What If You Could Get Adjusted Without the Pop?
Chiropractic care in Longview, TX — by hand or with a gentle instrument, matched to what your body needs.
A lot of people never try chiropractic for exactly one reason: they don’t want their neck cracked. That’s fair. And it isn’t required.
Two Ways to Get Adjusted
By hand
A quick, precise thrust to the joint. There’s often an audible pop — that’s gas releasing from the joint, not bone. It can startle you the first time or two. What people almost always describe next is relief.
With the Arthro-Stim
A handheld instrument that delivers twelve impulses per second. It moves the bone without the pop. Gentle enough for an infant, and gentle enough for someone past a hundred.
Which one you get is a clinical decision, and Dr. Pearce makes it — based on your age, your injury, and how your body is holding itself that day. The older you are, the more that decision leans toward the instrument.
Your preference still counts for a lot. Tell her what you’d rather have, and if it fits what she finds, that’s what you’ll get. Nobody gets adjusted a way they’re dreading.
Why an Adjustment Helps
Your brain and your body are in constant conversation. Millions of instructions travel down the spinal cord and out to every muscle, organ and tissue, and reports travel back the other way.
When a joint in your spine stops moving the way it should, it irritates the nerves right next to it and that conversation gets garbled. Chiropractors call it a subluxation. You just know something feels off.
An adjustment restores the motion. Range of movement opens up, the nerve settles, the muscle stops guarding, and the pain usually follows them down.
It’s Not Just About the Pain
You maintain your car. You get your teeth cleaned at the dentist. Right?
We rely on our bodies until the day we leave the planet, so it only makes sense that we regularly maintain our bones, muscles and nerves. When we prioritize our bodies with periodic chiropractic care, we clear out the interferences that eventually become symptoms — and later become much bigger problems down the road.
Our bodies are meant to live in full function as we age.
Chiropractic care helps us do that.
Who Comes In
Back and neck pain
Stiffness, aching, and the mornings you can’t turn your head to back out of the driveway.
Headaches and migraines
Often coming from the neck, and often in people who have already tried everything at the pharmacy.
Auto accident injuries
Whiplash and the aches that showed up three days later, once the adrenaline wore off.
Kids, infants and seniors
The people who need the gentlest hand. This is where the Arthro-Stim earns its keep.
After a Car Accident
When you are injured in an accident, we know exactly what to do for your injuries and how to guide you — whether you have an attorney or not. We know what to expect as the process unfolds, because we have been working with insurance companies and attorneys since 1990.
We definitely have your back. Pun intended.
Trauma also isn’t the same as wear and tear. Injured tissue is inflamed and guarding. For accident cases Dr. Pearce works ultrasound and traction in alongside the adjustments — calming the tissue down before asking it to move again.
Let us help you focus on getting better,
through what can be a very challenging experience.
We are here for you.
What a First Visit Looks Like
We listen, we chat
What happened, what hurts, and what you’ve already tried.
We examine, we explain
Dr. Pearce checks how you move and where you’ve stopped moving, orders X-rays when necessary, and explains what it all means.
We adjust, we get you moving
Usually the same day. Sometimes certain things have to line up first — especially on a legal case — but same day is the usual. Most people leave feeling better than when they came in.
We plan, we stay with you
How often, for how long, and what to do between visits. We want you to feel better just as much as you do!
You don’t have to keep living with it.
Chiropractic Is One Piece of It
Sometimes a joint keeps slipping back out because something else is driving it — inflammation, a nutritional gap, a body under more stress than it can handle.
When that’s what’s going on, Dr. Pearce pairs your adjustments with Nutrition Response Testing and whole food nutrition, so you’re treating the reason and not only the symptom.
You really don’t need more time... just make the call!
By hand or with the instrument — whichever is right for your body.
Contact Priority Wellness Care →
Office: 903-757-3785
After hours, leave a voicemail and we’ll get back to you.
Priority Wellness Care — 123 Gilmer Rd #3, Longview, TX 75604
Chiropractic care is provided by Dr. Laurie L. Pearce, DC, at Priority Wellness Care in Longview, Texas. Results vary from person to person.
Chiropractic care is an adjunct to your primary care — we all work together for whole person care.