Have you ever considered which type of doctor is best suited to treat back pain? Since there are so many treatment options available today, it is quite challenging to make this decision without a little help. To facilitate, a study looking at this very question compared the effectiveness between medical and chiropractic intervention. Over a [..]

"Ever since I was in my early teens, I've had muscle and joint problems that would come and go but never put me down where I couldn't function. I was very active and played basketball, tennis, and ran in track but over the last 10 years I've avoided a lot of activity due to my [..]

Many people seem surprised to find out that the chiropractic education process is so extensive. We usually reply, "...whether you're planning to become a chiropractor, medical doctor, or dentist, it takes four years of college followed by and additional 4-5 years of additional education (med school, dental school, chiropractic college) simply because there is that [..]

We cannot thank our family, friends, patients, and allied healthcare providers enough for referring patients to our practice. There is no other form of advertising that attracts the quality of patients as those our patients refer to us. So, here's some information that may help you tell others about us: Chiropractic has been around since [..]

The mission of chiropractic is to help sick people get well, as well as to help healthy people function better in the absence of drugs or surgery. When people are asked, "...what do chiropractors do?" the frequent response is, "...they crack your neck and/or back." Chiropractic spinal manipulation (frequently called an adjustment) often produces an [..]

This question is asked frequently by patients visiting chiropractors. To answer this question, let's first talk about, "what is arthritis?" The word "arthritis" is derived from "arth-" meaning "joint" and "-itis" meaning "inflammation." Hence, arthritis is basically swelling in the joint. Many types of arthritis have been identified—in fact, over 100! Some types of arthritis [..]

Every movement, smell, taste, touch, sound, thought, and dream has its origin in the nervous system. Every function of your body, both voluntarily and involuntarily is controlled, at least in part, by your nervous system. To better understand how the nervous system works, it is necessary to discuss what makes up the nervous system. The [..]

Chiropractic was founded in 1895 after a spinal adjustment to the upper region of the spine restored a man's hearing. Since then, our profession has been conducting research to help determine why spinal manipulation or adjustments work so well. Many conditions have been studied, as well as the physiological responses to the adjustment including changes [..]

In the mid-1980s, a political event spurred a change regarding the medical community's outward disrespect of chiropractors when the AMA (American Medical Association) was sued for anti-trust violations and the chiropractors won! For the first time, the public, open anti-chiropractic slander that appeared on billboards, in magazine articles, and in TV/radio advertisements against the chiropractic [..]

For years, chiropractors have treated back pain patients as well as, if not superior to, other healthcare professions. In fact, all of the guidelines published around the world have recommended manipulative care as an initial or first step for the treatment of low back pain and more recently, for neck pain. So why are there [..]