Chiropractor Ingram PA
Welcome to Spine and Joint Chiropractic, located at 100 Foster Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15205. Chiropractic is one of the most amazing healthcare professions, but very few people understand what it's all about. We are here to help you gain a basic understanding of how our Ingram chiropractors can help you and your family.
This office has been here for almost 2 decades now and been treating the Ingram/Crafton region for that time. The office was started by Craig Schade D.C. who is recently looking to retire and transfer the office over to Brian Gross D.C. They are both local to the Pittsburgh area and help patients in the manner they need. Dr. Brian went to a local high school near Irwin PA and for undergraduate was at California University of Pennsylvania in 2009-2013, from there he received his Chiropractic degree from New York Chiropractic College in 2016 where he undertook 10 semesters of courses and clinic to hone his chiropractic skills to treat patients within the Pittsburgh area.
Welcome to Spine and Joint Chiropractic
How we are different than most Ingram chiropractors is simple in the fact we focus on muscle work and functional movement as well as adjusting our patients. With muscle work, we focus on what muscles are causing pain and helping them heal through working on them and stretching them to get the best results as fast as possible. With the functional movement, we see why those muscles and joints failed to function properly on top of seeing what exercises or muscle groups we need to focus on to make sure those issues do not re-occur.
HOW TO FIND US
The office itself is located right off Ingram Avenue in Ingram PA. If coming from I79, you get off at the Crafton exit and follow 60 West until you get the 4-way intersection over the bridge on Steubenville Pike. At that intersection, you turn left onto Ingram Avenue. From there you travel about a mile and turn right onto Foster right before the Ingram park and we are located on the right.
From the Park Way, you follow the Park Way to the Fort Pitt Bridge and get off the exit to 51 North/ McKees Rocks. After going past 3 lights you make a slight right to an offshoot ramp and follow that to Corliss Street all the way to a 3-way intersection. From there you go straight through the intersection up the hill and you stop at a 4-way intersection. Go straight there and follow it until your first left, take the left and follow it all the way to the end and turn onto West Prospect, which turns into Ingram Ave. After passing the red light, you will make a left hand turn on we will be located on the right.
WHAT TO EXPECT
When you come in, we normally have you fill out paperwork, from there we do an exam for the condition you have and a normal baseline for everywhere else.
From there we go into what is causing you condition through a number of quick tests, then we go into treating you. Treating consists of muscle work and adjusting, followed by either a passive care modality or active care depending on the case.
The first exam is usually the longest of the visits you will have here at the office due to the exam, but everything after the first is usually a 5-10 minute visit focused solely on your pains and to get you better.
IMPORTANCE OF CHIROPRACTIC CARE
Some of the small issues we see with patients in the chiropractic field are people thinking they are pain-free before the condition is completely healed. Like with any treatment, going a few visits past out of pain is needed to make sure that those joints and muscles are functioning properly and can maintain the conditions you are placing them in.
Namely in the Pittsburgh area, we have a bunch of people sitting at their desks and the pains they notice are from the abuse of sitting all bad causing their backs to ache since the muscles in their low back are not designed to do major shifting like their hips are. This can be treated quickly to get them back to work fast, but the condition is there and needs to be trained to help the patient stay pain-free through Chiropractic care in Ingram and at-home exercises.