The Only Thing That Makes I15 Traffic Neck You Can't Turn. Salt Lake County's Top-rated Clinic for Neck Pain.
Written by Dr. Alec Laracuente, NMD, PhD and Dr. Steven Chalk, DC · Freedom Integrated Medicine, South Jordan, UT · Last updated October 2026
Freedom Integrated Medicine in South Jordan treats neck pain by finding what is physically driving it and treating that structure directly, so relief holds instead of fading. We help patients with chronic neck pain, a pinched nerve firing into the arm, tech neck from desk work, arthritic neck joints, and neck pain after a car accident, using chiropractic care, spinal decompression, cold laser therapy, PRP, and stem cell injections. We are the top-rated and most trusted regenerative medicine clinic in Salt Lake County, with more than 300 five-star Google reviews and thousands of patients helped, and we relieve neck pain without surgery and without medication. New patients begin with our $49 New Patient Special, which includes a one-on-one consultation with a doctor, a full exam, and X-rays to pinpoint the cause. We serve South Jordan, Draper, and the surrounding Salt Lake County area, and our bilingual doctors examine and explain in English and Spanish.
Neck Pain That Will Not Quit Usually Has a Findable Cause
You notice it when you go to check a blind spot and your neck refuses to turn, or when you wake up and the whole side of it has locked overnight. Neck pain that keeps coming back almost always has a specific physical cause that has never been identified and treated, and once we find that cause we can treat it directly, without surgery and without medication. That is the work we do in our South Jordan clinic every day.
Most people who reach us have already tried heat, over-the-counter pills, massage, and often physical therapy or another provider, and the relief never came or wore off within days. What they want back is small and specific. It is turning the head to back the car out of the driveway, or sleeping a full night without waking to a neck that has seized. Whether your pain is a fresh strain, a pinched nerve firing down into the arm, or the deep daily ache that has quietly become normal, there is a clear path to relief, and it starts with knowing why you hurt. Our neck and back pain program is built around finding that answer first.
Matching the Treatment to What Is Driving Your Neck Pain
Good neck pain treatment starts with a real diagnosis, because “your neck hurts” names a symptom and not a cause. The neck is a stack of small joints, cushioning discs, muscles, and nerve roots holding up a head that weighs ten to twelve pounds all day, so the pain can come from a worn disc, joints stiffened by arthritis, muscles strained by looking down, or an old car-accident injury. When the pain shoots past the shoulder into the arm or hand, the cause is usually a nerve. The American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons explains that a herniated disc or a bone spur pressing on a nerve root in the neck sends pain traveling down the arm. Think of a foot on a garden hose, where the squeeze is at the neck but the trouble shows up downstream.
Once we know the source, we treat it with the tool that matches it. For neck joints that have stiffened and lost their glide, precise chiropractic adjustments for the neck restore the motion they have given up. When a disc is crowding a nerve root, gentle spinal decompression eases the pressure off that nerve so it can calm and heal, which is the real answer for a pinched nerve in the neck rather than one more round of pills. A meta-analysis of randomized trials found that adding traction to therapy reduced the pain of cervical radiculopathy, the same principle our decompression works on. For irritated, inflamed tissue, cold laser therapy supports healing at the cellular level, and a Lancet review of sixteen randomized trials found that low-level laser therapy relieved neck pain right after treatment and for up to twenty-two weeks afterward. When the disc or joint tissue itself is worn, PRP injections for the neck, which concentrate your own healing platelets, and stem cell therapy work at the level of the tissue rather than the symptom.
I (Dr. Chalk) built this clinic partly because of my own bulged disc in my twenties, when I was told to rest and just live with it. That answer never sat right, and it is why we find the structure at fault instead of writing a prescription. Medication and repeat cortisone quiet the signal while the worn disc keeps doing what it was doing, so treating the structure itself is what finally gives people a result that lasts.
The Necks We Help Most, and the Ones We Send Elsewhere
The patient we help most often with chronic neck pain is between fifty and eighty, has managed the pain for a year or longer, and has usually been told the choices are more medication, injections that fade, or eventually surgery. Some arrive with a recent flare that will not quit, others with a nerve firing down into the arm, and many months after a car accident left the neck aching and never quite right. What they share is a neck problem with a physical cause we can find and address, which describes most of the neck pain we see.
