What to Expect
Great Care is Not Complex
Enhancing Your Brain-Body Connection
Your spinal cord comes from your brain. You can think of the spinal cord and the nerves that come out from it like wires that send information from the brain to the body and back. As chiropractors, our job is to make sure that those communication channels stay open and clear.
Feeling Stressed?
With our adult patients, we emphasize how chiropractic can affect your stress levels. We’re surrounded by physical, chemical and emotional stresses all day. Your brain’s ability to respond to these stressors is vital to your well-being.
When there is interference in the communication between your brain and body, you can’t respond to stress the way you should. You can’t focus or perform the tasks you need to in a day. We make sure that your brain gets the correct input from your body so everything can work at 100%.
At Elite Family Chiropractic, we like to keep things simple.
When it comes to explaining chiropractic care, we’ll explain it to you, similar to how we would for our pediatric patients. Think about everything your brain does for you: it makes you move, think, digest your food and even keeps your heart beating.
What Chiropractic Does for You
The research is clear: every time you get adjusted, it turns down your stress response and puts your brain into a state of growth, development and healing. It even helps improve your brain function!
The benefits of chiropractic that you can experience include boosted immunity, better sleep, improved concentration and clearer thinking, just to name a few. The many challenges we often see include:
- ADHD
- Asthma
- Autism
- Balance and coordination issues
- Colic
- Constipation
- Earaches
- Headaches
- Oppositional defiance disorder
- Reflux
- Sensory processing disorder
- Temper tantrums and meltdowns
Our Goals During Your Care
When you become a patient with us, we have two goals. The first is to help you feel better physically. The second is improving your quality of life. We do so by making sure your brain and nervous system can respond to your daily stressors.
The techniques we may use to adjust you include
- Activator®
- ArthroStim®
- Integrator™
- Logan Basic
- MC2
- Torque Release Technique™
- Webster Technique
What To Expect
Your Care Plan
Your First Visit
The first time you visit Elite Family Chiropractic, you’ll be greeted by a member of our friendly staff. Since you’ve completed your new patient paperwork at home, you can focus on those important first-day introductions, while your children will enjoy our kids’ play area!
Your Second Visit
Your second visit is where you get to the heart of your health. You will be greeted by a member of our friendly staff and escorted to the consultation room where you will watch a short video before your Report of Findings.
Your chiropractor will discuss your examination findings with you. The doctor will educate you about your results so that you understand the impact your nervous system function is having on your health and explain the role that chiropractic plays in your health and healing. Your personalized care plan will also be discussed.
Starting Care
A member of our staff will meet with you after your Report of Findings to discuss financial responsibility, payment options and appointment scheduling.
You will then start your care plan, receiving your first adjustment by the doctor. At the end of your appointment you will have your care plan scheduled and your financial arrangements in place. It’s our goal to make your healing the focus of your visits!
Future Visits
With your plan in place, you begin the Repair and Restoration (R&R) phase of care. Your family will receive their adjustments from one of the doctors each time you come in and then have a chance to hang out and have some play time in our kids’ area. You will also have regular progress evaluations so that we can measure how your nervous system is changing. These scans will allow us to see objective progress, in addition to the subjective updates we receive from you as we review your goals together.
What We Do
Our Clinical Process
Surface Electromyograph (SEMG)
The SEMG measures neural efficiency. This test determines how much energy is going into the brain from the proprioceptor muscles on the spine. Two sensors are used that lightly touch the skin along the back and neck so that the nerve signals, which measure muscle function, can be assessed.
The data banks know exactly how much energy the muscles along the spine should “spend” to maintain proper posture and alignment. If these signals are too strong or even too weak, the computerized program will detect and score the results. Proper function of these muscles is important for more than just posture. It is critical for organizing sensory input to the brain.
For our tiniest patients we use an ear clip or finger sensor.
Thermal Scan
The Thermal Scan measures the temperature along each side of the spine. The scanner will trace the base of your spine to the top of your neck. The body’s temperature controls are affected by pressure and tension in the spinal nerves. Researchers have found that changes in temperature along the spine are directly related to how well organs work. Measuring the subtle changes in temperature control allows us to gain an inside view of how body systems are responding to stress and if you are achieving brain balance.
Heart Rate Variability (HRV)
The HRV measures the balance between your sympathetic (fight/flight) and parasympathetic (rest/digest & growth/development) nervous systems. When there is sympathetic dominance, it can result in a person having significant health challenges. Your hand is placed on a sensing platform that monitors your heart rate for five minutes while you sit quietly. This test is widely used in cardiology, exercise physiology, psychology and now chiropractic. It is a reliable and valid procedure that measures the beat-to-beat timings of your heart. This data is collected and run through computer programs to look at the way that your body handles lifestyle stress. Everything from pregnancy stress, birth process, early traumas, as well as chemical, physical and emotional stressors, can leave a strain on the body’s stress management systems. HRV gives an accurate reading on the amount of “reserve” you have available for keeping up with daily demands and your body’s ability to adapt to stress.
Who We Care For
Pediatric
Elite Family Chiropractic specializes in pediatric care. We help your child overcome many of the common problems children face, such as colic, chronic sickness, ADHD/ADD, Asthma, Autism, and Ear Infections. We are here to help!
Prenatal
We provide the safe care you need to have a high-functioning nervous system and improve your pregnancy experience. When you feel better, you have the best chance at a complication-free labor and delivery.
Family
A healthy family requires healthy parents. Your children rely on you to be a stable and safe foundation. When parents are struggling, it affects the entire family. We help parents restore a healthy balance to the entire family.
We're Listening...
Fill out our form and one of our amazing Care Advocates will call you right away to find out your exact concerns, answer all of your questions, and get your family’s healing experience started right away!