What is Chiropractic Medicine?

Chiropractic is a form of natural medicine that combines manual medicine (adjustments and visceral manipulation), with supplements, exercise, and lifestyle changes to help you maximize health and happiness.

Background

Although much of contemporary chiropractic medicine emphasizes spinal care and biomechanics, the original precepts of chiropractic acknowledged the body’s inherent wisdom and sought to reconnect the body’s self-regulatory system so it could heal itself. The founder of chiropractic was a magnetic healer (i.e. energy worker) and understood that the energy system that the body is built on has primacy for health and well-being.

Chiropractic Techniques

Dr. Caroline Peterson is trained in a variety of chiropractic techniques that will help you heal.

• Applied Kinesiology
• Activator
• Diversified
• Drop Table/Thompson
• Functional Neurology
• Manual Muscle Testing
• Myofascial Release
• Sacral Occipital Technique
• Strain/Counterstrain
• Trigger Point Therapy

How to Prepare

When you come to your appointment, be sure to wear comfortable clothes that will allow you to move without restriction. Know that chiropractic care has been repeatedly demonstrated to be safe, even for pregnant women, children, and babies.

What to Expect

Please let Dr. Caroline Peterson know about your previous experience with chiropractic. She will especially want to know what types of techniques worked well for you and which ones did not. Dr. Caroline Peterson will always ask for your feedback and will only work with your body in ways that are comfortable for you.

The Chiropractic Spinal Adjustment Should Be Easy.

If a joint does not move easily with specific force applied by an experienced chiropractor, something else is the primary cause of joint restriction.

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