After setting an appointment and arriving for your first visit, you'll enjoy our friendly staff and relaxing atmosphere. You'll be asked to complete some simple paperwork that will enable the doctor understand your health history.

You'll then meet the doctor. Your doctor will then review your health history and determine if your problem is likely to be helped with chiropractic care. If it is, a thorough examination usually follows. Your reflexes may be tested, your ability to turn and bend, and other standard orthopedic, neurological, and chiropractic tests will be conduced. If necessary, we may also take an X-ray view of your spine. Your doctor will study the results of these examinations and explain what they mean. If X-rays were taken, you'll see them and have all your questions answered.

Then, the doctor will recommend a care program designed for your unique health problem. Once we have a complete understanding of your condition, you are ready for your chiropractic spinal adjustment. Adjustments help restore proper spinal and nervous system function, promoting the healing process. Continued visits may help retrain the supporting muscles and ligaments of your spine. Periodic examinations will monitor your progress. There are many specialized techniques to identify and treat spinal abnormalities and to optimize your overall health.

In addition to spinal adjustment techniques, soft tissue techniques such as massage, dietary and nutritional counseling, physical therapies, and lifestyle modification programs are often recommended.

You will notice that your chiropractor takes a holistic approach to your overall health, which includes identifying and correcting the cause(s) of your ailment. In contrast, the standard medical approach tends to focus more on the treating the symptoms of a condition rather than focusing primarily on the actual cause(s). It is comforting to know that your chiropractor believes that correcting the cause of the problem provides significant long-term benefits over only treating the symptoms.



Chiropractic care has a long history. It was written about as far back as 2700 B.C. with references to spinal manipulation and maneuvering the lower extremities to ease low back pain.

Even the famous Greek physician, Hippocrates published writings that discussed the importance of chiropractic care. He wrote, “…get knowledge of the spine, for this is the requisite for many diseases.”

The word “chiropractic” comes from Greek words meaning "done by hand,” which is what chiropractors do, using their hands they manipulate the body and spine to promote healing and wellness.

Spinal manipulation gained recognition in the U.S. when Daniel David Palmer founded the Chiropractic profession in Davenport, Iowa in 1895. Palmer was a well-read, self-educated teacher and healer who kept abreast of the developments throughout the world regarding anatomy and physiology. What started out as a simple encounter with a deaf janitor named Harvey Lillard, whose spine misalignment Mr. Palmer corrected, he made an amazing discovery. This “readjustment” restored the janitor’s hearing.

What Daniel David Palmer had inadvertently uncovered was a major source of nervous system interference. A loss of normal vertebral alignment was interfering with the body’s regulatory system, which caused what he called dis-ease (loss of ease). In 1897, he began the Palmer School of Chiropractic, which continues to be one of the most prominent chiropractic colleges in the nation today.