Our approach is gentle, specific & geared toward reorganizing your nervous system for optimum performance!
We want to help you learn how to:
👃🏼 BREATHE MORE EFFICIENTLY
🧠 ADAPT MORE EFFECTIVELY &
🌊 FLOW MORE EFFORTLESSLY
through all of life's adventures!
👃🏼 BREATHE MORE EFFICIENTLY
🧠 ADAPT MORE EFFECTIVELY &
🌊 FLOW MORE EFFORTLESSLY
through all of life's adventures!
“I never said it would be easy, I only said it would be worth it.”
― Mae West
Dr Victoria utilizes both tonal and structural chiropractic adjusting techniques to offer your body liberation from the accumulated stressors keeping your body in habitual, less-than-optimal neurological states.
All of our offerings are focused on nervous system balance and re-connection to
promote optimal wellness from within without the use of drugs and surgery!
All of our offerings are focused on nervous system balance and re-connection to
promote optimal wellness from within without the use of drugs and surgery!
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Your health is your responsibility!
There are many things we'd absolutely love to help you with, but we can't:
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🚫 breathe for you 👃🏼
🚫 make you nourish your body 🥗 🚫 re-wire your brain to think positive thoughts 🧠 🚫 make you listen to your body & sleep when you're tired 🥱 🚫 help you reach your goals when you're not here 🤷🏼 |
We can help your mind remember what your body & soul
already know how to do when they're aligned!
Temporary relief or true correction?
While there are countless research papers that show chiropractic is effective in providing relief from aches and pains (great news, especially for those experiencing symptoms on a regular basis!), we prefer a different perspective on what chiropractic has to offer! We have found that relieving the nervous system of stressors can offer far greater, longer-lasting benefits & improved overall health!
Awaken Chiropractic Center focuses on the relationship between your spine and your nervous system. Of course we care about how you feel, but we're more concerned about how you function!
Thanks to technological advances and a new understanding of the spine and nervous system, we are able to address misalignments in the spine and document the changes using spinal thermography (arriving in office soon!). These changes are achieved through a series of gentle, specific adjustments.
If we are able to accept your case, a care plan will be recommended based on the results of your scans, your age, the current state of your health and healing & your response to the initial adjustment. We'll start with a complementary phone consultation to discuss your potential for success in our office. If we feel a different approach or technique would be best for you, we will gladly provide you with our recommendation.
Awaken Chiropractic Center focuses on the relationship between your spine and your nervous system. Of course we care about how you feel, but we're more concerned about how you function!
Thanks to technological advances and a new understanding of the spine and nervous system, we are able to address misalignments in the spine and document the changes using spinal thermography (arriving in office soon!). These changes are achieved through a series of gentle, specific adjustments.
If we are able to accept your case, a care plan will be recommended based on the results of your scans, your age, the current state of your health and healing & your response to the initial adjustment. We'll start with a complementary phone consultation to discuss your potential for success in our office. If we feel a different approach or technique would be best for you, we will gladly provide you with our recommendation.
When someone asks for help & another agrees to work with them,
it is essential both parties are working toward the same goal.
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Many western health care providers focus on a person's symptoms and the treatment or relief of said symptoms; this is the entire basis for relief care. Chiropractic care is very well known for its ability to resolve symptoms and is often referred to as "miraculous" in its ability to offer solutions where Western medical care has failed.
While there are many chiropractors who specialize and are successful in providing relief from symptoms, this was never its intended purpose. Chiropractic was designed as a principled form of health care when it was discovered in 1895! Our objective is to identify areas of stress and bound energy within the body that may be the underlying cause of and individual's health challenges and apply a specific force to encourage your brain and body to make a helpful change. A condition of the spine known as a Vertebral Subluxation Complex (VSC) interferes with the body's natural ability to regulate and coordinate all of its functions & heal as intended. Through empowerment and education about chiropractic and conscious living, Dr. Victoria hopes to help you and your family learn how to maintain a healthy spine and optimal health for years to come! |
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To appreciate and understand the importance of the way we provide care, let's look at the difference between "symptoms" and "warning signs."
