Marini Chiropractic

Frequently Asked Questions

Does The Treatment Hurt?

If you asked the vast majority of our chiropractic patients they would quickly answer NO!

But let's explain. The reason so many patients receive and return to a chiropractor is that the treatment is effective and comfortable. But since pain is subjective, any pain associated with the procedures would be dependant on individual factors including, but not limited to your condition that may include acute trauma or swelling, your body's tolerance and response to treatment, and the specific techniques used in treatment. Treatment techniques vary from moderate to light force applied, to no force at all. Treatment options based on your condition or even to your apprehension to receiving care can be discussed.

How Long Does It Take To Get Better?

Patients often start to experience relief ranging from the very first visit to a few weeks. How and how soon you respond is based on the severity of your condition, the length of time you have experienced your problem, complicating illness and underlying factors. For example, think about the common cold. Each of us responds and heals at a different rate, and each cold can vary until you are feeling better.

It's also important to define "better".
Our goal is to work with each patient to help them achieve their treatment goals. For some this means only wanting to reduce the amount of pain. For others, it means improve function and to strengthen and restore the body so they may continue or return to required activity such as work, or activities they enjoy. And yet for others, their goal is to get well, and stay well in light of a busy, active, and demanding lifestyle.

Once I Start Treatment, Do I Have To Keep Going Forever?

NO. A false rumor about chiropractic is that "once you start going you'll have to keep going" or "the chiropractor will make you keep coming back forever".

Many patients find relief or correction of their condition and their treatment is finished. In fact, you could stop chiropractic care at anytime. However, when patients achieve their goals, some- by their own choice- decide that it's easier to stay well with the help of chiropractic. They know that their activities, job, stress, health history and the natural aging process are likely to contribute to a breakdown in how well their body functions and a periodic evaluation becomes preventative and part of a health supporting, wellness orientated plan to combat these stresses and promote health. These visits often detect small changes and prohibit little problems from becoming big problems.

So, we are not sure where and when those rumors started, but when you understand the health benefits of chiropractic, it simply makes sense for some patients, - by choice- to return to chiropractic even when they are not in severe pain.

Did you ever go to a dentist when you where younger? How long have you been going to a dentist? Ever go back periodically, even when you didn't have a toothache? Periodic preventive and maintenance dental visits have gone a long way in improving the dental problems that generations have dealt with in the past. Darn those dentists, once you go, they "make you" keep coming back and all in the name and benefit of your good health!

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