We recognize and acknowledge the trust it takes to venture into any new doctor’s care.  Your first visit is designed for Dr. Ferguson to learn more about you, your condition, and overall health goals. We consistently exceed patient expectations, and we do so by first trying to understand what you want and to see where our skillset may be applied to your current health status or goals.

We have a very thorough new patient system that yields consistent clinical results and patient satisfaction but we acknowledge that we’re not quick on your first day.  You will be in the office for about an hour and twenty minutes.  If you don’t like ‘thorough’, you won’t like us, but patients consistently tell us how impressed they are with our approach.

You will start by filling out our health history form and watching a short educational video on Chiropractic before you see Dr. Ferguson. You can save time in our office by printing off our health history form and completing it beforehand and bring it to your appointment.

Dr. Ferguson will then conduct a thorough history surrounding why you have chosen to come to our clinic, and any additional health concern with a back-and-forth dialogue.

If your visit isn’t simply a symptom-free spinal analysis to get under Chiropractic Care, then the exam will be individualized towards your specific concern in addition to assessing your posture, spinal alignment, and joint function with meticulous discrimination.  We perform computer-assisted spinal motion, heart rate variability, digital picture analysis of posture, and computer-assisted foot motion analysis on every patient and we perform spinal X-Rays when required.

Our Health History Forms

Second Visit

During your second visit, Dr. Ferguson will thoroughly explain the exam findings and how they relate to the reason that you came to see us.  After the type of adjustments we recommend using for your care are explained to you, Dr. Ferguson will perform your first adjustment on you to free up your nerve system and begin the process of healing!  Finally, he will make recommendations for the care we can offer to you to make a difference in your health using the wide array of therapeutic interventions we offer.  Plan to be with the doctor 30 – 40 minutes.

Acute Phase of Care

Your acute care consists of frequent appointments in our clinic for adjustments to restore spinal motion and decrease nerve interference so that your body has the optimal chance of healing.   During these appointments you will team up with our Chiropractic Technician to address your soft tissue quality using Pettibon Rehabilitation procedures before your adjustment with Dr. Ferguson to achieve the adjustment’s maximum effect. Then our CT will supervise you as you perform corrective exercises directly following your adjustment in our office to help promote global postural change and take advantage of the adjustment’s intersegmental motion improvement.  During this phase of care you will be instructed in home care corrective exercises to improve soft tissue quality and general movement quality as well.

If you’ve come to us in pain, know that we’ll work towards relief as quickly as we can, but know that our focus is not the pain (after all, you could just take a drug for that, right?).  Our focus would be the dysfunction that is causing that pain – and – it might be a different area.  We offer a wide variety of natural help for this phase, like Theralase cold laser, Kinesiology taping, Myofascial Release visits using GT(Graston Instrument-Assisted Soft Tissue Manipulation) and the M2T(Myofascial Mobility Tool)Rapid Release Therapy, Homeopathic remedies and Neutriceuticals to help you through this phase as comfortably as possible.

Wellness Visits

Most of the patient visits we enjoy in a day are spinal ‘check-ups’ with long-term patients who see the value of having an optimally functioning spine and nervous system as important for their family’s health.  These visits are less expensive than our regular office visits, and families are usually seen once per month.  Much like a dentist can detect a tooth problem long before there are symptoms and work toward management for you, our technology allows us to detect subluxations in your spine long before you can ‘feel’ it, or the compensatory effects.

We are convinced that regular care provided by Chiropractors should be a priority for families to stay their healthiest.  We know it.  That said, please don’t worry if this not how you plan to use Chiropractic care for you and your family; if you’re simply wanting pain relief, we’ll provide that as quickly as possible in the acute phase and you will not be pestered into this kind of care.  We respectfully will help you towards your health goals.

If a wellness patient suffers an injury or new complaint, naturally they may revert back to Acute Care until that resolves.