Chiropractic Care

Chiropractic care focuses on the health of your spine, joints, muscles, and nervous system. Using precise, hands-on techniques, we help reduce pain, restore movement, and support your body’s natural ability to heal—without medication.

At its core, chiropractic is about improving how your body functions. When joints move well and the nervous system communicates clearly, you feel and perform better.

What we do
Chiropractic adjustments restore motion to joints that aren’t moving properly. This helps:

• Reduce pain and muscle tension
• Improve mobility and strength
• Support nervous system function
• Enhance overall comfort and performance

We often combine adjustments with supportive therapies—such as soft tissue work, therapeutic modalities, and targeted exercises—for more complete and lasting results.

More than pain relief
Many patients begin care for pain, but continue because they feel better overall. Ongoing chiropractic care can help you stay active, prevent injury, and age well.

Your First Appointment

Your first chiropractic appointment in our office begins with a medical history and a thorough discussion of your areas of concern. Our initial evaluation is visual. We look at your posture and note any asymmetries—for example a high shoulder, a short leg, or severely pronated ankles. These observations can provide clues about imbalances in your neuro-musculo-skeletal system. We may then evaluate the range of motion through which you can move the affected area. Here we are looking for limitations in mobility as well as altered patterns of movement.

We often use manual resistive muscle testing to identify individual muscles or functional groups of muscles that are not firing appropriately. This test shows muscles that are compromised or weaker than normal. Identifying tight and inhibited muscles provides indicators we can use to assess the effectiveness and progress of treatment.

Another way we assess the involved areas is by carefully palpating them with our hands. We feel for information like tenderness, muscle spasm, and mobility of individual spinal segments or non-spinal joints.

Chiropractic adjustments are usually then performed to introduce movement into the affected joints with very specific vectors of force. Adjustments can be done by hand, using a specialized table (the drop table or traction table), and also by using either spring-loaded or electric adjusting tools like the Activator or Impulse instruments. Motion thus introduced into the joint stimulates receptors in many stretch-sensitive tissues around the joint. This input into the nervous system causes a reflex change in muscle tone and a decrease in the pain signal coming from the area. Involved muscles my be treated with any combination of massage, ultrasound, electric muscle stimulation, and elastic therapeutic taping. We will usually have suggestions for appropriate home care, such as stretches and specific exercises to facilitate healing or improve function and stability.

There is no set treatment plan or schedule of care in our office. Each patient’s needs are evaluated and recommendations are made accordingly. We are happy to provide short term care to help you through a specific injury or to develop a more in-depth therapeutic relationship. We are happy to be a part of your health care team.