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Dr. Amy Gatlin is a chiropractor serving New Bern, NC, and the surrounding area. Our chiropractor and the rest of the welcoming team at Thornton Chiropractic are committed to providing chiropractic solutions to address your unique needs, whether you are experiencing back pain, neck pain, headaches, or even muscular tightness and tension. You may be searching for pain relief after an accident, experiencing an injury, or if you suffer from a specific condition like chronic back pain or a spinal condition.
Even if you looking to improve your overall health, our chiropractor can help you attain your everyday wellness goals! Visit our testimonials page to find out what our patients are saying about Dr. Amy and our chiropractic care plans. At your first visit to Thornton Chiropractic, Dr. Amy Gatlin will explain how chiropractic care works and give you a full evaluation to see if our chiropractic solutions are a good fit to address your needs.
If there is a good fit, we can customize a plan of chiropractic care for your condition and health goals.
Even if you looking to improve your overall health, our chiropractor can help you attain your everyday wellness goals! Visit our testimonials page to find out what our patients are saying about Dr. Amy and our chiropractic care plans. At your first visit to Thornton Chiropractic, Dr. Amy Gatlin will explain how chiropractic care works and give you a full evaluation to see if our chiropractic solutions are a good fit to address your needs.
If there is a good fit, we can customize a plan of chiropractic care for your condition and health goals.
Services
New Patient Center
We understand that arriving at a doctor's office for the first time can be nerve racking.
If you've never experienced chiropractic care before, you may not know what to expect when you come to our office for the first time.
Filling out paperwork, learning new faces and names, and getting to know your way around the office can be an overwhelming experience.
That's why at Thornton Chiropractic our aim is to remove any unnecessary stress or tension and make you feel comfortable during your visit with our chiropractor.
If you've never experienced chiropractic care before, you may not know what to expect when you come to our office for the first time.
Filling out paperwork, learning new faces and names, and getting to know your way around the office can be an overwhelming experience.
That's why at Thornton Chiropractic our aim is to remove any unnecessary stress or tension and make you feel comfortable during your visit with our chiropractor.
What to Expect
Chiropractic care is like building a house - certain things have to happen in a particular order in order for everything to stand strong and work correctly.
When building a house, if you tried to put up your walls before you had a solid foundation, your walls would be weak and eventually collapse.
If you tried to put on your roof before the walls were ready, you would run into the same problem.
The same is true for your body.
Your body has to go through a particular plan of care in order to repair itself correctly and fully.
When building a house, if you tried to put up your walls before you had a solid foundation, your walls would be weak and eventually collapse.
If you tried to put on your roof before the walls were ready, you would run into the same problem.
The same is true for your body.
Your body has to go through a particular plan of care in order to repair itself correctly and fully.
Your First Visit
Next, you will have a consultation with Amy Gatlin, DC to discuss your health-related problems, concerns, and potential treatment options.
This initial visit is designed for Amy Gatlin, DC to learn more about you, your condition, and expectations to determine how chiropractic care can meet your goals.
After your consultation, Amy Gatlin, DC will perform a complete chiropractic examination testing your reflexes and flexibility.
Other standard neurological, orthopedic, postural, and physical tests will be performed as well.
This initial visit is designed for Amy Gatlin, DC to learn more about you, your condition, and expectations to determine how chiropractic care can meet your goals.
After your consultation, Amy Gatlin, DC will perform a complete chiropractic examination testing your reflexes and flexibility.
Other standard neurological, orthopedic, postural, and physical tests will be performed as well.
Phase 1: Relief Care
Most people are under the assumption that if they don't feel any pain that there is nothing wrong with them - that they are healthy.
Unfortunately, pain is a very poor indicator of health.
In fact, pain and other symptoms frequently only appear after a disease or other condition has become advanced.
For example, consider a cavity in your tooth.
Does it hurt when it first develops or only after it has become serious?
How about heart disease?
Regardless of whether you are talking about cancer, heart disease, diabetes, stress or problems with the spine, pain is usually the last thing to appear.
Unfortunately, pain is a very poor indicator of health.
In fact, pain and other symptoms frequently only appear after a disease or other condition has become advanced.
