An often overlooked fact in health care is that our bodies are designed to treat ill health, pain and disease without drugs. This “innate intelligence” is the same process our body uses to heal a cut or mend a broken bone. To ensure that all systems are functioning properly, our bodies require an uninterrupted flow of nerve impulses from the brain and spinal cord.

When nerve flow to a particular area of the body is compromised, organs and cells cease to function optimally. This leads to a lowered state of health. It can also affect the immune system, your body’s defense against foreign cells (e.g. bacteria, viruses and cancers).

Many diseases begin long before symptoms appear. In fact, only 10% of your nerves have the ability to carry pain messages. Two of the many examples are heart disease and cancer, where too often the first indications of trouble are heart attacks and tumors.

Pain in the hips, knees, feet, shoulders, elbows, hands and lower back is often accepted as bad luck or part of the normal aging process. However, such pain is often caused by misalignment of joints in these areas, which abnormally stress muscles and tissues. Examples are: carpal tunnel syndrome, heel spurs and tennis elbow. These misalignments can be corrected.

Our immune system is ingeniously designed to fight disease, and our bodies are constantly producing new cells to replace those that die. A stunning 98% of the atoms in our bodies are replaced every year. That translates into a new stomach every 5 days, a new liver every 6 weeks, and a new skeleton ever 3 months. This normal process requires a nervous system free of interference in order to produce healthy new cells and to ensure an effective immune system.

Our spinal cord and nerves carry millions of messages every minute between our brain and cells. Our spine is vital to protecting this pathway. The spine’s 26 joints allow us to move, but also make the spine highly vulnerable to misalignment (vertebral subluxation).

Obvious causes are car accidents, falls, and sports injuries. However, many misalignments are caused by micro-traumas, which accumulate over time. This damage often goes undetected and uncorrected. Micro-traumas are caused by poor work conditions, repetitive motions, poor sleeping positions, poorly- designed pillows, emotional and dietary stress (which can lead to muscle tightening and joint misalignment), and even the birthing process for mother and child.

No; this is one of the most commonly encountered myths in our profession. As chiropractors, we seek to evaluate spinal degeneration, or arthritis, to determine just how long the misalignments have been left uncorrected. We see many examples of elderly patients with little degeneration (spinal arthritis). The issue is not age, but the time that passes following misalignment. Spinal arthritis is a wearing down of the misaligned joint, similar to the uneven wear of a misaligned tire on your car. Once degeneration begins, it is a continual process unless your spine is corrected. This makes early detection and correction crucial.

As a chiropractor, my primary goal is to ensure that every family is examined for spinal misalignment. Detection is done using a thorough consultation, clinical examination, and x-rays, if necessary, to determine: 1) whether the patients problem is related to nervous system interference, 2) the degree of spinal misalignment, and 3) how much degeneration is already present.

This drug free approach uses specific adjustments to gently realign tour vertebrae. Chiropractors are highly trained to become experts in the detection and correction of spinal misalignments. This training includes more that 4,400 hours of classroom work (often more than physicians undergo) in everything form anatomy, physiology, chemistry, diagnosis, neurology, nutrition, obstetrics, geriatrics, etc. As well, training includes many hours of spinal adjustments techniques and advanced x-ray techniques.

Chiropractic treatment has produces amazing results for many health conditions that people suffer from every day. However, we do not heal specific conditions. What we do is remove what interferes with the body’s ability to heal itself. Conditions we treat range from migraine headaches to back pain, childhood ear infections, attention deficit disorders, and hyperactivity, to menstrual and bowl problems, and numerous other chronic and acute conditions.

Yes. Children experience frequent traumas. It is estimated that children fall 2000 times before they reach the age of 2. Learning to ride a bike and other childhood activities cause additional micro-traumas that are often ignored or passed off as “growing pains”. Seniors can often enjoy heightened quality of life through regular chiropractic treatment. Chiropractic adjusting procedures are modified for children and seniors, and are extremely light and gentle.

The “cracking” sound you may hear is not bones rubbing together. The sound is produced by shifting of gas and fluids in the joints. The presence of this sound has little meaning and varies with each patient.

