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Welcome to
The Chiropractic Center

Your Journey to Spinal Wellness

New Year Special!
$75 New Patient Exam + Adjustment
$45 Returning Patients

Our Approach

Total Body Wellness

Chiropractic care is rooted in a simple but powerful truth:
the body is designed to function, heal, and adapt from within.

Developed in 1895, chiropractic has grown into the largest natural, drug-free healthcare system in the world — and for good reason. Millions of people continue to experience meaningful improvements in their health, performance, and energy when their bodies are supported the way they were designed to function.

So where does real health come from?

From within.

Your body was built with an incredible capacity to heal, regulate, and thrive naturally. You were born with that potential. For it to fully express itself, however, the systems that coordinate and communicate throughout the body must be working efficiently — especially the nervous system.


The Nervous System: Communication Is Everything

Your nervous system functions as the body’s primary communication and coordination network.

It relays information between the brain and the rest of the body — influencing movement, posture, balance, reflexes, recovery, and internal regulation down to the cellular level.

When this communication is clear and efficient, the body adapts well.
When it becomes stressed, distorted, or inefficient, the body compensates.

Over time, those compensations can show up as tension, stiffness, fatigue, reduced performance, or pain — often long before symptoms feel serious or persistent.



The Spine & Subluxation

The spine plays a central role in supporting the nervous system.

It protects the spinal cord, allows information to travel between the brain and body, and serves as an attachment point for hundreds of muscles that control movement, posture, and stability.

In chiropractic, a subluxation refers to a functional spinal misalignment or movement alteration — not necessarily something visible on imaging — that can disrupt normal motion and interfere with how efficiently the nervous system communicates.

Subluxations can develop from everyday life, including:
   •    Childhood falls and sports injuries
   •    Car accidents and physical trauma
   •    Desk work and prolonged sitting
   •    Poor posture and repetitive strain
   •    Physical, emotional, and chemical stress

Over time, these stresses can create subtle but meaningful changes in spinal motion and nervous system signaling. The result is compensation — the body working harder to achieve the same outcome — which can lead to imbalance, dysfunction, and a cascade of secondary issues long before pain ever becomes the main complaint.


How Chiropractic Helps

Chiropractic care focuses on locating and correcting subluxations by restoring healthier spinal motion and reducing stress on the nervous system.

By improving the quality of communication between the brain and body, chiropractic helps the body coordinate, adapt, and recover more efficiently — allowing its natural healing potential to express itself more fully.

This approach isn’t about masking symptoms.
It’s about addressing underlying stress and interference in the system that creates health.


More Than Pain Relief

Many people first seek chiropractic care because of back pain, neck pain, headaches, stiffness, or fatigue.

What they often discover is that chiropractic care goes far beyond pain relief.

Patients frequently report:
   •    More energy
   •    Deeper, more restorative sleep
   •    Improved focus and mental clarity
   •    Better digestion
   •    A calmer response to stress
   •    Easier, more natural movement

Their bodies begin adapting differently.
They move differently.
They feel more connected — and more alive.


Care for Every Stage of Life

We care for individuals and families of all ages and stages of life — because everyone deserves a nervous system and spine that function as well as possible.

When communication within the body is supported, potential is unlocked.

That’s when people stop merely getting through life and start thriving in it.  

The Chiropractic Center

Dr Joshua Jay Knowles, DC

Dr Jake Quihuis, DC

Visit our office: 

​845 Fourth Street

Santa Rosa, CA 95404

Contact us:

(707) 231-7076 (Dr Joshua)

(707) 523-9850 (Dr Jake)

chirocentersr@gmail.com

© 2025 by Joshua Knowles

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