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  • 215 NW 18th St #101 Ankeny, IA 50023
HEALTH FOR THE
WHOLE FAMILY
At Family Wellness Chiropractic, we focus on gentle, safe, and effective chiropractic care for your whole family. Let us help you turn your goals into reality.
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Welcome To Family Wellness Chiropractic

Welcome to Family Wellness Chiropractic located in Ankeny IA. Our mission is to be the best chiropractic office in Ankeny IA to adjust, educate, and empower families in our community toward optimal health and wellness. We are a family-based chiropractic care clinic aimed at providing natural healing for you and your children. Dr. Danielle Pierson specializes in pediatric and prenatal chiropractic care. This article is here to help you gain a basic understanding of how our Ankeny IA chiropractors can help you and your family.

6,000+ Happy Patients
417,000+ Adjustments Given
Dr. Danielle Pierson
YOU'RE NOT ALONE - KNOW YOUR OPTIONS
We want our children to have the best start in life. Chiropractic has been shown to significantly help not only to relieve pain and irritation in small children and infants but to help the nervous system flourish and grow.The care you choose to give your child is one of the most important choices you can make as a parent. Contact us today with any questions!
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Health & Vitality Is Within Reach
We start by carefully listening to pinpoint your unique requirements, and then we craft a personalized chiropractic care strategy designed to meet your health goals.

What People Say About Family Wellness Chiropractic

Dr. Good is absolutely amazing. She's attentive, caring and provides adequate time to provide me with top notch care. My quality of life wouldn't be what it is without her! She's so cool, I'd love to be best friends with her!
Ashlie C.
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I started seeing Dr. Danielle about 3 years ago and have been going regularly since. I have never once felt pressured to go, I continue to receive her chiropractic care because I get results.
Mackenzie N.
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Dr Danielle is simply the best! I always feel 100% when I leave. Best of all she actually listens to my concerns and always makes notes and asks if I have the same concerns the next time I see her.
Trishia S.
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Dr. Danielle and Dr. Miranda are seriously the best. I'm super happy with how they've both contributed to getting my back from not hardly being able to bend over to living a normal life again.
Dan O.
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I have been going to Danielle at Family Wellness for almost a year now. She's always so friendly and makes the experience personable. She has taken care of my hip/back pain with adjustments and worked magic when I had a cold to relieve sinus pressure. She continues to make me feel like a new person when I'm done. Highly recommend! :)
Kelsey S.
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I started seeing Dr. Danielle almost 2 years ago to help with pain associated with pregnancy. She has been absolutely amazing to work with!
Heather S.
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OUR EXPERTISE

Why Choose a Chiropractor in Ankeny?

Choosing a Gonstead Chiropractor means opting for natural and holistic approaches to healthcare. By focusing on your body's innate ability to heal itself, chiropractic care in Ankeny empowers you to take charge of your well-being. This personalized care emphasizes treating the root cause of issues rather than just the symptoms, promoting long-term health benefits.

Family Wellness Chiropractic offers a personalized approach to wellness by tailoring treatments to your specific needs. Through individualized care plans, they address your unique concerns, whether it's back pain, neck pain, migraines, or overall wellness goals. This personalized attention ensures that you receive the best possible care to achieve optimal health.

Our Chiropractors use gentle adjustments to restore proper alignment, alleviate pain, and enhance the body's natural healing processes. This approach helps you reach your wellness goals and maintain a healthy, active lifestyle.

Chiropractic Care May Help These Common Symptoms

By addressing the underlying cause of chronic pain, chiropractors help patients
find long-lasting relief and improve quality of life.
Back Pain

Back Pain

Chiropractic care could be a viable solution if you're dealing with persistent or acute back pain.
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Neck Pain

Neck Pain

A thorough understanding of neck pain is crucial for selecting treatments that aid in effective recovery.
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Headaches

Headaches

Chiropractic care has been effectively relieving headaches and migraines with great success.
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Sciatica

Sciatica

This condition triggers pain that starts in the lower back, extends down the back of the leg, and reaches into the foot.
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Disc Injury

Disc Injury

Disc Injury Chiropractic treatments have consistently demonstrated effectiveness in treating disc-related injuries.
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Wellness Care

Wellness

Poor health isn't always manifested through feelings of sickness or pain. Your chiropractor is a great resource.
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Fun Facts

Things you might not know about Chiropractic

Most people do not realize the lengths chiropractors had to go through to succeed in their profession. Hours and hours of constant training and education, which translate to those of a physician, are required to even graduate school. After 4 years of undergraduate medical education, chiropractors must continue on with another 4 years in a chiropractic college. Building and testing their knowledge rigorously, chiropractic school is no joke.

