Chiropractic Care

A personal starting point.

Discuss your concerns, movement goals, and preferences with our team. Your visit is an opportunity to review your history and determine whether chiropractic care fits your needs.

What is chiropractic care?

Chiropractic care is a hands-on, drug-free approach to health that focuses on the spine, the joints, and the nervous system. Your spine protects your spinal cord — the main pathway your brain uses to communicate with the rest of your body. When a spinal joint (or a joint in the arms, legs, or jaw) stops moving the way it should, it can irritate nearby muscles and nerves and change how you move overall. Chiropractors are trained to find those restricted, poorly functioning joints and restore their motion.

Chiropractic is not just about back pain. It is a whole-body approach: how your joints move affects your posture, your balance, your muscles, and how your nervous system coordinates everything.

How it works

The core treatment is the chiropractic adjustment — a controlled, precise force applied to a joint that is not moving well, often by hand and sometimes with a small instrument. Restoring normal motion can take mechanical stress off the surrounding tissues and help the joint and nervous system function better. Your care may include several techniques, chosen for your body and comfort level: manual adjustments, the Thompson Drop table, the Activator and ArthroStim instruments (gentle, low-force options), the Palmer Package, Sacro Occipital Technique (SOT), flexion-distraction (a gentle stretching table for the low back), and extremity adjustments for shoulders, elbows, wrists, hips, knees, and ankles. Soft-tissue work, stretching, and home exercises are often part of the plan.

The Activator instrument: a gentle option

Not every adjustment is done by hand. The Activator is a small, hand-held, spring-loaded instrument that delivers a quick, gentle, low-force impulse to a specific joint or point along the spine. Because the impulse is fast and precisely placed, the muscles do not have time to tense against it — and there is no twisting or “popping.” Many patients who prefer a gentler approach appreciate it, and it is especially useful for sensitive areas and smaller joints, for children, and for older patients. Your doctor chooses by hand or by instrument based on your body, your comfort, and what each joint needs.

Conditions chiropractic care is commonly used for

• Low back pain and stiffness
• Neck pain and stiffness
• Headaches, including tension and cervicogenic headaches
• Sciatica and radiating leg pain
• Herniated and bulging discs
• Whiplash and auto accident injuries
• Sports injuries and sprains/strains
• Shoulder, hip, knee, and other joint pain
• Posture problems and desk-related strain
• Pinched nerves and numbness or tingling
• TMJ (jaw) discomfort
• General stiffness and loss of mobility

Every plan starts with an evaluation of your history and how your body moves. What helps one person may not be right for another, and results vary — your doctor will explain what she finds and what she recommends before any treatment begins.

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