Our Services in Rome, GA

From family chiropractic and massage therapy to equine and canine adjustments, Douglas Family & Animal Chiropractic offers a full range of drug-free, hands-on care for every member of your family — two-legged and four.

Chiropractic Services in Rome, GA | Douglas Family & Animal Chiropractic

Chiropractic Services

Chiropractic Adjustment

The foundation of everything we do. A chiropractic adjustment restores proper movement to spinal joints that have locked up due to injury, stress, or repetitive strain. When your spine moves the way it should, pressure lifts off nerves, muscles stop guarding, and your body's ability to heal itself improves — without drugs or surgery.

Back Pain Treatment

Most back pain has a structural cause that medications simply mask. Dr. Douglas identifies the specific joints, discs, or muscles responsible for your pain and builds a care plan around correcting it. Whether you're dealing with a sudden injury or years of chronic low back pain, we treat the source — not just the symptom.

Neck Pain Relief

Neck pain from desk work, old injuries, or accumulated tension rarely resolves on its own. Targeted adjustments restore normal cervical movement, reduce nerve irritation, and release the deep muscle tension that keeps pulling you back into pain. Most patients notice meaningful improvement within their first few visits.

Sciatica Treatment

That deep, burning pain down your leg isn't a leg problem — it's a nerve problem. Sciatica develops when nerve roots in the lower spine are compressed or irritated, often by a disc or misaligned vertebra. Chiropractic adjustments take the pressure off the nerve directly, relieving the shooting pain, numbness, and tingling without injections or surgery.

Headache & Migraine Relief

A significant portion of recurring headaches and migraines trace back to tension and dysfunction in the cervical spine. If you're managing headaches with over-the-counter medication and never getting ahead of them, chiropractic care may address what's actually driving them. We focus on the neck structures that trigger the pain cycle — not just the pain itself.

Whiplash Treatment

Whiplash injuries are easy to underestimate in the days following an accident — symptoms often worsen before they improve. Early chiropractic care helps restore cervical range of motion, reduce scar tissue formation, and address the soft tissue damage before it becomes a chronic problem. We also provide documentation if you're navigating an insurance claim.

Herniated Disc Treatment

A herniated or bulging disc pressing on a nerve can cause severe, disabling pain in the back, neck, arms, or legs. Chiropractic care offers a proven non-surgical approach to reducing that nerve pressure — through specific adjustments, traction, and soft tissue work designed to take the load off the affected disc and surrounding structures.

Auto Accident Chiropractor

Injuries from car accidents in Rome and Floyd County often don't show up on standard imaging — but they're real, and they worsen without proper care. Dr. Douglas provides thorough injury evaluation, precise documentation for insurance purposes, and a structured treatment plan to get you recovering as quickly as possible after a collision.

Sports Injury Chiropractor

Whether you play recreationally or compete seriously, sprains, strains, and overuse injuries respond well to chiropractic care. We address the mechanical breakdown behind the injury — not just the inflammation — so you recover faster, return to training stronger, and reduce the risk of the same injury recurring down the road.

Pinched Nerve Treatment

A pinched nerve in the spine can produce pain, weakness, or strange sensations far from the actual site of compression. Precise chiropractic adjustments target the vertebral levels creating that pressure, allowing the nerve to recover and symptoms to resolve — often without the need for imaging, injections, or medication.

Shockwave Therapy

Shockwave therapy delivers focused acoustic energy into damaged tissue to restart the body's natural healing process. It's particularly effective for chronic conditions where scar tissue and calcification have built up over time. If you've tried everything else for a stubborn tendon or soft tissue problem, shockwave therapy often succeeds where other treatments have fallen short.

Plantar Fasciitis Treatment

That stabbing heel pain when you take your first steps in the morning is a reliable sign of plantar fasciitis — and it tends to get worse the longer it goes untreated. Shockwave therapy breaks up the calcified tissue at the root of chronic heel pain, stimulating real healing rather than just managing symptoms. No surgery, no injections, no extended downtime.

Tennis Elbow Treatment

Tennis elbow is driven by accumulated scar tissue and inflammation in the tendons of the lateral elbow — and it doesn't care whether you've ever held a racket. Shockwave therapy targets that tissue directly, breaking down the adhesions that prevent normal healing and restoring pain-free function to an elbow that has been limiting you for months.