Chiropractic results have been scientifically confirmed. Nerve impulses flow from the brain and down the spinal cord to control every organ and cell in your body. Misaligned spinal bones interfere with this process, and ill health can result. Chiropractic treatment reduces nervous system interference caused by spinal misalignment, thus allowing your body to function properly.

Chiropractic care has an outstanding safety record due to our conservative approach to health that avoids invasive procedures or the use of drugs. Critics mislead by suggesting that adjustments to the neck subject patients to unnatural stress. Statistics show that the risk of complications during care is less that when checking your car’s blind spot while driving or getting your hair washed in a hair salon. The risk is far lower that taking prescription medication. drug-related adverse effects is the 4th leading cause of heath in united states (Journal of American Medical Association).

Chiropractic for infants? They have low back pain? Hardly - yet infants need chiropractic care to ensure that the stress of labor and delivery hasn't damaged their spines and delicate structural systems. Other stresses can involve falls - statistics tell us that nearly half of all babies have had a fall from a height (off the changing table, off the bed, etc.). Chiropractic care will help ensure a healthy baby with better resistance to disease and better ability to discharge toxins. Also, correcting subluxations may help a baby who is ill return to health more quickly and more comfortably.

There are many case histories of chiropractic helping children with all kinds of conditions - asthma, colic, difficulty breastfeeding, ear infections, autism spectrum disorder, vision and hearing disorders, neurological conditions no matter what conditions babies may have, chiropractic care can help them grow into healthy, happy children.

Childhood is a rough time, full of falls, trips and even traumas. A physical, emotional or chemical (toxic) trauma experienced as a young child could cause subluxations that affect internal organs, mental health, overall resistance to disease, strength and balance. Chiropractic helps keep children healthy naturally. As with babies and infants, every child needs periodic chiropractic checkups in order to grow up healthy and happy.

Chiropractic care, by releasing stress from the brain and nervous system, may improve concentration, attention span, grades and interpersonal behavior. Chiropractic has been shown to increase IQ, to help coordination and self-esteem and to improve body function. No matter what health problems a student may have, chiropractic will help improve their chances of healing naturally.

Physical, emotional and chemical stresses accumulate as we age. For more energy and for improved function of the immune system, digestive system, eliminative system, cardiovascular system and other systems, your body needs unobstructed communications. For a healthier life, periodic chiropractic care is absolutely necessary. Chiropractic helps people live free of obstructions caused by subluxations ~ structural distortions that interfere with internal (nerve) communication and energy flow.

The pelvic area receives an intense amount of nerve communications. The ovaries, uterus, tubes, kidneys, adrenal glands and other internal organs all need a healthy nerve supply to function properly. Clinical studies show chiropractic helps women with menstrual pain and discomfort, menstrual irregularities, sexual function, fertility and menopause.

If there's any class of patients that need chiropractic care the most it's pregnant women. Pregnancy changes a woman's balance and can make distortions more severe which can cause pain and exhaustion. Chiropractic can help ensure that the body is balanced and that the pelvis is relaxed and open so the developing baby has the maximum amount of room in which to develop. Clinical research reveals that breech presentations have been corrected, with the fetus turning into a healthy position, as a result of chiropractic pelvic-balancing procedures. Clinical reports show chiropractic also helps with breastfeeding and the return to a pre-pregnancy figure.

Many top athletes from all over the world rely on chiropractic to keep their body structure balanced, their nerve system healthy and their muscles functioning at their peak.

Chiropractic can help prevent sports injuries but can also help an injured player return to the game or competition faster. Of course you don't need to be an Olympian to go to a chiropractor; anyone who uses his/her body needs it to function at its peak.

The elderly are among our most drugged citizens. It is not unusual for someone to be taking many different medications and suffering from serious reactions to them. Many times people are taking drugs that interact in ways that are more damaging than if they took them individually. Chiropractic offers a drug-free alternative to an over-drugged population. Why? Because your body is the world's greatest drugstore, able to make every drug and chemical you need. Chiropractic helps turn on this internal pharmacy.