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Your journey
Family chiropractic in Marietta
Root-cause care for parents and children, from a practice willing to tell you where the evidence is strong, where it is thin, and when the answer is your pediatrician rather than us.
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Where you are starting
You want to know why, not just be told to stop worrying
You want to know why something is happening before agreeing to something that makes it quieter. That instinct is sound. It deserves better than dismissal on one side or overclaiming on the other.
Your challenges
Why you are looking for another way
Tap the ones that sound like you and the rest of this page narrows to match. Choose none and you will see everything we treat.
Our solutions
Care for the whole family, at each stage
Pregnancy, infancy, childhood, and the parents holding all of it together — with technique matched to the body in front of us.
Where we will be straight with you about the evidence
Chiropractic care has solid support for musculoskeletal problems — back pain, neck pain, headaches of cervical origin, joint restriction. That is where the research is strongest and where most of what we do sits.
Parents also ask us about colic, reflux, ear infections, bedwetting, attention and sleep. Here is the honest position: some families report real improvement, the plausible mechanism is nervous-system and mechanical rather than antimicrobial or curative, and the evidence base is genuinely thinner than for back pain. We will not tell you an adjustment treats an ear infection. We will tell you what we look at, what typically changes, what would not change, and at what point you should be at your pediatrician instead — sometimes that point is immediately.
Recognize yourself
Sound familiar?
What families most often come in for — with the evidence stated honestly on each page, including where it is thin.
What pediatric care actually is, because the phrase alarms people
An adjustment for an infant is not a smaller version of an adult adjustment. It is roughly the pressure you would use to test the ripeness of a tomato, applied to specific joints, usually with a fingertip. There is no twisting and no popping. Parents who have only seen adult chiropractic on video are almost always surprised by how undramatic it looks.
We also state normal ranges before anything else. A great deal of what worries parents about milestones and posture is inside the normal range, and being told so plainly is a legitimate outcome of a visit.
Family
Check your child's milestones and posture
Age-banded checks from babies to teenagers, with the normal range stated first — and a clear list of the answers that belong with your pediatrician rather than with us.
The medication question, asked properly
A lot of families arrive because they have been taking something daily for longer than anyone intended and would like a different plan. That is a reasonable goal and often an achievable one. It is also not ours to manage unilaterally: never stop a prescription because of something you read on a website, including this one. Anything you have been prescribed comes off with the prescriber, on a plan, if and when it is appropriate.
What we can offer is a genuine mechanical attempt at the cause, so that there is something to taper toward.
What happens next
What the first ninety days look like
Pregnancy, where the mechanics are unusually clear
Pregnancy is one of the areas where the mechanical reasoning needs the least hand-waving. Ligaments soften under relaxin, the center of gravity moves forward, the pelvis changes what it has to do, and back and pelvic pain follow in a large share of pregnancies. Care is adapted throughout — positioning, technique and what we are aiming for all change by trimester.
On breech presentation specifically: the Webster technique addresses pelvic and soft-tissue balance. It is not a procedure that turns a baby, and any practice describing it that way is overstating it. Turning a baby is your obstetrician's or midwife's business.
- Visit one
History, examination, and the honest scope conversation
What is going on, what we think is mechanical, what is not, and what we would want your pediatrician or obstetrician to handle. For children, normal ranges get stated before anything else — sometimes reassurance is the entire finding.
- Weeks one to three
Gentle care, and the first change to watch for
You are told in advance what should change first and roughly when. That matters more here than anywhere: it is how you judge whether this is working rather than taking our word for it.
- Weeks three to eight
The lifestyle half, if you want it
Sleep, stress load, movement, nutrition — the parts that determine whether improvements hold. Entirely optional. Plenty of families take the mechanical care and leave the rest, and that is a legitimate choice.
- Around week eight
Re-test, and an honest recommendation about continuing
Including how often to come once the problem is settled. Ongoing care is a genuine choice, and we will give you our recommendation and the reasoning behind it so you can decide.
Technology we use for this
Technology that guides your care
Computerized Spinal & Nervous System Analysis
Measuring nervous system function, not guessing at it.
Instrument-Assisted Adjusting
A precise, low-force impulse. No twisting.
Digital Posture Analysis
Posture, measured in degrees and millimeters.
Far Infrared Sauna
Heat that penetrates rather than sits on the skin.
Functional Lab Testing
Blood, stool and hormone panels read functionally.
Whole-Body Vibration Therapy
Vibration recruits muscle you cannot recruit on purpose.
Neurofeedback / Brain Training
Training the brain with its own feedback.
Class IV Robotic MLS Laser Therapy
Two wavelengths, and enough power to reach a hip.
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Our doctors on camera
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Plasker Chiropractic is a certified 100 Year Lifestyle provider — useful if you travel, and the reason our standards are not ours alone. Care you begin here can be continued by a provider trained the same way.
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From other families at this practice
These are the absolute best chiropractors there are. They will love you, care for you and your whole family. We are a family of seven and we all visit Dr Plasker and Dr Corey. My children get excited to come here! I am beyond grateful to have found them and to be a part of their chiropractic fam…
I’ve been coming to Dr. Eric for years. He and Dr. Cory are the best of the best! Whether it’s me or both of my daughters they always get us in right away. They truly care about their patients.
I wrote a review 5 years ago and everything I said then, I stand by today. Dr. Corey and Dr. Eric Plasker have completely changed the way I think about aging. Getting older is not an excuse for living with constant aches and pains, it’s often a reflection of how well (or how poorly) we’ve maintained…
Questions patients ask
What parents ask us first
Is chiropractic safe for a baby?
The force used on an infant is roughly what you would use to test whether a tomato is ripe — a fingertip's pressure on a specific joint, with no twisting and no popping. It looks nothing like adult chiropractic. What matters far more than the technique is the screening: if something belongs with your pediatrician first, we will say so and help you get there.
Can an adjustment cure my child's ear infections?
No, and anyone telling you otherwise is overstating it. An infection is an infection and may need medical treatment. What we look at is whether mechanical restriction in the upper neck is affecting drainage and comfort, which is a narrower and more honest claim. Some families report fewer recurrences; the evidence for that is weaker than for back pain, and you deserve to know that before deciding.
Will you tell me to stop my child's medication?
Never. Prescriptions come off with the prescriber, on a plan, if and when that is appropriate. We are not going to conduct that conversation behind your doctor's back, and you should be wary of any practice that does.
Is it safe during pregnancy, and can it turn a breech baby?
Care during pregnancy is common and is adapted by trimester in positioning and technique. On breech: the Webster technique addresses pelvic and soft-tissue balance — it is not a procedure that turns a baby, and describing it that way is overclaiming. Presentation is your obstetrician's or midwife's call.
Do we all have to come in forever?
No. Some families choose periodic wellness care because they value it, and some are better off coming back when something specific happens. Both are legitimate, and at around week eight you will get our honest read on which you are — including when the answer is that you do not need us regularly.
How do I know it is working, when my child cannot explain it?
By agreeing in advance on what should change and roughly when — sleep, feeding, how they hold their head, whether they favor one side. If the thing we said would shift has not shifted by the time we said it would, that is meaningful information and it should change the plan.
Start with an examination and honest answers
A first visit in Marietta where you find out what is mechanical, what is not, and what we would send elsewhere.