Action Sports Chiropractic & Family Wellness

Dr. Katrina Hackett, DC, ATC, CSCS
10054 Mesa Ridge Ct., Ste 116
San Diego CA 92121
(858) 876-2171

Dr. Katrina Hackett, DC

Phone: (858) 876-2171
10054 Mesa Ridge Court, Suite 116, San Diego, CA 92121

Providing active care for active people.

Unlocking Peak Performance: Here's How it Works:

In the world of athletic performance and active lifestyles, injury prevention and efficient recovery are critical to staying in the game. Whether you're a competitive athlete, weekend warrior, or someone striving to maintain mobility and wellness, the combination of Active Release Technique (ART) and Chiropractic Sports Medicine techniques with Soft Tissue Techniques such as Shockwave Therapy, Active Release Technique, Graston, GuaSha and Kinesiology Taping offers a powerful, synergistic approach to keeping the body functioning at its best. This integrated strategy doesn’t just treat pain — it addresses the neuromuscular causes, enhances neurological function, accelerates recovery, and helps prevent injuries before they start.

1. Injury Prevention Through Neuromuscular Balance

Injury often results from a breakdown in movement efficiency, muscle firing patterns, or delayed proprioceptive input. Adhesions not only limit motion and create tension but can also compress or entrap peripheral nerves, interfering with healthy nerve signaling. Addressing both components in a dual approach retrain the nervous system and improves how muscles respond under stress. Our hands-on soft tissue therapies are designed to treat problems involving muscles, tendons, ligaments, fascia, and nerves. Through precise, targeted pressure and patient movement, practitioners work to break up adhesions — dense scar tissue that forms after injury, overuse/ repetitive stress, or imbalanced use and chronic inflammation.

The Goal: Enhance neuromuscular timing and reflexes

Prevent and Relieve:
Repetitive strain injuries
Joint instability
Balance-related injuries
Overcompensation patterns that lead to chronic issues

2. Chronic Pain Relief with a Neurofunctional Focus

Chronic pain often stems from a loop of sensory-motor dysfunction — tight tissues, weak muscles, nerve entrapments, and maladaptive movement patterns. Think of "bad coding" that our brain has adapted, adopted, and needs to have retrained. Our combined approach to care breaks this loop by:

* Decompressing irritated peripheral nerves *Calming overactive pain receptors in soft tissues
* Resetting areas of the Brain to improve brain-to-body signaling
* Enhancing tissue oxygenation through better nerve and blood flow

This is particularly effective in addressing pain related to conditions like:
Sciatica
Thoracic outlet syndrome
Tension headaches
Peripheral neuropathy
Chronic lower back or neck pain

3. Faster Recovery & Rewiring for Performance

In recovery, healing tissues require both biomechanical support and neurological re-education. Soft tissue work such as Graston, GuaSha, ART and Shockwave therapy helps the body lay down new, functional tissue, while chiropractic adjustments restore joint integrity and optimize nervous system output. Together, they speed healing and reintegrate the injured area into the kinetic chain.

Neurological benefits include:
Improved motor control and muscular recruitment
Better balance and coordination post-injury
Reduced compensatory movements and re-injury risk
Greater sensory input for improved performance awareness

Chiropractors don't "fix things" or "crack you". Chiropractors provide gentle, safe adjusting techniques that can reduce the interference in your neuromuscular & skeletal systems, so that your brain can create the optimal environment to thrive and do all the amazing biomechanical things it was created to do, including move better and decrease pain.

We understand that more than just Chiropractic care may be needed by our patients for the best possible outcomes. So, Dr. Hackett works closely with several additional medical physicians and health care providers throughout Southern California, as well as other states, California, and even Australia. Through cooperative co-management, we're able to best address your needs, including those that may require specialized bracing for Scoliosis and kyphosis management, or that may fall outside of our particular specialty areas of practice.

We believe that understanding your condition helps eliminate frustration. Our practitioners will provide a thorough, efficient, personalized approach to reaching your goals as quickly as possible through the following process:

1. Determine and explain the causes of your current condition, and address both evident and hidden contributing factors

2. Restore proper motion in joints, improve neuromuscular connection to the brain, and correct imbalances between surrounding muscles and ligaments.

3. Teach you the steps necessary to improve faulty movement patterns, prevent future injury, reduce flare ups, and reach your goals!

For additional information on how our approach to chiropractic care can help your needs, we invite you to contact us or make an appointment today!

San Diego's Dr. Katrina Hackett provides Chiropractic and rehabilitative care at Action Sports Chiropractic, a Sports Performance & Family Wellness Clinic dedicated to helping active adults, children, and athletes of all ages and professions FUNCTION at their best.

BRAIN + BODY+ EMOTIONS

Our care is NOT about the bones, it's about improving your BRAIN. The last 25+ years of neurophysiology research have shown that when you adjust the spine, you affect the brain and it's connection to the world around it. By improving the connections and communication of the brain with the rest of your body and mind, you perceive your world better, move better, breathe better, sleep better, digest food better, detect balance and sensory input better, and decrease pain.

We're here to help your brain handle trauma (physical stress), toxins (inflammation) and the effects of emotional stress (thoughts) better, so that YOU CAN PERFORM BETTER.

An active approach: We believe that when it’s properly cared for, your brain and body has its own God-given ability to heal itself. It's constantly adapting and connecting while also at times disconnecting and creating poor compensation patterns to injuries of all kinds, and every system. So, just like going to the gym 4 times and then expecting visible results that last the rest of your life is unrealistic, so is the idea that going to a Chiropractor once should be a quick fix that lasts forever. When consistent with your commitment to chiropractic and self care, you'll see your body achieve amazing results!

A balanced approach: Chiropractic adjustments are the primary mode used to turning on your ability to heal. To further impact your road to improved performance, we offer the option so include elements of soft tissue work, exercise, and nutrition, helps to restore proper motion in joints and correct imbalances between surrounding muscles and ligaments, and thus create a "system reset". At times it may also involves treatment may include attention to additional systems such as the gut biome that have been affected by the stress incurred at particular areas of involved nervous system pathways.

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Our Approach to Care

"There is one consolation in being sick ... the possibility that you may recover to a better state than you were ever in before."

-Henry David Thoreau

"The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, in diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease."

- Thomas Edison