Chiropractic care plus the sleep, food, and daily-load questions that sometimes sit under a stubborn pain problem.
What the phrase means here
Functional medicine at Levitt Chiropractic Center is Dr. Alan Levitt’s whole-person visit. He still examines the spine. He also asks what else is going on when pain will not behave like a simple joint problem. The office describes that as looking at how the body is functioning, not only at the sore spot.
The chemical, nutritional, and structural ideas on the meet the doctor are the frame: nutrition and supplements as a conversation, and adjustments plus soft-tissue work for the structure. This visit does not add a dispensary price list. Supplements, if they are discussed, are recommendations, not a required purchase.
“Root cause” is easy to overread. Here it means we try not to chase a single symptom with a single trick. It does not mean we have found a hidden diagnosis the rest of medicine missed. If the history sounds medical, you keep your physician, and we say so.
The interview
These are the practical parts of the visit, not a protocol in a box.
Musculoskeletal pain can sit next to poor sleep, a limited diet, or a day with no real movement. The visit writes those down. It does not assume they are the cause.
List medicines and supplements another clinician prescribed. This office does not stop them. Functional medicine here is added beside that care, not instead of your physician.
Sleep position, meals you actually eat, and how you load the spine at work. A plan that ignores the week does not get followed.
Adjustments are still available when a joint is not moving. Functional medicine does not retire the structural visit. It adds questions when the history says the pain is not only a joint.
Examples
Back pain that returns every Sunday night may be a joint, and it may also be a chair and a sleep position. The back pain visit owns the mechanical sort. This visit adds the week around it when the mechanical sort is not the whole story.
Headaches are another example already on the site: stress, diet, movement, and manipulation can all be discussed. That is not a migraine program, and a sudden severe headache is an emergency. Neck pain itself is on the neck pain.
Fibromyalgia, as the conditions notes say, has no single known cause and no cure we can offer. A visit can still look for contributors to the pain and for sleep trouble. It should not be sold as the answer to the syndrome. Sciatica and disc disease stay on their own pages; functional questions are extra, not a replacement exam.
Nutrition advice here is ordinary and specific: what you eat, what you skip, and whether a supplement you already bought is doing anything you can notice. We do not publish calorie targets or sell a detox. If you need a dietitian or a medical workup for weight, blood sugar, or gut disease, that referral is part of an honest plan.
Boundaries
It is not anti-medicine. Alternative medicine uses that same line: non-surgical and non-opioid first, not opposed to physicians. Read alternative medicine if you want the drug-free framing. Stay here if you want the habit and nutrition questions spelled out.
It is not a guarantee of lasting results. Older marketing on Some descriptions promise benefits for years or decades. That is a hope, not a finding we can promise. Chronic problems often change slowly, and some do not change with this kind of care.
Bring a photo ID, a medication list, and a rough picture of sleep and meals. The address is 6200 Excelsior Blvd, Suite 201, Saint Louis Park, MN 55416. Call 952-920-7535 or book a new-patient appointment. Dr. Levitt has practiced since 1987 and at this office since 1999.
Afterward
You should leave knowing which part is structural, which part is a habit, and which part needs another clinician. Two changes you can keep are better than a binder. If nothing in the exam or the habits is moving after a fair trial, we stop pretending the next month will be different and we refer.
If sleep is part of the story, write down the hour you get in bed and the hour you give up, for a few nights. Do not produce a perfect diary. A pattern of waking at 3 a.m. with a stiff back is different from a pattern of never getting horizontal before midnight. Those two nights suggest different next steps, and neither one is a supplement.
Food notes can be equally plain. What you ate on the day the pain spiked, and whether you skipped meals, is enough to start. We are not scoring macros. A person who is dizzy because they do not eat before a morning visit does not need a protocol. They need breakfast and a clearer exam. Gut disease, unexplained weight change, and blood in the stool are physician problems we will name as such.
Movement notes belong here too, but the exercises themselves are written with the exercises so this visit does not become a workout sheet. “I sit nine hours and walk to the printer” is a functional finding. The response might be a walking break. It might be a chair change. It might be irrelevant if the exam shows a disc with a true nerve deficit. The wider history loses when it competes with a dangerous finding.
Bring the bottles you already own if you want them looked at. We will not add a stack of new ones to look thorough. If a product is interacting with a prescription, that question goes back to the prescriber. Our role is not to referee the pharmacy.
Bring a short list of questions you actually want answered, not a printout of a forum thread. “Should I change breakfast, or is the back the whole story?” is a usable question. “Can you balance my hormones?” is not a service we advertise, and we will not pretend a spinal visit does that. If the honest answer is a referral to primary care, you should hear it in the first visit rather than after a month of vague advice. Write down what we agreed to try and what we agreed not to touch. That note is the plan.
Questions
Plain answers about what this office does and does not add to chiropractic care.
An adjustment is a contact on a joint. Functional medicine, as this office describes it, looks at the wider picture: sleep, nutrition, habits, and how those sit next to the pain. You can have both in one plan. You do not have to pick a philosophy.
We do not offer a lab menu or a genetic test. The history can run from what you already know about your health to daily habits. If a test would help, that order belongs with the physician who runs it. We will not invent a panel to justify the visit.
No. Functional medicine here is complementary. Do not change a prescription because of a chiropractic visit. Your prescribing clinician stays in charge of those drugs.
We already connect fibromyalgia, sciatica, joint pain, and degenerative disc disease as examples where a wider plan is sometimes useful. Each of those still needs its own exam. Sciatica and disc findings are examined for what they are. This visit does not replace that exam.
No. The office talks about looking for contributors and about habits that can be changed. It does not promise years or decades of relief, and it does not claim to cure a medical disease. If the story sounds like infection, cancer, or a psychiatric crisis, that is not this appointment.
Goes with
The painful condition is explained with that condition. Sleep, food, and daily habits are explained here.
Address
6200 Excelsior Blvd, Suite 201
Saint Louis Park, MN 55416
Phone
952-920-7535Hours
