About Our Services:

What can I expect on the first visit?

Chiropractic care is divided into two parts:  Spinal analysis and spinal adjustment.

Your spine is analyzed using various tools such our hands (motion palpation), kinesiology (muscle testing), various orthopedic and neurological exams.  Once we have located the precise area of your subluxation, we will then do a procedure to correct or eliminate the subluxation called a chiropractic spinal adjustment.  X-rays are not required in our office unless concerning findings arise.  We recommend that you bring any x-rays/MRI/CT Scans/Blood work or related reports from other practitioners.

What is Muscle Testing?

Muscle testing is a non-invasive method of evaluating the body for imbalances and assessing its needs.  Our muscles can become stronger or weaker in response to many internal and external influences.  The general strength or weakness provides information on energy flow within the body based on traditional Chinese medicine.  Muscle testing is performed by applying slight pressure to an outstretched arm and assessing the strength of the muscle response.

Three Phases of Chiropractic Care

1.  Initial Intensive Care Phase:

In this phase your spine is out of balance and not holding its adjustment.  Please cooperate by keeping your appointments and modifying your lifestyle in ways that will help you get you out of the intensive care phase quickly.

2.  Foundation and Healing Phase:

Your spine is beginning to stabilize and hold its adjustment for longer periods.  In this phase our objective is to monitor your spine as it strengthens.  Many of your symptoms and complaints may have disappeared or decreased in this phase.  It is critical however that you continue your visits even if you are feeling better.

3.  Wellness Phase:

In this phase your spine is now holding its adjustment and has become reasonably stable.  It is handling stress well.  Regular care not only keeps you subluxation-free, but give you the greater physical and emotional health and more enjoyment you get out of life.

Chiropractic care has proven to be a safe, natural, drugless way to good health for millions of people around the world.  Please pass on this chiropractic message to friends and family so they may come in for a spinal check up.  It could make a difference between health and disease.  They’ll never know until they get their spines checked.

Why Should I Return if I’m Feeling Fine?

Lack of pain is a poor way of determining how healthy you are.  In fact, it can be dangerous.  Too many people “feel fine” one day and the next day have a sudden heart attack, stroke, debilitating pain or are diagnosed with a serious disease such as cancer.  It cannot be emphasized enough that “feeling fine” is no indicator of your health status.

But Why Do I Need So Many Adjustments?

Would you stop brushing your teeth after one visit to the dentist?  Most people first visit their chiropractor after they’ve had years of long-standing spinal subluxations.  By that time scar tissue or fibrosis has built up around the spinal discs, nerves and joints.  Long-standing subluxations also cause postural changes, tender muscle areas, trigger or tender spots.  You may “feel fine” but when someone touches a “hot spot” you jump!  This scar tissue takes a long time to heal and it may take months or years of spinal adjustments before your spine is strong again.  The earlier you begin chiropractic care the better; the longer you wait, the more scar tissue builds up and the longer it will take to resolve.

Symptom Relief or True Healing?

Although your pain may have diminished, the weakness in your spine, ligaments, discs, tendons, muscles and bones usually remains.  It may take months or years for your body to replace the internal scar tissue and rebuild.  True healing takes time.

Why Regular Care?

Although symptoms may disappear after a few spinal adjustments, the spinal degeneration caused by years of uncorrected vertebral subluxations usually remains.  Sadly, it takes a long time for spinal degeneration to heal and your spine will not be as strong as it should be while degeneration is still there.

That’s the reason you will most likely need to return to your chiropractor’s office in the future when stress builds up causing your spine to “go out.”  Your symptoms may take a little longer to go away the next time (“I don’t understand it doctor, the last time I felt better after a couple of visits…”)  because there may be more degeneration.

Regular Subluxation Correction

The true purpose of chiropractic is not as a treatment of aches and pains but to rid your body of subluxations so you are better able to adapt to life’s stresses.  That’s what true health is all about.  That’s why people who choose a chiropractic lifestyle report better quality of life, improved physical health, improved emotional health, less perceived stress in their lives, less drugs in their lives and more energy, vitality and life enjoyment.

An “Aspirin” or Better Health?

Why use chiropractic as just another “aspirin” to free you from pain when you can use chiropractic to ensure better health, vitality and life enjoyment for yourself and your entire family for your entire lives?  Keep yourself healthy with regular chiropractic spinal adjustments.

After Your First Adjustment

You’ve just had your first adjustment.  You are functioning with no or with reduced vertebral subluxations in your body.  What does that mean?

For one thing, it means you are more balanced in your relationship with gravity.  Your head is more centered, you hips and shoulders are more level, your posture is more attractive and you walk more comfortably as your joints have less stress upon them.  You will have more energy in your day-to-day life as your relationship with gravity continues to improve.

You may feel more awake as your brain has more blood flow and your vision may be sharper.  That’s why children under chiropractic care have increased attention span, improved concentration and do better in school.

When Will You Get Better?

If you are like many people you’re here because of a health problem or condition.  Many people feel a change in their symptoms after their first adjustment:  Less pain, more movement, better sleep, improved digestion, easier breathing, greater strength, improved relaxation, greater energy and other signs of health restoration.  However, chiropractic is not a treatment for a particular complaint but a system of stabilizing, strengthening and balancing your entire body.  Since healing takes more time for some than others, not everyone feels better immediately.  But with less subluxations in your body, you are better than you were before.  You are improving right now!

