NEW PATIENT EXPERIENCE

VIDEO OVERVIEW: Dr. Simms describes our unique approach to chiropractic care.  Because pain is only a symptom, we first pinpoint the underlying cause with a comprehensive, interactive and high-tech exam that includes a neurological evaluation, motion and posture testing, digital x-rays and more.  We call this our New Patient Experience. If these findings suggest chiropractic care will benefit you, we’ll present a personalized care plan and strategy to help you achieve unbelievable results.   View this short video to learn more.

Before you arrive 

To help you maximize the value of your time on your first visit, we recommend that you download and complete the appropriate patient form below prior to arriving.  If you are unable to do so, please arrive at your appointment ahead of the scheduled time.  Take your time when completing this form as our doctors need to learn as much about your health history, chief complaints and health goals as they can prior to your first visit.   

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Video: Dr. Ron Simms, D.C. on your first visit

Your first visit 

Initial Consultation

We call our process an experience because it is much more than a routine evaluation and it starts with a highly interactive consultation with one of our qualified and caring doctors.    We focus on learning as much as we can about your chief complaints, your health history and trauma record as well as your specific health and wellness goals.   From this we can tailor a specific examination process that is best suited for you.   
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Specialized Examination

Our examination goal is to determine if your symptoms are coming from vertebral subluxation, specific misalignments of your spinal vertebrae interfering with proper neurological function. 

We start with advanced neurological testing, with our Insight Subluxation Station, to determine how well your nervous is handling your unique stressors.   This cutting edge technology involves thermography, surface electromyogram (EMG), and heart rate variability testing, allowing us to accurately measure the health of your nervous system, giving us your unique 3-part Core Score.

After this you will undergo a thorough Chiropractic spinal motion analysis as well as static and dynamic posture assessments.  If warranted, high frequency digital x-rays will be taken to help us determine the extent and severity of your spinal subluxations and to determine what Chiropractic techniques are most appropriate.  

​Once we have completed this intensive process you will be scheduled for a follow-up visit later that day or the next day, at which time our doctors will give you a complete report of their findings.
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Follow-up visit

Report of Findings

At this visit we specifically relate our findings to you, while explaining every detail of your examination results.  If we feel you are a candidate for Chiropractic care we will present a detailed, comprehensive care plan, including care schedule and cost of care breakdown based on your unique findings.  We set realistic expectations for you and we outline specific strategies for implementing corrective spinal exercises, stress management techniques and whole food nutrition.  

Finally, we review the costs of care, including insurance billing possibilities and we establish affordable care plan pricing for you if needed.     

Then we start the process of getting your health back on track by clearing your nervous system of interference with gentle, specific, spinal adjustments.  Together we begin the work needed to get you back to your health potential.  

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WHAT'S NEXT?

CHIROPRACTIC CARE

Once we have agreed that chiropractic care is right for you, your comprehensive care plan will be a phased approach as outlined below.

Phase 1
​Relief and Crisis Care

Most of our new patients come to us in some level of acute pain, while others present with chronic, recurring symptoms.  In either case our care is proven and effective for pain sufferers.   During this phase of care our focus is on reducing the effects of your spinal subluxations, allowing your body to gradual return toward normal function, experiencing a natural relief of you symptoms.   This phase of care usually takes 1-4 weeks based on the severity of your condition.

Phase 2
Correction and Rehabilitation

Once we have began to reduce the severity and frequency of a your symptoms with spinal adjustments and lifestyle improvements  we are able to turn our focus toward properly correcting a your spinal condition so you can experience a full health renewal.     By correcting and properly rehabilitating  your spinal condition we can put the pain behind you, while moving you toward your true health potential.   We utilize state of the art rehab techniques, including vibration therapy, repetitive cervical traction exercises, swiss ball stabilization movements, and corrective home exercise protocols.   This phase of care typically takes 4-12 months based on the severity of your condition. 

Phase 3
​Wellness and Prevention

When maximal correction has occurred it is critical that our practice members stay on  wellness and preventative care.  This type of care ensures that one’s spinal condition remain in a stable, dynamic state.   Most spinal conditions reveal symptoms later on in the progression of the subluxation, and with this level of care we can prevent flareups from occurring by correcting subluxations.

CHIROPRACTIC TECHNIQUES

Our doctors are highly trained in the proper detection and correction of spinal subluxation, and utilize a variety of proven Chiropractic  techniques to deliver gentle, specific, scientific adjustments. We use the following techniques:  Palmer, Diversified, Flexion-distraction, Activator, Drop, Toggle-recoil, Webster and Active Release.    From  our consultation and specialized examination we are able to determine what techniques is best suited for your situation.

Can Chiropractic Care Help Me?

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