The difference is best understood through a brief comparison:
There is a direct relationship between someone injuring their ankle and experiencing pain in that ankle; the location of pain and the location of the injury are the same. This is an example of a symptom. If a person is suffering from heart disease and experiences pain into their left arm, there is likely nothing wrong with the arm. It would be foolish to spend energy, resources and precious time treating the arm when the true cause of the pain is the heart. This is an example of a warning sign. Let's apply this understanding to chiropractic: When a vertebra in the low back misaligns causing abnormal tension and stress in the nervous system, you might experience leg pain, commonly called sciatica. While this may seem like a symptom, evaluating and treating the leg would be doing so in vain as sciatica is more commonly a warning sign, alerting us to a larger underlying problem, commonly found in the spine. Depending on which nerves in the spine are being affected by VSC will depend on the type of warning sign the body may (or may not) produce.
There is often a significant time delay between the onset of subluxation & the first warning signs because of our body's amazing ability to adapt to its internal and external environment.
If you have a pebble in your shoe, you don’t usually continue to walk on it; you'll take off your shoe, and remove the source of the problem to relieve the pressure. Your body behaves very similarly in relation to vertebral subluxation. Very commonly, one of the first subluxations in life occurs at birth. Even during what is deemed a "natural birth," excessive force can be exerted on the skull and neck of a small, malleable infant. In addition, the vertebra, ligaments and muscles in a new-born baby's body are not strong enough to support the weight of their disproportionately heavy heads. Compound the trauma of the birth process with seemingly small slips and falls as the child learns to roll, crawl, walk and ride their bike & damage to the nervous system caused by subluxation begins to accumulate. |
The body behaves intelligently by changing our posture in response to physical, chemical and emotional stress.
Shifting the head in front of the shoulders and leaning the head to one side reduces the tension subluxation may place on the brain stem. As a result of the change in head position, the rib cage may bend or shift to reduce pressure on thoracic nerves and large muscles in the lumbar spine and pelvis may shift in a nervous-system-guided attempt to reduce residual unwanted pressure and tension throughout the nervous system.
With health and healing as the body's default program, these shifts in spinal structure are less damaging than the immediate, devastating affects a larger or more direct pressure would have on the nervous system.
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Improper posture puts pressure on vertebral discs and joints & causes them to begin wearing out abnormally.
It is often not until the discs of the spine begin to wear significantly and the body loses its ability to adapt efficiently that we start seeing the intermittent warning signs related to subluxation.
A very common area of the spine to weaken and lose its ability to adapt is the lumbar spine. A majority of the forces exerted on the body impact the lumbar spine, including the sedentary lifestyle of many Americans. Improper lifting techniques introduce challenges a healthy spine may be able to adapt to, but vertebral subluxation can cause degeneration as the spine continues to become weaker over time. Activities you used to do with ease may begin to become challenging and you may avoid them due to pain or discomfort. Avoidance often results in additional degeneration; don't ignore the warning signs your body is sending!
If your doctor begins treating your low back pain based on your symptoms, without thoroughly analyzing you for vertebral subluxations and the cause of your pain is actually due to a subluxation in your neck, you may notice temporarily relief of your low back pain but it will only be a matter of time before it returns. The pain in your low back was just a warning sign telling you that "something" is not right; it didn't tell you where the real dysfunction was.
The care provided at Awaken Chiropractic Center is designed to help you heal as quickly and efficiently as possible (without the use of drugs or surgery) and help you learn how to keep your nervous system healthy into the future.
We specialize in providing gentle, specific chiropractic adjustments, over time and with repetition, to correct what is commonly the primary cause of many health challenges: vertebral subluxation.
With health and healing as the body's default program, these shifts in spinal structure are less damaging than the immediate, devastating affects a larger or more direct pressure would have on the nervous system.
-but-
Improper posture puts pressure on vertebral discs and joints & causes them to begin wearing out abnormally.
