Your First Visit

Your first visit will begin with a consultation. Your doctor will take a full medical history and ask you about your present condition. Next, the doctor will perform an examination to evaluate the nature of your problem. This examination generally includes a series of basic physical tests, as well as a specialized chiropractic evaluation of spinal movements and posture. Your first visit will take approximately 45 minutes to an hour. Not all patients will receive spinal manipulation on the initial visit; this is a clinical decision and varies from patient to patient. For those patients who do receive spinal manipulation on the initial visit, it may be a normal occurrence to feel mild discomfort. To help alleviate this, you should ice the affected regions 10 minutes on and 15 minutes off, one to three times on the day of your first treatment.

Patient History

In preparation for the examination we do require information about you and your injury. A few of these are:

• When and how did the pain start?
• Where is it located?
• Is it a result of an injury?
• What activities/circumstances make it better?
• What activities/circumstances make it worse?

You can download patient forms here.