Scorn or Delight: Life as a Chiropractic Physician

What does "chiropractor" bring to mind for you?

I enjoy when my title is brought up in social context, because folks are rarely shy about sharing their perspective about my field of doctorate.  I imagine more pleasantries are offered for lawyers, real estate agents, pastors, and even customer service workers.  Something about Chiropractic Medicine conjures the desire to share a story.  The anecdote usually goes one of two ways: it's a love or concern kind of statement. 

Often, I hear about how a chiropractor in some distant city was a savior to the family--resolving numerous and surprising ailments.  This is the kind of doctor I would like to be: a physician who touches patients' lives, offering sound counsel and taking the time to empower people to live more fruitfully.

I also hear the "concerned" side--and too often.  Sometimes it starts with: "Do you know [so-and-so]?  He cracked my neck once even though I'd asked him again and again to not do it.  It hurt my neck more.  It was so jarring.  I had to stop after 3 months of visits, and he was still arguing me to stay."

I can't share strongly enough how much this story upsets me.  Both for the disappointing experience the patient had and also the future hesitancy for the patient to seek the best care possible (which may be a chiropractor).  I have committed my practice--our entire office--to delivering chiropractic care that promises 3 things:

1) We will not advise treatments that aren't helping you or you don't want.  We are not definied by our ability to adjust joints.  There is so much more we can do including soft-tissue therapy, rehab exercises, and nerve entrapment release.  Treatment should be comfortable.

2) We do not promote long term care.  You should be seeing significant improvement every week.  Patients understand that we don't use magic, but our average patient is finished in 3 visits.  30 visit averages and promotion of "maintenance packages" is unfortunate, manipulative, and not usually in the patient's best interest.

3) We will take the time required to solve the issue, including refer you to another specialist if that is what we think is best for your pain.  We spend on average 30-45 minutes PER patient and reserve 90 minutes for our new patient visits.  We put our actions where our heart is.

I hope the next time you bring up "a chiropractor I like" that you are able to talk about a different experience you've had a Tri-Synergy Chiropractic.

Tri-Synergy's New Intro Video

We are very excited to share our introduction video.  Tri-Synergy Chiropractic is Greensboro - High Point, NC's leading Chiropractic resource for gentle joint manipulation, Active Release Techniques (ART), and functional exercise rehabilitation.