What You Can Expect

Laying the foundation

Your body has to go through a specific healing process so it can repair itself correctly and fully.  When you build a house, if you put the walls up before the foundation, the walls would not hold up very long.  If you put the roof on before the walls were ready, the roof would collapse!

Your body also must repair itself in the proper order.  We will walk with you through these phases to give you the amount and type of recovery and health you desire to have.

Acute: Initial recovery from the problem

Something has brought you to our website, and that issue will lead you to our office.  Our first order of business is to find out what has gone wrong and help you feel better.  We use in-office care and also give you instructions for home care so you will get out of pain faster and heal more quickly than if we only treated you in our office.  Because of the tremendous effectiveness of our techniques and treatments, this is usually the shortest period of care.  Some conditions are more complicated and take longer.

Stabilization: Making sure the recovery holds

After helping you through the acute stage, we must make sure that your recovery is not temporary.  In this period of care, we engage in more active care, utilizing your ability to move without pain to strengthen the parts of your body that led to your problem in the first place!  We do not want you to regress and end up with the same problem again!  Visits to our office usually occur at a reduced frequency during this time, as you will begin doing more and more of the healing and repair work on your own, saving you money and increasing the effectiveness of your care!

Correction: Fixing the problems that led you here

After stabilization, your body will be fairly well equipped to handle the problem that brought you to our office.  Now, it is essential to repair the issues that led you to the office.  You see, in stabilization, we are ensuring your muscles and soft tissues are well equipped to hold your body properly so you will not re-injure yourself easily.  During correction, we work on the more rigid parts of your body and seek to reform the ones that made your muscles weak and led your problem to develop in the first place.  It is during the correction part of care that your body will truly start to change into a stronger, more efficient system that will be unlikely to fall victim to the stresses on your body.  During the correction phase, care in our office becomes even less frequent than in stabilization, as your work will be supplemented by our care to ensure you are progressing properly and at a good pace.

Wellness: Moving from surviving to thriving!

"Wellness" is an ambiguous term, yet it is crucial to your long-term success.  We at Health Touch consider "wellness" to be not just surviving without illness in a non-sick state; we consider "wellness" to be THRIVING, enjoying life to the fullest with great health that enhances your life and allows you to do what you want when you want to do it!

After you finish the correction phase of care, you have a choice: wait until the next breakdown and go through the whole process again; or move forward with periodic care and attention to health habits and principles we provide access to through our office, gaining an ever-improving lifestyle and advancing toward optimal health.

Wellness is our desire for all our patients, but pursuit of this goal is a personal choice that every person must make for themselves.  If YOU wish to pursue true wellness, we will be very happy to assist you in achieving your goals.  It's about YOU, and what YOU want for YOUR future.  We will be standing by to help you when you are ready to walk this path with us!

We encourage you to meet some of our patients and hear how their lives have been changed and, in some cases, liberated by the care and assistance provided by Health Touch Chiropractic!