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Chiropractic Services

We do muscle testing, manual adjustments, Gua Sha, myofascial release, and much more.

Accepting an injury as a normal part of life can be—and often is—debilitating. Loss of freedom to move, travel, exercise, and enjoy a healthy, active lifestyle eats away at your quality of life, day by day, bit by bit. You don’t have to accept living with pain forever. It has nothing to do with you being ‘tough enough’ to push through it.

Healing chronic pain is possible with the right help, and without surgery. We help you understand your pain, where it comes from, and how to repair your body and restore your vibrant lifestyle.

Common ailments we can help you recover from: inflammation, back pain, neck pain, recovering from a car accident, recovering from surgery, headaches & migraines, and muscle & sports injuries.

Our Specialties

Back and Neck Pain

Restore Joint Motion

Improve Posture

Pain From Frequent Sitting

Reduce Chronic Tissue Restriction

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Back and Neck Pain

Your back hurts, and you’ve scoured Web MD, coming to the conclusion that your back pain is the result of a pinched nerve. Or you’ve had a doctor tell you, and now you’re contemplating surgery. Stop right there! Surgery should always be a last resort. Not just because of its long list of implications and risks, but because there is a highly effective alternative—functional chiropractic therapy. And yes, we do more than just crack your neck and your back and send you on your way.

Far more dynamic than traditional chiropractic therapy, a functional assessment incorporates your whole body and mind. This thorough assessment helps determine your unique needs for treatment, including (to name just a few) muscle work, joint motion, movement correction, and training the muscles around your injury to relieve the pinched nerve. Together, we’ll get to the root cause of what caused your pinched nerve to prevent it from happening again.

Yes, you can heal without surgery. Chiropractic therapy is more effective and a safer alternative.

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Restore Joint Motion

Do you have swelling in your joints? It might be a result repetitive motion and, if it is, we can conduct a functional movement assessment and come up with a plan to eliminate your joint pain. But what if it’s not the result of repetitive motion?

This may come as a surprise, but all-over joint inflammation can often result from a food allergy or sensitivity that you never knew you had. You may have underlying issues with certain foods that don’t necessarily cause you intestinal discomfort, sneezing, wheezing or sniffling. They may instead be causing weakness, inflammation, and tenderness in seemingly unrelated areas. Luckily we can pinpoint these problem foods without drawing blood and help you restore your joint motion!

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Improve Posture

You’re already one step ahead of the game. Posture is an often neglected indicator of future back and neck problems, and fixing it before the chronic pain begins can relieve you from a lot of sleepless nights and achy mornings. Improved posture filters into more than just standing or sitting. Posture is often overlooked in sports and in jobs that require physical labor, but even world class athletes deal with posture issues due to excessive muscle development and hyperextension forces on the low back. Plus, good posture is a sign of confidence.

For many people with ‘bad’ posture, it is simply the most comfortable resting position. Think about your own experience: does sitting up straight with your shoulders back feel uncomfortable or require mental effort? Good posture requires strong back muscles. Most people don’t have strong back muscles and, consequently, bad posture is seen everywhere.

I can tell you from working with patients that once you’re strong enough to sustain good posture, it will come naturally. Starting with a functional assessment will give you insight into what your unique body needs to develop good posture, and together we’ll make a plan for fast and permanent improvement.

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Desk Sitting Disease

You already know you sit too much if you’re a 9-to-5’er with a desk job. It’s hard to find the time to exercise, it’s hard to interrupt your day to get up and stretch while other employees continue to sit and work for hours on end. But the fact of the matter is, the working disease for spending consecutive hours sitting with no interruptions is—to put it mildly—bad for you. Sitting the culprit of over 34 chronic diseases.

I’m here to help you feel better, not to tell you how you’re going to die, so let’s get to the point. Our functional assessment will be able to tell you what parts of your body are being most affected by sitting for long hours on end. Based on your job situation, your lifestyle and your goals, we can come up with a plan together that will keep you pain-free. You can recover from desk sitting disease without drastically changing your life. I can show you how.

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Remove Scar Tissue

Sore. Sensitive to cold. Sensitive to being touched or bumped. Surface scars are painful, but what you see on the surface is just the tip of the iceberg. Superficial scars (think: surgery scars or scars from a cut or burn) adhere deeply to the underlying tissue. This is a problem because scar tissue is, as far as tissue goes, pretty darn inflexible. As your muscles try to move, your scar tissue pulls back, creating tension and ultimately pain.

