Get Safe & Comprehensive Health Benefits with Chiropractic Care in Crown Point, IN.
Happily serving patients from Cedar Lake, Hobart, Merrillville, St. John, Schererville, Hebron, and the surrounding areas.
At Sherwood Spine & Sport in Crown Point, Indiana, we believe that feeling your best is not a luxury; it is a foundation for everything you do. Whether you’re a parent chasing after kids, a weekend warrior, or a competitive golfer working to add distance and stay pain-free, we’re here to help you move better, recover faster, and live without limitations.
Pain and dysfunction rarely happen overnight. They build quietly, shaped by the demands of daily life, the repetitive stress of sport, and patterns that go uncorrected for years. We combine chiropractic care with advanced sports rehabilitation, including a specialized focus on golf performance, to treat the root cause of what is keeping you from feeling your best.
Our patients visit us with a wide range of musculoskeletal complaints. Some of the most common conditions we see include:
- Lumbar (low back) pain and stiffness
- Neck pain and headaches caused by a neck injury
- Frozen shoulder, rotator cuff injuries, and shoulder impingement
- Hip flexor tightness and hip pain
- Sciatica and radiating leg pain
- Knee pain
- Golfer's elbow and tennis elbow
- Plantar fasciitis and foot pain
- IT band syndrome and piriformis syndrome
- Disc herniations
- Sports-related muscle strains and ligament sprains
- Wrist and hand pain from repetitive motion
- Loss of range of motion, mobility, and flexibility
- Chronic and acute pain
Many of the conditions we treat are directly tied to how patients move, work, and spend their time.
Common contributing factors include:
- Prolonged sitting and a sedentary lifestyle
- Poor posture at a desk, in the car, or during daily activities
- Overuse and repetitive strain from work, hobby, or sport
- Lack of mobility and flexibility training
- Inadequate warm-up and cool-down routines
- Sleep posture and unsupportive sleeping surfaces
- High training volume without adequate recovery
- Muscle imbalances from one-sided movement patterns
- Improper golf swing mechanics creating torque on the spine and joints
- Previous injuries that were never fully rehabilitated
- Chronic stress and its effects on muscle tension and inflammation
- Poor footwear and altered gait mechanics
- Inadequate core stability and joint stabilization
- Ignoring early warning signs until pain becomes chronic
While some musculoskeletal conditions can’t be cured, they can often be effectively managed with the right chiropractic care plan and lifestyle adjustments.
We’ll determine the cause of your discomfort and create a targeted recovery program that includes take-home tools to optimize healing.
Treatment Techniques Offered in Crown Point
Chiropractic Adjustments
We use multiple adjusting techniques to suit each patient's comfort level and clinical needs.
- Manual adjustments apply precise, controlled force to restricted joints to restore motion, reduce nerve irritation, and relieve pain.
- The drop table technique uses a segmented table that gently drops during the adjustment, making it ideal for patients who prefer a lower-force approach or have specific spinal concerns.
- Sacro Occipital Technique (SOT) focuses on the relationship between the sacrum, pelvis, spine, and the skull, helping to restore balance, improve alignment, and reduce tension in the nervous system..
- Flexion-distraction is a gentle technique that uses a specialized table to stretch and decompress the spine, helping reduce pressure on discs and nerves while improving mobility and relieving pain.
Together, these methods allow us to meet patients exactly where they are.
Dry Needling
Dry needling is a clinically effective treatment for muscle pain, trigger points, and soft tissue dysfunction.
Using thin needles inserted into tight muscle bands, this technique reduces pain, restores muscle function, and accelerates healing in ways that hands-on work alone cannot.
It’s particularly helpful for patients dealing with injuries such as:
- Chronic muscle tension
- Post-injury scar tissue
- Headaches
- Disc herniations
- Nerve entrapments
- Athletic overuse injuries
- Referred pain patterns
Many patients notice significant relief after just one to two sessions, and it works especially well when paired with chiropractic care and therapeutic exercise.
Sports Chiropractic Care & Rehabilitation
The sports-focused care offered is designed for active individuals and athletes who want to perform at their peak and recover from injuries quickly and completely. This approach to care is based on your unique sport, training, injury, and goals.
