It depends on your goals.  We offer relief care or corrective care.  Relief care is that care necessary to get rid of your symptoms or pain, but it doesn’t address the lifestyle patterns of destruction you may have that could be making your condition worse.  If your goal is corrective care then understand that just as you would not expect to see results going to the gym one time only the same applies to Chiropractic often times.  The hands-on nature of the chiropractic treatment is essentially what requires patients to visit the chiropractor a number of times. To be treated by a chiropractor, a patient needs to be in our office. In contrast, a course of treatment from medical doctors often involves a pre-established plan that is to be carried out at home (i.e. taking a course of antibiotics once a day for a couple of weeks).  Your doctor of chiropractic will usually tell you in advance how many visits is appropriate for your condition.