Chiropractic & Injury Care Services in Raleigh

Applied Kinesiology

Applied Kinesiology uses muscle testing to detect body imbalances across structural, chemical, and emotional systems. Discover integrative chiropractic care in Raleigh.

Listen to What Your Body Is Telling You

Applied Kinesiology (AK) is a hands-on diagnostic technique that uses gentle muscle testing to reveal how your body’s systems communicate. Dr. Rick assesses muscular response to identify dysfunctions that may not show up on imaging—guiding targeted chiropractic, nutritional, and soft-tissue treatments.

Whole-Body Insight for True Healing

AK helps uncover how physical, chemical, and emotional factors work together—allowing care that goes beyond symptom management to address the root cause of dysfunction rather than masking it.

What to Expect in Your Session

Your evaluation combines posture and movement screening with manual muscle testing across major muscle groups. The findings shape a personalized plan that may blend chiropractic adjustments, soft-tissue work, and nutritional guidance—so every recommendation is tailored to how your body actually responds.

Comprehensive Examinations & Evaluations

Discover the root cause of pain with comprehensive chiropractic examinations in Raleigh. The Falls Method™ identifies postural and neurological imbalances for lasting results.

Your Healing Journey Begins with Understanding

Healing starts with insight. Our comprehensive examinations and evaluations look beyond symptoms to assess posture, mobility, muscle strength, and neurological function. Using The Falls Method™, Dr. Rick identifies how your structure and nervous system interact—pinpointing the true source of imbalance or pain.

A Complete Picture of Your Health

Each evaluation gathers your health history, lifestyle factors, and current symptoms alongside hands-on orthopedic and neurological testing. When clinically appropriate, on-site imaging adds objective detail—giving you a clear, documented understanding of what is happening and why.

Ongoing Assessments for Measurable Progress

From new patient visits to re-evaluations, each exam refines your care plan and ensures steady, measurable improvement toward your health goals so you always know where you stand.

Electrical Muscle Stimulation (E-Stim)

Support muscle recovery and reduce pain with therapeutic electrical muscle stimulation—a gentle, drug-free way to calm spasms and speed healing.

Relax Tight Muscles and Improve Circulation

E-stim uses gentle electrical pulses to calm muscle spasms, improve blood flow, and reduce inflammation. It is a powerful tool for easing acute pain, supporting injury recovery, and preparing tissues for chiropractic adjustments.

Enhances the Effectiveness of Your Care

By relaxing tight muscles before or after an adjustment, electrical stimulation helps your body hold alignment longer and heal more efficiently—making each visit more effective.

Comfortable and Customizable

Treatment is painless and adjusted to your comfort level, with most patients describing a light tingling or pulsing sensation. Sessions are easily combined with other therapies as part of a complete, personalized recovery plan.

Manual & Soft-Tissue Therapies

Relieve tension and restore flexibility with manual therapy, myofascial release, and electrical stimulation—customized to your chiropractic care plan.

Releasing Tension for True Relief

Muscle tightness and fascia restrictions can limit mobility and cause recurring pain. Our manual and soft-tissue therapies relieve tension, improve circulation, and support faster recovery. Techniques include myofascial release, electrical muscle stimulation, heat therapy, and traction—all designed to complement chiropractic adjustments for long-term relief.

Why It Matters

Releasing soft tissue helps your body hold its adjustments longer, improving flexibility and reducing inflammation naturally—so results last well beyond the treatment room.

Tailored to Your Body’s Needs

Every session is adapted to your injury, activity level, and goals. Whether you’re recovering from trauma, managing chronic tightness, or training hard, soft-tissue work helps your muscles and joints move the way they were meant to.

Nutritional Assessment

Support your healing from the inside out with a personalized nutritional evaluation designed to reduce inflammation and fuel recovery.

Identify Hidden Sources of Inflammation

Dr. Rick reviews your diet, supplements, lifestyle habits, and metabolic patterns to identify nutritional gaps or inflammatory triggers that may be contributing to pain, fatigue, or delayed recovery.

Tailored Recommendations for Whole-Body Health

You’ll receive practical, sustainable guidance—not restrictive diets—to help reduce inflammation, boost energy, and support your long-term wellness and functional health.

