Chiropractic Adjustments in Crown Point, IN
Your spine does remarkable work every single day. It keeps you upright, absorbs impact, protects your nervous system, and enables every movement. When it is functioning well, you barely think about it. When it is not, it affects everything.
At our Crown Point chiropractic office, adjustments are the foundation of our work, helping patients recover from injury, manage chronic pain, and move and feel their best in the long term.
We work with a wide range of patients, and we tailor every visit to the individual in front of us.
Our practice serves:
- Children and adolescents dealing with postural issues and sports injuries
- Young adults managing the demands of active lifestyles
- Athletes and weekend warriors looking to recover faster and perform better
- Golfers seeking to eliminate pain and improve the physical mechanics behind their swing
- Office workers and desk-bound professionals dealing with postural strain and repetitive stress
- Laborers and tradespeople managing the physical toll of demanding physical work
- Sedentary individuals whose inactivity has contributed to stiffness, pain, and dysfunction
- Post-surgical patients cleared for conservative care and looking to restore full function
No matter where you are starting from, our goal is the same: find the root cause, treat it effectively, and help you stay well.
Is Chiropractic Care Safe? Does a Chiropractic Adjustment Hurt?
These are two of the most common questions new patients ask, and they are fair ones.
Yes! Chiropractic care is recognized as one of the safest non-invasive treatments for musculoskeletal pain, particularly neck and back conditions. Serious adverse events are extremely rare.
For most patients, chiropractic is far safer than long-term use of over-the-counter pain medications or invasive procedures, both of which carry their own significant risks.
As for discomfort, most patients are pleasantly surprised. The cracking sound that often accompanies an adjustment is the release of gas from the joint capsule, similar to cracking your knuckles, and it is not an indicator of whether the treatment was effective. Some patients feel immediate relief. Others notice mild muscle soreness in the day or two following their first few visits, similar to how muscles feel after a good workout. This is a normal part of the healing process and typically fades quickly.
We always communicate clearly before doing anything, explain what we are doing and why, and adjust our technique to fit your comfort level. If something doesn't feel right, we want to know.
Your experience matters as much as your outcome.
The Chiropractic Adjusting Techniques We Use
Not every spine is the same, and not every patient responds to the same approach. We are trained in multiple adjusting techniques so we can match the method to the person and the condition.
Manual Manipulation
Manual manipulation is the traditional hands-on chiropractic adjustment. Our Crown Point sports chiropractor uses his hands to apply a precise, controlled thrust to a restricted spinal or extremity joint to restore normal motion and reduce pain.
This technique is highly effective and allows for a great deal of clinical precision. It works best for patients who are comfortable with a more direct approach and have significantly restricted joints. Athletes, active adults, and patients with straightforward mechanical back or neck pain are often excellent candidates.
Drop Table Technique
Drop table adjusting uses a specially designed table with segments that gently drop a fraction of an inch as the adjustment is delivered.
This reduces the force needed to achieve the same therapeutic effect, making it an excellent option for patients who prefer a lower-force approach, including patients recovering from injury and anyone who has had an uncomfortable experience with manual adjustments in the past.
It is also well-suited for specific spinal and extremity regions, such as the pelvis and hips, where drop-assisted force is both comfortable and clinically effective.
Flexion Distraction Adjustment
Flexion distraction is a gentle, low-force technique performed on a specialized segmented table that slowly distracts and flexes the spine in a rhythmic motion. It is among the most well-supported approaches for treating disc herniations, sciatica, lumbar stenosis, and facet syndrome.
Rather than applying a quick thrust, flexion distraction uses slow, controlled movement to decompress spinal discs, reduce nerve pressure, and improve spinal mobility.
This treatment is ideal for patients with radiating pain, disc-related conditions, or anyone for whom traditional manipulation is not appropriate.
Sacro Occipital Technique (SOT)
SOT is a whole-body chiropractic approach that focuses on the foundational relationship between the sacrum at the base of the spine and the occiput at the base of the skull, and the role that relationship plays in overall spinal and neurological function.
SOT uses low-force corrections, including the use of wedge-shaped blocks precisely placed under the pelvis, allowing the body's own weight to help restore balance, improve alignment, and reduce tension in the nervous system.
It is particularly effective for patients with chronic pain, pelvic instability, headaches, and systemic complaints that have not fully responded to other approaches. Many patients find it deeply relaxing yet clinically powerful.
Additional Therapies at Sherwood Spine & Sport
Chiropractic adjustments are most effective when they are part of a broader care strategy. In addition to spinal and extremity manipulation, we offer:
- Dry needling for trigger point release and soft tissue rehabilitation
- Neural manipulation for improved nerve mobility and reduced irritation within the nervous system
- Sports chiropractic care and injury rehabilitation
- Therapeutic exercise and corrective movement training
- Visceral manipulation for organ mobility to improve movement and decrease chronic pain
- Selective Functional Movement Assessment (SFMA) for root-cause movement analysis
- TPI golf movement assessment and golf-specific injury rehabilitation
Chiropractic Adjustments for Golfers
Golf is one of the most physically demanding sports on the spine and the body. The rotational forces generated by the swing place significant stress on the lumbar spine, hips, thoracic spine, and shoulders, and when any of these regions is restricted or unstable, the result is pain, compensatory swing faults, or both.
At Sherwood Spine & Sport, we combine chiropractic adjustments with the specialized TPI golf mobility screen to identify the physical limitations behind the breakdown in your swing. Restricted thoracic rotation, limited hip mobility, lumbar instability, and shoulder dysfunction all show up in the golf swing in predictable ways.
By correcting joint restrictions and rebuilding movement quality through targeted golf rehabilitation, we help golfers play more, hurt less, and swing with better mechanics.
The Conditions & Symptoms Chiropractic Adjustments Treat
Chiropractic care is effective for a wide range of musculoskeletal conditions.
Patients come to us for help with:
- Acute and chronic low back pain
- Neck pain and stiffness
- Headaches and migraines
- Sciatica and radiating leg pain
- Disc herniations and bulging discs
- Thoracic pain and mid-back stiffness
- Shoulder pain and restricted shoulder mobility
- Hip pain and sacroiliac joint dysfunction
- Knee pain and patellofemoral syndrome
- Plantar fasciitis and foot pain
- Golfer's elbow and tennis elbow
- Rib pain and rib joint dysfunction
- Piriformis syndrome and IT band syndrome
- Postural dysfunction and forward head posture
- Sports injuries and post-injury rehabilitation
Why Partner with Sherwood Spine & Sport?
There is no shortage of chiropractic options in the Crown Point area. What sets Sherwood Spine & Sport apart is the depth of our assessment, the range of our techniques, and the genuine investment we make in understanding each patient as an individual.
We do not treat names on a chart. We take the time to understand your history, thoroughly assess your body, explain our findings honestly, and build a responsible chiropractic care plan that reflects your specific needs and goals.
Dr. Sherwood combines the precision of chiropractic adjustments with sports rehabilitation, corrective exercise, and advanced soft tissue work to address both your pain and the reasons it showed up in the first place.
Whether you’re a golfer trying to get back on the course, a new mom wanting to return to your activity, or someone who has been living with back pain for years and is finally ready to do something about it, we’re eager to show you that life is here for the taking.
Your visits are always comprehensive, unhurried, and built around getting you the answers you’ve been looking for.