Luckily, with a little help, your body can actually heal your scar tissue itself. Your body is great at breaking up scar tissue—in small amounts. In bigger bundles, it becomes nearly impossible. Think of the strength of a stick versus a bundle of sticks. A single stick is easily breakable, whereas a bundle is almost impossible unless you have special tools!

We understand the fascial system and the effects of deep scar tissue, and our focused chiropractic treatments can break it up so your body can repair itself. No matter how impossible it seems, how long you’ve had a scar or how many doctors have told you that you’ll have some pain for the rest of your life, we’re telling you it’s possible and we can help.

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Inflammation

Inflammation is a pain of many origins. Repetitive motion can cause inflammation; when muscles don’t repair fast enough after a workout, an inflammation process starts. If the inflammation lasts for a long period of time, the muscles never quite repair themselves.

It may come as a surprise, but inflammation can be caused by your diet and lifestyle just as often as it is caused by repetitive motion. Sugar, excessive caffeine, not enough vegetables, and inflammatory fats (fryer oils, bad cholesterol, and too much saturated fat) are common causes of inflammation. Sometimes food allergies cause inflammation instead of giving you hives or an itchy throat.

A functional assessment pinpoints the ultimate cause of your inflammation so you can cure and prevent it once and for all.

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Back Pain

Upper Back Pain

Upper back pain is uncommon if you have strong back muscles. The truth is, most of us don’t. Desk-sitting encourages head-forward posture that puts strain on your back muscles. Repetitive motion is a normal part of job duties. Getting up to stretch is almost unheard of. Even if you do exercise, regimens tend to exaggerate pushups and the bench press while ignoring the all-important back muscles, and runners rarely have training on proper posture. Thus, upper back pain. Neck pain. Shoulder pain.

What’s more, if you’re upper back pain is the result of an injury or car accident, it’s likely you’ve been told that sometimes pain cannot be avoided.

I’m here to give you hope. To tell you that’s just not true. You don’t have to be a prisoner of pain. We take a unique approach to chiropractic therapy. Tried and true chiropractic techniques in tandem with cutting-edge functional assessment. Our multi-faceted approach incorporates body, brain and lifestyle to heal deeper and more thoroughly. Regain your physical freedom.

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Lower Back Pain

Suddenly feeling pains in your lower back? Brought on by what is usually very normal levels of activity? Lower back pain can come from sports, or as simple of a cause as sitting too long or wearing shoes with insufficient support. Your lower back pain might get better on its own, and it might be something more serious. Don’t tempt the injury. It’s best to discontinue the activity until you feel completely, 100% better or, better yet, until you can see a doctor and get their blessing.

With Adjust Today chiropractic therapy, you’ll learn what caused your back pain as well as receiving gentle, effective care that yields quick results and can be the difference between near-immediate recovery, missing a few days of work, and missing a few weeks. Plus, determining the root cause of the injury helps you strengthen related muscles, know when to take a break or ask for help, and prevent the injury from ever happening again.

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Neck Pain

If you have neck pain, you may have your back to blame. It may be the result of a food allergy that only gives you inflammation. Many neck issues come from stress, shoulder incoordination, unsymmetrical head movement, and eye tracking issues or vestibular and balance system inefficiencies. The moral of the story is, it’s extremely important to find the root cause of your neck pain in order to give you permanent relief.

By starting with a functional assessment, we can methodically determine exactly the source (or multiple sources) of your neck pain and make a plan to heal it permanently.

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Recover from a Car Accident

Heal the pain resulting from one, or several, car accidents. Maybe you were in a car accident and have never quite felt the same. It doesn’t matter how long ago it was, or how long you’ve lived with the pain. We can give you your physical freedom back.

Our dynamic approach to therapy starts with you. Your goals, where you want to start, and how you want to heal. In our functional assessment we’ll discuss why you’re seeking care. Your treatment will be your choice, and recommended for your unique, specific situation. The first step is talking to Dr. Dukart to find out what treatments he can offer that will help heal your pain.

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Recover from Surgery

Surgery leaves scars, whether you can see them or not. Scar tissue can be deep (unseen) or superficial (visible, on your skin). Often the scars you can see adhere deeply to underlying muscles and fascia. You can see this when you move your skin but the scar doesn’t move with it, like it is stuck in place.

