Hometown Chiropractic, PLLC

10/31/2025

Tomorrow, October 31st, marks our final day of operation at 7686 N. State Street. We have appreciated the opportunity to serve at this location and extend our gratitude to Elements Day Spa for leasing space to us. Beginning Monday, November 3rd, we will relocate to 6006 Number Four Rd in Lowville. We look forward to seeing you at our new location!!!

10/28/2025

If you have appointments on 29th and 31st, it will still be at same location. We don’t move to new location until November 3rd…

10/26/2025

Working on your balance is one of the most powerful, underrated acts of self-preservation.

This is not just about avoiding falls but about claiming freedom.
The freedom to step off a curb without fear.
To hike, dance, reach, bend, and live without hesitation.

Because balance is more than a physical skill, it’s a metaphor for life itself.
When you challenge your balance, you teach your body to adapt.
When you wobble, you’re learning resilience.
When you steady yourself, you’re reminding your brain that control still belongs to you.

Too many people trade their confidence for comfort.
They stop moving, stop challenging, stop trusting their own strength.
Then one day, the world shifts beneath their feet and they realize the real danger wasn’t movement, but stillness.

So yes, stand on one leg while you brush your teeth.
Take the uneven path. Feel the floor under you.
Wobble, laugh, regain, repeat.
That’s practice for the beautiful, unpredictable rhythm of being alive.

Train your balance and you train your freedom.
Because balance is about power.
And the moment you stop chasing it, you start losing it.
- Dr. Howard Luks

10/21/2025

Announcement to clarify:
Dr. Doyle will be seeing patients in new office starting November 3rd. If you are scheduled next two weeks, it will still be in current office…

10/17/2025

33 years ago today Dr. Doyle graduated from Chiropractic College…Now she’s working with animals too, hoping to help humans and animals for many more years to come…🎉🎉🎉

10/14/2025

Excited to announce:
Hometown chiropractic will be at new location on November 1st!

09/30/2025

Hometown Chiropractic will be moving…stay tuned!

08/31/2025

Dr. Doyle has completed the animal chiropractic program, successfully graduated, and passed all exams. She is now certified by the International Veterinary Chiropractic Association (IVCA)! Dr. Doyle is qualified to adjust your animals. Additionally, she remains a human chiropractor.

08/13/2025

The reduction of pain and disability from spinal manipulation is well recognized and clinically documented. Gillette suggests that spinal adjustments may initiate both a short-lived phasic response triggered by stimulation of superficial and deep mechanoreceptors, and a longer-lived tonic response triggered by noxious-level stimulation of nociceptive receptors. The phasic response is hypothesized to initiate a local gating effect, but pain inhibition terminates with cessation of therapy. The tonic reponse initiated by noxious levels of mechanical stimulation is more powerful and capable of outlasting the duration of applied therapy.

Adjustments that induce joint cavitation and capsular distraction may be a source of nociceptive stimulation capable of initiating relatively long-lasting pain inhibition. This concept supports the premise that the slight discomfort that may be associated with adjustments is causally associated with a positive therapeutic effect.

The potential for spinal adjustments to act directly on the pain system opens up the possibility that manipulation may have the ability to diminish persistent pain that is neuropathic in origin. Chronic neuropathic pain may result from plastic changes and central sensitization of the nervous system. Central sensitization refers to plastic changes in the nervous system that result from persistent amplification of nociceptive synaptic transmission. This can result in the persistence of pain states even after the offending peripenial pathologic injury and inflammation have resolved.

The short-term burst of proprioceptive and nociceptive input associated with adjustments, much like transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation and acupuncture, have also been theorized to increase the levels of neurochemical pain inhibitors. Both a local release of enkephalins, initiated by stimulation of the neurons of substantia gelatinosa, and a systemic increase in plasma and cerebrospinal fluid endorphin levels, initiated by stimulation of the hypothalamic pituitary axis, have been proposed. Both substances act as endogenous opioid pain inhibitors and may play a role in the analgesic effects of adjustments...

~ Chiropractic Technique (Third Edition)- Principles and Procedures
( Thomas F. Bergmann, David H. Peterson).

08/05/2025

Hello everyone! Many are scheduling online, which is great. However, I’m currently in a different time zone, so can’t approve the appointments until I get back. Good news, I’ll be back in a week!!

07/21/2025