• What is Chiropractic?
• How can Chiropractic help me?
• What is manipulation?
• Does the manipulation hurt?
• Is Chiropractic manipulation dangerous?
• Do you mean that Chiropractors do not subscribe any pills?
• How does the manipulation work?
• What is HIPAA and how is my privacy protected?

• Whiplash
• Pinched Nerves
• Bursitis/Tendonitis
• Disc Problems
• Lower Back Pain
• Carpal Tunnel Syndrome

Not all nerve impulses have a stimulatory effect on organs, some impulses inhibit the organs they influence. For example, the Vagus Nerve has an inhibitory effect on the heart causing the heart to slow its rate when it receives these signals. The same Vagus Nerve, however, on the stomach and digestive tract stimulates these organs into increasing their activity. Through manipulation of the spine, the Chiropractor helps place the spine in proper alignment to prevent a malfunction of nerve impulses to other organs and tissues.
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The manipulation can sometimes cause some minor discomfort, but it is not generally considered painful. Most of the discomfort will go away after the manipulation is performed several times. That is right - several manipulations may be necessary before total relief is seen. It is just as important for you to follow your chiropractor’s plan of care, number and frequency of adjustments as it is for you take the entire course of antibiotics. If you stop either too soon, you run the risk the problem reoccurring and it being more difficult to correct the second time around.

The discomfort that you may feel is very often related to how long you waited before you sought treatment for you pain or illness. The sooner treatment begins after onset or accident, the less discomfort usually felt and the fewer treatments usually needed for continued good health.
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I will ask you this question, is medicine dangerous? There are fewer documented cases of injuries from Chiropractic manipulation per year than from drug realated accidents: mis-prescribed drugs, drug overdose, bad drug combinations and interactions, side effects and treatments in the medical profession. Persons injured by a chiropractic-like manipulation are all too often the victims of a friend of the individual or the individual themselves trying to deliver a manipulation and not a trained Chiropractor. Chiropractic students practice and perform hundreds to thousands of manipulations before being permitted to deliver them to a patient in need. Chiropractic Students practice and critique each other while in school in order to ensure being capable of performing them on patients.

The most recognizable part of the manipulation is a cavitation (a pop or click sound) which is often heard or felt by the patient as a result of the manipulation. This cavitation is the result of a rapid release of air bubbles within the joint that have been under pressure, much like the opening of a carbonated soda can. The cavitation occurs more often than not, but it does not have to occur for the manipulation to be effective. 
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