Chiropractic Care

Want to get to the root of the problem instead of just treating the symptoms?

• An approach to health that utilizes the body's inherent and natural recuperative powers.
• A healing science that places emphasis on maintaining the structural integrity of the body by restoring joint motion and allowing the nervous system to function at it's optimum.
• A method of health care that is conservative and does not utilize drugs or surgery.
• Chiropractic treatment is the mobilization of the human body's joints, which allows for decreased nerve interference, enhanced muscle function and increased range of motion, joint lubrication and pain reduction. The Hetrick Center team strengthens and stabilizes the soft tissues around the affected joints to increase stability. This combination has allowed us to have great success in alleviating acute and chronic neuromusculoskeletal conditions, as well as decreasing future, repeat flare-ups.

Why is Chiropractic care important?

To achieve your Optimal Level of Function:
When under the proper control of your nervous system, all of the cells, tissues, and organs of a person's body are designed to resist disease and ill health.

What keeps you from functioning at your optimal level?
Interferences - In order for your system to remain healthy your nervous system must be functioning correctly. The 24 moving bones of the spinal column serve as protection to the nervous system's spinal cord and exiting spinal nerves. A loss of normal motion or position of these bones can irritate or impair the function of the nervous system. In other words, if your bones are not correctly moving, your nervous system will be compromised.

How do chiropractors fit in?
With improved spinal function, there may be improved nervous system function. Our chiropractors can help remove interferences that may be impairing your nervous system. By removing the interferences, you will be put on a path to better overall health. The chiropractic approach is to locate and remove interferences to a human being's natural state of being healthy.

What can you expect during a Chiropractic visit at The Hetrick Center?

Our patients should expect their initial visit with the chiropractor to be approximately one hour so that the chiropractor can perform a thorough history and exam. If x-rays are medically necessary, they may be taken. The Hetrick Center's chiropractors will also take time to decide which chiropractic adjusting technique is most appropriate for you. There are many chiropractic techniques that the chiropractor may use to make you the most comfortable. Our patients typically receive positive results from the chiropractic adjustments, offering them pain relief, and overall improved quality of life.

We DO NOT use family plans or life-time plans in order to treat our patients. Instead, we treat each patient as an individual. Depending upon the severity of your injury or complaint, follow-up visits will be scheduled anywhere from one day to six months later, or you may simply call us the next time you are in need of an appointment. Follow-up visits are usually 20 minutes. We believe in using multiple disciplines in order to best treat our patients. We offer Physical Therapy, Massage Therapy, Clinical Nutrition, Aquatic Therapy and more, to be used in conjunction with Chiropractic care.

What techniques do we specialize in?

Dr. Scott Colman: Gonstead, Diversified, Palmer Package, Thompson Drop Table, Toggle Recoil, Sacro-Occipital Technique (SOT), Cox Lumbar Flexion Distraction, Activator Methods, Extremity Adjusting, and Active Release.

Dr. Mary Colman: Diversified, Thompson Drop Table, Toggle Recoil, Gonstead, Activator Methods, Extremities Adjusting, and Cox Lumbar Flexion Distraction

Dr. Krista Blome: Diversified, Gonstead, Thompson Drop Table, Activator Methods, and Cox Lumbar Flexion Distraction.

Dr. Jon Tomkins: Gonstead, Diversified, Cox Lumbar Flexion Distraction, Activator Methods, Thompson Drop Table, and Extremity Adjusting.

Dr. Edward Hevner: Gonstead, Cox Lumbar Flexion Distraction, Chiropractic Biophysics (CBP), Diversified, and Cranial-sacral Techniques.

Dr. Brian Barrett: Diversified, Activator Methods, Thompson Drop Table, Cox Lumbar Flexion Distraction, and Toggle Recoil.

Dr. Thomas Brinzer: Diversified, Gonstead, Toggle Recoil, Thompson Drop Table, Cox Lumbar Flexion Distraction, and Activator Methods.

Dr. Craig John: Activator Methods, Gonstead, Diversified, Toggle Recoil, Thompson Drop Table, Cox Lumbar Flexion Distraction, Sacro-Occipital Technique (SOT), Craine, Mally, and Charette techniques.

Dr. Megan Barchiesi: Diversified, Thompson Drop Table, Cox Lumbar Flexion Distraction, Activator Methods, Toggle Recoil, Activator Methods,  Sacro-Occipital Technique (SOT), Gonstead, Extremity Adjusting and Active Release Technique (ART).

All Doctors practice decompression therapy

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