We are equally honest about the limits, because that honesty is what makes the rest of this page worth believing. If your neck pain comes with progressive weakness or numbness in the arms or hands, loss of bladder or bowel control, signs of infection, or serious recent trauma, that needs urgent medical evaluation first, and a few structural problems genuinely belong with a surgeon. When our exam finds we are not the right fit, we tell you plainly and point you toward the care you need. Far more often, the exam turns up a cause we treat well, and you leave with a real answer.
From Your First Call to Your First Treatment
Uncertainty is its own kind of stress when your neck already hurts, so here is exactly what happens once you pick up the phone.
When you call
Our friendly front desk staff answer your questions and get you booked, usually within a few days, so you are not burning energy you do not have on phone tag.
Your $49 first visit
That first visit is the $49 New Patient Special, which includes a one-on-one consultation with a doctor, a full exam, and X-rays. We listen to the whole history of your neck pain, examine how it moves and where the motion is blocked, and use the imaging to study the discs, joints, and alignment, hunting for the specific structure generating your pain.
Your report of findings
At your next visit we walk you through what we found in plain language and lay out a plan built around the actual cause of your pain. We only recommend treatment we believe will help you, and when we do not think we can, we say so honestly. You will know the full plan and the investment before you decide anything.
Treatment and the first signs of progress
The treatments are comfortable. Adjustments and decompression are gentle, cold laser therapy feels like mild warmth, and the injections are quick in-office procedures with no anesthesia and nothing to recover from. In our experience many neck pain patients notice a change within the first few weeks, often as small wins that stack up, like turning the head farther before it catches. Everyone heals at their own pace, so we track how your neck responds and adjust as it improves.
What Makes Freedom Integrated Medicine Different for Neck Pain
Most clinics that treat necks own one tool and fit every patient to it, whether that tool is an adjustment, an injection, or a referral to a surgeon. We built Freedom Integrated Medicine as one of the few clinics in Utah that practices integrative and regenerative medicine together in a single building, with chiropractic care, spinal decompression, cold laser therapy, PRP, and stem cell injections all in one place. That matters for necks, because a neck problem usually runs in layers. The stiff joint needs one thing, the crowded nerve another, and worn disc tissue a third.
Everything we do aims at the structure driving the pain, so the point is getting you back to driving and sleeping without an operation and without a standing prescription. I (Dr. Alec) spent my residency in pain management before regenerative medicine looked the way it does now, and watching patients cycle through medications that only muffled the problem is why I moved toward treatments that address the tissue itself.
We are the top-rated and most trusted regenerative medicine clinic in Salt Lake County, with more than 300 five-star Google reviews and thousands of patients helped since we opened in 2020, and our work has been featured in the Salt Lake Tribune, the Deseret News, and on Telemundo. Because Dr. Alec and Dr. Chalk both examine and explain in English and Spanish, a Spanish-speaking patient hears the findings and the plan straight from the doctor, and we keep información en español sobre el dolor de cuello y espalda ready.
What Our Neck Pain Patients Say
We could describe what neck pain relief looks like here, and our patients describe it better.
What Neck Pain Costs You When You Leave It Alone
It helps to look honestly at what the other road costs, because doing nothing is rarely free. Living with chronic neck pain usually means more years of the same ache, a medication list that quietly grows, cortisone that wears off, and often the neck surgery you have been trying to avoid, a genuinely expensive path that never arrives as one clean bill. Set against that, finding out precisely why your neck hurts is the small, certain step that ends the guessing.
That is the purpose of the $49 New Patient Special. For less than the cost of many copays, you get a one-on-one consultation with a doctor, a full exam, and X-rays, so we identify the real cause before you spend a dollar on treatment. Because every neck and every body is different, the specific plan and its investment are set after that exam and explained fully at your report of findings, before you commit to anything. The honest question underneath is whether it is worth it, and the answer lives in what patients get back, which is the freedom to turn their head, sleep through the night, and return to the life the pain had been running.
Common Neck Pain Questions, Answered
What can I do about neck pain that will not go away?
The first real move is finding out what is physically causing it, because neck pain that keeps returning almost always has a specific source that has never been identified. That source is usually a crowded nerve, a worn disc, or arthritic joints, and our $49 New Patient Special includes the exam and X-rays to pinpoint which one so treatment can target it.
Why does my neck hurt, and what causes chronic neck pain?
Most chronic neck pain comes from age-related wear on the discs and joints, often worsened by hours of looking down, though it can also stem from a pinched nerve, muscle strain, arthritis, or an old car-accident injury. When the pain travels into the shoulder or arm, a nerve root is usually being compressed, and a sudden pain that lingers for weeks typically means a strain or nerve irritation has turned chronic.
