New Patients

Welcome to Balanced Health Medical of New York City, where you will find a warm, comfortable atmosphere, friendly staff, and treatment designed for you. We are New York City's premier facility for Sports Medicine, Physical Therapy, Massage Therapy, Acupuncture and Chiropractic.

Your First Visit

During your first visit, you will be asked to complete a “New Patient” form and other documents that apply to your situation. These are designed to help us understand more about your condition.

Your initial meeting with your NYC chiropractic physician will begin with a “mutual interview.” We’ll have the opportunity to find out more about your condition and provide information about chiropractic treatment. If you are experiencing neck or back pain, we’ll find out when and how it started and where it is located. We’ll ask you if anything you do in the course of a day makes it feel better or worse. These are just a few of the questions you can expect to be asked.

You’ll be able to find out what you want to know about Balance Health Medical. It’s important that you understand how this type of treatment works so that your can decide whether this is what you are looking for. Knowing how we approach treatment will also help you get the most out of your chiropractic treatments in New York City.

A chiropractic examination will follow your consultation. This typically includes a check on your range of motion and overall flexibility, posture, strength, tone and neurological integrity. Depending on the issue that brought you to Balanced Health, we’ll give attention to various areas, asking you to, for example, move in a specific direction or manner to see how your issue is affecting you.

Diagnostic testing is not always necessary, but in some cases, it is essential to designing and implementing the best treatment plan for you. We may perform x-rays, though this is not always warranted. We may request that you undergo other laboratory testing also or an MRI scan. This will depend on the results of your consultation and examination.

Chiropractic Treatment Plan

At our NYC office, a typical chiropractic treatment follows both short and long-term goals.

Short-term goals may be a hasty reduction in pain, especially if it is acute. For example, if you have intense upper back pain or neck pain, we will focus first on providing a treatment plan that reduces this discomfort as quickly as possible. Restoring function in your joints and muscles may also be short-term goals.

Long-term goals – those that can be achieved over a number of weeks or months – point toward restoring your functional health so that you can go about your daily life doing normal things without limitation.

Frequency of Visits

How frequently and for how many weeks your treatments will extend depends on your condition. If you are struggling with a debilitating issue that has resulted from months or years of spinal misalignment, it may take many weeks of consistent and continued spinal adjustment, massage and/or acupuncture to reach long-term goals. As a point of reference, someone who has experienced an acute episode of low back pain that is not severe and that does not present any complicating factors can see resolution of the issue in two to four weeks with one to three treatments per week.

Health Insurance

Information about insurance coverage and scheduling appointments can be found here, or you can direct any concerns in person.