenation with our Dreampod Pod Ice Bath. Immersing yourself in the ice-cold water triggers an immediate response, offering benefits like reduced inflammation, pain relief, stress reduction, and improved sleep. Alternatively, unwind in our hot mineral bath, enriched with four types of salts—Epsom, Mediterranean Sea, Dead Sea, and Himalayan salts. This soothing soak helps relieve pain, enhance skin appearance, boost circulation, and reduce stress.

BrainTap

Our Brain Tap headset helps reduce stress and enhances both brain and body performance. It induces deep, meditative brain states that typically take years of practice to achieve. Best of all, users simply sit back, put on the headset, close their eyes, and relax—no effort required.

Vibration Therapy

Vibration therapy activates muscle spindles, sensory receptors in the muscles that detect changes in muscle length. This stimulation causes involuntary muscle contractions, helping to enhance muscle strength, flexibility, and coordination. Additionally, vibration therapy may promote bone growth, improve circulation, and alleviate pain.
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Benefits of Cryotherapy

Just as there are many different styles and approaches to cryotherapy, there are also numerous potential benefits. Cryotherapy can be used to treat a plethora of ailments, and as such, it has become increasingly popular for those on a quest toward optimal health. Proponents of the treatment swear by the benefits that extreme therapeutic cold provide, including both mental and physical effects.

Though fairly new, research has been conducted to study whether these claims are true. Here, we can examine some of these possible benefits, in addition to considering other facts that a person should know before considering this type of treatment.

Muscle Healing and Pain Relief

This is the most common reason that individuals choose to undergo cryotherapy. The cold is meant to have a soothing effect on aching muscles, particularly in athletes who regularly exhaust them.

Professional and/or Olympic athletes, for example, perform strenuous exercises and engage in intense activities every day. It should come as no surprise that these overused muscles will become fatigued, or even injured, more quickly.

The therapeutic cold is thought to promote faster healing, allowing athletes to get back to their game more quickly— just think, doctors and trainers have long recommended applying an ice pack to sore muscles, as blood circulation to the area increases significantly once the cold is removed. Likewise, the treatment can be used to treat some muscle and joint disorders, such as rheumatoid arthritis.

Reduced Inflammation

Inflammation can occur in the body for a plethora of reasons. However, it is also the way in which the immune system fights against infection. Sometimes, though, the immune system becomes overly reactive, causing chronic inflammation and pain.

This is linked to many health problems, such as diabetes, depression, dementia, and even cancer. Reducing this inflammation using cold therapy could thus reduce the risk of many chronic ailments, as well as improving overall health.

Weight Loss

We must be clear that cryotherapy alone will not cause weight loss. However, some research has shown that it can support the process. Being in a state of cold forces the body to work hard to stay warm, thus boosting the metabolism and burning calories and fat.

Even just a few minutes in the cold can increase the metabolism for the rest of the day- eventually, a person’s metabolism adjusts accordingly and increases in response to the temperature, resulting in the person no longer feeling the cold. Furthermore, cold therapy helps with muscle pain after an injury, meaning that a person is better able to get back into a fitness routine and exercise.

Cryo Innovations XR Recovery Chamber

Recent innovation, research, and technology now allows for whole bodycryotherapy (WBC) in a specialized chamber (or sauna) that exposes the entire body (with exception for the head) and is the most advanced, tolerable, and time-efficient form of cryotherapy currently available. Whole body Cryotherapy(WBC) treatments are a revolutionary method of cryotherapy; exposing the body to subzero temperatures for a very short duration (less than 2-3 minutes). This will lower your skin temperature to 30-50 degrees Fahrenheit, while your core body temperature still remains around 98 degrees (its natural state).

WBC can also alleviate muscle and joint pain, sprains and strains, swelling, tendonitis, and bursitis. Many clients also report improvements in sleep quality, restfulness, anxiety, and depression. In athletes, it can accelerate recovery by minimizing post-training soreness and fatigue. It can also be used as part of a weight management program, as the average person will burn 500-800 calories the same day after a whole body cryotherapy session.

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Localized Thermotherapy/Cryotherapy Station

Dense heat pads are soaked in an electric hydrocollator prior to usage, providing deep, penetrating heat to the patient. This helps reduce muscle stiffness, tension, and spasms, while increasing circulation to muscles, tendons, ligaments, cartilage, and discs. Gel packs are kept in a freezer prior to usage, and provide localized cryotherapy to the patient. This traditional therapy is great for reducing pain and inflammation in localized, targeted body parts.

