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Chiropractor Harrisonburg VA

Atwell Family Chiropractic: A Creating Wellness Center has your back – literally! Serving Harrisonburg VA and surrounding areas with personalized, family-friendly care that helps you move better, feel better, and live better! We believe true wellness starts with a healthy spine, and our Harrisonburg VA chiropractors' mission is to support your body’s natural healing through gentle, holistic chiropractic care for the whole family.

Atwell Family Chiropractic: A Creating Wellness Center

At Atwell Family Chiropractic: A Creating Wellness Center, we blend time-tested chiropractic philosophy with the most advanced diagnostic technology and patient care available today. Since opening our doors in Harrisonburg VA in 2001, we quickly grew from our 800 sq. ft. office, with two team members, moving in 2006 into our full-service 3,500 sq. ft. state-of-the-art chiropractic center, with eight team members. We are eager to help take the next step into your chiropractic journey.

After seeing the remarkable results of his own children and family with chiropractic care Dr. Atwell decided to open a family practice providing care for all ages from infants to our aging gracefully practice members. Our office provides holistic, personalized care based on your individual needs, including, but not limited to, neck pain, back pain, headaches, healing from a car accident or sports injury, dealing with tech neck or a recent concussion.

Every care plan is tailored to your unique needs and may include corrective chiropractic adjustments, cold laser therapy, shockwave therapy, intersegmental traction, cox flexion-distraction, or massage therapy. Our goal always remains the same: to change lives through chiropractic care, save lives by preventing unnecessary surgeries or medications, and help every patient unlock their body’s own natural healing potential through a healthy, interference-free nervous system. We enjoy creating lasting relationships with our patients and are proud to lead Harrisonburg and Rockingham County toward a lifestyle rooted in chiropractic principles—focused on natural, whole-body health and lifetime wellness.

Thanks to the incredible support of our community, Atwell Family Chiropractic: A Creating Wellness Center has been honored with numerous recognitions, including Best of the Valley, Best of Virginia, Shenandoah Valley Best, and City’s Best. These awards inspire us to keep raising the bar—because our patients deserve nothing less.

Best Of Virginia 2019 Award
Best Of Virginia 2022 Award
Shenandoah Valley Best 2023 Award
Best Pros In Town Recommends Atwell Family Chiropractic A Creating Wellness Center
2025 City's Best Award Winner

Why Is Our Approach Different?

Atwell Family Chiropractic: A Creating Wellness Center stands out as the ideal choice for your chiropractic care thanks to our deeply caring staff, who are dedicated to making every patient feel comfortable, supported, and truly heard. We combine genuine compassion with state-of-the-art diagnostic tools, ensuring you receive the most accurate assessments and effective care plans available. At the heart of our practice is Dr. Atwell who’s attentive and understanding approach creates a space where patients feel valued and respected. His commitment to listening carefully and addressing individual concerns ensures that your unique health needs are always the top priority. Atwell Family Chiropractic: A Creating Wellness Center provides personalized care for every stage of life, starting with newborns and continuing through childhood, adulthood, and beyond. Dr. Atwell has a specialization in sports performance and sports  injuries as a Certified Sports Medicine Specialist who takes pride in helping athletes perform at their greatest potential. Whether that be from spinal adjustments to remove subluxations, cold laser therapy to help with pain and inflammation, or Shockwave therapy by Softwave to help stimulate stem cell regeneration, repair damaged tissue, reduce inflammation and improve mobility. When you choose Atwell Family Chiropractic: A Creating Wellness Center, you choose expertise, empathy, and a team that genuinely cares about your well-being.

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Dr. Daniel Atwell D.C

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Can Your Health Condition Be Helped With Chiropractic?

We believe that patient education is essential to helping you get the most from your chiropractic care. Our team is committed to ongoing education so we can stay informed on the latest techniques, advanced modalities, and knowledge—ensuring you receive the best support in maintaining a healthy, active life. We take the time to perform thorough exams, and multiple scans on every patient we see. This helps us understand what’s really going on and allows us to create a personalized care plan tailored to your unique needs. We offer more than just spinal alignments; we have cold laser therapy, to help with pain and inflammation, Cox flexion-distraction tables that increase the hydration between disc spaces, intersegmental traction for spinal mobility, Softwave shockwave therapy to decrease inflammation, improve mobility and promote stem cell regeneration, and massage therapy to help reduce tension and stress, increase range of motion, and remove toxins from your body by utilizing multiple massage therapy techniques. So, whatever the reason may be that you find yourself looking for a chiropractor, we are here to help you and your journey to optimal health and wellbeing.

Our Mission

At Atwell Family Chiropractic: A Creating Wellness Center, our mission is to empower every patient to achieve lasting wellness and vitality by addressing the root cause of their health concerns. We are committed to delivering thorough, customized care plans that utilize the latest, most advanced techniques, diagnostic equipment, and therapeutic modalities. Our approach is grounded in a deep understanding of the body’s innate intelligence, the self-healing and self-regulating power within each individual. By correcting underlying dysfunctions and removing barriers to natural healing, we strive to restore optimal function, enhance the quality of life, and inspire transformative change. Our dedicated team partners with you every step of the way, providing compassionate care and innovative solutions, so that your body can realize its full potential for healing and wellness.

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What our Patients Have to Say

Chiropractic Testimonials

"Everyone at Atwell is friendly, caring and professional. They are very helpful and tailor their care to what I need. I always leave feeling so much better than when I arrived! It's a fantastic place!"

Cathy R.

"Dr. Atwell and his staff are very knowledgeable and friendly. I'm always welcomed with a smile! My pain issue has been addressed and continues to improve. So glad I found his office."

Donna M.