Build the Strong Foundation Now

By age 80, about 1 in 6 Americans has had a knee or hip replacement — or both.

Hip surgery costs around forty thousand dollars. Knee surgery costs around thirty thousand dollars. Hundreds of thousands of foot and ankle surgeries happen every year on top of that.

Losing mobility is not just about pain

When you walk less, your heart gets weaker, your muscles shrink, and extra weight builds up. That raises your risk of diabetes, high blood pressure, and even depression. Mobility is the foundation of your whole health — not just your comfort.

Your body works as one chain

Your spine, hips, knees, ankles, and feet work together. When the spine shifts, the hips take extra load, the knees track off-center, and the feet absorb the shock. Over years, that imbalance wears out the joints and leads to the very surgeries those numbers describe.

The joint that hurts is often the one working overtime — not the one that started the problem.

Are you feeling a little imbalance?

Do your shoes wear out unevenly? Does one side feel stiff or sore? Do you favor one leg when you walk? These are early signs your foundation needs attention.

Even after surgery, we can help

Whether you are preventing pain, already struggling, or recovering from surgery, we can still help. After a replacement, the rest of the joint chain needs to work in harmony — and that is exactly what foundational correction supports.

What Foundational Correction Does

Gonstead Chiropractic is one of three pillars in our approach to lasting spinal health, which we call Foundational Correction:

Gonstead Chiropractic

Precise, X-ray-guided correction that addresses the root cause of misalignment, not just the symptom, paired with a nervoscope (or thermograph instrument) to scan the spine and detect uneven heat patterns along the nerve pathways

Foundational Ergonomics

How you sit, sleep, drive, and carry things day to day, and how those small daily habits either protect your spine or slowly wear it down

Foundational Movement

Spine-specific exercises, built from your own imaging, that protect the correction you’ve made and keep it from creeping back.