How do I fix tech neck from sitting at a desk all day?
Tech neck is corrected by relieving the forward-head posture that strains the cervical spine and treating the joint and nerve irritation it has caused. At-home posture fixes help mild cases, but a neck that keeps hurting through the workday needs the underlying mechanical problem addressed.
Will the treatment hurt, and is there any downtime?
No, our neck treatments are gentle and there is nothing to recover from afterward. Adjustments and spinal decompression are comfortable, cold laser therapy feels like mild warmth, and the injections are quick office procedures done without anesthesia. Most people drive themselves home afterward.
How long until I feel relief from chronic neck pain?
Many neck pain patients start noticing a difference within the first few weeks, with progress that builds as the tissue heals. The timeline depends on how long the problem has been present, so a recent strain often responds faster than years of disc wear.
How does neck surgery compare to treating it here?
Neck surgery removes or fuses the problem structure and carries real recovery time and risk, while our approach relieves the same nerve and restores the same joint without an operation and keeps your own anatomy intact. Surgery is right for a small number of necks, and we tell you plainly when yours is one of them. For the far larger group we see, decompression, adjustments, cold laser, and regenerative injections address the cause first.
Why should I choose Freedom Integrated Medicine for my neck pain?
Freedom Integrated Medicine is the top-rated and most trusted regenerative medicine clinic in Salt Lake County, serving South Jordan and Draper, with more than 300 five-star Google reviews and thousands of patients helped out of chronic neck pain. Our licensed doctors have treated necks since 2020 with an integrative and regenerative model that keeps chiropractic care, spinal decompression, cold laser therapy, and injections in one clinic, so your neck is matched to the right treatment rather than the only one on hand. Every plan relieves the cause without surgery and without medication, and our bilingual doctors explain all of it in English or Spanish.
How do I get started with neck pain treatment near South Jordan?
Call our South Jordan clinic and book the $49 New Patient Special, which includes a consultation with a doctor, a full exam, and X-rays. That first visit tells us exactly what is causing your neck pain so we can build the plan around the real source. Reach our friendly front desk staff at (801) 571-1338 or schedule online.
Visit Our South Jordan Clinic
Our clinic sits in Daybreak in South Jordan, and patients drive in easily from Draper, Riverton, Herriman, Sandy, West Jordan, and across Salt Lake County. If your neck has been running your life, the next step is finding out exactly why, and the $49 New Patient Special is where that starts. It is the first move toward turning your head freely, sleeping through the night, and getting back to the life your neck pain has kept just out of reach.
Freedom Integrated Medicine
4775 W. Daybreak Parkway, STE 102, South Jordan, UT 84009
Phone: (801) 571-1338
Hours:
Monday to Wednesday: 9:30 AM to 6:00 PM
Thursday: 11:00 AM to 6:00 PM
Friday: 9:30 AM to 12:30 PM
Meet The Doctors
About Your Neck Pain Relief Doctors
Dr. Steven Chalk, DC
Dr. Steven Chalk, DC founded Freedom Integrated Medicine after a bulged disc in his own twenties showed him what it feels like to be told to just live with it. He holds a Bachelor's in Exercise Science from BYU and a Doctorate in Chiropractic from Parker University, has performed more than 75,000 adjustments, and is the author of "The Future of Healing," a book on neuropathy and degenerative knee conditions. Dr. Chalk treats patients in English and Spanish.
Dr. Alec Laracuente, NMD, PhD
Dr. Alec Laracuente, NMD, PhD is a licensed Naturopathic Medical Doctor with a PhD in Integrative Medicine and a Doctorate in Naturopathic Medicine from the University of Turabo, Puerto Rico. He completed a Family Practice and Pain Management Residency at the Institute of Pain Care of the Caribbean and leads our regenerative medicine program for spinal conditions, knee pain, and neuropathy. He treats patients in English and Spanish.
Dr. Dustin Creer, DC
Dr. Dustin Creer, DC earned his Doctorate of Chiropractic and Master's of Sports Medicine from the University of Western States in Portland, Oregon, after an undergraduate degree in Sports and Exercise Science from Utah Valley University. He has trained across multiple chiropractic disciplines and worked with athletes at every level, from youth and amateur to professional and Olympic, and he favors holistic, gentle techniques tailored to each patient. Over his career he has performed well over 100,000 adjustments.