Your Guide to Upper Cervical Chiropractic Care in Brooklyn
Deciding to start chiropractic care is an important step toward lasting health, and it is natural to have questions along the way. At Corrective Care Chiropractic in Brooklyn, NY, our team specializes in gentle upper cervical adjustments focused on the atlas and axis (C1 and C2) to relieve brainstem pressure and restore full-body balance. Using detailed neurological scans and X-rays, we create personalized care plans that address the root cause of your symptoms rather than simply masking them. Below, we answer common questions about our diagnostic process, gentle techniques, and what you and your family can expect during a visit.
Corrective Care Chiropractic: Questions & Answers
Chiropractic care, in the long run, is less expensive than going for surgery or being on medication for the rest of your life. Chiropractic care is more of a preventive approach, so as people grow, they suffer less in the future. So, no, it is not expensive.
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.
Yes, we offer different payment plans and care plans depending on how much care patients need.
For starters, we do a complete neurological scan and full-body exam to see if the patient is an actual candidate for the care. From there, it will tell us whether any compression of their nervous system is causing the concerns or symptoms they’re feeling. Once we evaluate the patient and decide they’re a candidate for care, we will take X-rays. X-rays will show us exactly where the compression is, how we’re going to correct it, and how long it will take to heal.
Most of it will be based on the X-rays and the patient’s history. Any degeneration or compression depends on the patient’s condition and age. Then we create a specific treatment plan for those concerns.
There is a difference between corrective care and a maintenance patient. Corrective care corrects what’s going on in your nervous system and spine, and once we achieve that correction, we’ll start the maintenance phase, which is maintaining what we did in the correction. Now, it’s like everything else: if you go to the gym for a year but then stop going, you lose all the progress you made. So it is with chiropractic care, it’s the same concept. You need to maintain your body by working — so it is an ongoing process.
Every time a patient comes for a visit we do a neurological scan; a pre-scan, and a post-scan. This will determine whether the patient needs an adjustment that day. After the adjustment, the post-scan will show whether there was an actual change or correction in the spine. We’ll flag it and monitor the patient’s progress. We also take 3 X-rays during corrective care, at the beginning, in the middle, and at the end, so that shows us the progress throughout, and we compare the progression to that corrective care.
If we don’t see progress in either the scans or the patient’s overall symptoms, then we look into what else it could be, and if there’s something that chiropractic can’t help with, we will refer the patient to somebody — another healthcare option — to help them with their concerns. It depends on the condition, how the patient is when they come into the office, how severe it is, and whether we can still help.
No, chiropractic doctors are primary care physicians so anybody can come to a chiropractic office without a referral.
Yes, we are allowed, but we usually don’t practice in hospitals; most chiropractors work in a private office.
No, chiropractors do not prescribe any medication. It’s outside our scope of practice, so we focus on a holistic approach to healthcare. Meaning chiropractic removes nerve interference in the body so the body can heal and do what it’s supposed to do. Instead of numbing symptoms with medication, we focus on correcting the root cause.
Yes, we can.
My policy is that a patient is always welcome to get a second opinion.
To keep your license in the US, you need to do continuing education credits, meaning stay on top of the newest trends and stay on top of what’s happening in the chiropractic world. And you need to go to seminars and conferences.
No, you cannot perform that. You need proper training on how to adjust your bones. You need knowledge of anatomy, physiology, and the nervous system to perform a chiropractic adjustment.
Chiropractic adjustment, which means manipulating the spine to remove nerve interference from the nervous system. We also review exercises with every patient to build a strong foundation and keep the spine in place. We also review diet, supplementation, and hydration to speed healing. But our main care is done with our hands.
We look at the patient’s neurological and X-ray results. The doctor follows a very specific alignment process. It is a gentle touch, without pulling, pushing, or quick movements.
We focus on upper cervical care, which means we focus on C1 and C 2, the atlas and the axis. We focus on that area because the brainstem is located there. The brainstem is part of the brain that controls every system in the body.
What you can expect is that every single patient gets a pre-scan, a pre-neurological scan, when they come in. That’s when I’ll decide whether the patient needs an adjustment. We’ll go over the adjustment. The patient will rest for 10 minutes. The patient rests after the adjustment to make sure that the bone settles in and doesn’t move again. After they leave the office, we’ll perform a post-scan to make sure the adjustment removed the nerve interference.
Overall, neural, muscle, and musculoskeletal disorders, meaning from a herniated disk, low back pain, headaches, migraines, tinnitus, to more complex ones like MS, seizures, ear infections, and infertility. Digestive complaints, PCOS, neck pain, hormonal concerns, vertigo, and POTS, to name a few
That’s why we offer a new, thorough body exam and a neurological scan. To make sure a patient is a candidate for chiropractic care. Your body could be subluxated, or you could have pressure on your nervous system without even knowing or feeling anything—until something happens that aggravates those symptoms—so everyone should get a chiropractic scan.
We have had no known risks or patient complaints in 30 years of serving thousands of patients.
Yes, we see patients from newborns to 80-90 years old.
Yes, prenatal chiropractic care is actually really important for the mom’s overall pregnancy and birth; chiropractic actually helps to decrease any of the symptoms. Like morning sickness and lower back pain that pregnant women could get, it could also give the woman a smoother birthing process.
We complete a four-year bachelor’s degree and then pursue another four years of chiropractic school. The curriculum covers anatomy, physiology, neurology, microbiology, X-rays, extensive X-ray analysis, pathology, and pharmacology. This makes it an eight-year program to become a chiropractor, along with training in the specific techniques they use.
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 it is chemically induced by consuming the wrong types of food over a long period of time, it will cause spinal misalignments and make your spine wacky.
The popping sound is what we call cavitation. Cavitation means gas is being released within the joint. A popping sound doesn’t mean that a bone is actually getting adjusted. It just means gas is being released from within that area. So if I pop my knuckles, that doesn’t mean that I’m adjusting my hand.
Sciatica is the sciatic nerve. It’s the biggest nerve in your body; it’s actually the size of a penny. So that nerve is a mix of all of your lumbar nerves going into one. Now, when there’s compression of that sciatic nerve, that’s why patients feel that pain going down from the glute all the way into their toes.
