After your examination and any clinically appropriate digital X-rays are complete, your doctor’s work isn’t finished.

In many ways, it’s just beginning.

Your doctor needs time to take everything we’ve learned about you and put the pieces together.

That includes your current symptoms, previous injuries and accidents, health history, lifestyle, examination findings, and what we’re seeing on your X-rays.

No single finding tells the whole story.

Your X-rays don’t tell the whole story.

Your examination doesn’t tell the whole story.

And where you hurt today doesn’t necessarily tell the whole story.

It’s when we evaluate all of that information together that your doctor can develop a more complete understanding of what’s happening and determine the most appropriate recommendation for you.

Your Doctor Takes Time to Analyze Your Findings

We don’t believe recommendations should be made in a hurry.

Your doctor will carefully review your examination findings and X-rays, looking at factors such as spinal structure, alignment, curves, degeneration, previous injuries, and other findings that may influence your recommendations.

When appropriate, your X-rays may also be sent to an independent radiologist for an additional professional interpretation.

Once your doctor has completed that analysis, we’ll be ready to sit down with you and explain what we’ve found.

We want you to understand what’s happening in your body, what we recommend, why we’re recommending it, and what you can realistically expect moving forward.

Why Does Chiropractic Care Sometimes Take Time?

One analogy we often use with patients is orthodontics.

You wouldn’t expect an orthodontist to adjust your braces once and have perfectly straight teeth the next morning.

The body needs time to adapt to change.

The same principle of gradual adaptation is important when thinking about chiropractic care. If your examination indicates that chiropractic is appropriate, your recommendations will take into consideration how long you’ve been experiencing the problem, your examination and imaging findings, previous injuries, your overall health, and how your body responds to care.

That’s why two patients who walk into our office with the same complaint may receive very different recommendations.

We aren’t developing a plan for a headache, a bad back, or a painful neck. We’re developing recommendations for the individual patient sitting in front of us.

And our doctors will always recommend what they believe is in your best interest.