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FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

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Q: What about my insurance?
A: We accept most insurances including HMO/PPO, auto insurance Med Pay, and Medi-care. If we are not on your insurance list, chances are we are still in your network. Our office will verify coverage to determine your benefits at no charge to you.

Q: How do I know if I need chiropractic care? A: We offer a free initial consultation so you we make the best decision if chiropractic care is appropriate for you. If not, we will help you find a qualified physician that can help you.

Q: How can I afford it?
A: For our chiropractic patients: We've never turned away a patient because of money, but we have turned them away if they were not commited to their health. If you desire to be seen in this office, most of the time we can work with your finances and still stay in “fair exchange”. Confidential inquires can be directed to Clairessa.

Q: What other treatment do you offer? A: Our goal is to provide our patients with the best natural healing available through chiropractic care. However, when the need arises, we are fortunate to affiliate with two surgery centers and a group of highly skilled doctors available for our patients. We offer plastic surgery, pain management, orthopedics, neurology, podiatry, and internal medicine. We also have in-house NCV/EMG testing, bone density scanning, and x-ray. When necessary, our doctors perform coloscopy, endoscopy, orthopedic surgery, neurosurgery, and a number of other procedures.

Q: Do you offer transportation? A: For special procedures such as colonoscopy, pain management and plastic surgery, our stretch limosine is available free of charge.

Q: Does Dr. Salse twist the neck and make rough adjustments?
A: No!!! - The Activator and Gonstead methods are very gentle as practiced in our office.

Q: Honestly, will it really help?
A: Only a trial period of care will know if you can respond but in most cases, most patients can no matter their age or level of infirmity. See our success stories.

Q: I heard that if you start you have to keep going?
A:Those that “keep going” do so for the same reason they “keep going” to the dentist – for their best health. Most regular Chiropractic patients feel better and don’t get sick as often.

Q: Does it hurt?
A: Adjustments should not hurt. However, there could occasionally be some mild discomfort.

Q: Can it help my other conditions (other than neck or back pain)?
A: Most patients obtain more relief than expected as the body heals all over, not just the area of complaint.

Q: My M.D. said Chiropractic would hurt me and is not appropriate?
A: The best judge of whether Chiropractic might place you at risk is a state licensed Chiropractor. In almost all cases, with careful methods, patients can have Chiropractic care. Our patients range from one to one-hundred and it helps them all.

Q: I get relief sometimes when I “adjust myself”. Do I really need Chiropractic?
A: most patients are able to generate some noise from stretching joints. Unfortunately, the joints most critical to move for optimal health are rarely the ones patients can move.

Q: Why should I have my kids checked?
A: Birth trauma and the 2000 falls it takes to learn to walk start the spine off on the wrong track… and it grows worse from there. Children respond much faster than adults with Chiropractic care. We highly recommend all children be checked.

Q: What if I am already injured and too weak. How can I be helped? A: Dr. Salse has experience with thousands of patients, many who started off in very poor condition. It may require special care, but most patients can be helped with corrective chiropractic. Visit our testimonials page.

Q: I’m pregnant, can I be helped?
A: Yes. Dr. has experience with hundreds of women who were pregnant and adjusted them following delivery. Careful chiropractic care from an experienced doctor can help alleviate the discomfort of pregnancy. Chiropractic offers an alternative to analgesic medication to aid in the discomfort of pregnancy. .

Is chiropractic effective?
Chiropractic helps to remove postural imbalances and structural misalignments that can accumulate in our bodies over time. Chiropractic works by restoring your own inborn ability to be healthy. For your body to remain healthy, your nervous system must function well. For your nervous system to function well it must be free of interference. By restoring spinal function with Chiropractic adjustments, nerve interference by misaligned vertebrae is removed, thus allowing optimal nervous system function and improved health.

Why should I see a Chiropractor?
Seeing a chiropractor is not only for back pain and neck pain. Chiropractic care is an excellent way to keep your body at its peak performance through nutrition, adjustment and overall wellness. In addition, chiropractic care has been known to help a wide range of conditions from fibromyalgia to diabetes.

What is Subluxation?
When a vertebrae becomes misaligned or moves out of its normal position, this is referred to in the chiropractic profession as a subluxation. Subluxations can be caused by a wide range of issues ranging from a minor slip or bump to a car accident or any sudden trauma. When a vertebrae is subluxated, it begins to put pressure on nerves, blood vessels and everything around it. This pressure comes with a price. The subluxation interrupts the natural pathways that the messages sent from the brain need to be clear in order to be completed properly.

How does chiropractic care work?
Chiropractic is an overall way of looking at the human body. It's based on the idea that the body is self-sustaining and self-healing. The body is in essence completely controlled by the brain through its connection via the spinal cord and the vast networks of nerves that make up the body. When this system is not functioning at its peak, the overall performance of the human body is lacking.

In the chiropractic world, drugs and medicine are not utilized as a form of treating a patient. While supplementation and nutrition are almost always a part of the bigger picture, drugs and prescriptions can be viewed as band-aids to treat symptoms rather than going to the source and treating the real problem.

While it's often perceived that the chiropractor is solely here to treat back and neck pain, this is simply a small piece of what the profession really is capable of handling. Chiropractors not only treat soft and hard tissue problems such as sciatica and joint pain, but are largely called on to deal with more significant issues. Some of these issues include fibromyalgia, allergies, insomnia, headaches and many more.

What is a chiropractic adjustment? Is it safe?
Adjustments, or manipulation as they're sometimes referred to is the minor movement of vertebrae in the spine. The objective of this movement is to realign vertebrae that have moved out of place for a number of reasons ranging from normal daily activity to trauma such as a car accident.

When these vertebrae are out of place, it has an overall systemic effect from muscular to the central nervous system. Without proper alignment and flow of all nerves and systems in the body from the brain, we can't function at our peak.

An adjustment is often a pressure from the chiropractor utilizing the hands or an instrument to move a vertebrae back into place. This happens with a quick movement and is often without discomfort. You may hear a noise that sounds like you're cracking your knuckles referred to as joint cavitation. It is the release of gases such as oxygen and nitrogen from the joint.

What can I expect from my visit to a chiropractor?
Going to the Chiropractor is a new experience for many of us. Maybe we've heard through a friend or have done some research online. It's possible that you are just fed up with living in pain and it's time to do something about it. In either case, your first visit to the chiropractor will really be about getting to know the chiropractor and discussing your history, current condition and goals.

What results can I expect from treatment?
Chiropractic is based on the idea of removing imbalances both structural and postural in an effort to allow our body to heal itself. For this to happen the network of nerves and signals from your brain, down your spinal cord, to the network of nerves must be allowed to flow freely without any interruption. Chiropractors have the ability and skill to remove these interruptions or misalignments and allow the body to perform as it was meant to.

If you've ever been in a car accident, played a sport, fell down or just bumped into something too hard, it's very possible that you are not functioning at your best due to a misalignment. While there are many potential mechanical or structural causes for misalignment, there are also chemical reasons. For instance, if you smoke or drink excessively or even just have a poor diet, the chemical issues in your body can eventually cause underlying conditions and disease to appear.

Allowing a chiropractor to get you back on track both chemically and structurally will bring your body back to the proper state it should be in to perform at its peak.