Chiropractic in Carlisle
Stop working around the pain.
Fix what’s causing it.
Carlisle Spine And Wellness is Dr. Shawn Handeland’s chiropractic practice on 1st Street — thorough exams, specific adjustments, and a written plan so you know exactly what it takes to get better.
About chiropractic care
Find the fault. Correct it. Keep it corrected.
Every joint in your spine is supposed to move through a specific range. When one stops — from a fall, a repetitive job, hours at a desk, or an old injury — the joints around it overwork and the nerves nearby get irritated.
A chiropractic adjustment is a specific, controlled force applied to that exact joint to restore its motion. Do that consistently, back it with the right movement, and the problem stops coming back.
History, movement testing, orthopedic and neurological screening, with X-ray referral when clinically warranted.
Traditional diversified adjusting or quiet low-force instrument work — your call, and it changes nothing about the result.
Visit count, expected timeline and total cost in writing before you commit to anything.
Two or three specific exercises so the correction holds between appointments.
Herniated discs & sciatica
A disc problem doesn’t have to end in surgery
When a disc bulges or herniates, it presses on the nerve behind it — and that pressure is the burning, the numbness, the leg pain you can’t sit through. Non-surgical spinal decompression takes the load off that disc directly, so the disc itself gets a chance to rehydrate and heal.
Sound familiar?
- Pain that shoots from your low back into a buttock, thigh or calf
- Numbness, tingling or pins-and-needles in a leg, foot, arm or hand
- Pain that spikes when you sit, bend forward, cough or sneeze
- A leg or arm that feels weak, heavy or unreliable
- An MRI or X-ray that came back “herniation”, “bulge” or “degenerative disc”
Any of these and a decompression candidacy exam is the right next step. Dr. Shawn Handeland will tell you honestly whether you’re a candidate — and help coordinate a referral if surgery is genuinely the better path for your case.
- 01 Candidacy exam first
Orthopedic and neurological testing — plus a review of any MRI you already have — confirms which disc level is involved and rules out the conditions that make decompression the wrong choice.
- 02 Computer-controlled traction
The table cycles gentle stretch and release at a tension and angle dialled in for your spine, creating negative pressure that draws bulging disc material back toward centre and pulls fluid in.
- 03 Adjustment and rehab, same visit
Every session finishes with a specific adjustment to restore joint motion and targeted core work, so the disc stays unloaded long after your plan ends.
Conditions we treat
Two dozen reasons people walk through our door
We see the full range of spine, joint and nerve complaints for patients from Carlisle and the surrounding communities — from everyday stiffness to complex disc and nerve cases.
Don’t see yours? Describe it on the phone in two minutes. If chiropractic isn’t the right answer for your case, we’ll tell you and point you to who is.
Call (515) 537-1326Inside the clinic
What care actually looks like here
Unhurried appointments in a bright office on 1st Street — with the reasoning explained as we go.
Meet your chiropractor
Dr. Shawn Handeland, DC.
Dr. Shawn Handeland is on a mission to help as many people as possible through natural, non-surgical chiropractic care. A second-generation chiropractor with 13 years of experience running two clinics in Northwest Iowa, he now brings that expertise to Carlisle and the greater Des Moines metro.
He’ll also tell you when chiropractic isn’t the answer — that honesty is exactly why patients keep coming back and sending their families in.
Northwestern Health Sciences University
Rural and metro Iowa communities
Diversified and low-force instrument methods
Newborns through great-grandparents
New patient special
Your whole first visit for $49
A new-patient workup in central Iowa typically runs $150–$250. We hold the line at $49 so cost never keeps you from finding out what’s wrong.
- Consultation With Your Doctor
- Thorough Chiropractic Examination
- Doctors Report of Findings
- X-Rays If Necessary
- First Treatment
- MRI Review
Benefits of chiropractic care
Six things patients notice in the first month
Drug-free relief
We correct the mechanical fault instead of dulling your perception of it — no prescriptions, no side effects.
Range of motion back
Turning your head to reverse, reaching a top shelf, getting through a shift — the movement you’d written off comes back.
Posture that holds
Ten hours in a truck cab or at a monitor pulls your head forward. We correct it and coach the habits that keep it there.
Real sleep
Stop hunting all night for a position that doesn’t ache and you fall asleep — and stay asleep — more easily.
Energy to spare
Managing chronic pain runs constantly in the background. Take it off your plate and the tank refills.
Fewer flare-ups
Occasional maintenance keeps the joint moving so the same problem doesn’t put you flat on your back twice a year.