Chiropractic Health Services in Newport, Rhode Island, is a chiropractic clinic that offers state-of-the-art treatments that provide the results you deserve. We pride ourselves on giving you the very best care. Through the years, many patients keep returning to us for care because of the results we provide. Techniques used: decompression, percussor, diversified technique, impulse adjuster, flexion / distraction, radiology. Diversified technique is one of the most frequently used procedures. Diversified procedures consist of high-velocity, low-amplitude (HVLA) thrusts applied specifically to a short lever. These techniques attempt to use the normal biomechanics of the spine and extremities to create motion at a vertebra or extremity joint with the goal of restoring function and structure to the joint. Flexion-distraction is a mechanically assisted form of joint mobilization or distraction. Flexion-distraction has been advanced in the chiropractic profession largely by the work of chiropractor James Cox.