Your Initial Visit

As a new patient with us, your first visit is a great opportunity to get to know each other. My goal at Swimelar Chiropractic Health & Wellness, PLLC is to offer excellent chiropractic care in a comfortable and welcoming environment. 

What To Bring

By this point, you've completed the New Patient Intake Form. If not, please click the attached link. If you have questions, forms are available in the office, but allow yourself 15 minutes prior to the appointment to complete the paperwork. Your initial paperwork is to help the doctor get a better idea of your health history and current needs. Your health insurance card will be photocopied and kept securely on file, so be sure to bring that for the initial visit.

Consultation

Once the doctor has sat down with you and reviewed your health history, he will determine if chiropractic care is the next step for your current condition. This consultation is also an opportunity for you as the patient to learn about the doctor as well as ask any questions about chiropractic.  If it is determined that chiropractic care can help, we move on to the next step; the exam.

examination

At this point, a series of examinations will be performed to help the doctor further diagnose your condition. We recommend that you dress comfortably. The doctor will check your posture and range of motion. Depending on the condition, the doctor may also check your reflexes, along with muscular strength and dermatomes. Specific orthopedic tests will be performed on the area of the spine or extremities to determine the cause of the patients discomfort. 

The doctor will then have the patient lie on the chiropractic table and exam the body from head to toe, looking for misalignments and imbalances the patient may have. 

Review of findings

After the doctor has finished with the examination, he will report his findings to the patient and discuss the next steps in care. Every condition will affect each patient differently and the doctor will recommend the appropriate amount of treatment that is needed to restore your health and wellness.

Informed Consent

Once treatment options have been discussed and the patient has asked any questions they may have, a signed consent form is required for treatment. As much as chiropractic care benefits patients, the doctor will also discuss any possible side effects of chiropractic adjustments. After the informed consent form is signed, treatment is now possible!

treatment

The most common type of adjustments that Dr. Swimelar performs will be with his hands. Dr. Swimelar performs high velocity, low amplitude adjustments (aka the popping and cracking noise) but he also uses a Drop Table and activator.

Some patients prefer not to hear the "popping and cracking" noise and that's where other techniques come in handy. A Drop Table is the type of table Dr. Swimelar uses to adjust, where specific portions of the table will rise and then drop as the chiropractor is pushing on the patients back. It's a gentle form of adjusting and works great! An activator is a small, hand-held, spring-loaded tool that is used to direct a small force specifically to the spine or extremity.

Adjustments shouldn't be painful! Most patients report relief almost immediately after chiropractic care. My goal is to have you walking out feeling better than you did walking into my office!