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 COVID19 Response

Per both our national association (International Chiropractors Association / www.chiropractic.org) as well as the U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security we are an essential health care provider.  As such we have been and will continue to remain open seeing patients during our normal operating hours.  We follow the CDC Guidelines for Corona virus for the safety of our patients and our staff.  These procedures include:

- Dr. Rick sanitizes his hands before and after he sees each patient
- Social Distancing - Reception seats are at least 6' apart with some moved to unused rooms down the hallway
- Masks - The staff wears surgical masks while the doctor and massage therapist wear N95 masks for greater protection.  We require all patients to wear a mask at all times covering the nose and mouth (except where clinically required to remove during examination or treatment)
- Plexiglas shields - Plexiglas shields act as a barrier at the check-in and check-out counters
- Purell - We have 4 Purell dispensers located in the reception room and down the hallway
- Surface Sanitizing - Throughout the day the staff sanitizes all common surfaces with industrial chemicals or 70% alcohol or bleach.  This includes spraying fabric surfaces
- Disinfectant Wipes - We have a disinfectant wipe dispenser in the reception area for patient access
- Signage - We have signage at the door and check-in desk diverting possible ill patients back home to contact their PCP.  We also require all patients to wear masks per County Guidelines.  Signs remind us all to practice social distancing
- Signing in when you arrive - We have a "clean" and "dirty" container for the sign-in pens and sanitize after every use

We are confident that your trip to our facility will be safe and secure, otherwise we would not be here ourselves.  We look forward to caring for you.  


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We use these as well as alcohol spray and bleach wipes
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Elena with mask behind plexiglas
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Go home and call your PCP if you might be sick
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Dr. Rick with his N95
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Social Distancing - Reception seats set about the office

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What Our Patients Have To Say

Yolanda wrote:
     
     I used to suffer severe headaches and migraines on a daily basis, usually all day.  I managed to work in an office because I had to.  When I went home at the end of the day I would often close the shades and go to bed.  I could not plan weekend events because I simply never knew how I was going to feel tomorrow.  If there were a special event such as a birthday or wedding, I would begin to medicate myself two weeks in advance to give myself the best chance of making the event.
     Friends and fellow church-goers had been trying to get me to see Dr. Rick for some time before I finally gave in.  Looking back, I don’t know why I waited.  Within a month, I was headache free.  I couldn’t remember what it was like to not feel pain.  I could do whatever I wanted and not live in fear of the headache.  This was a miracle for me, but the story does not end here.
     An opportunity came up for us to adopt a newborn baby girl not long after I began chiropractic care.  This baby was particularly important to me and my husband because her mother is a relative.  Tragically, her mother was also a drug user and did drugs during her pregnancy.  If we could not adopt the baby she would have been put into the foster system since the biological mother was incapable of raising her.
     To keep a long story short, we did adopt her and she is doing fantastically.  There is no sign of any effect of the drugs on her as of yet, and with God’s help, there never will be.  We think that is because of the vast amounts of love and attention she gets from us, her real mommy and daddy.
     What does this have to do with chiropractic?  The reality is that without chiropractic, I would still be nearly an invalid with headaches.  I COULD NOT HAVE TAKEN CARE OF AN INFANT OR RAISED A YOUNG CHILD.  THEREFORE, SHE WOULD NOT HAVE ANY OF THE OPPORTUNITIES IN LIFE THAT MY HUSBAND AND I WILL BE ABLE TO PROVIDE FOR HER.  MY DAUGHTER’S LIFE IS POSSIBLE BECAUSE SOMEBODY MADE ME GO TO A CHIROPRACTOR. 
     You need to tell everyone you know what you know about chiropractic.  Who knows who’s life you will change too.
Andrew's mother, Barbara, wrote:

     Hello, My name is Andrew and I am a happy, healthy one year old.  But I wasn’t so happy or healthy when I first met Dr. Rick a few months ago.  I had been having problems with my ears for four months, I couldn’t sleep at night and I was miserable.  We’d been to the doctor lots of times but nothing was helping.  In fact, all the medicines the doctor had tried seemed to make me worse instead of better!  Both the regular doctor and the Ear-Nose and Throat doctor said that if the antibiotics didn’t work, then they’d just have to put tubes in.  Now my Mom and dad weren’t about to let them do surgery on me, especially since they had been reading and learned that tubes can cause more problems than they solve.  My mom and dad did a lot of praying.  Then my mom heard that sometimes babies who have a traumatic birth like mine have ear trouble.  You see when I was born they used a vacuum extractor and forceps to pull me out.  I guess all that yanking on my head, hurt my neck.  She also heard that chiropractic care can be the answer.  Now she was skeptical because she couldn’t imagine a chiropractor helping ear infections!?!  But at that point she was willing to try anything!!  Happily, a few weeks of adjustments and my ears were all cleared up.  In addition, I no longer had a stiff neck or shoulders and my whole personality was happier.  I have to tell all babies who have ear troubles, don’t let them give you tubes until you at least try chiropractic care first.  After all, it can’t hurt and if you’re like me, you could be perfectly well with no drugs and no surgery.  In my family, we thank God for Dr. Rick, because I feel better, my mom and dad are happier and sometimes, I even sleep through the night.