Welcome to the Complete Wellness Center, S.C. where healing begins. I would personally like to thank you for selecting our website. I hope you will find our site informative. Whether you are seeking relief from chronic pain, or the result of an auto accident or other health concern we can help. Chiropractic adjustments help reduce painful nerve pressure and irritation. Our country’s healthcare crisis of prescribing medications to chase symptoms has cost us billions of dollars in unnecessary tests and procedures. The science of chiropractic believes that the body does the healing and our care helps assist in reducing the nerve and vascular pressure that causes that irritation. I strongly believe that chiropractic can help you. By following my recommendations, correction of your health problems will be made in as few well planned appointments as necessary. My mission is to treat each patient on an individual basis. My treatments encompass the emotional , physical and chemical expects of your complaint. I strongly believe in Chiropractic and all of its principals. Chiropractic allows you to detect and correct the root of an individuals problem, by doing this you allow the body to begin to heal itself. My number one goal is to help you achieve and maintain your healthcare goals. Getting you back to 100% is my priority. Taking care of your spine is very important to your entire nervous system without a properly functioning nervous system your body will not be able to work effectively and that’s when illness sets in. Chiropractic care will help maintain that optimal level of wellness that you are looking to obtain or achieve.

What is Chiropractic?

Chiropractic is a branch of the healing arts, which is concerned with human health and disease processes. Doctors of Chiropractic are physicians who consider men/women as an integrated being and give special attention to the physiological and biochemical aspects including structural, spinal, musculoskeletal, neurological, vascular, nutritional, emotional and environmental relationships.

The practice and procedures which may be employed by Doctors of Chiropractic are based on the academic and clinical training received in and through accredited chiropractic colleges and include, but are not limited to, the use of current diagnostic and therapeutic procedures. Such procedures specifically include the adjustment and manipulation of the articulations and adjacent tissues of the human body, particularly of the spinal column. Included is the treatment of intersegmental subluxations for alleviation of related functional disorders.

Chiropractic is a drug-free, non-surgical science and, as such, does not include pharmaceuticals or incisive surgery.

Dr. Geritano uses diversified techniques to deliver gentle chiropractic manipulation. All care is performed to each patients tolerance level. Chiropractic manipulation is virtually painless. When pain does occur it is your body’s natural response to the realignment of the spine. Applying a cold pack over the area for about 20 minutes alleviates any discomfort allowing you to become pain free.

*What is a subluxation? a spinal segment, called a vertebra, shifting out of its proper alignment with the segments above and below, irritating a nerve root, as it exits between each vertebra, reducing the amount of energy to specific cells of the body. This may produce dysfunction, pain and disease. Chiropractic is the detection and elimination of this specific pressure of the nervous system. It is more than just for pain relief.

What is Acupuncture?

Acupuncture is a system of healing which has been practiced in China and other Eastern countries for thousands of years. Although often described as a means of pain relief, it is in fact used to treat people with a wide range of illnesses. Its focus is on improving the overall well being of the patient, rather than the isolated treatment of specific symptoms. According to traditional Chinese philosophy, our health is dependent on the body's motivating energy - known as Qi - moving in a smooth and balanced way through a series of meridians (channels) beneath the skin.

Qi consists of equal and opposite qualities - Yin and Yang - and when these become unbalanced, illness may result. By inserting fine needles into the channels of energy, an acupuncturist can stimulate the bodies’ own healing response and help restore its natural balance. The flow of Qi can be disturbed by a number of factors. These include emotional states such as anxiety, stress, anger, fear or grief, poor nutrition, weather conditions, hereditary factors, infections, poisons and trauma. The principal aim of acupuncture in treating the whole person is to recover the equilibrium between the physical, emotional and spiritual aspects of the individual.

At the Complete Wellness Center, S.C. we make each acupuncture treatment very comfortable . During your treatment we provide warm blankets and soothing music to give you the highest level of relaxation you deserve. We use tube needles which means each needle is surrounded by a plastic tube, upon insertion of the needle the patient only feels the pressure of the tube. All needles are sterilized and prepackaged . They are only used one time and disposed of in a biohazard container.

What is Nutrition?

Today, nutritionists have a wide knowledge of the role of nutrients in health and disease. We know that people need many different nutrients if they are to maintain health and reduce the risk of diet-related diseases. The amount of each nutrient needed is called the nutritional requirement. These vary for different nutrients between individuals.

Each nutrient has a particular function in the body and some nutrients are needed in larger quantities than others. For example protein is needed in gram (g) quantities. Vitamin C is needed in milligram (mg) quantities (1/1000 gram) and vitamin B12 is needed in rnicrogram (pg) quantities (1/1000000 grain). Individual requirements of each nutrient are related to a person's age, sex, level of physical activity and state of health. Also some people absorb or utilize nutrients more efficiently than others and so will have lower than average nutritional requirements.

Dr. Geritano can personalize food plans and has nutritional software that helps treat your specific complaints. The patient is given a through questionnaire to fill out . The questionnaire encompasses specific ailments from all the major organ groups. Your answers are then entered into the software and a report is put together with specific recommendations exclusively for you.