Frequently Asked Questions
Innate Life Chiropractic is fully dedicated to your well-being. We provide the tools you need to make important decisions about your body, mind, and spirit. The answers to our Frequently Asked Questions may help you determine if chiropractic care is right for you and your family.
What is Chiropractic?
Chiropractic care is a process of adjusting the body to higher levels of connection and alignment. By getting adjusted, you will be guided toward expressing your full potential. It frees you, as nature intended, to pursue, experience, and explore everything life has to offer. Remember—health is a journey, not a singular destination.
Your First Visit
We understand that trying to find solutions to our health challenges can be overwhelming at times. Innate Life Chiropractic offers a complimentary 15-minute consultation to discover how we can best help you. Contact us to schedule your consult.
The complimentary consultation is the first step. If our chiropractic care is a good fit, you will receive digital nervous system screening, functional neurology exam, chiropractic exam, and your first adjustment, if necessary. The most anyone invests in this first visit is $175, depending on what assessments are clinically necessary. Upon completion, Dr. Nathan will use his clinical judgment to determine the most appropriate course of action for you.
Dr. Nathan will check your spine and nervous system for any blockage or interference. Any interference in your brain-body communication will alter how your body adapts, functions, and feels.
Absolutely! Innate Life Chiropractic is an Out-of-Network Provider with most insurance companies. This allows us to pass savings onto you and base our recommendations on your needs, not your insurance company’s algorithm.
If you have an insurance plan that covers chiropractic care, we provide a “superbill” that has all the diagnostic codes that your insurance needs to see to reimburse you for the services we provide. This way, the insurance company will send the reimbursement check directly to you.
Your safety and well-being are our highest priority. If you can safely get yourself to our office, then please come in. This is a crucial time to get adjusted. Chiropractic adjustments have been shown to boost your immune system and help you get well sooner.
We ask you to be mindful of your health and the needs of our team and others in the office. If you have questions, please feel free to call us before your appointment.
Chiropractic Care
The chiropractic adjustment is the process by which Dr. Nathan will facilitate your nervous system to become more apparent, open, and adaptable. Your body uses your spine like the fuse box in your house. When the fuses are “blown,” our brain cannot correctly coordinate how the body functions.
Dr. Nathan will determine where the fuses are blown and the most appropriate technique to restore communication and ease. Often this is done with a light touch, a similar pressure that you might use to check how ripe an avocado is at the grocery store. Other times it will be done with a dynamic movement, sliding vertebrae into a more optimal alignment, and providing positive input to the brain.
We intend to help your body identify and connect to areas of stored energy. Bodies store energy in three different areas—the muscles, soft connective tissue like ligaments and tendons, and bones. You will be given specific adjustments tailored to your body depending on how and where you store potential energy.
Dr. Nathan’s chiropractic adjustments gently release these subluxations by simply shifting the stored energy into kinetic energy. This process empowers your body to fully integrate and learn from the original experience without reliving it. The adjustments are also designed to provide positive input to the brain, allowing it to access more of its neuroplastic potential.
When the information from your life experiences begins to integrate, you may experience changes in all areas of your life. You may notice increased energy levels, symptomatic relief, better sleep, greater clarity and meaning in your life, greater personal expression, better relations with others, and overall improved quality of life.
Our care should only be utilized for as long as it serves you to become a better, healthier, and more vibrant you. Typically, people choose to stay with us because they like how they feel and function with chiropractic care.
Chiropractic for Every Age
Yes! It is never too soon to introduce your children to chiropractic wellness, and we would be honored to care for them. The opportunity to care for a child is such a special gift and one we don’t take lightly. This is one of Dr. Nathan’s specialties.
It was once believed that the presence or absence of symptoms determined your child’s health. Now, it’s recognized that this isn’t always the case. Health and quality of life are better defined by their ability to interpret, integrate, and appropriately respond to environmental stimuli and experiences.
Chiropractic care is about empowering your children in fully expressing their greatest gifts connected to their mind, body, and spirit. We do this by treating their nerve system, which is responsible for repair, growth, and the function of every cell, tissue, and organ in the body.
