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Chiropractic Articles
This is where our written patient education lives. Start with the topic you came here for — what hurts, what we do about it, or what happens at a first appointment in Saco — and follow it through to a page written in plain English.
Start with what hurts
The complaints people most often arrive with, and what we can do about each.
Sciatica
Pain, numbness or tingling that starts in the lower back and travels down the leg.
Sciatica FAQs
Straight answers to the questions we hear most about sciatic pain.
Scoliosis
An abnormal sideways curve of the spine, assessed and managed without surgery.
Hip pain
Stiffness, aching and pain referred from the lower back and pelvis.
Understand the treatment
What each technique is, who it suits and what a session is actually like.
Chiropractic adjustments
The core of chiropractic care — restoring motion to a restricted joint.
Therapies and techniques
Everything Dr. Reiche may use alongside an adjustment.
Non-surgical spinal decompression
Traction used to take pressure off discs and nerve roots.
Therapeutic massage
Targeted soft-tissue work, not a spa treatment.
Reference and tools
For when you want the definition rather than the whole article.
Glossary of chiropractic terms
Eighty-odd terms defined in plain English, from Activator to whiplash.
3D spine simulator
Explore the spine region by region and see what sits where.
Patient education
The full index of our educational material.
Health resources
Trusted outside organisations and further reading.
Related
Patient Education
Plain-English guides to the conditions we see most and the treatments we use for them. Read up before you…
Health Resources
Where to read more, once you have run out of questions to ask us. Our own guides come first, then the…
Blog
The practice wrote about adjustments, spinal decompression, massage, scoliosis, pregnancy and diet. Those…
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