Your First Visit
Welcome to our Office! Upon your visit to the office space at our current location, we will introduce you to ourselves and our practice by explaining what Upper Cervical Chiropractic Care means and how it may benefit you. We utilize models, posters, and demonstrations to help comprehension. We go through an extensive clinical history regarding your chief complaint and a systems review picking up on any other concern which you may have had or continue to have now.
We will introduce you to the Tytron thermographic scanner and explain its necessity and the objective findings which it will provide. Your neck will be scanned 2-3 times during this first visit. We will continue with your appointment having you lay face down on a standard chiropractic drop table to perform a series of neuromuscular exams. We are gathering information as to what is occurring in your cervical region and the subluxation complex response being visualized at the base of your heels.
You will then sit up and we will use models to explain our findings to you and the correlation between all of the assessments. Your correction will be performed on an adjusting table with a drop headpiece. Laying on your side, the doctor will help position you for proper alignment and set-up. The doctor will set-up and place their hands on the segment and location appropriate for your listing, and the correction will occur as the headpiece and the doctor's hands move slightly in tandem.
A normal response to a correction will then be explained to you as you rest in that side position for a couple of minutes. We will instruct you on your care for the next 24 hours as the vertebra which oscillates slightly settles into its proper place. The next day you will return to check your scan and the results of your neuromuscular exam to determine if your correction held.
It is important to realize that we are not all created equally, nor do we all have the same hormonal and nutritional status. As we monitor patient care during the first week, we are determining your course of care as your body responds to the correction. You will then be advised as to our recommendations for the upcoming week or two.