Two offices, Piqua and Sidney, serving Miami and Shelby County since 2005

Chiropractic care without the crack.

Freedom Chiropractic is Dr. Robert Phillips, who everyone calls Trapper. He works Activator style, which means the adjustment is delivered by a small instrument with a controlled, repeatable force instead of by twisting and popping. If the reason you have never been to a chiropractor is that the sound of it makes you flinch, this is the version that does not do that. Offices in Piqua and Sidney, open since 2005.

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Care offered

A few different tools, aimed at the same problem.

Most people arrive here with a back, a neck, a shoulder or a headache that has been going on longer than they meant to let it. What actually helps varies. Sometimes it is the adjustment, sometimes it is decompression, sometimes it is muscle work, and often it is a combination over a handful of visits. Everything below is available in house, so you are not being sent across town for the second half of your own care.

Activator Method Adjusting

The Activator is a small handheld instrument that delivers a quick, low force impulse to a specific joint. There is no twisting of the neck, no lying on your side and being turned, and no popping sound. Dr. Phillips is Advanced Proficiency rated in the method. It is gentle enough for people who are nervous about chiropractic, for older patients, and for anyone with osteoporosis or joint replacements who should not be manipulated the traditional way.

Computerized Spinal Decompression

A motorized table that applies a slow, computer controlled stretch along the spine to take pressure off a disc and the nerve root beside it. This is the option for the kind of pain that shoots down a leg or an arm rather than staying put in the back. It is done over a course of sessions, not once, and it is comfortable enough that people routinely fall asleep on the table.

Electric Muscle Stimulation

Small pads deliver a gentle electrical current to a muscle that has gone into spasm and will not let go. It feels like a buzzing or a pulsing rather than anything sharp. Used before an adjustment it relaxes the muscle so the adjustment holds better, and used after it helps calm the area down.

Therapeutic Massage

Cassie Bishop, LMT, is a licensed massage therapist on staff here, a 2004 graduate of the Miami Valley Career Technology Center. Having massage in the same building matters more than it sounds like it should, because soft tissue that stays tight will keep pulling a joint back out of position no matter how well the adjustment went.

Nutritional Support

Professional grade nutritional supplements are available here for patients who want them, with a recommendation based on what you are actually dealing with. Nobody is going to walk you out with a bag of things you did not ask about. Ask if you are curious, and get a straight answer if it is not going to help you.

Posture, Stretching and Home Care

What you do in the other 167 hours of the week decides whether the visit holds. Expect specific stretches, some honest conversation about your chair, your truck seat or how you lift, and a plan you can actually keep. The goal is fewer visits over time, not more.

The practice

Two small offices, one doctor who knows your name.

Freedom Chiropractic has been open since 2005 and was known for years as Backs-R-Us. Dr. Robert Trapper Phillips has been licensed in Ohio since 2007 and holds Advanced Proficiency rating in Activator Methods. The Piqua office is on Covington Avenue and the Sidney office is on West Russell Road, and they are the same practice, so it is the same doctor and the same records whichever one is closer to you.

Two offices, Piqua on Covington Ave and Sidney on W Russell Rd

Disc pressure is what sends pain down a leg

Soft tissue work in the same building as the adjustment

Cassie Bishop, LMT, on staff

Where the nerve leaves the spine is usually the story

A small office, not a conveyor belt

Stretches you will actually do at home

How it works

What a first visit looks like.

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Tell us what hurts, roughly how long it has been going on, and whether the pain stays put or travels down an arm or a leg. That last detail matters more than most people expect. Sidney patients can call (937) 498-0075.

History and examination

A real conversation first, then an exam. What you do for work, how you sleep, whether there was an injury or whether it just crept up. The goal is to find out what is driving it, not just where you can feel it.

A plan you actually agree to

You will hear what is going on in plain language, what care is likely to help, roughly how many visits that means and what it will cost, before anything starts. If chiropractic is not the right answer for what you have got, you will be told that too.

Care, then fewer visits

Adjusting, decompression, muscle stim or massage, whichever combination fits, plus stretches to do at home. The point is to get you out of pain and then out of the office, not to book you forever.

About us

Dr. Robert Trapper Phillips, DC, in practice here since 2005.

Freedom Chiropractic opened in 2005 and spent its early years under the name Backs-R-Us, which a lot of longtime patients around Piqua and Sidney still call it. Dr. Robert A. Phillips, who has gone by Trapper his whole life, has been licensed in Ohio since 2007 and carries an Advanced Proficiency rating in Activator Methods. That is the training behind the practice's own line, chiropractic care without the crack. The Activator instrument delivers a fast, low force, repeatable impulse to one joint, which means no twisting, no rotating the neck and no popping sound, and it means the practice can safely treat people that traditional manipulation is not appropriate for. Alongside the adjusting there is computerized spinal decompression for disc related pain, electric muscle stimulation for spasm, and Cassie Bishop, LMT, on staff for therapeutic massage. There are two offices, Piqua at 1555 Covington Avenue and Sidney at 420 West Russell Road, running as one practice.

⚕Activator Methods adjusting, no twisting and no popping

⚕Computerized spinal decompression for disc pain

⚕Electric muscle stimulation for spasm

⚕Licensed massage therapy on staff

⚕Two offices, Piqua and Sidney, one practice

⚕Straight talk about what care you need and what it costs

Hours

Monday8:30 am to 6:00 pm

Tuesday8:30 am to 6:00 pm

Wednesday8:30 am to 6:00 pm

Thursday8:30 am to 6:00 pm

Friday8:30 am to 6:00 pm

SaturdayClosed

SundayClosed

The hours above are for the Piqua office at 1555 Covington Avenue, Monday through Friday, 8:30 am to 6:00 pm, closed weekends. The Sidney office at 420 West Russell Road keeps its own schedule, so please call (937) 498-0075 before driving over. If you are in pain and not sure which office to try, call (937) 615-1111 and we will get you into whichever one can see you soonest.

Find us

1555 Covington Ave Ste 1A, Piqua, OH 45356

Piqua is at 1555 Covington Avenue, Suite 1A, phone (937) 615-1111. Sidney is at 420 West Russell Road, phone (937) 498-0075. Between the two we cover Piqua, Sidney, Troy, Covington, Bradford, Anna, Botkins, Fort Loramie, Jackson Center and everything in between. The fax for both offices is (937) 615-1110.

(937) 615-1111

Get in touch

Tell us what hurts.

Say what is bothering you, how long it has been going on, and whether the pain stays in one place or travels down an arm or a leg. Mention it if you have had surgery, a fusion, a joint replacement or osteoporosis, because that is exactly the situation the Activator method is well suited to and it changes how care gets planned. We will come back to you with a time at whichever office is closer.