You will Never Know It All

No matter how many changes you notice, you will never know all the wonderful things adjustments do because the magic is beneath the surface with hundreds of chemical reactions.  At the moment you receive a chiropractic adjustment, hundreds and thousands of body functions are affected.  Your nerves are better able to send life’s messages, your brain and other internal organs begin to function more efficiently, old trapped energies are awakened and healing may begin on many levels.

What Else Will You Feel?

Everybody responds to chiropractic care in their own unique way.

1.  You may feel relaxed, more peaceful and aware that the old tension or stress you’ve been carrying for many years is beginning to dissolve.

2.  You may feel an immediate change in any symptoms you’ve had.  Pain may disappear, you may be able to move, bend and turn more easily; you may be able see better; your hearing may seem more acute, your posture may feel more balanced and you may feel more alive.

3.  You body/mind begins to balance.  Chiropractors have seen high blood pressure lowering, low blood pressure raising, hyperactive children calm down, hypoactive children have more energy, depression lifting, vision improving, concentration strengthening, digestion improving, sleep getting deeper-it all depends on your unique needs.

Detoxing as You Heal

As part of the healing process, some people may express cleansing/detox symptoms:  a release of mucus or toxins, a feeling of warmth, fatigue, crying bouts, lightheadedness, cold like symptoms, headaches or other similar symptoms.  Sometimes old health problems briefly return and you might think your spinal adjustment made you worse.  It isn’t so and don’t let these symptoms scare you.  They are wonderful things, ways your body/mind is completing the healing process and returning you to balance and health.

Feel free to call with any concerns and questions.  It is often of great importance in your healing journey towards longer life and greater health.  And welcome to our family of Chiropractic!!!

About Chiropractic and Your Spine

Chiropractic wellness care is a branch of the healing arts which is based on the scientific principle that our nervous system controls or influences the function of all 11 trillion interconnected cells in our body.  The term “Chiropractic” comes from the Greek word “cheiro and praktikos” meaning “done by hand”.

The Chiropractic or wellness model of health is centered on the philosophy that the human body will heal itself given the right opportunity.  In other words the body heals from the inside out.  Your body’s wisdom uses your nervous system as a communication system to send messages between your internal environment (body chemistry) and your external environment (the world) to maintain homeostasis.  Interference to the nervous system, caused by a Vertebral Subluxation Complex will effect how the nervous system relates to the cells to which it influences.

My goal in the office is to turn your health around by relieving you of a serious form of spine and nerve damage called the Vertebral Subluxation Complex.  Subluxations affect your nerves, muscles, ligaments, discs, joints, bones and internal organs, including your brain.  The effects can be immediate or they may take time depending on many factors such as age, diet, lifestyle and regularity of care.

Our innate intelligence will guide you toward healing, growth, adaptation and fulfillment. Wholefood nutrition, supplements, exercise and chiropractic care allow the body to heal itself naturally, just like it was designed to do!

My goal as a chiropractor is to keep your spine and nervous system free of blockages so your ability to adapt to life’s stresses and challenges is enhanced.  You will be stronger, more stable and more energetic; you will thrive, grow, better enjoy life and continue on your journey to be the best you can be.

Children and Chiropractic

Have you had your child’s spine checked lately?  How do you know if your child’s spine is healthy?  An unhealthy spine can affect your child’s health for his/her entire life.  Their future is in your hands…Give your child the best possible chance to have a healthy life.  A simple checkup now might make a BIG difference for your children for the rest of their lives.  Remember, you only get one chance with your spine.

Spine and Disc Degeneration

Spinal degeneration is usually caused by years of long-standing vertebral subluxations in your spine due to stress, trauma and neglect.  Spinal degeneration is like tooth decay in that it is often a painless process, and by the time a person notices its effects or feels any pain, it have been going on for many years!  The earlier the degeneration process is identified…the better chance for reversal and prevention.  Your spine should be checked regularly for vertebral subluxations that drain your life of energy, strength and wholeness.

Why Should I go to a Chiropractor?

The goal of the doctor of chiropractic is to awaken your own natural healing ability by correcting the vertebral subluxation complex, a serious blockage to your health and energy.  Correcting the subluxations promotes natural healing, vitality, strength and health.

What does a Chiropractor do?

Doctors of chiropractic are specially trained to analyze your spinal column and structural system for vertebral subluxations.  They remove your subluxations using gentle chiropractic “spinal adjustment” techniques freeing you from structural distortions and nervous system stress.

The Chiropractic Message:

Chiropractic’s message is simple:  You have within you an inborn or innate natural healing ability that needs to be reawakened and unleashed.  You body is your best healer!  Subluxations are a serious major stress that interfere with your natural inner healer’s proper function.  Regular adjustments will help keep you free from subluxations and promote your internal healing ability.

Are you functioning at your optimum?  Do you have optimal health-complete physical, mental and social well-being?  Anything less than optimal may be a warning sign of dis-ease.

Some early signs of disease are:

• Pain, aches and stiffness
• Low energy
• Poor sleep
• Poor digestion and elimination
• Anxiety and depression
• Pinched nerve

Regain your health through Chiropractic.  Do it now so you will live free of physical and mental debilities and be full of energy, vitality, happiness and inspiration all the days of your long and productive life.