Your Holistic Chiropractor in Charleston, SC
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Your Holistic Chiropractor in Charleston, SC
Meet Dr. Sarah Kalani Wharton, DC
Prevent, Recover, Heal, and Optimize!
Cypress Chiropractic & Wellness is a holistic chiropractic studio on East Bay Street in downtown Charleston, led by Dr. Sarah Kalani Wharton, DC, CACCP, certified yoga teacher, and Reiki Practitioner. We care for people and families, across the peninsula, James Island, West Ashley, North Charleston, Mount Pleasant, Sullivans Island, and Johns Island. We use our objective nervous system scanning technology, posture analysis, as well as our highly sensitive hands to locate areas of spinal, neurological, and energetic dysfunction and remove them with specific chiropractic adjustments. Don’t just manage pain, restore your body’s natural healing potential at Cypress Chiropractic & Wellness. New patients of all ages welcome!
Charleston Chiropractic Services
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First Appointment Expectations
Your first chiropractic appointment at Cypress Chiropractic & Wellness is all about YOU! It’s about understanding how we can best serve you. It’s about finding the root of your current state and gathering as much information from your body to develop a clear plan towards reaching your health goals. Your first session includes a consultation, posture assessment, Insight neurological thermal scan, Heart Rate Variability (HRV), a full-spine exam, and you will receive your first Cypress Chiropractic adjustments!
The first session is the beginning of your health journey! You will leave in more alignment than when you arrived. Congrats! Before you leave, a followup, Report of Findings, appointment will be scheduled to go over the findings from your first session, and a customized care plan to get you feeling great and living in alignment.
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Chiropractic Care
Chiropractic is the science and art that focuses on the relationship between the structure ( the full spine) and function ( the nervous system), as that relationship affects the recovery, restoration and preservation of health. Chiropractic is natural healing for a body that is nature.
The health of your spine is vital to the life that flows through you. The spine not only provides essential structural support for your whole body, but it is also the home of your spinal cord, which is an extension of your brain and part of your central nervous system (CNS).
Cypress Chiropractic looks to the spine as an avenue of recovery from pain and symptoms, injury, disease, dis-ease, disorder, and dysfunction. Our Charleston chiropractors work with the spine as a means of healing, energetic flow, opportunity, opening, and more LIFE!
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Nervous System
Your nervous system is the most important system of your body, your mind, and your life. All other systems, organs, muscles, and cells must clearly communicate with your nervous system which is housed and located in your spinal column. Your ability to live and adapt is dependent on the health and vitality of your nervous system.
At Cypress Chiropractic, the nervous system is at the forefront of our holistic healthcare. Our hands on skills are highly trained to detect nerve stress and irritation, and remove them with specific chiropractic adjustments. We also incorporate an advanced technology that objectively assesses the health and function of your autonomic nervous system consisting of a gentle thermographic scan and a Heart Rate Variability (HRV). These quick and easy scans are non-invasive and can be administered to both adults and children.
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Sports Chiropractic
Athletes depend on their body to compete, function optimally, and quickly recover from the physical stress they put it through. The benefits of holistic chiropractic include strength enhancement and performance, spinal and energetic alignment, improved balance, as well as coordination and proprioception (the brain's awareness of the body in space).
Cypress Chiropractic, a chiropractor in Charleston SC, provides spinal and extremity assessments and adjustments, so if you’re noticing dysfunction outside of the spine, such as with your shoulders, elbows, knees and feet, those areas can be checked and adjusted if necessary too.
Other services include Kinesiotaping, Soft-Tissue Mobilization, and more! Learn more by clicking the link below.
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Cranial Chiropractor
There are 22 bones in the skull, with 8 cranial and 14 facial bones. These bones come together at 86 joints which are meant to subtly move with every single breath. When the cranial structures are restricted and misaligned, it may not be visible to the untrained eye, however it will directly add stress and tension to the brain, body, and inhibit cerebral spinal fluid (CSF) flow. This can sometimes cause migraines, headaches, jaw pain, neck pain, trouble sleeping, a misshaped head, and more!
Cranial chiropractic adjusting techniques gently normalize circulation of blood and CSF by releasing dural stress and torsion through the dural meningeal system. This restores the transport of oxygen, glucose, and other nutrients to the CNS and detoxifies the CNS of metabolic waste, chemicals, and toxic metals creating space to recover and heal.
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Family Chiropractic & Pediatric Care
Families that live a lifestyle of health and wellness are healthy and strong together. Children have a spine and nervous system just like their parents, however children are developing their brain and nervous system at a rapid speed! Every new lesson a child learns creates a new neural brain pathway. Chiropractic ensures those neural pathways are clear.
Cypress Chiropractic is where family wellness meets prevention. Healthy children grow into healthy adults. If you need to schedule an Initial Session for your whole family, please call us at 843-277-4885.
Meet the Team
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Dr. Sarah Kalani Wharton
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Vanessa Crane, LMT
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Alyssa Roe
FAQs
What is the “crackle” sound that you hear when getting adjusted?
The “crackle” sound that you may hear along with a chiropractic adjustment is called a cavitation. A cavitation occurs when the synovial fluid in a joint releases oxygen, nitrogen, and carbon dioxide. A cavitation is not necessary in order for a successful adjustment to take place, and there are many types of adjustments that are not accompanied by a cavitation at all.
Does Cypress Chiropractic & Wellness accept medical insurance?
Cypress Chiropractic & Wellness, a leading chiropractor in Charleston, is not in network with medical insurance companies; however, you do not need insurance to get checked and adjusted. Just like car insurance, medical insurance often only covers costs in a crisis situation. Car insurance does not cover routine maintenance, oil changes, and new tires, and yet if we drive and own a car, we pay for those services, no questions asked. Medical insurance is very similar in that it also does not cover routine maintenance for your body and mind. The biggest difference is that the maintenance of our body directly affects our lives.
The prices on your initial spinal check are posted in the booking site here. Care instruction discounts are available and usually discussed at your second appointment.
Once I start going to a chiropractor, do I have to keep going?
First of all, you only get one spine and nervous system in this lifetime and YOUR LIFE DEPENDS ON THEM! You cannot just go buy a new set, like you can buy a new car. If you want your health to be optimal for a lifetime, you have to take care of your spine for a lifetime, but here are some other questions to consider…
If you want to be healthy and fit, do you have to continue to exercise and eat right?
If you want a happy marriage, do you have to continue to work on your relationship?
If you want to pay off your mortgage, do you just pay it couple times a year or do you keep paying every month for decades?
The same goes for having a fully functioning spine and nervous system. It takes your continuous commitment to maintaining it and keeping it well.
Many people choose to continue to get their spine and neurology checked because they prioritize it.