Advanced Spine Joint & Wellness Center

1. What is a chiropractor?

Chiropractors practice a wellness-based, hands-on, drug-free approach to health care that includes patient examination, diagnosis, and treatment. Chiropractors have broad diagnostic skills and are also trained to recommend therapeutic and rehabilitative exercises, as well as to provide nutritional, dietary and lifestyle counseling. A chiropractor may assess patients through clinical examination, laboratory testing, diagnostic imaging, and other diagnostic interventions to determine when chiropractic treatment is appropriate or when it is not appropriate.

2. What is Chiropractic Care?

Chiropractic care is finding and identifying the cause of a problem. We focus on treating the problem, and not the symptom. In most cases, problems are years in the making, so chiropractic care is a slow steady healing process as we aim to slowly bring the body back to its normal state.

3. What is the History of Chiropractic?

Chiropractic as a profession began in 1895 when its founder, Daniel David Palmer, “adjusted” the spine of a deaf janitor and helped restore his hearing. Since then the profession has grown in science and its ability to treat the nervous system in a wellness-based fashion to help patients alleviate health issues from back pain to asthma!

4. What does a chiropractor do?

A chiropractor uses spinal adjustments and manipulations to other parts of the body to realign the bones and joints. The term “subluxation” used by chiropractors means something is out of place in the spine placing stress on a nerve. So as to reduce pain, improve bodily function, restore range of motion and improve flexibility, balance, and coordination an “ adjustment” or manipulation of the spine and/or joints is made to bring joints into proper alignment, to reduce pressure on nerves.

5. Are Chiropractors Doctors?

Chiropractors are Doctors and undergo rigorous training like Medical Doctors do. They are required to take a national board examination and maintain state licensure in the same fashion that a traditional medical doctor would.

6. Why should you choose our office?

In our office, our chiropractors work along with Orthopedic Surgeons, Physical Therapists, and other health professionals. This complimentary model improves safety, efficacy and the ability to treat the patient's problem in a collaborative environment. We also have onsite imaging with Xray and MRI which should be done prior to any treatment, whereas many chiropractors DO not take images.