Welcome to our office!  We are sure that you will be provided the most appropriate and professional chiropractic care possible.  Our most important goal is the constant improvement and maintenance of your health.  Before we get started with today’s examination procedures, which will determine if we can help you, we want you to understand what we do and why we are going to do it.

When a person seeks chiropractic care and when a chiropractor accepts a patient for such care, it is essential that they are both working towards the same goals.

The goal of our office is to allow your body to function at its highest potential, free from interference and stress that causes dysfunction, disease, and eventually symptoms and sickness.

Most importantly, you must understand that Chiropractic is not a substitute for medical treatment of any kind, in anyway, or for any reason.  The medical approach treats symptoms and diagnoses conditions and diseases.  Patients usually go to their medical doctors to get rid of whatever symptoms or conditions are bothering them.  This is symptom, sickness and disease care and is necessary in emergency situations.  Chiropractic recognizes that you get symptoms for a reason, attempts to find the cause of the symptoms, and addresses the function of the whole body.  This is true healthcare, focusing on the optimum function of the individual, and it is what we do it in our office.

The purpose of Chiropractic is to restore and maintain the integrity of the spine, spinal cord and its nerve roots.  Vital nerve pathways are housed within and protected by the bones of the spine call vertebrae.  Misalignments of those vertebrae, which interfere with transmission of normal nerve impulses, are called SUBLUXATIONS.  Subluxations are the most common cause of nerve system interference (pinched nerve) and cause dysfunction to the tissue and organs that these nerves supply. 

With appropriate Chiropractic care, these subluxations can be reduced and corrected, which will restore normal nerve function.  A properly functioning nerve system is the foundation to good health. 

The information we get from you is important.  We use your health history, x-rays, computerized muscle assessment, and palpatory examination to locate subluxations.  For this reason, please fill out our history forms completely and to the best of your ability.  It will save us from doing unnecessary tests and give us the most accurate information.  At this time, we would like to inform you of the risks that may occur from Chiropractic treatment.  They are as follows: muscle soreness and irritation, headache, pain, muscle spasm and stiffness.  In rare instances, dizziness and/or nausea may occur.

Please feel free to ask any questions at any time to the staff or doctors in our office and again welcome.  We look forward to a healthy relationship with you and your family.

I, _____________________________, have read the above, understand it fully and undertake Chiropractic care on this basis.  Date: ___________