Newborn chiropractic adjustments are gentle, safe and help your baby adapt to their new life. Chiropractic wellness care is about being proactive. The earlier one gets adjusted, the better. Your baby is more likely to fully experience life physically, mentally, and emotionally.
There is no denying that the birthing process is a major event that may be challenging physically, chemically, and emotionally for your newborn. Fully integrating the birth process will ensure your newborn has the best start in life. If your baby does not fully integrate the birth process, they may store these experiences in their body as a subluxation, leaving them predisposed to symptoms that may manifest later in life.
Yes, we welcome new and expecting mothers! Dr. Nathan is one of the only Webster Certified chiropractors in the northwest suburbs. He loves working with pregnant mothers, helping their bodies to respond to pregnancy in the best way possible. We even have special pillows and adjustment tables to create a comfortable experience throughout all stages of pregnancy.
Chiropractic care during pregnancy is safe and beneficial for both baby and mother. Getting adjusted can create better birth outcomes, easier, faster labors, optimal positioning, and nerve supply for babies as they grow and develop.
A study by the American Medical Association found that women who received regular chiropractic care during their third trimester carried and delivered more comfortably. Another study concluded that mothers decreased the need for analgesics by half during their delivery with regular chiropractic adjustments.
Chiropractic care can relieve intrauterine constraints and decrease the average amount of time spent in labor. It can help prevent discomfort like sciatica and round ligament pain for mommies whose bodies are changing too. Pregnancy chiropractic care has also been shown to help mothers get well, stay well, and be their best—before, during, and after pregnancy.
Contact us today to schedule a free consultation!
Your Full Potential
The innate intelligence within you is incomprehensible. At conception, one cell is sparked to life and begins to divide, becoming over 40 trillion cells and creating an entire human being in just nine months. That spark is the entrance of electrical energy, and that inner potential did not abandon you at birth. It remains within you and is the very essence of life.
Nearly 45 miles of nerves grow to connect every cell, tissue, and organ with the energy flowing within you. This self-created and regulated neuro-spinal system perceives, receives, and integrates your internal and external worlds. It consists of the brain, brain stem, spinal cord, nerves, and bones, which protect and house them.
In a perfect world, you have the space and time to live at a pace that is right for you. In reality, life’s hectic speed can often exceed your ability to adapt to experiences. When overstressed, you can store your experiences within your body, stalling your own process of healing and growth. This will also cause disconnections in the communication pathways, similar to a blown fuse in your home’s breaker box.
Your neuro-spinal system is a high-speed communication pathway from your brain to the body and back. It communicates with you about internal balance, health, and changes needed through the language of symptoms. However, true health cannot be defined merely as the presence or absence of symptoms.
Most of our symptoms are not life-threatening but are full of vital information about the energy that must be integrated into our bodies. The force required to transform this potential energy into kinetic energy in the muscles and soft connective tissue is light, while slightly more is necessary when the potential energy is stored in bones.
Chiropractic Care and Your Wellness
Chiropractic care and the adjusting process are centered on clearing any blockages and interference from the neuro-spinal system, allowing your body to unleash its potential for health, growth, and thrive. Care also helps people with varying conditions live in balance with their true nature and environment. Some of the common conditions which cause people to seek chiropractic care are:
- Migraines
- Headaches
- Back pain
- Ear infections
- Asthma
- Allergies
- ADD and ADHD
- Concussions
- Infertility
- Healthy Pregnancies
You were innately designed to heal, grow, and thrive. The first step to healing with chiropractic is to detect any blockages in the neuro-spinal system and develop a care plan. People seek chiropractic care for a health crisis or regular wellness care:
Crisis and Immersion
Most of us live in a state of survival and disconnection. During immersion care, we focus on reconnecting the brain to the body and facilitating healing. This form of care helps people to heal an immediate concern or chronic condition.
Wellness Care
As with any area of health, the key is consistency. Wellness care is designed to facilitate your growth and evolution through life. It keeps your nerve system functioning optimally and your spine aligned. People typically choose wellness care once a week.
