Chiropractic Care

Chiropractic Healing

Chiropractic is one of the safest forms of medicine because it's a drugless healing art. Our brain and spinal cord make up the central nervous system — known as the "master controller of the body" because it controls every function in the body, every muscle, organ, gland, tissue, and cell.

A nerve impulse must occur before anything happens within the body. If you break a bone and put a cast over the area, it's not the cast that's healing the body — it's the body itself. Our healing is directly proportional to the free flow of nerve transmissions throughout the body.

Nerve Interference

Our nerves control the circulatory system, and the more circulation there is in an area, the faster we heal. When nerve transmission is interfered with, we find dysfunction and disease in the body.

For example, when someone "throws out their back" or "pinches a nerve," they often describe pain that radiates down their leg to the feet and toes. What most people don't think about is that everything downstream from the pinched nerve can also be affected. The nerves that go down the leg also control the bowel, bladder, and reproductive organs. This nerve interference is called subluxation.

Subluxation

Subluxation is a misalignment of a vertebra that causes inflammation or "pinching" to the nerve roots coming out of the spine. When nerves are pinched, it can cause pain locally, but also dysfunction anywhere along that nerve pathway.

Most people with subluxations in their cervical spine (neck) report neck pain and any of the following: headaches, migraines, fatigue, numbness and tingling in the fingers, slow healing of shoulder/arm injuries, sinus problems, and more.

Who is Chiropractic For?

We treat those who've been living with pain in a variety of ways, and bring them into balance. Our chiropractic patients range from Longshoremen, athletes, and gym enthusiasts to college students, Millennials, children, pregnant women, babies, and older adults.

In Practice

Doctors of chiropractic are trained to diagnose all conditions using:

• History taking and physical exam techniques
• Appropriate use of laboratory and other tests such as MRI and x-ray

We provide treatment without drugs or surgery:

• Prevention is stressed, along with wellness practices such as a healthy diet and exercise
• Natural approach including nutrition, vitamins, minerals, and herbal remedies
• Typical treatment uses manual adjustments to the spine and/or extremities
• Physiotherapy and other soft tissue techniques can also be utilized
• Exercise and rehabilitation are prescribed to enhance function and prevention

Overwhelming Evidence for Pain Reduction

A number of studies throughout the world have shown that chiropractic treatment — including manipulative therapy and spinal adjustments — is both safe and effective. The following are excerpts from just a few:

"For patients with acute low-back symptoms…the scientific evidence suggests spinal manipulation is effective in reducing pain and perhaps speeding recovery within the first month of symptoms." — Clinical Practice Guidelines, AHCPR (1994)

"There is strong evidence that manipulation is more effective than a placebo treatment for chronic low-back pain or than usual care by the general practitioner, bed rest, analgesics and massage." — Spine, Van Tulder and Bouter et al. (1997)

"…improvement in all patients at three years was about 29% more in those treated by chiropractors than in those treated by the hospitals." — British Medical Journal, Meade et al. (1995)

"Cervical spine manipulation was associated with significant improvement in headache outcomes in trials involving patients with neck pain and/or neck dysfunction and headache." — Duke Evidence Report, McCrory et al. (2001)