Hydrobed

A combination therapy that mixes heat and massage into a single modality. The therapies enhance each other when applied together. The patient lies onto a water-filled mattress with hydrotherapy jets inside that deliver powerful streams of water that impact the body, producing a kneading massage. The beneficial heat effects are sedative, antispasmodic and analgesic (pain relieving). The penetrating hydromassage helps reduce muscle spasms, increases lymphatic and vascular circulation, and increases soft tissue mobility.

Intersegmental Table (IST)

Another combination therapy mixing vibration and spinal joint mobilization into a single modality. These therapies also enhance each other when applied together. The patient lies on a vibrating table (with the option to have no vibration) while powerful rollers mobilize the spine from top to bottom. Vibration is beneficial for mechanoreceptor stimulation and enhanced proprioception (increased postural awareness) and nociceptor inhibition (reduced pain). The powerful rollers help reduce vertebral joint restriction & immobility, increase circulation to intervertebral discs, increase joint mobility and range of motion, and improve spinal biomechanics.

Normatec Pulse Recovery System

The Normatec Pulse Recovery Systems are dynamic compression devices designed for recovery and rehab for both athletes and patients. They use compressed air to massage your limbs, mobilize fluid, enhance blood flow, and speed recovery with our patented NormaTec Pulse Massage Pattern.

When you use our systems, you will first experience a pre-inflate cycle, during which the recovery sleeves are molded to your exact body shape. The session will then begin by compressing your feet, legs, thighs, and hips. Similar to the kneading and stroking done during a massage, each segment of the attachment will first compress in a pulsing manner and then release. This will repeat for each segment of the attachment as the compression pattern works its way up your limbs. There will then be a brief rest period followed by enhanced blood flow back down to your feet. A typical session can last from 15 – 30 minutes.

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Near Infrared Light & Thermotherapy

This unique and powerful therapy utilizes tungsten bulb incandescent light to produce a full-spectrum of full body healing and detox wavelengths (600-1000nm) resulting in therapeutic-grade red and near infrared mitochondrial stimulation! The benefits include: increased collagen production (anti-aging effects and vast improvement with many skin conditions), increased metabolism, improvements in memory and cognition, accelerated tissue healing and recovery, and boosted cellular detoxification and regeneration.

There is NO UV or blue light—100% safe and effective. There is NO flicker stress or EMF stress (unlike LED and other alternative forms of light therapy). The significance of tungsten bulb incandescent full-spectrum light therapy is that you get the spectrally natural form of red and near infrared light, and the synergy of photobiomodulation (PBM) and heat detoxification. It is the closest simulation of incandescent sunlight, of all man-made light technologies currently available. For more information, click here.

Rates and Plans:

Whole Body Cryotherapy

  • 1st Intro Session – $25
  • 1 Single Session – $45
  • 5 pack  – $200  ($40 per session)
  • 10 pack – $350  ($35 per session)
  • 20 pack – $600 ($30 per session)

Normatec Pulse Therapy

  • 15 Minute Session – $10
  • 30 Minute Session – $15

Thermotherapy

  • 15 Minute Session – $15

All Other Therapies – Hydrobed, Intersegmental Table, Moist Heat, Ice Pack

  • 1 Therapy – $8
  • 2 Therapies – $15
  • 3 Therapies – $20

*each additional therapy after 3 is $5

Spine Spa Hours:

  • Monday: 8:00am-6:00pm
  • Tuesday: 9:00am-1:00pm
  • Wednesday: 8:00am-6:00pm
  • Thursday: 8:00am-6:00pm
  • Friday: 9:00am-1:00pm
We pride ourselves on providing quality individualized care. Dr. Michael Francis is the chiropractor Wilmington residents need for peak performance, with a focus on both sports and auto injuries.
(302) 475-3200
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2500 Grubb Road Ste. 132, Wilmington, DE 19810

Phone: (302) 475-3200

Email: [email protected]

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Chiropractic Office Hours

  • Monday: 8:00am-6:00pm
  • Tuesday: 9:00am-1:00pm
  • Wednesday: 8:00am-6:00pm
  • Thursday: 8:00am-6:00pm
  • Friday: 9:00am-1:00pm
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