Our sports chiropractor addresses the full kinetic chain, ensuring you return to your activity moving better than before, with improved strength, balance, and integrity.
Golf Analysis & Rehab
Our TPI-certified chiropractor will incorporate the Titleist Performance Institute golf-specific mobility assessment to identify physical limitations in your body that directly affect your swing mechanics, such as restricted hip rotation, limited thoracic mobility, or core instability.
We also provide golf injury rehabilitation for conditions such as low back pain, shoulder injuries, wrist pain, and tennis and golfer’s elbow.
Therapeutic Exercise
Rehabilitation is not complete without corrective movement. Our therapeutic exercise programming is built around your specific deficits and goals, targeting the strength, stability, and mobility patterns that support lasting recovery.
You won’t get a standard sheet of exercises. We design progressions that evolve as you improve, addressing the underlying weaknesses and movement faults that contributed to your injury in the first place.
This approach is essential for preventing re-injury and for patients who want to move with more power, control, and efficiency.
Visceral Manipulation
The body's organs are not isolated; they’re connected to the musculoskeletal system through ligaments, fascia, and neurological pathways.
Visceral manipulation is a gentle, hands-on technique that addresses restrictions in the soft tissues surrounding the organs to restore normal mobility and function.
Patients with chronic low back or pelvic pain, post-surgical adhesions, digestive complaints, such as acid reflux, and unresolved musculoskeletal pain that has not responded to traditional care often benefit significantly from this treatment.
Neural Manipulation
Neural manipulation is a technical, hands-on therapy used to address tension, restriction, and irritation within the nervous system.
This gentle technique focuses on improving the mobility and function of nerves as they travel throughout the body, which may help reduce pain, numbness, tingling, and movement limitations.
We often use neural manipulation with spinal adjustments and soft tissue therapies to support overall healing and comfort.
By improving nerve mobility and reducing mechanical stress on surrounding tissues, neural manipulation can help patients move more freely and experience better day-to-day function.
SFMA (Selective Functional Movement Assessment)
SFMA is a diagnostic framework used to identify the true root cause of pain and dysfunction. Rather than treating where it hurts, SFMA guides our clinical reasoning by systematically evaluating your movement patterns to find breakdowns in mobility, stability, and motor control.
With this information, we can create a care plan that targets the actual problem rather than just the symptom.
For athletes, this is especially valuable in identifying compensatory patterns that reduce performance and increase injury risk. SFMA sets the stage for everything we do, ensuring that your treatment is purposeful and precise.
Why Partner with Sherwood Spine & Sport?
Choosing a chiropractor is a personal decision, and we take seriously the trust you place in us from day one. At Sherwood Spine & Sport, we do not rush. We do not guess. And we do not move forward until we understand the full picture of your health.
Here’s what you can expect when you walk through our door on day one:
Step 1:
We Go Over Your History & Current Complaints
Your first visit begins with a thorough conversation. We want to understand where you’ve been, what you’ve tried, and what has worked and what hasn't. Your history shapes everything that follows.
We’ll also go over your lifestyle, areas of discomfort, habits, activities, and more, so we can build a holistic plan around your personal goals.
Step 2:
A Comprehensive Exam
We conduct a detailed physical examination, including postural analysis, neurological screening, orthopedic testing, and movement assessment. For our golfers, this may include our specialized golf-specific TPI mobility screen to identify the physical factors influencing their swing.
This is not a seven-minute appointment. Your initial visit is designed to give you the time and attention you deserve. We do not cut corners.
Step 3:
We Discuss a Plan Together
After your exam, we walk you through our findings clearly and honestly. We explain what we found, what it means, and what a realistic care plan looks like. You are never pressured, and you always have a voice in your care.
Step 4:
Treatment or Referral
If you are a good candidate for care, we begin treatment that same day. If imaging or additional testing is needed first, we will refer you out for the appropriate scans and pick up where we left off once we have the information we need.
At our Crown Point chiropractic office, we are committed to helping you feel better, move better, and get back to doing what you love. Whether you’re managing chronic pain, recovering from an injury, or looking to take five strokes off your game, we’re prepared to help you get there.