Achilles Tendonitis Treatment

Chronic Achilles pain is notoriously resistant to rest and stretching alone. When the tendon has been repeatedly stressed without full recovery, the tissue degrades in ways that conservative home care can't reverse. Our shockwave and soft tissue protocols stimulate the cellular repair process in the tendon itself — rebuilding strength and reducing pain from the inside out.

Family Chiropractor

Pediatric Chiropractor

Children's spines experience real stress — from birth through adolescence — and early chiropractic care supports healthy neurological and structural development. Dr. Douglas uses gentle, age-appropriate techniques designed specifically for young patients. Whether your child has postural concerns, recurring discomfort, or you're simply taking a proactive approach to their health, pediatric chiropractic is a safe, effective starting point.

Pregnancy Chiropractor

As your body changes through pregnancy, the pelvis, low back, and sacroiliac joints absorb enormous amounts of additional strain. Chiropractic adjustments during pregnancy — including the Webster Technique for pelvic alignment — relieve that structural pressure safely at every stage. Many patients find significant relief from pelvic pain, low back discomfort, and round ligament tension that their OB has few tools to address.

Animal Chiropractor

IVCA Certified Animal Chiropractor

Certification through the International Veterinary Chiropractic Association requires hundreds of hours of advanced training beyond a chiropractic or veterinary degree. Dr. Douglas holds that credential — one of very few practitioners in Northwest Georgia who can say so. When you're trusting someone with your animal's spine, that distinction matters.

Horse Chiropractor

Horses carry and perform under significant physical demand, and spinal restrictions that go unaddressed affect everything from gait to behavior to long-term soundness. Dr. Douglas evaluates the whole horse — from poll to tail — and delivers targeted adjustments that restore proper movement and help your horse feel and perform at their best throughout Floyd County and Northwest Georgia.

Mobile Horse Chiropractor

Hauling a horse that's already uncomfortable adds stress to an already stressed animal. Dr. Douglas comes to your barn — serving Rome, Floyd County, and the surrounding Northwest Georgia region. Your horse stays in a familiar environment, and you avoid the time and cost of trailering. Call to discuss your location and schedule a visit.

Performance Horse Chiropractor

Competition horses need more than crisis care. Consistent chiropractic maintenance keeps the spine supple, catches restrictions before they become injuries, and supports faster recovery between events. Whether you're running barrels, jumping, or showing, regular adjustments from Dr. Douglas give your horse every mechanical advantage heading into the next competition.

Dog Chiropractor

Dogs — especially active breeds, working dogs, and aging dogs — develop spinal restrictions that affect mobility, comfort, and quality of life. Chiropractic care for dogs is gentle, non-invasive, and often produces visible improvement in movement and energy within a few sessions. If your dog is stiff, reluctant to jump, or moving differently than they used to, an evaluation is a good next step.

Dog IVDD Treatment

Intervertebral disc disease in dogs can range from mild stiffness to serious neurological impairment, and many owners are looking for conservative options before committing to surgery. Chiropractic care for dogs with IVDD focuses on reducing nerve pressure, supporting the surrounding musculature, and giving the disc the best environment to heal — in close coordination with your veterinarian's care plan.

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Massage Therapist

Massage Therapy

Amy Massie, our licensed Neuromuscular Massage Therapist, brings clinical precision and genuine care to every session. Massage at our practice is designed to complement your chiropractic care — relaxing the muscles that surround restricted joints, helping your body hold adjustments longer, and addressing the chronic tension patterns that keep pulling you back into discomfort.

Deep Tissue Massage

Deep tissue work goes beyond surface-level relaxation to target the adhesions and chronic tension that have built up in the deeper layers of muscle and connective tissue. It's particularly effective for patients with long-standing postural problems, repetitive strain patterns, or areas of muscle that have been guarding due to injury. Firm, deliberate pressure — applied with clinical intent.

Sports Massage

Athletes at every level benefit from massage that's timed and structured around training demands. Pre-event work prepares muscles for peak output; post-event work accelerates recovery, flushes metabolic waste, and identifies areas of tightness before they develop into injuries. Whether you're competing or just training hard, sports massage keeps your body in the conversation.

Prenatal Massage

Pregnancy puts real structural demands on the body, and massage provides meaningful relief for the back pain, hip tightness, swelling, and postural strain that accumulate through each trimester. Amy's prenatal sessions are tailored to your stage of pregnancy and delivered with appropriate positioning and pressure — offering comfort and support when your body needs it most.

