Chris Coffman, DC

My dad had a lot of success at getting rid of his chronic headaches by having chiropractic adjustments, so I thought I’d try them out too.
I visited Dr. Coffman’s office for a general exam before starting my adjustments. The exam took about an hour and included an x-​ray of my spine and a scan of my back to highlight areas that were causing pain or pressure. As it turned out, I actually had a mild case of scoliosis that my pediatricians had neglected to notice or diagnosis me with at a younger age. Dr. Coffman insisted that this was causing my upper-​back pain and possibly my migraines, so I signed on for twelve adjustments.
I felt very awkward every time I went to this office for my adjustment appointments. First of all, all of the adjustment beds are in the waiting room so patients just lie down in front of each other to be adjusted. I would have felt much more at ease with the process had there at least been some kind of privacy. Each appointment only took ten minutes and they consisted of the doctor tapping the sides of my neck with a little hand-​held contraption and then twisting my neck until it «popped.» I can’t even stand hearing knuckles crack, I felt nauseous every time I heard the «snap» noise.
After my twelve paid for appointments were up I stopped visiting this chiropractor because I learned that there were other doctors in my area who didn’t use the «popping» technique and who had private rooms. I didn’t get any pain or headache relief from my twelve treatments, either. Dr. Coffman is nice, but not nice enough to warrant feeling uncomfortable.