Chiropractic: How Can a Chiropractor Help You?

Chiropractor Chapel Hill, NC

We offer quality chiropractic and acupuncture services at Acupractic Natural Healing Center, located at 205 Providence Rd in Chapel Hill, NC. When accepting new patients, we receive many questions about Chiropractic.

What is Chiropractic?

A chiropractor is a licensed healthcare professional trained to help patients heal naturally and obtain maximal functioning without drugs or surgery. By treating the spine and musculoskeletal system using spinal adjustments, your chiropractor supports postural alignment and cares for all body systems, including nerves, muscles, ligaments, and organs. Through the use of chiropractic adjustments, Doctors of Chiropractic reduce back and neck pain, as well as many other conditions. Our chiropractor will prescribe specific exercises and make nutrition suggestions to improve self-healing throughout the body.

Like Doctors of Osteopathy, Doctors of Chiropractic promote self-healing through work with the bones, muscles, and other tissues that support and move your body. Doctors of Chiropractic attend 4 years of undergraduate pre-med study, followed by 4 years of post-graduate training to earn a degree in Chiropractic. Chiropractors and some osteopaths utilize a ‘high-velocity thrust’ technique, referred to by chiropractors as a chiropractic adjustment and osteopaths as an osteopathic manipulation. This short, fast thrust applied to the spinal column releases tension and restores position and mobility to areas of limited motion and nerve interference. Sometimes, your Doctor will get x-rays to diagnose or rule out certain conditions. Following an initial exam, your chiropractor will likely make a treatment plan and suggest a regimen of treatment to make lasting corrections over time and to allow patients to make exercise and nutrition changes while they monitor progress and make additional adjustments to the spine and extremities.

Chiropractors perform periodic re-exams to help understand the impact of the treatment plan. Chiropractors do not prescribe drugs or medications; they examine patients, looking at their spine’s position and muscle reflexes. They also perform tests to diagnose the patient’s condition, devise a treatment plan, and monitor progress. Chiropractors do not prescribe pain medication. Instead, they rely on and assist the body’s ability to heal itself. A chiropractor’s primary therapy is spinal manipulation, where they use hands or instruments to apply force to a joint in the spine, moving the joint in a specific direction for better alignment.

Using chiropractic adjustment, DCs or doctors of chiropractic help reposition spinal joints, improving alignment and movement and lowering pain. Adjunctive therapies may include exercise prescriptions and stretches to support strength, balance, and joint mobility. Also, many DCs utilize soft tissue massage to ease muscle tension and spasms, which helps relax the mind and facilitates adjustment. TENS unit application, or transcutaneous electro-nerve stimulation, also relieves muscle and joint imbalance. They may also do kinesiotaping to gently brace injured, sore joints and muscles. Some doctors of Chiropractic also perform acupuncture, which helps with many conditions ranging from stress and insomnia to headaches and back pain. Many patients find support for weight loss and even infertility using a combination of Chiropractic and acupuncture in a chiropractor’s office.

Chiropractors work in various locations, from private practices in solo clinics to larger multidisciplinary practices, with other practitioners offering complimentary services. Some chiropractic offices, such as Acupractic Natural Healing Center, offer truly individualized care with an array of service types, such as hands-on adjustments to the neck and back, Activator adjustments, physical therapy modalities such as massage, TENS (transcutaneous electrostimulation) unit, exercise instruction, and nutrition prescription, weight loss and addiction acupuncture, trigger point therapy and dry needling technique DNT, and lifestyle counseling with generous (30” or more) treatment times. Some chiropractic offices, such as The Joint, provide mostly adjustment therapy, but they do so with less counseling and shorter treatment times. Chiropractic offices frequently rely on front desk staff to assist with patient scheduling and insurance billing, although some do not. Also, some offices do not bill insurance, and others may exclusively depend on online scheduling.

Call 919-929-1400 today to learn more about how a chiropractor can help you and to schedule your chiropractic healthcare visit. Our hours of operation in Chapel Hill are Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday 8:30-5:30, Wednesday 12:30 -5:30, and Friday 8:30-12:30. You can also schedule online anytime by visiting acudocnc.com.

Serving the communities of Chapel Hill, Carrboro, Durham, Hillsborough, and the rest of the NC Triangle

205 Providence Rd. Chapel Hill NC 27514 | Phone: (919) 929-1400

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