• Our Mission Statement

• What sets us apart.
• The Complete Care Facility -- What you need when you need it.
• More than just care -- Rehabilitation & Reconditioning (FUNCTIONAL RESTORATION)
• Getting Well -- Staying Well.
• Back to Basics' added bonus
• But wait, There's more(!)
• Preventing tomorrow's pain - You are a part of Your Health.
• What it all means.
• Snippets of Reality

What sets us apart
Individualized Care & Treatment Plans
There are two fundamental aspects of care that make Back to Basics unique. The first is our functional approach to Patient Management. At Back to Basics, we truly embrace the concept that each patient is unique in their needs. We pride ourselves on the attention we give to the specific individual, since each person is not the same, the treatment plans should be geared towards the individual's needs.

One Fee, Comprehensive Care Option
The second distinct difference, is Back to Basics' evolutionary idea of combining rehabilitative and maintenance care, when desired, into one treatment plan. We believe that your recovery should be part of one plan and so there should not be separate fees for all of the numerous modes of treatment involved in rehabilitative care and maintenance care. That said, you do have the option of choosing only Chiropractic adjustive therapy without other modalities, for a reduced fee.

At Back to Basics, our fees are reflective of all other clinics in our community that provide traditional Chiropractic adjustive therapy only (i.e., what you pay for our combined treatment services is what you would comparatively pay for chiropractic services alone). See Back to Basics Fee Schedule

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The Complete Care Facility -- What you need when you need it.
At Back to Basics, our Chiropractic rehabilitative and maintenance treatments can include:

~ Passive Modalities
  • Ultrasound
  • Interferential muscle
    stimulation
  • Low-voltage muscle
    stimulation
  • Russian stimulation
  • Microcurrent
  • Combination therapies
  • Cryotherapy
  • Heat packs

~Soft Tissue Therapy
  • Trigger point therapies
  • General Loosening of tight tendons,
    ligaments, & muscles
  • Myofascial release therapies
~Chiropractic Adjustive Therapy
  • Full spine diversified techniques
  • Activator, Thompson, Gonstead
    methodologies

All of this ensures that each patient will get what they need when they need it.

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More than just care -- Rehabilitation & Reconditioning (FUNCTIONAL RESTORATION)
Ab2.GIF (10449 bytes)At Back to Basics, we also believe in active implementation (i.e., each patient should take an active role in their own health).  While we recommend this for all patients, for some it is especially important.  Active implementation ensures functional stabilization and general cardiovascular & strength conditioning.  A program of Functional Restoration, helps reestablish joint mobility, muscular strength, endurance, conditioning, and cardiovascular fitness.

Ab3.GIF (8335 bytes)At Back to Basics we utilize a wide variety of equipment (gym balls, balance boards, free weights, pulley resistance, bicycle ergometers, and more) to create a program for your needs.  The goal is to restore the ability to perform specific functional tasks such as lifting, bending, and twisting, and to restore that patient's tolerance to static positioning (i.e., sitting and standing). 

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Getting Well, Staying Well
Once restoration is established, our patients enjoy maintenance care in order to continue optimizing their potentials, and getting the most out of their daily lives. Thus, we are not only working to get you well again, but to keep you well in the future. It may be an old saying, but it still remains true, "an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure" -- and we all know that preventing pain from occurring is a lot easier than stopping that pain once it occurs.

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Back to Basics' added bonus
As an added bonus to our extensive treatment services, is the experience of both Christine Garton & David Murphy (Registered Massage Therapists), who provide relaxation & therapeutic massage to aid in recovery and provide relief from the everyday stresses of life. Add to this the expertise of Doug Brodie, our certified Kinesiologist, who provides Functional Abilities Evaluations, extended intensive exercise rehabilitation, and work hardening, and you begin to see why Back to Basics really is complete Health Care that fits your needs.

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But wait, There's more(!)
Because spinal misalignments are often caused by the way we walk, Back to Basics also has a clinical computerized dynamic gait analysis for objective gait measurements and prescription orthotic therapy, when necessary.

Finally, Back to Basics is also equipped with x-ray services (Radiography) as an extra diagnostic tool to check for the presence of structural and functional aberrations.

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Preventing tomorrow's pain - You are a part of Your Health
The changing needs of our population will require tomorrow's Doctors to not only be able to diagnose conditions, but to be able to effectively prevent conditions from becoming symptomatic.

It is clear that our Health Care system needs to take a new direction and have a new focus -- not only toward preventing future problems, but toward preventing existing problems from becoming recurrent.

With symptomatic (recurrent) conditions however, it is also very important to diagnose the condition -- not just the symptoms. It is in this way that we can functionally restore optimal health to each individual, preventing many future problems from occurring.

The importance of functional treatment relies on actively involving you, the patient, in your care. You and your Doctor become part of a team, with the Doctor serving the role as a coach and teacher. By helping to educate you on how to obtain and then retain optimal health, you then have the ability to take control of your own wellness and prevent preexisting conditions from returning, as well as stopping others from becoming dysfunctional.

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What it all means
What this all comes down to is that Back to Basics' sole focus is about restoring and maintaining overall body health. We can help you obtain good health, but it is also your responsibility to keep it.

We encourage our patients to take an active role in their health, not only so they can get the most from their daily lives, but so they can also prevent other problems from ever occurring.

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Snippets of Reality
If you need further evidence of our theories in practice, you need only learn a little
about Dr. McAllister's personal life. He lives what he teaches, and has even had the
good fortune to be able to help the lives of those closest to him.

"Dr. McAllister's Personal Biography"
"Dr. McAllister's Professional Biography"

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Revised: September 1, 2002