Chiropractic care has an exceptional safety record when provided by trained professionals.  It is one of the safest drug free, non-invasive therapies available.  One of the best ways to compare safety is by considering the cost of malpractice insurance.  The cost of an average year of malpractice insurance for a chiropractor barely covers a month of a medical primary care doctor’s malpractice insurance.

Sometimes a person may be sore after their first few adjustments.  The degree of soreness is the same as a person may experience after exercising at the gym.  This soreness is caused by the body adjusting to the realignment of the spine which has been in the same position for a long time.  Think of it as a new gym routine; muscles, ligaments, and tendons need time to readjust to the re-alignment of your spine.

Not only is chiropractic care appropriate for children, it makes its most powerful impact on children. Receiving chiropractic care is about much more than back aches. Studies have shown that regular pediatric chiropractic care can bolster children’s immune systems, improve sleep quality, even improve behavior and attitude. Most people incur their first subluxation, misalignment of the spine with nerve pressure, during the birthing process. Our goal is to correct any misalignments in the spine to allow the nervous system, the system that controls all our body’s processes, to function optimally without interference. The earlier in life a person gets adjusted the better!

Picture a suction cup on a window.  Now when the suction cup is quickly pulled off the window, a popping sound is heard.  A vacuum is created, and the air rushes in to fill this vacuum.  Something similar can happen in your body when the adjustment occurs: a small vacuum is created in the space between the bones in your back, the vertebrae, resulting in a temporary influx of synovial fluid, or the dissolved gasses in the synovial fluid. The fluid or the gas rushes into the vacuum that we just created between the bones, causing the sound. To most people this release feels great, but if the sound is an issue for you please let us know. Many chiropractic adjustments can be done without causing that sound and are just as effective. Also, unlike what some of our grandmothers told us, that popping does not cause arthritis or have any negative effects on our body in general.