Following consultation and examination, a program of care will be designed and customized to your specific needs. This program is centered around the chiropractic adjustment, a method of treatment unique to chiropractic, which corrects spinal subluxations and dysfunction. The primary goal of an adjustment is to improve spinal alignment and motion, thereby relieving nerve irritation, pressure, and pain.

Many people have their spinal misalignment for years before the pain develops. It is easier to prevent problems later on by correcting the misalignment before pain develops. Schedule a FREE consultation to determine whether or not your spine is misaligned.

There are many reasons. They can originally occur during the birth process, and as your body grows and matures. Also, falls, sports activities, motor vehicle accidents, bad posture or simply the stresses of daily living can cause spinal problems. It is also very common for headache sufferers to experience neck pain and stiffness,

These problems are known as subluxations and can initially occur during the birth process. As your body grows and matures, falls, sports activities, accidents, bad posture or simply the stresses and strains of daily life can cause additional spinal problems to occur or can further Irritate those that already exist. Loft uncorrected, subluxations lead to conditions such as colic in infants, and headaches, back pain and generally poor health in adults.

Chiropractic works because you are a self-healing, self-regulating organism controlled by your nervous system. Millions of instructions flow from your brain, down the spinal cord and out to every organ and tissue. Signals are also sent back to the brain to confirm your body is working right.

Chiropractic Physicians use what is referred to as conservative care as their primary approach to illness and injury. This ‘conservative care’ consists of methods including: adjustments (manual therapy), physical therapy, therapeutic exercise, lifestyle changes, and may include nutritional or vitamin supplements. The chiropractic approach to long-term health care is holistic, stressing the patient's overall well-being.

There are literally dozens of studies that demonstrate the benefits of spinal manipulation and chiropractic. Many have been done by medical researchers or under the auspices of governments. Clinical studies show that chiropractic works. It is the preferred treatment for most low back pain, and there is substantial evidence for the treatment of many other conditions.

Spinal pain syndromes are one of the most prevalent health care challenges in North America (1,2). For working adults, low back pain is the most common ailment causing disability for men and women under 45 years of age (1). On any given day, up to 2 percent of the U.S. population is disabled by low back pain, half of these victims are chronically disabled and half are temporarily disabled by their symptoms (3).

Traction is helpful at treating some of the conditions resulting from herniated or degeneration. Traction cannot address the source of the problem. The DRX9000? creates a negative pressure or a vacuum inside the disc. This effect causes the disc to pull in the herniation and the increase in negative pressure also causes the flow of blood and nutrients back into the disc allowing the body's natural fibroblastic response to heal the injury and re-hydrate the disc.

There really is no good answer to this since both sides will say they are better at treating spinal problems. The real answer is that the better individual is the surgeon who has more experience in treating spinal disorders with a well known reputation of good results. Both orthopedic surgeons and neurosurgeons regularly treat spine problems but many only treat them occasionally.

Subluxations of the spine can cause pain, joint stiffness and a lack of joint mobility. If left untreated, spinal degeneration can occur. Nerve interference is a result of a spinal misalignment. Every organ and muscle of the body can be at risk from nerve interference. For example, a misaligned vertebrae in the upper back will interfere with the nerve supply going to the lungs and to the shoulders. This in turn will interfere with proper lung and shoulder function.

No. Chiropractors are trained to treat and rehabilitate many parts of the body. They work on shoulders, hips, knees, ankles, the jaw, etc. Some patients may experience systemic benefit as well through the relationship of the spinal nerves and organs they supply. The most important thing is to identify the cause of the problem and try to correct it. Some problems may need a multi-disciplinary approach in which case the chiropractor will work alongside other practitioners.

Along with medicine and osteopathy, chiropractic is one of the western world's three major healing professions. Chiropractors specialize in the biomechanical causes of disease including vertebral subluxations, misalignments, derangements and fixations of the human frame - especially of the spine. Importance of the nervous system: Chiropractic doctors recognize the overriding importance of a properly functioning nervous system in the body's maintenance of its own health.