What to Expect at Your First Cypress Chiropractic Appointment?

Dr. Sarah checks the spine at Charleston, SC Cypress Chiropractic

Your first appointment at Cypress Chiropractic & Wellness begins with a smile and a warm welcome!

Dr. Sarah will talk with you about your particular health challenges, your health goals, and health history. It’s important that you are heard. After that, postural photos will be taken to document where your posture is currently. Your posture says a lot about the health of your spine and overall health in general.

Once these steps are completed, your spinal exam will commence. This usually includes, static palpation, motion palpation, range-of-motion assessments, neurological leg-length measurements, and gait analysis. Dr. Sarah will analyze, locate, and then adjust accordingly.

Adjustments look different for each person and Dr. Sarah pulls from many different techniques in order to adapt to your body’s needs and preferences. She uses Gonstead, Webster, Sacro-Occipital Technique (SOT), Thompson, Logan Basic, and Network Spinal Techniques. Once you are adjusted, the stress from your nervous system is removed so that the healing process can begin.

At the end of the first appointment, a follow-up session will be scheduled to go over your Report of Findings and a plan of action that will best support you in reaching your health goals.

The first appointment usually takes about 45 minutes, so please schedule to arrive on time and with your intake forms completed. Your intake forms are emailed to you after booking your initial appointment online.

Your first appointment is your first step in healing and achieving your optimal health. We are honored to serve you!

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Vanessa Crane

MASSAGE THERAPIST

Vanessa has been practicing therapeutic massage for 15 years. She is passionate about massage therapy and believes that every touch should have intention. While Vanessa specializes in deeper work, incorporating stretching throughout the session, she also provides a variety of other treatment options. Each client is unique and Vanessa will integrate various techniques to cater to your specific needs. She offers Neuromuscular, Trigger Point, and is certified in Prenatal Massage.

Vanessa attended Quinnipiac University in Hamden, CT. While in school, she enrolled in the Study Abroad Program and completed a semester at University College Cork in Cork, Ireland. She graduated from Quinnipiac University, with her Bachelor’s Degree in Mass Communications in 2004.

After college, Vanessa began working in the Financial Industry. While she enjoyed working with clients in the fast paced environment, she knew it wasn’t her passion. In 2008, Vanessa completed a 900 hour certification program, including 150 clinical massage practice hours at The Salter School, in Malden Massachusetts. She began her career working at a spa on Newbury Street in Boston.

In 2013 Vanessa and her husband Kevin moved to Charleston, to start their lives together. She worked at a spa Downtown for three years before pursuing a private practice, where she traveled to her client’s homes offering outcall massage therapy services. Vanessa is very excited to be a part of the Cypress Chiropractic Team, where she can reach a broader audience and provide healing touch to you.

"Chiropractic is not designed to make you instantly feel better,

it's designed to make you instantly heal better."

- D.D. Palmer

Chiropractic

Chiropractic unleashes your innate potential and wisdom. You are the healer, chiropractic removes the barriers.

All People Welcome

The best time to get adjusted is at birth, the second best time is now. Chiropractic is beneficial for everyone with a spine and nervous system because it removes the blockages, irritations, and barriers in your nervous system, restoring the body’s innate ability to function, heal, and feel better.

Babies & Children

The sooner one is adjusted the better.

See our Pediatric service page to read more!

Pre-Natal Webster Care

Webster Technique is a specific chiropractic analysis and adjustment that reduces nervous system stress, balances pelvic bones, muscles and ligaments, and optimizes the mother’s pelvic function in pregnancy and birth.

Sports Chiropractic

Chiropractic adjustments realign the joints of the body in order to free the nervous system of irritation so that the brain-to-body connection is free of unnecessary internal “hurdles.” By getting adjusted, athletes can function and recover optimally.

Optimization

The ultimate goal of chiropractic care is to optimize your health, however, optimization of health takes, consistency, time, and acceptance. The plan-of-action for chiropractic healing goes step-by-step and in this order:

1.) Recover

2.) Heal

3.)Optimize

Depending on the person, this can take days, weeks, months or years.