Your First Visit to Our Encinitas Practice
Make Yourself at Home
You’ll find plenty of convenient parking and a well-lit parking lot. You’ll be greeted by name when you enter our practice and given a short tour to get you acquainted with our facilities.
Paperwork
You can complete the necessary paperwork in our office, or we offer our paperwork on line so you can complete it in the convenience of your own home.
Personal and Family Health History
This let’s us know what’s happened, but perhaps more important, where do you want to take your health?
Consultation
The purpose of our initial consultation is so we can get to know each other, and to learn more about your specific health concerns and health goals.
We Listen
During a brief conversation and review of your health history, we try to determine if you’re a good candidate for chiropractic care. We’ll ask a few questions and do a lot of listening. Since ours is a partnership approach to better health, it’s important that you’re comfortable with the personalities, procedures and policies of our office. The consultation is a great way to find that out.
The Next Step
There is no charge for the initial consultation. We offer this so we can get to know one another and decide whether or not we can accept you as a patient in our office. If you are a good candidate for chiropractic care and we think chiropractic can help you the next step is a thorough examination. Our patients appreciate the fact that we explain everything in advance!
Examination
If our consultation suggests that you’d likely be helped with chiropractic care, we’ll need to perform a complete examination. Our patients often comment on how thorough our examination is, compared with other practitioners they’ve consulted.
Our examination varies based upon what we discover during the evaluation of your health history. What we find will tell us which examinations we need to conduct.
Your Nervous System Scan
An important part of your first visit is the technology we use to measure the condition of your nervous system. It's a noninvasive procedure called thermography. The same part of your nervous system that controls your internal organs regulates the temperature of your skin. Our instrument measures differences as small as a tenth of a degree!
Nervous system compromise causes muscles along the spine to exhibit unusual electrical activity. Surface electromyography (sEMG) is an instrument that locates subluxation patterns by measuring electrical activity in the muscles supporting the spine. Our equipment can detect differences as small as a millionth of a volt.
You’ll see the computerized printout and learn what it means. Because your care is based on the condition of your nervous system, not how you feel, this technology is one of the focal points of our practice.
X-ray
Diagnostic imaging can help locate any bone abnormalities, fractures and reveal your spine’s phase of spinal decay.
The importance of each of these tests will be explained to you on your Second Visit at your Report of Findings. However, it is important to note that this examination procedure helps scientifically understand the subluxation processes going on in your spine. It also gives us a baseline for future tests so we can accurately measure your progress to see how your spine is correcting and your nervous system is functioning.
At the end of your first visit we will give you some important information on what the doctor examined you for and we will schedule your second chiropractic visit at our Encinitas office.
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