Chiropractic Care

What if the adjustment is only the beginning?

Most people have a pretty simple idea of chiropractic care.

Something hurts.
You get adjusted.
Hopefully, it feels better.

And sometimes that's exactly what you need.

But after nearly 30 years of adjusting patients, I've come to believe there is a much bigger opportunity.

What if an excellent chiropractic adjustment could do more than help you feel better today?

What if it could become the centerpiece of a larger strategy designed to help your body move better, respond better and recover better?

That's the idea behind the Muhr Method.

It starts with your body.

Pain has a way of getting our attention.

Your neck gets tight. Your back starts hurting. That shoulder doesn't move quite like it used to. Maybe an old injury keeps resurfacing.

So naturally, we focus on the painful spot.

But your body doesn't work as a collection of separate parts.

Joints move. Muscles respond. Your brain constantly receives information about where your body is, how it is moving and what it needs to do next.

When movement changes, the information coming from that area changes too.

And sometimes the place where you feel the problem isn't the whole problem.

That's why I don't want to simply know where you hurt.

I want to understand how your body is functioning.

The Adjustment

This is still the heart of what I do.

Technology has changed dramatically during my career.

I now have tools available to me that I couldn't have imagined when I graduated from chiropractic school in 1996.

Focused shockwave. Class IV laser and photobiomodulation. Intermittent hypoxic-hyperoxic training. HRV measurement. Neuromuscular training. NuCalm.

I use them because they allow me to do things I couldn't do with my hands alone.

But none of them replaced the adjustment.

Because there is something fundamentally different about examining another human being with your hands, feeling how their body moves, deciding where an intervention is appropriate and delivering a precise adjustment based on what you find.

That requires something no machine in my office possesses:

Clinical judgment.

And after nearly three decades and tens of thousands of adjustments, that's something I take very seriously.

Why adjust the spine?

A chiropractic adjustment introduces a precise mechanical input into a joint and the surrounding neuromuscular system.

The immediate goal may be straightforward:

Improve movement. Reduce pain. Restore function.

And there is substantial research supporting spinal manipulation for common musculoskeletal problems including neck and low-back pain.¹ ²

But there is another reason I'm fascinated by the adjustment.

Movement is information.

Your joints, muscles and connective tissues are filled with sensory receptors constantly sending information to your nervous system.

When we change movement, we also change some of that incoming sensory information.

And that raises a much more interesting question.

What if changing the way your body moves can also change the way your nervous system responds to it?

That's one of the reasons I don't think of an adjustment as simply “putting something back in place.”

It's an input.

And your body decides what happens next.

The part that changed my thinking

For much of my career, the adjustment was the treatment.

And I became very good at it.

People hurt. I adjusted them. They frequently felt better.

That's rewarding.

But over the years I kept noticing something.

Two people could receive excellent chiropractic care and respond very differently.

One changed quickly.

Another changed slowly.

Another felt fantastic for several days and then returned to the same pattern.

Another had muscles and connective tissue that seemed determined to pull them right back where they started.

And another was so stressed, exhausted and poorly recovered that their body seemed to have very little capacity left for anything else.

Same doctor. Same hands. Different response.

Eventually that became difficult for me to ignore.

And I started asking a different question.

What if the adjustment isn't the entire answer?

What if we could prepare the body before the adjustment?

What if we could address stubborn muscles, tendons and connective tissues that may be interfering with movement?

What if we could support cellular energy and tissue recovery?

What if we could deliberately challenge the body's ability to adapt?

What if we could then give the nervous system an opportunity to downshift and recover?

And what if we could actually measure some of those changes over time?

Those questions eventually became the Muhr Method.

The Adjustment Is the Center. The Rest Has a Job.

The Muhr Method isn't a collection of machines.

And it isn't technology for technology's sake.

It is built around the chiropractic adjustment.

Depending on what I find and what we're trying to accomplish, we can surround that adjustment with other interventions that serve specific purposes.

Prepare.
Improve mobility, activate muscles and prepare the body for change.

Correct.
Use the chiropractic adjustment to address dysfunctional movement and provide a powerful mechanical and neurological input.

Support.
Use technologies such as focused shockwave and Class IV photobiomodulation when tissues need additional attention.

Challenge.
Use carefully controlled physiological stressors such as IHHT to train the body's adaptive response.

Recover.
Create deliberate opportunities for the nervous system to shift away from constant demand and toward recovery.

Measure.
Track meaningful changes so we're not relying exclusively on how you happened to feel that morning.

Each piece can be useful by itself.

Together, they allow us to ask a much bigger question than “Where does it hurt?”

We can start asking:

What would help your body work better?

Do I have to do the full Muhr Method?

No.

And that's intentional.

Some people simply want an excellent chiropractic adjustment.

Some have a stubborn tendon or injury and are interested in focused shockwave.

Some want to explore photobiomodulation.

Some are fascinated by IHHT or want to experience NuCalm.

Those are all legitimate reasons to come see me.

You don't have to buy into an entire philosophy to walk through my door.

We'll talk about what you're experiencing, I'll examine you when appropriate, and I'll tell you what I think.

Then I'll give you options.

You decide what makes sense.

But what if you want more?

That's where the Muhr Method becomes different.

If your goal isn't simply to quiet today's symptom…

If you're tired of repeatedly dealing with the same patterns…

If recovery doesn't seem as easy as it once did…

Or if you're simply interested in seeing how well your body could function when we address more than one piece of the equation…

Then I built the Muhr Method for you.

Because pain relief matters.

Moving better matters.

Feeling better matters.

But feeling better is only the beginning.

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Research

1. Spinal manipulative therapy for adults with chronic low back pain.
Cochrane systematic review, updated through October 2024. The review included 76 studies involving 11,866 participants and found spinal manipulative therapy may improve pain and function compared with sham or no treatment, while effects compared with other conservative treatments were more comparable.

2. Effectiveness of musculoskeletal manipulations in patients with neck pain: a systematic review and network meta-analysis.
BMJ Open, 2025. Analysis of 101 randomized controlled trials involving 7,633 participants. Multimodal treatment ranked highest for reducing neck pain and disability; manipulation ranked highest for improving cervical flexion and extension.