Gentle and precise adjustments are the main works of a chiropractor. These adjustments should realign the spine, resulting in fully functioning muscle tissue and neurological pathways. A correctly aligned spine is the start of a restoration of health and pain relief because there is no blockage in the communication of nerves throughout the body.

If you would like to schedule a new patient visit, feel free to call our office (515) 964-1090
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Discover Gonstead Chiropractic Care

We offer the Gonstead Technique, which is only utilized by a few chiropractors in Ankeny.
This comprehensive, scientific method uses a thorough system of analysis and chiropractic adjustment that is unlike any other technique in existence.

Common Questions About Chiropractic Care

Here you will find answers to some of the most commonly asked questions about chiropractic care in Ankeny.

Chiropractors restore “normal” nerve transmission/function to the body through specific adjustments to the spinal bones. “Abnormal” nerve function (too much/too little) comes from misaligned bones or what chiropractors commonly refer to as “subluxations”.

These “subluxations” can create a state of “dis-ease” in the body…sometimes resulting in certain conditions. Specific adjustments bring the body back to it’s “EASE” state, oftentimes restoring one's state of health.

To determine whether chiropractic will be effective or not, one must consider a few important factors:

  1. Age of patient
  2. To the degree that the condition has progressed
  3. The body’s own innate ability to heal
  4. The chiropractor's ability to correctly analyze and adjust your spine
  5. The time you allow for recovery

 

No. Adjustments are intended to be specific. The specificity is what makes chiropractic unique! Treating everyone the same way with the same twisting of the neck and lower back from right to left and popping everything in between is not at all specific. Anything less than specific is not chiropractic and may do more harm than good to the patient!

Family Wellness Chiropractic uses the Gonstead method of adjusting and analyzing the spine. We're one of a few offices in Ankeny that exclusively uses the Gonstead method. By thoroughly analyzing the spine through the use of x-ray, instrumentation, visualization, static and motion palpation you can expect a properly delivered adjustment.

Yes, chiropractic adjustments are safe…given that they are performed by a skilled and competent chiropractor! Like I tell patients, anyone can make a “popping” or “cracking” noise but very few people can make a proper adjustment. This is an art or skill that takes years to become efficient at. Chiropractic has been around since 1895 with a proven track record of success!

Besides the more common symptoms of neck and back pain, patients may often find relief/support with other symptoms such as:

  • Vertigo/dizziness
  • Headaches/Migraines
  • Menstrual issues
  • Digestive issues/Diarrhea/Constipation
  • Heartburn
  • Asthma
  • Pregnancy
  • Carpal Tunnel

Just to name a few!

Absolutely! During pregnancy, a women’s body goes through some pretty dramatic changes that can create stress along the spine. If the spine was already stressed before pregnancy, chances are it will intensify during the pregnancy. Great care is taken to be sure that both the mother and her baby are safe when performing an adjustment. We utilize special adjusting tables with different modifications to give the most gentle and accurate adjustment up to the time of delivery.

Unfortunately, most people associate a “popping” or “cracking” noise as being on the same level as an adjustment. Certainly, If you rotate your spine hard enough you will likely create a loud noise! However, this in no way constitutes an adjustment and may prove to be more harmful than good!

Adjustments are specific! For instance, the Gonstead technique utilizes a listing system that helps the doctor determine how the misalignment is occurring and the best way to make the correction.

It’s important to adjust the bone in the proper direction in accordance to how the bone is misaligned. It’s of even greater importance that the adjustment reduces and eventually eliminates nerve pressure and restores vital nerve function.

Sciatica often presents itself as pain down one leg or both. Oftentimes, the pain may travel all the way to the foot. Typically, when there is misaligned bone (subluxation) in the spine, this will induce an inflammatory response in the disc that can potentially irritate the spinal nerves…in this case, the nerves that travel down the leg.

With a proper analysis, the doctor can specifically determine how a vertebrae has misaligned and where the nerve pressure is being affected. This information is then used to determine the best approach to restoring proper position and motion of the subluxated vertebrae that may be affecting, in this case, the sciatic nerve.