“Dr. Vlasov has been able to help me in ways no one else has. She has given me hope and I am feeling better than I’ve felt since I was a teenager.”

-Laura T. 

structural corrections

With each patient at my Elmhurst, IL chiropractic office, we start with the basics. If your spinal alignment is out of whack, it's going to cause pain. But this can also lead to many other health problems. 

Let's fix it. 

optimize nutrition

Ever feel like you can barely drag yourself out of bed? A functional medicine doctor can help find the root cause. 

Unfortunately, the typical American diet is built around foods that can cause inflammation and disease.

Fortunately, it's all easily reversible. 
 

emotional factors

 Emotions trigger chemicals in the body. When things are going well, you feel great. 

When you're dealing with stress, and a range of other negative emotions, you can experience unexpected health consequences. 

Let's counteract them.

A Q&A with Dr. V.
Chiropractor: Elmhurst, IL

What do you do? How can it help me?

As a Functional Medicine Doctor and Chiropractor, I seek to help people get to the root cause of any health issue. Most of my patients have spent years working through their issues in a more conventional healthcare model. They come to me after not receiving answers, and I feel for them. Fortunately, through a combination of tools including chiropractic, extensive functional medicine blood work analysis, manual muscle testing (which assesses underlying dysfunctions), as well as thorough history and physical exam, we can get to the root cause of their health issues. We use supplements and herbs, along with customized lifestyle approach, to shift the health picture from sick to healing and thriving. Frequently, many seemingly unrelated health concerns have a common variable which, when addressed, changes the whole health picture. I see women and men who have been to other natural, holistic and functional medicine doctors and have been bounced around for years without many answers. I am grateful to have developed a reputation of being able to help them and get them answers very quickly—providing long-term relief from their symptoms.

Why do I have back pain?

While every case is unique there are several factors that frequently cause back pain. The first significant factor is structural alignment being off, meaning that the joints of your back, neck, knees, feet, hands or jaw are not in the place where they should be. This can cause pain from increased inflammation. Another issue is adrenal fatigue, which I see in the vast majority of my patients. This can be attributed to stress, poor diet, lack of hydration and emotional stressors.

This is how I explain it to patients at my Elmhurst, IL chiropractic and functional medicine office. When the adrenal glands are constantly firing, the body thinks it’s in fight or flight mode. This is alright for a short period of time. When stress is prolonged over the course of weeks, months and years, though, it is detrimental to your health. Under prolonged stress, your vitamin C (which helps with immune support, reduction of inflammation, stress management and ligament rebuilding) is depleted, causing your body to borrow from itself (from its ligaments and joints) to stabilize the adrenal glands. Stress ultimately compromises the integrity of your joints and ligaments, causing inflammation and pain. Other factors that can impact or cause back pain include hormone imbalance, dehydration, emotional stress, etc.

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