Question and Answers

What is Naturopathic Medicine?

Naturopathic Medicine concentrates on whole patient wellness. Its primary goal is to promote health versus manage disease. Naturopathic Doctors (NDs) address each person as a unique individual and are careful not to label people as the disease conditions they may encounter. Naturopathic medicine attempts to find the underlying cause of the patient's condition rather than focusing solely on symptomatic treatment. If you are interested in approaching your medical care from a unique perspective, consider seeing a Naturopathic Doctor.

What is Nutritional Therapy?

It is the use of whole foods and whole foods concentrate to clinical potencies to restore and maintain health.

How does disease or imbalance begin?

The body has to have whole nutrients to maintain healthy balance and functional health. Unless all of the required elements are available and able to be assimilated, body chemistry imbalance results and disease begins to set in

How do I know if I have an imbalance in my body chemistry?

Symptoms are natures way of communicating what the body needs for health. Symptoms often occur in patterns. If you are having symptoms in recurring patterns,you may have an imbalance in your body chemistry and a disease process may be developing now.

When I take medications my symptoms go away. Does that mean that my imbalance is gone too?

Medications can alter bodiliy functions, but they do not build up stores of whole nutrients necessary to maintain the body~Rs health. Medications usually only mask the symptoms,while the condition of bio-chemical imbalance continues and the disease process works deeper into the body~Rs systems.

What is known as ~Shealthcare~T today is really ~Srelief care~T and has very little to do with seeing you being healthy, and more to do with alleviating the symptoms and doing nothing about the root cause of illness. People now realize the only way to true health is to treat the cause of their illness by making changes with their lifestyle which includes addressing nutritional , structural, and emotional issues.

How long will it take to become better

The average duration of treatment is 2-3 months with 10 visits on average, although this varies widely according to the patients individual needs.

What is a subluxation?

A misalignment of one or more of your spinal bones (vertebrae), which causes interference to your nervous system. If your nervous system is interfered with, your body's natural ability to heal itself & function at it's optimum potential becomes impaired. A subluxation is a perfect example of how structure effects function.

What is an adjustment?

A gentle, specific "thrust" delivered by hand or instrument. The purpose of the adjustment is to correct your spinal subluxation(s) thus removing the nerve interference in your body.

Does it hurt to get adjusted?

No. Chiropractic adjustments feel great. I am confident that once you begin receiving your adjustments, you will begin to look forward to them. They will become one of the highlights of your week. When you allow the vertebrae in your spine to return to their proper position, you will notice much less stress and tension.

Why do my children need chiropractic care?

The birth process is often the cause of your child's first subluxation. A very soft and undeveloped spine of an infant can suffer trauma during delivery. It is estimated that as much as 80lbs of pulling pressure can be exerted to remove a baby from the birth canal. Then, as children grow up and become more adventurous, the number of injuries to their spines become countless. The repeated falls as children learn to walk, the running, jumping, twisting, bumping and falling all over the place while playing in the yard or on an athletic field will often cause your child to become subluxated. However, often children do not show any signs or symptoms of being subluxated until later on in life. Chiropractic care offers your child a more responsive body, a more balanced flow of energy and overall increased performance as she/he passes through their windows of development. A subluxation free child also minimizes the risk of future health challenges.

What causes the sound made during a chiropractic adjustment?

That sound is not your spine "cracking" or "popping" like most people think. That sound is created by gas (in this case, nitrogen) rushing in to fill the partial vacuum created when the joints are slightly separated. Another example of this phenomenon would be the "pop" sound you hear when the cork is taken out of a champagne bottle. Not all chiropractic adjusting techniques produce this noise. In fact, some adjusting techniques use little force and thus produce no noise at all.

Is it bad to "crack" your back or neck a lot?

This question is frequently asked because people associate the "cracking" or "popping" of one's back or neck with a chiropractic adjustment. The two are not the same thing. If a person has a desire to "crack" his/her neck or back it is often because one area of their spine is fixated or jammed causing another area to move too much and "pop", sometimes by itself. It's the fixated or jammed area that needs to be properly adjusted by a chiropractor so that the other parts of the spine will not be hypermobile and noisy. When you "crack" your back you may be relieving the tension for a little while. Do you notice how it keeps coming back? That is because you are not giving yourself a specific chiropractic adjustment. The cause of the spinal tension, the fixated or jammed (subluxated) vertebrae, has not been corrected. Any person who makes a habit out of "cracking" or "popping" their back or neck needs to go to a Doctor of Chiropractic to have their spine checked. Even a chiropractor cannot adjust him/herself.

Once you see a chiropractor, do you have to go for the rest of your life?

No. The extent to which you choose to benefit from your chiropractic care is ultimately up to you. Each & everyone of us is solely responsible for the quality of our health & well-being. However, we do strongly urge all practice members to consider lifetime, wellness chiropractic care. This is where the long-term, lasting benefits of care are enjoyed. Regular exercise & healthy eating habits are a lifestyle decision and so is lifetime, wellness chiropractic care. You need to remain subluxation free for life.