D Spencer Chiropractic

Have a Question? Just Call!

657-8460

Located on Elm St off exit 6 of Rt. 293 in the old Red Cross Building with Plenty of Free Parking

Next to the Brady-Sullivan Tower (which is on the corner of Salmon St and Elm St)

Dedicated to Quality Care, NOT Quantity Care!

Services:

• Neck Pain
• Headaches
• Low Back Pain
• Auto Accident Injuries
• Work Injuries
• Arm or Leg Pain, Numbness or Tingling
• Arthritis Type Pain
• Cumulative Trauma
• Chronic Pain Syndromes
• Muscular Pain and Tendonitis
• No Pre-arranged Treatment Programs
• No Pressure Sales
• Relaxed Atmosphere
• No Scheduled Maintence care
• Come with Questions!

Dr. Spencer loves helping people live a happier, more productive lifestyle.  He uses a combination of Chiropractic Adjustments along with Muscular Therapy.  He has found that the body, when it is injured or overused, will transition into it's protective mode, ie. producing trigger points and muscle spasms.  These muscle spasms can develop into their own self-perpetuating entity (causing itself to remain in spasm).  If these spasms are not specifically treated, they can pull on the vertebrae (spine) or bones of the extremities (arm or leg) and create added strain on those joints creating added stress, irritation and even inflammation (swelling) in those joints.  This in turn requires added treatments and extended time in the healing process.  If the muscles are treated, but the joints are ignored, then the joint irritation recreates the muscle spasms.  Therefore, both need to be treated.  Dr. Spencer has found that by treating the musculature along with the joints, the muscular strain on the joints is reduced and fewer visits are needed in the long run and this also gives a more thorough healing result (fewer visits, and faster healing time and better relief).  As an experienced Chiropractor, Dr. Spencer can help your suffering from so many ailments; from headaches, back and neck pain, to everyday aches and pains, to auto accident or work injuries and even chronic muscular pain.  All without the necessity of monthly or weekly maintenance visits! (Once the course of treatment is finished)

Call today for a free consultation.

Muscle spasms are contracted muscle that individually a person cannot tell it or mentally will it to relax. (It is a reflex that occurs in the spinal cord and not in the brain, so the brain can't tell it to relax.)  It has to be delt with from the outside, which is why Massage Therapists have become so popular.  Trigger points are focalized points within a muscle spasm that can also create a traveling or radiating type of pain, ie pain in the thigh and/or calf as a result of spams in the gluteal (buttocks) muscles.  [It is more common to have pain radiation as a result of trigger points than from a herniated (slipped) disc, or from Facet Syndrome (joint irritation), or arthritis].  Muscle spasms occur for a couple of reasons.  First, it is a physical protective mechanism, to keep the joint or muscle from extending into the same range of motion that caused the injury to occur in the first place.  Secondly, it is a mental/emotional protective mechanism, which aims to cause pain so that it let's you know that there is something going wrong.  If it is intense enough, will force you to slow down and pay attention to the injury or the chronic irritation, so that it will not get any worse.  So why are they such a problem?  They occur as a result of injury, pain, or fatigue.  Then the muscle spasms cause more fatigue and pain and therefore more mucle spasm.  This vicious cycle becomes an entity unto itself, never really being able to relieve itself.  And often getting worse over time.  This cycle needs to be broken.

Chiropractic Care is still the "Number 1" Alternative Healthcare System in America.  Come see what Chiropractic can do for you!

Dr. Spencer graduated with honors from Los Angeles College of Chiropractic in 1993. He moved to New Hampshire and started Hooksett Family Chiropractic in 1994. While in practice here he also taught Trigger Point Therapy courses at New England Institute of Whole Health (a Massage Therapy School in Manchester).  In 2003 he decided to sell his practice and move to Utah to purchase a practice there in order to be closer to extended family. Missing the New Hampshire area, Dr. Spencer and his family moved back in November 2008 and started his practice again in Manchester in May 2009. 

Proudly serving the Manchester, NH area!