New Era Chiropractic: A Good Adjustment for Patients and Their Pets

New Era Chiropractic opened its doors in 2008, after married couple, Drs. Dave and Brook Sharp each graduated from Palmer College of Chiropractic in Davenport, Iowa. Their downtown Saline office offers standard and specialized Chiropractic care and therapeutic massage.

In addition to the wide range of adjusting techniques offered in their practice, Dr. Dave, as he is affectionately called by his patients, is also trained in veterinary chiropractic. 

“I’ve always had a way with animals,” Sharp said. “They just seem to chill out around me.” 

Chilling out isn’t all Sharp can get them to do. Adjustments on animals can have broad effects, from making a moody cat less so, to making a race horse run faster. Sharp spends some of his time working with therapeutic and rodeo horses.

“It (veterinary chiropractic) gave me a way to connect my history in rodeo with my skills as a chiropractor,” Sharp said, who grew up around the rodeo and wrestled steers for many years.  “It’s where my parents met."

For all other patients, New Era prides itself on its uses of different techniques for each individual person they adjust. These include diversified, Gonstead, Thompson, activator, toggle, and Atlas Orthogonal.  The latter is a technique in which only the top two vertebrae are adjusted to correct the entire spine. After an x-ray analysis, a special table is used to make the adjustment using sound impulse. It is so precise, according to Sharp, it can adjust within a half of a millimeter of the target. New Era is one of only four clinics in Michigan that performs the technique.  

Therepeutic Massage is also offered at New Er. There are two two certified massage therapists on staff, with each possessing  their own specialtie.Specialties include pregnancy and postpartum massage and geriatric massage.

New Era is open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday and Wednesday through Friday, from 3 to 7 p.m. Tuesday, and from 8 a.m. until noon on Saturday.

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