Healing That Works With Your Care Plan

Good nutrition gives your body the building blocks it needs to repair tissue and hold adjustments longer. We align your nutritional plan with your chiropractic care so every part of your recovery works together.

Webster Technique

The Webster Technique helps support healthier pregnancies and more natural births by establishing optimal pelvic alignment through gentle, specific chiropractic care.

A Specialized Approach for Pregnant Moms

The Webster Technique is a specific assessment and adjustment used to enhance the neuro-biomechanics of the pelvis. Developed by ICPA founder Dr. Larry Webster, it is designed to help pregnant moms achieve a more naturally aligned and balanced pelvis. Though it is often described as a breech-turning technique, its purpose is to restore pelvic function and create the best environment for baby to optimize positioning naturally.

Realigning Pelvic Balance

With the growing number of interventions during pregnancy and birth, more women are seeking natural childbirth options. The Webster Technique aims to realign pelvic balance through a chiropractic adjustment, removing tension in the pelvic muscles and ligaments. This restoration of normal biomechanics allows babies a greater chance of moving into the correct or best position for birth, helping avert the worry associated with breech and posterior presentations. Optimal positioning also reduces the potential chance of dystocia, or difficult labor, supporting easier and safer deliveries.

The Importance of Regular Chiropractic Care During Pregnancy

Chiropractic care during pregnancy can help ensure pelvic balance and gives babies the best chance to move into the correct position for birth. Complications can often be prevented when women are under regular chiropractic care. Dr. Stacy Gray has a special interest in serving pregnant moms and has achieved certification in the Webster Technique and the CACCP designation from the Academy of Chiropractic Family Practice. Her 200 hours of postgraduate specialized training in caring for pregnant women and board certification in pregnancy, pediatrics, and the Webster technique provide the clinical expertise and competence needed for exceptional prenatal care.

Trusted by Raleigh Birth Care Providers

Many birth care providers in the Raleigh community refer their patients to our practice. Dr. Gray chooses to use the Webster Technique because of its success in facilitating more comfortable pregnancies and easier, safer deliveries. She has seen firsthand how much more relaxed pregnant moms feel and how much more at ease they are throughout their pregnancies.

Pediatric Chiropractic

Dr. Stacy Gray provides gentle, specialized chiropractic care for infants, toddlers, and children—supporting healthy development and natural solutions to common childhood concerns.

Why Do Children Need Chiropractic Care?

Parents often ask what brings children into our office. The answer is simple: many common childhood issues may be linked to nervous system interference from spinal or cranial misalignment. These include poor latching and breastfeeding challenges, colic, reflux, ear infections, constipation, toeing in or out when walking, asthma, bedwetting, growing pains, sports injuries, scoliosis, and headaches. Chiropractic does not treat these conditions directly, but a gentle adjustment to a specific area of the spine or cranial bones can help restore function. For example, ear infections are often associated with misalignment of the atlas vertebra, which can affect how the ear canal drains. Correcting that alignment allows fluid to drain properly and function to return.

How Do Children or Infants Get Misaligned?

The first subluxation often occurs during birth or even in utero. Forceps, vacuum extraction, umbilical cord wrapping, and even natural birth can over-stretch or twist the neck and spine. As children grow, simple milestones like learning to sit, crawl, stand, and walk—and minor traumas like falls or bumps—can lead to misalignment. Postural signs such as a high shoulder, protruding shoulder blade, elevated hip, or head tilt may indicate that the spine is not growing straight. Regular chiropractic checkups help ensure that a child’s spine and nervous system develop normally through every stage of growth.

A Family Care Chiropractor

At Falls Chiropractic and Injury, we recognize that the body has an inborn ability to be healthy when the nervous system is free from interference. Dr. Stacy Gray is a family wellness chiropractor with extensive training in detecting and correcting misalignments in infants, toddlers, children, and teens. She became board certified in pregnancy and pediatrics in 2008 after completing 180 hours of postgraduate education, and she has helped many Raleigh families enjoy wellness care.

Benefits Parents Often Report

A properly functioning nervous system gives children the opportunity to live life fully. Many parents in our practice report that their children experience fewer colds and allergies, improved posture, better sleep patterns, improved study habits, and greater overall contentment after beginning wellness care. We take pride in being Raleigh’s choice for natural, family-centered chiropractic care.