Are You in Proper Balance?
Our mission at Proper Balance Health & Wellness Center is to better the immediate and life-long health and well-being of our patients via the integration of chiropractic, massage therapy, physiotherapy and nutritional care. We are committed to relieving the everyday pains and stresses of their lives. We strive to accomplish these goals while maintaining the highest ethics, integrity and professional standards possible.
The all natural approach we take to health and wellness helps our patients reduce or eliminate their needs for unnecessary medications and invasive surgeries by allowing their body to repair itself utilizing its own intrinsic healing powers. They are continually amazed by the rapid results they are able to achieve.
Meet The Doctors
Dr. Christina Creevy-Knox: Dr. Creevy-Knox is an Illinois Board Certified Chiropractor. She earned an undergraduate degree in Biology, from the University of Iowa; and her Doctorate in Chiropractic Medicine from National University of Health Sciences. She has been in private practice for over twelve years, and completes over 150 hours each year of advanced professional training including such topics as: spinal biomechanics, exercise therapy, neurology, chronic fatigue syndrome, clinical nutrition and weight loss, injury rehabilitation, migraines, stress reduction, performance enhancement and longevity. She routinely lectures on biomechanical foot disorders, custom orthotic fitting, trigger point therapy, clinical nutrition & digestion, weight loss and preventative medicine.
Dr. Creevy-Knox is certified in computer assisted manipulation (The Pro-Adjuster and The Pulstar); as well as Diversified and Thompson spinal manipulation techniques; physiotherapy; spinal rehabilitation and acupuncture. She specializes in the care of athletic injuries, back and neck pain, headaches, and bio-mechanical foot disorders. Her focus is on identifying and treating the underlying causes of the patient’s condition, through the utilization of state of the art diagnostic equipment. By combining a wealth of information, Dr. Creevy-Knox is able to put together the most successful rehabilitative programs to fit each patient?s specific needs.
Over the past nine years, Dr. Creevy-Knox has become well known for her significantly gentler and more highly accurate chiropractic care. Her extensive expertise has afforded her the opportunity to work with many of Chicago’s elite professional athletes; from the Chicago Cubs to the Woman’s Professional Golf Association. She also volunteers her time and services at the Chicago Marathon, the Chicago Triathlon and the Chicago Ballet Company.
Gentle Adjustments
Chiropractic is about balance. It begins with balancing the body’s structure to ensure optimal performance of the nervous system. Rather than thinking of disease as something that just randomly invades a healthy body, chiropractors think of disease as evolving when all of the components for good health are not present. For a body to be healthy there must be good genetics, good structural balance, good nutrition, biorhythmic integrity and good emotional health. When these base components are not present, it sets the stage for disease.
Traditional Western medicine deals with symptoms. It is a great approach when the symptoms are severe or dangerous. If you get hit by a car, you may want the trauma team to work on you rather than have someone give you calcium to help you bones to heal.
Chronic health problems respond well to holistic care. Gastric reflux, for example can be controlled with a drug—complete with side effects. The holistic practitioner will look at the problem as the digestive system telling you that something is wrong and try to come up with a therapy that addresses the cause of the problem. The holistic care will not have side effects and it will ultimately help more serious problems from developing.
Gait Analysis
To help our patients understand the importance of gait in their treatment programs, we 
use the Gaitscan System, a revolutionary diagnostic tool for assessing the biomechanics of a patient’s lower extremities.
The Gaitscan is the most technologically advanced gait analysis system available and is at the forefront of orthotic therapy and patient education. It employs 4096 sensors and scans each foot both statically (standing) and dynamically (walking), in just a matter of minutes. After scanning, the software instantly creates a virtual cast of the patient?s feet from a combination of the static and dynamic scans. The virtual cast is then used to make the patients custom orthotics. It eliminates operator error and results in far fewer post treatment adjustments. This new technology replaces the older method of manually casting/pressing the patient?s feet into either foam or plaster.
Our mission at Proper Balance Health & Wellness Center is to better the immediate and life-long health and well-being of our patients via the integration of chiropractic, massage therapy, physiotherapy and nutritional care. We are committed to relieving the everyday pains and stresses of their lives. We strive to accomplish these goals while maintaining the highest ethics, integrity and professional standards possible.
