By Norine Longo
Pennington Family Chiropractic is a family practice in every sense: They work as a family, actually are family and treat families.
Glenn Gabai and his wife Evelyn started the business 30 years ago in a Washington Crossing location and moved to its current location at the Pennington Circle.
Their new location is an old gas station that was converted into professional offices. When the Gabais moved in, they made the building entirely green by adding natural lighting, using radiant heat, installing solar panels and using Styrofoam insulation.
Glenn grew up having severe headaches he thought were normal because of how common headaches are. He would get a couple a month and made the decision to go to a chiropractor.
“It wasn’t something I believed in necessarily,” Glenn said. Glenn said after his visits, he began to feel relief until they disappeared entirely. For him that meant afterwards no one could tell him that chiropractic care didn’t work because it had for him. The Gabais’ son, Aryn, feels similarly, saying he was born into chiropractic care.
“I grew up healthy and knowing what health meant,” he said.
He said he was always in tune with his body and understood his health because of his chiropractic background. It wasn’t until he went to college that he experienced how others handled their sickness, he said. That made him strive to provide others with the opportunity to understand their health and learn to understand their body so that they could have what he did early on.
The family’s practice is based on the concept that health is the most important thing in people’s lives.
Treatments at the practice are noninvasive and do not rely on drugs or surgery, but rather rely on your body itself.
While one treatment can be enough to cure some clients, some require more treatments. Most people’s issues can be treated in four to six weeks, but if they have had the pain longer it may take longer to treat, which is why they encourage people to come in as soon as they feel pain, he said.
Their most popular service is a chiropractic adjustment that works with the spine and nervous system. The most common reason for visits involves, but is not limited to, back pain. “It’s not just about back pain; it’s about being healthy,” Glenn said.
Glenn said adjustments are different for everyone because every person and every spine is different.
The Gabais said some people believe that the cracking or popping sounds you may hear during adjustments are painful or that once your begin going to a chiropractor, you have to go for the rest of your life.
The family quickly denied both. Glenn said the cracking and popping noise you may hear during a treatment is safe and that while treatments will make noise, they don’t hurt.
Aryn said patients do not have to get treatment for life, but many do continue to go even after their pain is gone because they understand the benefits.
The family said that people in the community have been supportive, having participated in Pennington Day and Ewing Community Day and talked face to face with people in the area.
Each month the practice holds free workshops. April 6 and 20 will be Half Hour to Health led by Aryn, April 27 will be a seminar on Insomnia and April 13 will be Posture both taught by Glenn. All workshops are at 6:30 p.m. Registration is requested but not required and can be done by calling the office.
Pennington Family Chiropractic is located at 2554 Pennington Road in Pennington. Insurance is accepted and no appointments are necessary. They take digital X-rays inhouse. They want people to feel welcome to come in and ask questions or call. Consultations are free. For more information, call (609) 737-3737 or visit familychiropractic.com.
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