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What's the difference between sick care and health care?

Sick care is largely about relieving or suppressing symptoms. Health care is about improving performance. While sick care is about how you feel, health care is about how you function. Sick care is what you do to treat an obvious problem, and health care is what you do to avoid the problem and advance your well-being.

What's the difference between chiropractic and medicine?

Medical treatment focuses on the disease or the symptom. Chiropractic focuses on the person with the disease or the symptom. Medical treatment usually involves changing blood chemistry. Chiropractic involves restoring nervous system integrity. Medical doctors prescribe medicine. Chiropractors adjust the spine—a common source of nervous system interference.

Regular Visits

A typical office visit you will check in at the front desk and sign in.

Once in the treatment room it is okay to relax and do a few stretches on the table to prepare for the adjustment.

Please take any bulky objects out of your pockets.

Dr. D will go over your response since your last visit and check your spine for joint locking and the areas that need to be adjusted. Any areas of myofibrosis (muscle knots)  in your muscles will also be checked and treated for the day.

Therapies and are also given at this time and exercises may be done, too. For our decompression patients, decompression is generally done before the adjustment. The adjustment takes only a few minutes, while therapies and exercises are performed in 15 minute intervals.

One of the differences at DCA is that your treatments will often change over time as your condition responds. Also, there will be days when you may present with a different complaint, which will require a change in your usual treatment. For example, if we've been treating your low back and you come in with a migraine, it will affect your treatment program.