It is often not until the discs of the spine begin to wear significantly and the body loses its ability to adapt efficiently that we start seeing the intermittent warning signs related to subluxation.
A very common area of the spine to weaken and lose its ability to adapt is the lumbar spine. A majority of the forces exerted on the body impact the lumbar spine, including the sedentary lifestyle of many Americans. Improper lifting techniques introduce challenges a healthy spine may be able to adapt to, but vertebral subluxation can cause degeneration as the spine continues to become weaker over time. Activities you used to do with ease may begin to become challenging and you may avoid them due to pain or discomfort. Avoidance often results in additional degeneration; don't ignore the warning signs your body is sending!
If your doctor begins treating your low back pain based on your symptoms, without thoroughly analyzing you for vertebral subluxations and the cause of your pain is actually due to a subluxation in your neck, you may notice temporarily relief of your low back pain but it will only be a matter of time before it returns. The pain in your low back was just a warning sign telling you that "something" is not right; it didn't tell you where the real dysfunction was.
The care provided at Awaken Chiropractic Center is designed to help you heal as quickly and efficiently as possible (without the use of drugs or surgery) and help you learn how to keep your nervous system healthy into the future.
We specialize in providing gentle, specific chiropractic adjustments, over time and with repetition, to correct what is commonly the primary cause of many health challenges: vertebral subluxation.
"Life is but the expression of spirit through matter.
To make life manifest requires the union of spirit and body."
To make life manifest requires the union of spirit and body."
-D.D. Palmer, Founder of Chiropractic
The Winsor Studies
Can an unhealthy spine affect internal organs?
In the early 1900's, a medical doctor by the name Henry Winsor conducted an experiment based on the chiropractic understanding that reducing subluxation in a misaligned vertebra may relieve a patient of their symptom. Anything from upset stomach, menstrual cramps and thyroid conditions to kidney disease, constipation, heart disease, ulcers, lung disease, and other conditions could be positively affected by an adjustment made to a specific misalignment in the spine.
In this experiment, Dr. Winsor dissected both human and animal cadavers to study the relationship between a diseased internal organ discovered on autopsy and the vertebrae and nerves that supplied the organ. Dr. Winsor dissected 75 human and 72 cat cadavers and found a nearly 100% correlation between minor curvatures of the vertebrae and diseases of the internal organs.
In this experiment, Dr. Winsor dissected both human and animal cadavers to study the relationship between a diseased internal organ discovered on autopsy and the vertebrae and nerves that supplied the organ. Dr. Winsor dissected 75 human and 72 cat cadavers and found a nearly 100% correlation between minor curvatures of the vertebrae and diseases of the internal organs.
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👉🏼 The Heart: All 20 cases with heart and pericardium conditions had misalignments in the upper five thoracic vertebrae (T1-T5).
👉🏼 The Lungs: All 26 cases of lung disease has spinal misalignments in the upper thoracic area. 👉🏼 The Stomach: All nine cases of stomach disease had spinal misalignment in the mid-thoracic area (T5-T9). 👉🏼 The Liver: All 13 cases of liver disease had misalignments in the mid-thoracic area. 👉🏼 The Gallbladder: All five cases with gallbladder disease had spinal misalignments in the mid-thoracic area. 👉🏼 The Pancreas: All three cases with pancreatic disease had spinal misalignments in the mid-thoracic area. 👉🏼 The Spleen: All 11 cases with spleen disease had spinal misalignments in the mid-thoracic area. 👉🏼 The Kidneys: All 17 cases with kidney disease were out of alignment in the lower thoracic area (T10-T12). 👉🏼 The Prostate and Bladder: All eight cases with prostate disease had misalignments in the lumbar spine (L1-L5). 👉🏼 The Uterus: Two cases with uterine disease had misalignments of the second lumbar vertebra. From: Winsor, 11. Sympathetic segmental disturbances-11. The evidence association, in dissected cadavers, of visceral disease. |
