Understanding Your Chiropractic Care
Starting a new healthcare journey often comes with plenty of questions, and knowing what to expect is the first step toward lasting relief. At Corrective Care Chiropractic in San Luis Obispo, Dr. Christopher Tabick specializes in gentle, upper cervical care designed to relieve brainstem compression and restore proper nervous system function. Below, Dr. Tabick answers common questions about our root-cause approach, helping you and your family feel confident and informed as you work toward better alignment and overall vitality.
Chiropractic Care: Questions & Answers
The cost of corrective care chiropractic is often proportionately less than the traditional healthcare model, making it very affordable.
Insurance carriers do not provide coverage for corrective care chiropractic. Complimentary consultation is available for all new patients. This visit will include neurological spinal scans and a discussion with the doctor to determine whether you are a candidate for care.
Our office offers several options, including a custom payment plan to meet the financial needs of the individual.
We perform neurological and spinal scans using proprietary technology. We also do postural analysis and a detailed consultation.
We will identify if you’re a candidate for care. Initially, we will do neurological and instrumentation testing, then we take spinal X-rays. Based on these objective results, we will share our plan, drawing on our experience helping others with similar conditions.
Chiropractic corrective care is traditionally a short-term process. However, we recommend a lifestyle approach to wellness, with occasional maintenance.
Through Neurological spinal scans and comparative X-rays and detailed consultations throughout the corrective care plan.
I have not experienced that in my 30 years of practice—if we decide you are a candidate for care on the first visit. However, there are indications. Neurological testing can let us know early if a patient isn’t responding, and we would refer them to the appropriate healthcare professional.
No, absolutely not.
Yes, they are allowed to.
No, they cannot.
Yes, we can.
If the patient requests a 2nd opinion, we can provide all of the test results, and we would be happy to coordinate that with the healthcare professional of their choice.
As a professor teaching at universities and chiropractic seminars, I’m constantly updating my knowledge base. I do this through chiropractic journals and continuing education credits to provide the most up-to-date information to the students and doctors I teach.
You know, it’s highly dangerous to crack or manipulate your own spine. It would be like trying to fix a cavity in your own tooth by digging in there with a tool.
We use spine-specific spinal adjustments guided by instrumentation to provide an accurate realignment, which is done by the doctor’s hand.
We look at the neurological and X-ray results. The doctor follows a very specific alignment process. It is a gentle touch, without pulling, pushing, or quick movements.
During the initial visit, the doctor will run neurological spinal testing and will determine if you’re a candidate for care based on the 30 years of experience we have.
We have had no known risks or patient complaints in 30 years of serving thousands of patients.
Absolutely, yes. A large portion of our practice is with children, and we begin checking and monitoring their spines from the moment they’re born.
Yes. Spinal alignment is very important to the health of the mother and the child. Many women seek chiropractic care during pregnancy.
There is a pretty clear answer. Oftentimes, it happens from physical trauma. Or it can also happen from chemical or emotional trauma; whether that is extreme stress environments or whether that is chemically induced by consuming the wrong types of food over a long period of time will cause final misalignments and your spine to be wacky.
The popping sound is caused by a release of pressure between the 2 bones. When the bone is put into proper alignment, the misnomer is that this is 2 bones rubbing or cracking together. However, it’s actually caused by proper separation of the bones, which is a healthy procedure.
