Charles Tucker Chiropractic
Charles Tucker Chiropractic, called Tucker Chiropractic on its own website, is a chiropractic office at 4041 NW 37th Place, Suite A in Gainesville, Florida. Dr. Charles Tucker graduated from Palmer College of Chiropractic in Iowa in 1979 and has been practicing in Gainesville since 1981. The site says he has provided care to more than 10,000 individual patients and performed more than 100,000 individual treatments. What sets the practice apart is the Activator Method. Rather than manual manipulation, the Activator is a hand held device that delivers a precise high speed, low displacement pulse only to the exact region that needs adjusting, so treatment is pinpointed to the source of pain without the twisting, cracking and popping many people associate with chiropractic care. The office describes the Activator Method as one of the most widely used chiropractic techniques and the only adjusting technique with clinical trials to support its efficacy, and notes it has been in use for over 50 years. The practice describes a multi dimensional team concept that provides a non-surgical approach to pain or injury, with a completely individualized program built from the diagnostics and treatment options available. Its stated goals are to relieve pain while working to correct the cause of the condition and maintain health, with the patient as an active participant. Alongside adjustments, the office offers spinal decompression therapy, a non-surgical and non-invasive treatment that gently stretches the spine to take pressure off the spinal cord, discs and ligaments. The site says this can help patients with sciatica, spinal stenosis, herniated discs, bulging discs, injured spinal nerves and pinched nerves obtain long lasting relief and avoid surgery. Conditions listed across the site include lower back pain, neck pain, migraines and headaches, joint pain, knee pain, shoulder pain, arthritis, carpal tunnel, whiplash, sports injuries, scoliosis, postural issues, TMJ, subluxations, sleep disorders and stress control, plus treatments for infants, kids, pregnant women and seniors. Sports care is a particular focus. Dr. Tucker is a Certified Chiropractic Sports Physician who has worked at athletic events and sites including the University of Florida and the ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex in Orlando, and he was selected to treat athletes at the 1996 Summer Olympic Games in Atlanta, including decathlon gold medalist Dan O'Brien. The site says that with the student athletes at the University of Florida, Santa Fe Community College and the many middle schools and high schools in the region, he continues that sports chiropractic work every day, and that recreational athletes who cycle, run, practice yoga or play on community teams are cared for the same way. Dr. Tucker also holds a certification in Whiplash Trauma from the Spine Research Institute of San Diego, holds a Florida state chiropractic license, and is working toward a nutritional certification through the American Clinical Board of Nutrition. Florida requires a minimum of 20 hours of continuing education credits per year, and his coursework has covered whiplash and spinal trauma, disc injury, physical therapy and rehabilitation, personal injury and workers compensation, and neck and low back injury. Appointments are made by phone at (352) 378-3787.
