Initial Office Visit
On your first visit, please expect to stay 60 minutes or more. Follow up visits usually run 55-60 minutes. If you are visiting from out of town, we may elect to do an extended visit to reduce the number of follow up visits needed.
After completion of our Intake Form, we will proceed to the treatment room and begin our session. Following a brief discussion of your history and any questions I will begin my evaluation followed by the treatment planned for the day. All follow-up appointment(s) will essentially follow the same format of a brief discussion of changes you have noticed, evaluation to determine what our therapy plan for the day will be and of course the therapy.
What to expect on the First Visit.
Evaluation
On your first and follow up visits, I will always begin a session by doing a kinesiological evaluation to determine what our game plan will be for the day. This is a good time to ask questions as well as check in on how your are feeling.
Kinesiological Exam
Following any necessary standard clinical exam protocols (orthopedic, neurological, etc.) I will proceed with kinesiological evaluation which will be comprised of many muscle testing procedures. To learn more about Applied Kinesiology and muscle testing and how it works as a functional neurological evaluation tool click on What is Applied Kinesiology. To learn how Dr. Corwin addresses the Immune System click on Immune System and follow the flow chart below.
Description of Dr. Corwin's Clinical Approach by
Lifetime Development
Dr. Mitchell Corwin
This integrative provider has a unique and effective way of working with the
body, both diagnostically and in terms of treatment. He is a Medicare provider,
licensed as a chiropractor and practices Neural Organization Technique. Dr. Corwin
has helped many of my patients (at least 80 of them) in the dozen years since I was
introduced to him by 3 different patients from all over the Bay Area in the same
week! His approach yields diagnoses and also resetting of the nervous system in
ways that neither neurofeedback nor conventional medicine has been fully able to.
Regrettably, Medicare does not cover well for chiropractic, yet if one has
supplemental insurance, there are more options for reimbursement.
I recognize that you or your family member may have unique health issues
so thought you might wish to learn about Dr. Corwin’s unusual work. I rarely see a
conventional physician myself because Dr. Corwin is able both to tell me how well
various organs and physical systems are working at any given point. His work
lowers physiological and emotional stress that the body often stores and typically
mitigates effects of injury related trauma as he demonstrates both how it
manifests in particular cases and indicate when that trauma has lost its
undermining effects due to a unique way of improving, sometimes correcting,
aberrant neural signaling.
On the practical side Dr. Corwin can check nutrient and hormonal levels
without blood or urine tests and search for and find various microbes* while
discerning whether medications or supplements one may be taking are actually
compatible with a person’s own physiology while revealing hidden toxicities (e.g.,
heavy metals or biochemical contributors).
Dr. Corwin’s rates are reasonable (~$155/hour, Do check with him or his
staff about this however). Office: 510-845-3246.
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*Dr. Corwin diagnosed my own daughter with Lyme disease and a specific, surprising additional infection after 3 years of pain and immensely life sabotaging distressing symptoms, thereby allowing her finally to be correctly treated after a number of the best MDs in the country had been unable identify her illnesses and an effective way to treat them.
Notice of Informed Consent
California Code of Regulations, Title 16, Div. 4, Article 2, Section 319.1 requires your acknowledgement of proposed risks relating to care at this office in the form of an informed consent by signature on intake form.
The procedures used in this office require interactive participation defined as skin surface reflexes, hard and soft tissue manipulation. Soft tissues manipulation sites are on the torso, pelvis, and face. I am active during the treatment, moving quickly from one place on the body to another, and for some individuals sensitive areas may be brushed, touched or pushed or pressured. Kindly be assured that there is no intention ever to violate personal boundaries, yet these vary considerably from one person to another. If ever you feel uncomfortable at any time during a treatment session, please do not hesitate to speak up and ask me to pause so I hear and understand what you need.
Hard tissue manipulation (chiropractic adjustments) may be incorporated infrequently in the form of spinal, cranial and or extremity manipulation. When these manipulation procedures are employed you will be verbally notified. As a general rule, manipulation steps are incorporated to stimulate reflexes within bony and adjacent soft tissue structures that stimulate involved neural pathways. i.e. simply stated act as resetting a circuit breaker.
Soft tissue manipulation steps are a combination of rubbing, stretching, and pinching type activities. Steps that are known to cause brief physical discomfort include stimulation of internal jaw muscles. This step is frequently employed on every visit. A clean finger cot is always used for this procedure. If you have a latex sensitivity please let me know
Signature ____________________________________________ Date: ___________
I have verbally reviewed consent with patient. _____________ Date: ___________
Dr. Mitchell Corwin, D.C It is the goal of this office to provide health care in a cost effective and efficient manner. To accomplish this, we utilize minimal staff and ancillary services. If you miss an appointment or fail to give us appropriate cancellation notice of 48 hours, there may be a fee, typically half the session charge. It is your responsibility to call and reschedule as well as to schedule preventive /follow up visit(s), commonly every 4-6 months.
