Chiropractic care for Marietta
Plasker Chiropractic is in Marietta — 147 Johnson Ferry Road, Suite 4230, Marietta, GA 30068.
Getting here from Marietta
Most Marietta patients reach us via Johnson Ferry Road, Roswell Road and Cobb Parkway. We are in the heart of Marietta, with free surface parking directly outside the suite.
We see patients from throughout the area, including Marietta Square, Whitlock Avenue and Fair Oaks.
What we most often treat for Marietta patients
Every town produces its own pattern of complaints, and Marietta is no exception. Locally that tends to mean office workers commuting down I-75 who sit for 40 minutes each way, Life University students and staff, who know more about spinal care than most patients and families near the Square walking on brick and uneven sidewalk. None of that is unique to Marietta in kind — but the mix is, and it shapes what walks through the door.
Near Marietta Square and Kennestone Hospital, the most common reasons people call us are low back pain, neck pain and headaches that have stopped responding to rest and over-the-counter medication. What we do first is the same regardless of where you drive in from: a proper examination, and a straight answer about whether we can help.
What Marietta patients come in for
Each of these has its own page explaining the mechanism and how it is treated.
Lower Back Pain
The most common reason people stop doing things.
Chronic Back Pain
Pain that has outlasted the injury that started it.
Mid-Back & Rib Pain
Often a rib joint, rarely the muscle you are rubbing.
Upper Back & Shoulder Blade Pain
The ache between the shoulder blades that a desk built.
Low Back Stiffness & Generalized Tightness
Stiff for the first hour of every day.
Scoliosis
A curve is measured and monitored, not guessed at.
Degenerative Disc Disease
Discs lose height and fluid for years before they hurt.
Spinal Stenosis
The nerve has run out of room to pass through.
Facet Joint Syndrome
Small joints that hurt most when you lean back.
How we treat it
What you receive depends on what the examination shows, not on where you drove in from.
Corrective Chiropractic Care
Restoring movement to joints that stopped moving.
Structural Correction & Posture Rehabilitation
Changing the structure, not just easing the symptom.
Non-Surgical Spinal Decompression
For discs, not for backs in general.
Disc & Nerve Care Program
One irritated nerve root, treated at its source.
Extremity Adjusting
Shoulders, knees, ankles and wrists are joints too.
Chiropractic Neurology / Functional Neurology
When the problem is how the brain reads the body.
Your first visit, from Marietta
Plan on about 45 minutes. We take a history, examine you, and where it is clinically justified we take digital X-rays on site — so you are not sent elsewhere and back. You leave the first visit knowing what is wrong, whether chiropractic is the right tool for it, and roughly how long it should take. If the examination points to something outside chiropractic care, we say so and help you get to the right kind of doctor.
Bring your insurance card and a list of any medication. If your problem started with a car accident, bring the claim number too — auto-accident care is billed differently and it saves a phone call later.
Is the drive from Marietta worth it?
For a single ache that clears up on its own, most people do not need a plan at all. What makes a drive worth making is the other case: a problem that keeps coming back, where the examination finds the actual mechanism and the plan has a re-test date on it rather than running indefinitely. That is the difference you are driving for, and it is not something you can judge by distance. Being in Marietta simply makes it easier.
Questions from Marietta patients
Yes — we are at 147 Johnson Ferry Road, Suite 4230, Marietta, GA 30068, with free parking directly outside the suite.
Around 5 minutes outside peak hours, longer if you are traveling through Roswell Road at rush hour. Morning appointments before 9am and mid-afternoon slots are the easiest drives.
No. There is free surface parking directly outside the suite — no deck, no ticket, no validation. This matters more than it sounds when your back is the reason you are coming in.
Low back pain, neck pain and headaches lead the list everywhere. Locally we see a lot tied to office workers commuting down I-75 who sit for 40 minutes each way.
Book an examination from Marietta
147 Johnson Ferry Road, Suite 4230, Marietta, GA 30068 · (770) 509‑9938