Relaxation Massage

Not every session needs a clinical objective. Sometimes the most productive thing you can do for your body is give your nervous system a genuine opportunity to downregulate. A full-body relaxation massage eases muscular tension, slows the stress response, and restores a sense of balance that's hard to find any other way. Available as a standalone session or paired with chiropractic care.

Neuromuscular Massage

Neuromuscular massage therapy is Amy's specialty — a clinically focused technique that targets the specific nerve compression points and trigger points driving chronic pain patterns. Where general massage provides broad relief, neuromuscular work is precise: identifying the exact sites of dysfunction and applying the pressure and technique needed to interrupt the pain cycle at its source.

Hot Stone Massage

Heated basalt stones applied to key areas of the body allow muscle tissue to release at a depth that hands alone often can't reach. The warmth increases circulation, accelerates the relaxation response, and makes subsequent manual work more effective. Hot stone massage is a particularly good choice for patients with chronic tightness, cold sensitivity, or high stress levels.

Trigger Point Massage

Trigger points — tight, hyper-irritable knots within muscle tissue — are responsible for a surprising amount of chronic pain, including referred pain that shows up far from the actual knot. Sustained, focused pressure on these points interrupts the contraction cycle, releases the tissue, and often provides immediate relief from pain patterns that have persisted for months or years.

Wellness Center

Wellness Chiropractic

Pain relief is the beginning, not the end goal. Wellness chiropractic care is for Rome, GA patients who want to stay ahead of dysfunction — maintaining the spinal health they've worked to restore and preventing the slow accumulation of stress that leads back to pain. Regular maintenance visits keep your nervous system functioning at its best and catch problems before they become setbacks.

Corrective Chiropractic Care

Symptom relief and structural correction are not the same thing. Corrective care goes deeper — using a structured, progressive plan to address the underlying spinal misalignments causing your pain, poor posture, or recurring dysfunction. Dr. Douglas maps out measurable milestones so you know exactly what you're working toward and can see your progress along the way.

Posture Correction

Poor posture is rarely a habit problem — it's usually a structural one. Forward head posture, rounded shoulders, and uneven hips develop over years of compensation and don't correct themselves with reminders to sit up straight. We identify the specific patterns driving your posture, address the underlying spinal and muscular causes, and give you the exercises and awareness to reinforce the change.

Rehabilitation Exercises

Adjustments restore proper movement; rehabilitation exercises train your body to maintain it. Dr. Douglas builds customized therapeutic exercise programs designed to strengthen the muscles supporting your spine, restore stability to areas that have been injured or deconditioned, and reduce your vulnerability to re-injury — giving you tools to take your recovery beyond the treatment room.

Spinal Traction Therapy

Spinal traction gently separates the vertebrae to relieve compression on discs and nerve roots — providing relief for disc herniations, degenerative disc disease, and nerve-related pain that adjustment alone may not fully resolve. The decompression created by traction gives damaged tissue the space it needs to heal and reduces the inflammatory pressure that drives chronic spine pain.

Leg Compression Therapy

Pneumatic compression therapy applies controlled, sequential pressure to the lower legs to drive circulation, reduce swelling, and accelerate recovery. It's particularly valuable for patients managing poor venous return, post-activity soreness, chronic lower leg heaviness, or recovery from foot and ankle conditions. Sessions are passive, comfortable, and pair well with other treatments in your care plan.

BrainTap Sessions

BrainTap uses precisely calibrated light and sound frequencies delivered through a headset to guide your brain into states of deep relaxation, focus, or restorative sleep — on demand. For patients whose chronic pain, stress load, or sleep disruption has created a neurological pattern that chiropractic alone doesn't fully address, BrainTap provides a powerful complement to physical care.

Stress Relief Therapy

Chronic stress keeps the nervous system in a state of sustained activation that accelerates physical breakdown, disrupts sleep, and makes pain harder to manage. Our stress relief protocols combine chiropractic adjustments — which directly influence the autonomic nervous system — with BrainTap sessions designed to bring the body out of fight-or-flight and back into a state where healing can actually occur.

Sleep Improvement Therapy

Poor sleep and chronic pain reinforce each other in a cycle that's hard to break from either end alone. Our sleep improvement approach addresses both sides — using BrainTap to retrain the brain's sleep architecture and chiropractic care to remove the physical discomfort and nervous system interference that interrupt restful sleep. Patients often report meaningful improvement in sleep quality within the first few weeks.