For example, consider a cavity in your tooth.
Does it hurt when it first develops or only after it has become serious?
How about heart disease?
Regardless of whether you are talking about cancer, heart disease, diabetes, stress or problems with the spine, pain is usually the last thing to appear.
Phase 2: Corrective Care
Most chiropractors regard the elimination of symptoms as the easiest part of a persons care.
If all that the chiropractor does is to reduce the pain and stop there, the chances of the condition recurring are much greater.
In order to prevent a rapid recurrence of symptoms, it is necessary to continue receiving care even though your symptoms are gone.
During the correction / restorative phase of your care, you will not have to receive adjustments as often as you did during the first phase of care and, depending on your particular circumstances, you may begin doing exercises and stretches either at the center or at home to help accelerate your healing.
If all that the chiropractor does is to reduce the pain and stop there, the chances of the condition recurring are much greater.
In order to prevent a rapid recurrence of symptoms, it is necessary to continue receiving care even though your symptoms are gone.
During the correction / restorative phase of your care, you will not have to receive adjustments as often as you did during the first phase of care and, depending on your particular circumstances, you may begin doing exercises and stretches either at the center or at home to help accelerate your healing.
Phase 3: Wellness Care
Once your body has fully healed, routine chiropractic care can help ensure your physical problems do not return and keep your body in optimal condition.
Just like continuing an exercise program and eating well in order to sustain the benefits of exercise and proper diet, it is necessary to continue chiropractic care to ensure the health of your musculoskeletal system.
When you make routine chiropractic care a part of your lifestyle, you avoid many of the aches and pains that so many people suffer through, your joints will last longer, and you will be able to engage in more of the activities you love.
Just like continuing an exercise program and eating well in order to sustain the benefits of exercise and proper diet, it is necessary to continue chiropractic care to ensure the health of your musculoskeletal system.
When you make routine chiropractic care a part of your lifestyle, you avoid many of the aches and pains that so many people suffer through, your joints will last longer, and you will be able to engage in more of the activities you love.
Payment Options
Thornton Chiropractic believes in the value of wellness care for you and your family and have maintained a pricing structure that allows care for all budgets.
Our office participates in most insurance programs.
For patients who have little or no chiropractic insurance coverage, flexible payment programs can be arranged.
To learn more about our payment options for chiropractic and wellness care, you can call our office directly.
Most insurance plans are accepted at our office.
We accept most health insurance plans, including Medicare.
Our office participates in most insurance programs.
For patients who have little or no chiropractic insurance coverage, flexible payment programs can be arranged.
To learn more about our payment options for chiropractic and wellness care, you can call our office directly.
Most insurance plans are accepted at our office.
We accept most health insurance plans, including Medicare.
Services & Techniques
At Thornton Chiropractic, we take great pride in providing the finest chiropractic wellness care to our patients.
Below is a sampling of the different chiropractic services we offer in our office.
We provide spinal correction utilizing gentle chiropractic techniques.
Never in the history of chiropractic have we been able to provide the level of help and expertise that now exists.
These newer correction methods are even safer, more comfortable and more effective than ever before.
As a Doctor of Chiropractic, Dr. Amy Gatlin has years of training and experience in spinal adjustment.
Below is a sampling of the different chiropractic services we offer in our office.
We provide spinal correction utilizing gentle chiropractic techniques.
Never in the history of chiropractic have we been able to provide the level of help and expertise that now exists.
These newer correction methods are even safer, more comfortable and more effective than ever before.
As a Doctor of Chiropractic, Dr. Amy Gatlin has years of training and experience in spinal adjustment.
Community Content
Chiropractic treatment could offer the solution if chronic pain is one of your PTSD symptoms.
Manual manipulation of the spine and other joints in the body have been around for a long time.
Ancient writings from China and Greece dating between 2700 B.C. and 1500 B.C. mention spinal manipulation and the maneuvering of the lower extremities to ease low back pain.
The primary focus of chiropractic is simply to adjust the spine and remove those things which interfere with the body's natural normal healing ability.
Manual manipulation of the spine and other joints in the body have been around for a long time.
