Safe, Reliable, Affordable Family Chiropractic Care

When it comes to biological engineering, your spinal column is nothing short of miraculous. It is made up of 24 independent vertebrae and allows you to twist, bend, and move in virtually every way. Not only that, but your nervous system is encased within. This system is responsible for controlling all of your body’s muscles, tissues, and nerves. This also means that your body is a tightly interconnected system. If you’re hurt in one spot, the pain won’t just stay there. 

When you drop a rock into a pond, the splash caused by the impact pushes water outwards in ripples. Pain in your body behaves similarly. An injury can have unexpected consequences for multiple other areas of the body, not just where it occurred. If you’re experiencing chronic conditions such as chronic neck pain, back pain, or headaches, you can always pop some medication that will reduce the discomfort for a while. 

Unfortunately, it won’t address the root cause, and you can expect the pain to return. Chiropractic care, on the other hand, is designed to take a broader view by focusing on your entire body and providing treatment that removes pain, increases flexibility, and improves your general health and physical function. It focuses more on solving the overall cause, along with the symptoms. It does not only take the discomfort away but keeps it away long-term.

What is Chiropractic Care?

Chiropractic medicine focuses on the spine and other intervertebral joints in the body, and their relationship to the nervous system. More specifically, chiropractic is concerned with diagnosing and treating neuromuscular and musculoskeletal conditions that can affect your overall health and wellness. 

Here at Connected Chiropractic, we address these disorders and other health conditions through the application of focused and controlled manual therapies that best suit your specific needs, injuries, and health goals. These manual manipulations and spinal manipulations may include chiropractic adjustments of the spine and joints in the body, along with muscle therapy, traction, and passive stretching techniques. 

Your chiropractor may also employ the use of chiropractic adjusting tools such as an activator and other treatment methods. Chiropractors use many tools to enhance chiropractic treatments to alleviate swelling and inflammation that contribute to pain and stiffness of the muscles, joints, tendons, and ligaments, which, essentially, can restrict overall movement. To address these issues, your chiropractic treatment may include electrotherapy (electric muscle stimulation) and the use of heating pads or cold packs.

Your chiropractic treatment will be applied while you lay in different positions on an adjusting table, which may include seated, prone (lying face down), supine (lying down facing upward), and supported side positions. Chiropractic practice is a proven, safe, and highly effective alternative to treating pain without the use of medications and invasive surgical procedures. Our chiropractic treatments are customized to your unique needs.

• Upper Back Pain
• Lower Back Pain
• Neck Pain
• Shoulder Pain
• Arm and Elbow Pain
• Hand and Wrist Pain
• Leg Pain
• Ankle and Foot Pain
• Hip Pain
• Lack of Joint Mobility and Spinal Joint Pain
• Degenerative Disc Disease, Arthritis, Osteoarthritis pain, Stenosis
• Inflammation
• Poor Circulation
• Migraine Headaches

• Poor Nerve System Function
• Weakened Immune System
• Poor Organ System Function
• Behavioral Disorders
• Sleep Issues
• Cognitive Disorders
• Poor Digestion
• Sciatica (pain in the lower back with radiating leg pain)
• Muscle Spasms and Strains
• Sprains
• Numbness and Tingling
• Myofascial Pain
• Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
• Fibromyalgia
• Pinched nerves and Neuropathy (nerve pain)

The Goals of Chiropractic Care

Among the many benefits of chiropractic are relieving pain and improving the nervous system! Most people seek chiropractic treatments to relieve pain, heal from an injury, or enhance their overall wellness. What most people don’t realize is that chiropractic therapy can drastically improve your central nervous system and that this will be the best thing to come from regular visits to your chiropractor. 

Your central nervous system is involved in every single process of your body. You can’t move a muscle without it, you can’t fight off illness, and you can’t even sneeze! If your nervous system is compromised, then your health and wellness are compromised, too. While each patient is unique, the overarching goal of chiropractic therapy is to have your body operating at its peak performance. Doctors of chiropractic reduce and remove pain intensity so that chiropractic patients can get back to living and doing the things they enjoy without being hindered.

In summary, your chiropractor seeks to:

• Diagnose, treat, and correct neuromuscular and musculoskeletal pain disorders
• Relieve pain and discomfort
• Restore nerve function
• Improve mobility and movement
• Maintain and improve the structural integrity of the spine and supportive tissues
• Enhance general health and wellness

Alter the Perceptions of Age!

Many people assume that chiropractic care is only for those 18 years of age or older, but this is not the case. More than 50 million Americans receive regular chiropractic each year—this estimate includes chiropractic patients of all ages and walks of life. Our chiropractic office in Johnstown offers safe and effective chiropractic care for the whole family. We believe that health and wellness do not just start once you have reached a certain age. It is a lifelong investment that begins in childhood. 

Our chiropractor, Dr. Brad Cranwell, treats children and adults of all ages with gentle yet effective chiropractic treatments. Contact us to talk more about pediatric chiropractic care and chiropractic for teens and adolescents. You may also schedule an appointment for a loved one today by booking online!

How to Prepare for Your Chiropractic Appointment?

There is nothing much you need to prepare for your chiropractic appointment. However, there are a few considerations for you to ponder before your initial visit with us:

• You can download and fill out our Adult Intake Form located below. You can either fax them or bring them with you to your initial appointment. This will save you about 20-30 minutes. We also provide separate forms for infants and children if you need to bring in those most precious to you due to issues like Colic, bed wetting, and poor digestion.
• Bring your medical insurance plan information.
• Avoid strenuous activity before your visit (heavy lifting, awkward bending and twisting, intense physical activity like contact sports, etc.).
• Be prepared to discuss your pain, injuries, symptoms, health conditions, etc. You may take notes to help you remember any questions or concerns you may have for the chiropractic doctor. Your notable information can better assist us in optimizing your chiropractic treatments (e.g. lifestyle practices, medications, supplements, allergies, current injuries, previous medical and alternative medical treatments, etc.). If you have had recent radiological imaging (X-ray, MRI, or other), feel free to bring those scans to the office if you have them so we can see your medical condition.