Peak Performance Brain Training

BrainTap isn't only for recovery — it's a legitimate tool for cognitive performance. Athletes, professionals, and anyone operating under high mental demand use BrainTap sessions to sharpen focus, improve reaction time, reduce mental fatigue, and enter high-performance states more consistently. If your mind is part of your competitive edge, this is worth exploring.

Questions about which service is right for you? Call our Rome, GA office — we'll help you find the right starting point.

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Holistic Medicine Practitioner

Cold Laser Therapy

Cold laser therapy delivers low-level light energy into damaged tissue at the cellular level, stimulating the mitochondria to accelerate repair and reduce inflammation — without heat, without discomfort, and without any recovery time. It's a valuable tool for patients dealing with chronic pain, nerve damage, or soft tissue injuries that haven't responded adequately to other conservative care.

Low-Level Laser Therapy (LLLT)

FDA-cleared photobiomodulation therapy works at the cellular level to reduce inflammation, accelerate tissue repair, and interrupt chronic pain signaling — all without drugs, needles, or downtime. LLLT is particularly effective for conditions involving chronic inflammation, nerve damage, or slow-healing soft tissue where conventional treatments have reached their ceiling.

Neuropathy Treatment

Peripheral neuropathy — burning, tingling, numbness, or weakness in the hands and feet — is often dismissed as something patients simply have to live with. Our drug-free approach combines cold laser therapy to support nerve repair at the cellular level with advanced chiropractic protocols that address the spinal factors contributing to nerve dysfunction. Many patients in Rome, GA experience meaningful relief after being told there was nothing more to do.

Frozen Shoulder Treatment

Frozen shoulder — adhesive capsulitis — is one of the more painful and limiting conditions we treat, and it responds poorly to rest alone. Our approach combines shockwave therapy to break up the adhesions restricting the capsule with chiropractic work to address the compensatory patterns that develop throughout the shoulder, neck, and upper back. Restoring range of motion is the goal, and most patients see meaningful progress without surgery.

Rotator Cuff Treatment

Rotator cuff injuries range from mild strains to significant tears, and many respond well to conservative care before surgery becomes necessary. We use a combination of chiropractic, soft tissue therapy, and targeted rehabilitation to reduce shoulder pain, restore the mechanics of the joint, and rebuild the strength that protects the cuff from re-injury — giving you every conservative option before more invasive decisions are made.

Golfer's Elbow Treatment

Golfer's elbow affects the medial tendon of the elbow through repetitive gripping, pulling, or overhead loading — and it's just as common in construction workers, mechanics, and gym-goers as it is in golfers. Shockwave therapy targets the degenerated tendon tissue directly, stimulating the healing response that chronic overuse has suppressed and restoring pain-free function to a joint that's been limiting your daily life.

Heel Spur Treatment

Heel spurs develop when chronic plantar fascia tension pulls on the calcaneus over time, creating a calcium deposit that becomes its own source of pain. Non-surgical shockwave therapy addresses both the spur and the underlying tissue dysfunction — breaking down the calcification, stimulating vascular repair, and reducing the inflammation that makes every step painful. No injections, no surgery, no extended time off your feet.

Brain Fog Treatment

Brain fog — difficulty concentrating, slow thinking, mental fatigue — is increasingly common and rarely has a simple explanation. Our approach combines BrainTap sessions to retrain neurological patterns with chiropractic care that addresses the nervous system interference and sleep disruption often underlying cognitive cloudiness. Patients frequently report clearer thinking and more consistent mental energy as their overall care plan progresses.

Light & Sound Therapy

BrainTap's light and sound therapy uses precisely tuned frequencies delivered through specialized headsets to guide the brain into targeted neurological states — whether that's deep relaxation, focused clarity, or restorative sleep preparation. It's a non-invasive, drug-free tool for patients whose stress, anxiety, or cognitive fatigue hasn't responded to other approaches.

Brain Entrainment Therapy

Brain entrainment uses audio-visual stimulation to guide brainwave activity toward specific frequency ranges associated with relaxation, focus, or recovery. For patients caught in chronic stress or pain cycles, entrainment provides a repeatable, evidence-supported way to shift neurological state — complementing the physical work of chiropractic care and helping the body maintain the progress made in treatment.

Ready to Feel Better in Rome, GA?

Whether you're managing chronic pain, supporting your family's wellness, or keeping your horse or dog moving comfortably — Dr. Shelli Douglas and the team at Douglas Family & Animal Chiropractic are here to help.

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