Ancient writings from China and Greece dating between 2700 B.C. and 1500 B.C. mention spinal manipulation and the maneuvering of the lower extremities to ease low back pain.
The primary focus of chiropractic is simply to adjust the spine and remove those things which interfere with the body's natural normal healing ability.
What is Chiropractic
Chiropractors understand that one of the main causes of pain and disease is the misalignment and abnormal motion of the vertebrae in the spinal column called a subluxation.
Chiropractic works by removing these subluxations in the spine, thereby relieving pressure and irritation on the nerves, restoring joint mobility, and returning the body back to a state of normal function.
Numerous studies have demonstrated that chiropractic care is one of the most effective treatments for back pain, neck pain, headaches, whiplash, sports injuries and many other types of musculoskeletal problems.
Chiropractic works by removing these subluxations in the spine, thereby relieving pressure and irritation on the nerves, restoring joint mobility, and returning the body back to a state of normal function.
Numerous studies have demonstrated that chiropractic care is one of the most effective treatments for back pain, neck pain, headaches, whiplash, sports injuries and many other types of musculoskeletal problems.
How Does it Work
Chiropractic doctors practice natural, drugless, non-invasive health care and rely on the body's ability to self-heal.
Sounds ideal, but just how does it work?
Like other health-care providers, we follow a standard routine to gain information about the patient.
We consult, review the case history, conduct a physical examination, and we may request laboratory analyses and/or x-rays.
Unlike other health-care providers, however, chiropractic physicians also conduct a careful analysis of the patient's structure and pay particular attention to the spine.
Sounds ideal, but just how does it work?
Like other health-care providers, we follow a standard routine to gain information about the patient.
We consult, review the case history, conduct a physical examination, and we may request laboratory analyses and/or x-rays.
Unlike other health-care providers, however, chiropractic physicians also conduct a careful analysis of the patient's structure and pay particular attention to the spine.
Common Conditions Treated
Chiropractic care is effective for a wide variety of conditions - not just back pain.
From infants who are just days old to older adults, children, athletes, men, and women, chiropractic care is appropriate for almost anyone.
It offers a drug-free alternative to pain management, improved mobility, and enhanced function for conditions ranging from asthma to PMS and headaches to carpal tunnel.
Chiropractic care is also very important for injury recovery and rehabilitation, following auto accidents, falls and other personal injuries.
From infants who are just days old to older adults, children, athletes, men, and women, chiropractic care is appropriate for almost anyone.
It offers a drug-free alternative to pain management, improved mobility, and enhanced function for conditions ranging from asthma to PMS and headaches to carpal tunnel.
Chiropractic care is also very important for injury recovery and rehabilitation, following auto accidents, falls and other personal injuries.
Auto Accident Injuries
The term "whiplash" was first used in 1928 to define an injury mechanism of sudden hyperextension followed by an immediate hyperflexion of the neck that results in damage to the muscles, ligaments and tendons - especially those that support the head.
Numerous studies have shown that years after auto accident victims settle their insurance claims, roughly half of them state that they still suffer with symptoms from their injuries.
If you have been involved in a car accident, your injuries need to be taken very seriously.
Numerous studies have shown that years after auto accident victims settle their insurance claims, roughly half of them state that they still suffer with symptoms from their injuries.
If you have been involved in a car accident, your injuries need to be taken very seriously.
Body Pain
Shin splints are characterized by pain in the front part of the lower leg.
It occurs on the inside edge of the large bone there - the tibia.
This condition is common in runners, but can also occur in other physically active people.
The temporomandibular joint connects the jawbone to the skull.
Up to 10 million people suffer from painful temporomandibular joint disorder (TMD), according to the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research.
About 90 percent of people will recover from plantar fasciitis within a few months following conservative treatment.
It occurs on the inside edge of the large bone there - the tibia.
This condition is common in runners, but can also occur in other physically active people.
The temporomandibular joint connects the jawbone to the skull.
Up to 10 million people suffer from painful temporomandibular joint disorder (TMD), according to the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research.
About 90 percent of people will recover from plantar fasciitis within a few months following conservative treatment.
