Four Steps to a Healthier You
Everyone wants to have good health and live their best life. Health goals are for everyone, and health and wellness come at any age and can be for anyone. We offer chiropractic care to the entire family so anyone, from infant to senior citizen, can experience the life-changing results of this type of healthcare.
Whether your needs involve chronic pain relief, you have a condition like osteoporosis or are looking to reach health goals; chiropractic care is likely to help.
Coming to us to receive chiropractic care includes several instruments that assist us in tapping your bones and gently moving them. There are also manual adjustment techniques that may seem slightly more aggressive but are gentle and provide lasting pain relief. So whether you have lower back and neck pain, sciatica pain or need spinal manipulation, our team can help.
Having received his chiropractic degree and training at the renowned Palmer School of Chiropractic in Iowa, Doctor Frank knows how to help each unique patient. We can proudly offer chiropractic care in the Nashville, Cool Springs, Brentwood, or Franklin, TN (37067) area.
Four Steps for Better Health
To improve your health, our team follows three steps after initial intensive treatment. After we get you functioning, we move into a phase of routine chiropractic care. Chiropractic care is often misunderstood, and there’s more to this medical science than simple spinal manipulation or chiropractic adjustment. There are three steps that a chiropractic doctor will follow to assist you and support
Initial Intensive Care
Our first goal is always to relieve constant, chronic pain in the quickest way possible. On your initial visit to Franklin, TN, you will not believe how much better you feel as the back, neck, shoulder, wrist, and other pain or soreness melt away. Your pain relief can improve your overall health by removing the stress from your body, which benefits anyone.
While the immediate relief is apparent, remember your body’s ability to heal still takes months. Even if a chiropractor helps relieve your pain, the healing is not over here, and you will need to be proactive in your care for full healing to be complete.
For adults, Initial Intensive Care takes between 1 to 2 months. Your body is a complex biomechanical machine meant to carry you through a long and fulfilling life, so adults need to remember that initial treatment will take a little time to accomplish this. A chiropractor can treat babies in only one visit with a simple, gentle adjustment.
Though you are free to move on after the initial intensive phase of treatment once you have found relief, there is always the risk that stopping care too soon may reduce or reverse the effectiveness of treatment. You may risk fully healing or the pain or injury returning if you stop treatment too soon. If you continue your chiropractic care with us, we can help relieve the discomfort in a lasting way.
Corrective Care
Corrective Care For Symptoms, Including Neck Pain
Initial Intensive Care and symptom relief may be the easiest part of the care program. Correcting the underlying cause of the problem can be more difficult and time-consuming. This corrective chiropractic care phase can range from 1 to 2 ½ years. You might compare it to the time it takes to correct your smile with braces. Just remember that the best things take time.
Take Your Time and Do Your Homework
The same principles of orthodontic work apply when trying to improve your spine health or relieve other pain in your body. Aligning your body’s internal structures to allow you to maintain proper posture can take time. There is also a little homework that you will have to do. Your best results will come when you complete the active rehabilitation exercises your chiropractor has tasked you with doing daily.
Most patients find that this process is more than worth it and report absolutely amazing, lasting results. We’ve had patients go from experiencing chronic pain, trying every doctor they can find, to finally finding the pain relief that brings the quality of life they have been seeking. Our knowledgeable chiropractors can help relieve your pain through natural remedies that take advantage of your body’s own natural healing abilities.
You Will Be Able to See the Difference
At the end of corrective care, we will take a new set of x-rays and scans to ensure we have achieved maximum correction. You will be able to compare these to the original X-rays and literally see the difference the hard work has made.
Though the entire process may take you some time, and while it can be stressful at times, it will benefit you, and you will be able to move forward to live your best life. In addition, we give first-time patients helpful advice on committing to chiropractic rehab and healing and we welcome all your questions. We want your active participation in your chiropractic care!
Maintenance Care
Like all the best types of professional care, you must work to maintain the results of your chiropractic care. Our patients are instructed on home stretches and posture exercises to “retain” the correction in between checkups. Remember to embrace the maintenance. It is always much easier to maintain the corrections than to find yourself in a position where you need intensive chiropractic care again and find yourself starting the process at square one.
This is one of the reasons that we also encourage patients, especially children, to come and visit us for regular checkups. As they grow we can ensure that they are creating habits that will maintain a lifetime of spinal health and prevent further damage or even major surgery somewhere down the line.
Wellness Care
We consider this to be the best phase of chiropractic care. You have had treatment and you realize what pain relief and freedom from chronic pain genuinely feels like. Yet, to be quite frank, most people miss out on reaching this phase of care. Why? Partly due to a lack of patience and partly because they feel as if they have found and met their health goals. And, indeed, their overall well-being is much improved.
Even when you feel you have found the relief from the constant pain is alleviated, neck pain, lower back pain, and sciatic pain are things that you should be actively controlling through maintenance. When you spend the time and money and make an effort, you don’t want the chronic pain to return. That is why many of our patients are regulars in what we like to call the wellness phase.
Wellness and Well Being
The wellness phase differs from the maintenance phase because when you are here, you are focused on overall health and wellness. Our chiropractor continues offering patient advice and checks for any issues. This routine care enables us to observe and identify the start of any potential problems and then correct it before a larger, more painful problem comes to light.
This phase can be the most difficult, mentally. As a result, many believe they don’t need anything else when their injury is fully healed. However, new problems in the neck, spine or low back area can still arise, and fixing them can cost more time. Therefore, it would serve you well to continue your treatment.
It is Worth the Time and Effort to Find Pain Relief
If you go through Initial Intensive Care, Corrective Care, and Wellness Care successfully, you will get the actual health benefits of a body that feels good. You will see that your body functions well, and is at an optimum level.
Working on yourself and taking care of the one body you get is worth its weight in gold. You can go through life and not worry about developing the issues that many experience as their body ages and changes over time. The Wellness phase will help you avoid chronic pain, continue your pain relief, and the top notch wellness care you recieve will help you avoid the need for more healthcare too!
Putting in the work now and making the effort to realize your potential can make all the differnce. Schedule a first visit with one of our chiropractors and see for yourself.
We’ve provided lifelong chiropractic care for patients in Cool Springs, Nashville, and Franklin, TN (37067).