Office FAQs

Our business staff will take care of contacting your insurance company, verifying your coverage, and working with you to make sure you get the treatment you need. We work with several major insurance plans.  Before you come into the office, you should print and complete our new patient registration forms.    At your first appointment, please remember to bring your insurance card and some form of photo identification. This will help us verify your insurance more quickly and accurately.

ChiroHealthUSA is a network that you can join to provide you with a reduced fee. ChiroHealthUSA is not health insurance and should not replace health insurance.  It is a DMPO, Discount Medical Plan Organization, and allows healthcare providers a way to offer lower costs to patients for services not covered by insurance. These plans are regulated by the department of insurance in most states.

We work with several imaging centers in the Chicago area and can recommend one that suits your needs. Since your MRI results will help us diagnose and treat you more effectively, we want you to be comfortable. Ask our doctors or office staff about MRI facilities with “open” or “standing” devices.

The answer to this question varies for each individual. The length of your immediate care treatment depends on the severity of your injury or problem, and how you respond to treatment. We generally start by seeing patients regularly. As you heal, we decrease the frequency of your visits. The exact length of treatment is determined by the extent of your injury and how quickly or slowly you respond to treatment.

When your immediate problem is resolved and the pain is gone, we still recommend that you visit once a month to maintain your good health. Our philosophy is that chiropractic is a lifestyle, not just a means of treating immediate pain. 

The purpose of chiropractic care is to locate and correct areas of the spine that interfere with the proper nervous system control of your body. Because the intervertebral discs are so close to the spinal cord and nerve roots, disc involvement is quite common in chiropractic cases. Chiropractic adjustments help restore proper motion and position of malfunctioning spinal bones, reducing nervous system involvement. If it’s caught before permanent damage occurs, disc tissue often returns to a more normal size and shape.

Most people believe that when the pain of a structural injury (back and neck, primarily) is gone, that you are well. In most cases, unfortunately, that theory couldn’t be further from the truth. The structural damage that resulted in the injury may still be there, waiting to cause serious problems later.

A misalignment of the spine usually occurs with a serious fall or other trauma. And although the pain may have gone away, the injury has not. Left untreated, this misalignment puts extra strain on the surrounding area and creates premature wear on the joint itself. A loss of range of motion is one noticeable sign, as well as symptoms that are seemingly unrelated to the injury like headaches, numbness in the extremities, or sciatic pain, to name a few.

As time goes on, an untreated misalignment will degenerate. This is nature’s way of compensating for the injury. It’s likely that pain will return, often more seriously than before, and degeneration from years of neglect will only complicate — if not make impossible — a return to health. An injury that could have been easily corrected, but was ignored because the pain was gone, often creates greater problems and suffering later in life.

Take Pain Seriously. Chiropractic care cannot only relieve the pain of a structural injury, it can also increase the range of motion and minimize degeneration in the injured areas. Even if your injury is old, it’s not too late to benefit from care. The action you take now may save you from years of problems and pain in the future. 

Research has shown that many recurring or migraine headaches are related to a misalignment of one or more vertebrae in the neck. Since the nerves and blood vessels pass through small openings between these vertebrae, a misalignment can substantially decrease the amount of blood and nerve impulses going to the face and brain.

Of course, neck problems are not the source of all headaches. Some headaches are caused by disease, and everyone has had occasional headaches resulting from abuse of the body through lack of sleep, anxiety, improper nutrition, or too many cocktails.

The fact remains that many headaches are caused by irritation of the nerves, usually in the neck. No therapeutic method compares to chiropractic health care in correcting abnormalities of the neck. 

If you are suffering from headaches on a regular basis, call our office to set up an appointment. To help you track the frequency, severity, and sources of your headaches, download and complete the Headache Log, (83K .PDF) available from our Patient Center page.