Every time tissue doesn’t stretch like it’s supposed to, it pulls on the fibers surrounding your muscles, causing pain. Although your body can repair small bundles of scar tissue on its own, deep tissue mass requires physical intervention to heal. Our functional assessment can determine exactly where the deep scar tissue is located. Then, chiropractic therapy breaks up the scar tissue, allowing your body to repair itself and eliminating your pain.

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Muscle and Sports Injuries

Heal an Injured Muscle

If you’re an athlete or rely on your body for work, being diagnosed with a muscle injury is some of the worst news you can get. We understand that. It’s why we offer neuromuscular rehabilitation that can get you back up and running—and fast. So you don’t have to miss another day of work or the big competition. and we can get you back up & running fast.

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How to Treat a Torn Muscle

Overuse isn’t the only cause of muscle injury. Underuse and even stress can be huge contributing factors. Cortisol, the stress hormone, breaks down ligaments and muscles.

When you feel muscle pain, there is usually a reason for it, like when you overuse a particular muscle when training. In fact, that’s how minor injuries become long-lasting conditions: using a muscle beyond its capabilities results in tension and tears. This could be due to weak muscle tissue, poor muscle reaction speed, or simply too much tension applied in a short period of time.

Tear severity can vary from minor to drastic. This, in conjunction with previous overuse, can cause micro-tears that accumulate over time. When these minor tears can’t repair fast enough to heal, they accumulate and result in a full-blown muscle tear.

Our gentle chiropractic care integrates specific muscle rehabilitation, muscle sequencing, functional movement and lasting change.

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Muscle Work

If you have chronic pain, weakness or loss of strength, trouble with movement, weight loss issues, achy muscles, or you’re a high-performance athlete looking for a very specific analysis of a sport-specific movement, we can put you back in action faster, and make sure you stay pain-free.

Neuromuscular rehabilitation is our best, and fastest, results-based therapy, combining chiropractic and functional rehabilitative exercise. We work on reinforcing positive patterns to strengthen your joints and adjacent muscles. By balancing where your strength comes from your muscles support one another. This treatment heals you and prevents the injury from re-occuring.

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Muscle Spasms

When a muscle spasms, it is often a signal that the muscle is weak, but that isn’t always the case. Strong muscles can also spasm with in specific muscle spindles.

When a muscle is weak, it will spasm because of the messages sent from the brain to the muscle. This protective mechanism is your body saying ‘I don’t want this muscle to tear—I’m going to tense up so it doesn’t move.’

When these muscle spasms don’t release due to poor blood flow and toxins reinforcing the spasm, a tearing or pulling sensation is often followed by pain. The body no longer has its full range of motion, so movement becomes inefficient.

Untreated muscle spasms can lead to a snowball effect. For example, upper back pain is fairly common among Americans. What you may not realize is that muscle pain originating in the upper back can cause headaches. Those headaches, in turn, can lead to debilitating chronic neck pain. Eventually, your neck may be killing you but that pain is masking the true source—your upper back.

Without functional movement chiropractic care to help you discover the true source of your pain, you are likely to treat your neck (where it hurts) rather than your upper back (the source). You may gain temporary relief, but you’ll avoid lifelong healing.

Our chiropractic care is uniquely based on functional movement to help you discover the true source of your pain. By looking at your body and mind as a complete system, you’ll heal your upper back (the source of your pain), rather than your neck (where you feel the pain). Instead of temporary relief, which is all some doctors provide, I can help you feel better and enjoy lifelong healing.

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Headaches and Migraines

Get Rid of Migraines & Headaches

It may come as a surprise, but headaches are often the result of an underlying injury or accident. As a chiropractor, I can get to the root cause of your headaches, and yes, even get rid of migraines that have plagued you for years.

Craniosacral therapy releases tension in your body and the bones of your cranium and face, giving you immediate relief. Paired with a functional assessment, I can pinpoint the root cause of your pain and permanently cure your chronic headaches.

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Vertigo, Dizziness & Imbalance

Yes, chiropractors can treat vertigo and dizziness! We use craniosacral therapy to release tension in the body and bones of your cranium and face. By improving your cerebral spinal fluid flow and the blood flow in your head and neck, we can improve your brain function and effectively treat vertigo and dizziness or correct imbalance issues.

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Health Insurance and HSA

We accept health savings accounts (HSA). We if you would like reimbursement for your insurance we can provide the paperwork to send it to your insurance company to see if it is covered. We currently process Automotive Insurance internally.