The Confused Chiropractic Patient

How To Find A Chiropractor

When Looking for a Chiropractor for you or your family how do you know where to go to avoid confusion and choose one that meets your expectations?

Over the years I have had and will continue to have indivduals looking for a chiropractor whereby what they may have experienced before or heard of from someone else is very different than what they experience.

Why?

Well – we do different things.

As a profession we have done a terrible job explaining this to the global public and the expectation is that individual offices promote what they do within their offices yet are limited by what they can say outside of them.

Confused yet?

It certainly is confusing for the consumer when you book in – show up for your appointment and experience something different than what you expected.

So here are some tips to guide you along the way.

A).  You first have to ask yourself – why am I seeking chiropractic?  What are my goals?

B). Read the chiropractor’s website thoroughly

C). Call the chiropractor’s office and speak with the reception and ask  – ask the assistant on the phone what type of practice they have and what is their focus.  Ask to have a consultation with the chiropractor or the tech doctor or tech chiropractic assistant.

Steps A, B, and C may already guide you to where you wish to go.

If you are unsure please note;

Some chiropractors like myself focus on Family Care, Pediatric, prenatal, and postnatal care.  Within this realm is a focus too on scoliosis, growth and development and supporting a healthy lifestyle for a lifetime – helping individuals and families ensure their physiology is functioning and healing at its best by removing subluxation or interference through chiropractic adjustments.   Chiropractic adjustments are the very foundation of chiropractic to remove interference to the bodies ability to adapt, heal, regulate and function at its best.  Your body is designed to be healthy and to heal.

The techniques we use include; TIC or tonal, Thompson, Diversified, Activator, Arthrostim, SOT, along with some CBP to assist with scoliosis and curve correction.

Some chiropractors do not adjust the spine.  Is this something you are looking for?

Some chiropractors specialize in pain and don’t provide wellness care.

Some chiropractors specialize in Motor Vehicle Accidents and or WCB cases.

Some chiropractors have soft tissue therapies such as ART or Graston only to name two.

Some chiropractors work on distraction and have specialty tables for this.

Many chiropractors use different techniques to adjust.  Some do upper cervical adjusting only, some do full spine, some do diversified, Thompson, tonal, TIC, integrator work, activator, network chiropractic, Gonstead, CBP, Pettibon, to name only but a few.  

We all have our niche, our passion, our focus to serve our communities be it in a variety of different ways.  The ones listed above are only a few.

Do your research to learn about chiropractic to best align what you are looking for with what your goals are.  You don’t go to a General Dentist and expect them to put on Braces/Orthodontics when that is not what they do. 

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