On your initial office visit, you can expect a thorough examination that will include orthopedic, neurological and chiropractic elements. X-rays may or may not be required, depending on medical necessity. Your initial examination may also include chiropractic and soft tissue manipulation. These will be followed by rehabilitative exercises to promote healing and reduce your symptoms.The goal of your first visit is to reduce your overall pain level. Not all patients receive chiropractic manipulations. We have a variety of choices and modalities to treat your needs and will discuss them with you prior to your treatment.

It’s the newest syndrome. Today’s generation spends a large amount of time bent over their phones, keeping the cervical spine in a constant state of flex. Any prolonged positioning like this  will certainly result in pain.It’s becoming such an problem, there is even an application you can purchase for your phone that will beep to indicate that you are holding your phone in the correct position to ensure proper posture in your cervical spine. I think, however, that awareness of the issue and knowledge of the proper positioning is all that is needed to prevent this type of back pain.

Sometimes called a manipulation, an adjustment is a precise procedure in which a chiropractor applies a specific corrective pressure to a specific place on your spine or extremity to restore normal function. It can also relieve associated muscle and nerve tension, improved balance and assist in healing.

Some techniques produce a popping sound which is simply nitrogen gases rushing in to fill the partial vacuum created when joint surfaces are slightly separated. Not all adjusting techniques performed at this office will produce this popping noise, often associated with the cracking of knuckles. Some chiropractic adjustments will make no sound at all.

Chiropractic care is remarkably safe. In fact, it is a conservative approach to your health that avoids invasive procedures or addictive drugs. Simply put, if it was not safe, my malpractice insurance would reflect that substantially.

This is probably the number one reason patients consult our office, either via referral from other physicians, or seeking alternative treatment to relieve symptoms. Relief of symptoms is our first goal.  The second goal is to place the patient on a rehabilitative exercise program to prevent the symptoms from re-occurring.

The sports hernia is a tear in the lower abdominal wall in the inguinal area. Unlike a classic inguinal hernia, there is rarely a significant tear that results in a bulge. Rather there is a gradual onset of pain in the lower abdominal area, usually beginning in the groin. Sports hernias are not traumatic in nature. There is no singular incident but rather a gradual progression, a growing pain progressing into abdominal pain.