Home » Why people from Cambridge make the drive to Fairway Chiropractic
Fairway Chiropractic Centre has cared for patients from Cambridge, Kitchener and Waterloo for over 35 years. The clinic is at 5 Manitou Dr in south Kitchener, at the Fairway Road end of the street, the corner of the city closest to Cambridge, and 12 to 20 minutes from most of it depending which end you start from. Patients who make that drive usually do it for one of two reasons: a specific piece of equipment we have, or an assessment that went looking for the cause of the problem instead of the sore spot.
Most people come to us with low back pain, neck pain, sciatica, headaches and migraines, disc problems, sports injuries, or pain that has not settled after a car accident or a work injury. Our chiropractors assess how your whole body moves before recommending care, so the plan fits the problem. Not everyone needs a long program; some patients need a few visits and a home routine.
Cambridge is really three communities, and the drive is different from each one, so here is the honest version rather than a single number.
Two things worth knowing before you plan the drive. Wednesday and Friday are mornings only: we close at 1 pm, so do not set out from Cambridge after lunch on either day. And Tuesday and Thursday run until 8 pm, which makes them the two days you can come after work without taking time off. If you are driving in between about 4 and 6 pm, add ten minutes to any of the times above; Fairway Road South is one of the busier stretches in Kitchener.
New patients from Cambridge are welcome. Call 519-748-5535 or request an appointment online. The first visit starts with an assessment: your chiropractor looks at how your whole body moves, explains what they find, and tells you what it will realistically take to fix, including when the answer is only a few visits. In most cases your treatment starts at that same visit. We are happy to coordinate with your family doctor or physiotherapist.
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I haven’t woken up with a migraine in a month – that’s the first time ľ’ve been able to say that in the past 59 years. The migraines were for many years hormonal but as I got older they evolved into what I felt had a more physical cause. Over the years I’ve tried chiropractic, acupuncture, massage, Botox, and naturopathic remedies. I’ve been prescribed many ‘preventative’ migraine medications, all to no avail. I’ve been hospitalized with tests showing no causation of the migraines and when, many years later, a neurologist told me he could not help me I gave myself up as a lost cause.
Every time I awoke with a migraine I blamed myself in part – too much time vacuuming perhaps or raking or even sitting for too long. The only resource I had was a migraine medication taken with OTC pain killer/muscle relaxants and often in addition antinausea tablets. My days, sometimes as many as 5-6 times weekly, were spent enduring the migraine until the medications kicked in many hours later or, in the following days, feeling the aftereffects of both the migraine and the medications.
Regular chiropractor adjustments, particularly with Dr. Nik, reduced the severity of the migraines so when he suggested Spinal Decompression along with more frequent chiropractic adjustments I was only too willing to try the treatment even though it was costly. I was not apprehensive but instead interested in starting the process which I found relaxing and not at all painful or uncomfortable and I appreciated the reassurance given that I was in the correct positioning. The 30-minute sessions passed quickly, and I appreciated greatly the wonderful care I received. I expected that if the
treatment was successful for me it would be after perhaps half of the 25 sessions, but 1 started feeling better after only a few appointments and improved incrementally with each session.In the past my life was filled with pain and the ensuing procrastination in many aspects of my life and now to wake each day without a migraine is so astounding that it is taking me a while to adjust mentally. I am no longer surviving my days but living a life I thought was impossible due to the constant migraines. I am now able to sit at my laptop and write regular emails to my family members overseas – a task which would always result in a migraine and was, therefore, constantly postponed. I no longer dread going out for the day knowing it would result in a migraine that night. My adult children are so happy to see the difference in me – seeing me live each day fully with optimism. It would have been so easy to discount the suggestion that there was yet another option in my constant search for migraine relief given the cost and the logistics of multiple appointments, but I am so glad that I took a leap of faith and ended up with a lightness of being in body and spirit which I thought was improbable if not impossible.
MBW
