By CRISTINA JANNEY
Hays Post
STOCKTON — Dr. Shelbe Darnell of Plainville has purchased the former The Chiropractic Centers in Phillipsburg and Stockton.
Darnell, a Plainville native, already owned Restoration Health and Chiropractic in Plainville. She remodeled the family's garage to offer an office there.
This purchase is expanding her services under the Restoration Health name to the other two communities.
The Chiropractic Centers in Phillipsburg and Stockton were owned for many years by Drs. Dustin and Susan Cheney. They sold it to another chiropractor who sold the locations to Darnell.
Darnell, who has been a chiropractor since 2018, is spreading her time between the three locations.
She is in Phillipsburg, 875 Third, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays.
She is in Stockton, 504 Main, 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Mondays and Fridays, 3 to 6 p.m. Tuesdays, and 7 a.m. to 9 a.m. Thursdays.
She is available by appointment in Plainville, 805 S. Main, on Wednesdays.
Darnell said the clinics offer care close to home for many of her clients. She said she has patients in Phillipsburg who were driving as far as Kearney, Neb., for care. Some Plainville patients had been driving to Hays, and Stockton patients driving to Osborne.
Darnell performs regular chiropractic adjustments, but she also works muscles to relieve pain and increase time between adjustments.
"What I do that sets me apart from other chiropractors is I do a full exam and determine where exactly the pain is coming from," she said. "The majority of the time, I find that is muscle-related, so muscle tightness or hyper-mobility issues. Adhesions build up in the muscles. I do a lot of muscle work."
She uses sustained pressure to work the muscles out, she said. She usually spends 20 minutes with a patient, and most of that is doing the muscle work.
"Whenever I have a patient walk in the door, and they say, 'I hurt when I do this.' It's raising your arm. Before you walk out the door, I make sure raising your arm is easier to do. ... I make sure you have some type of relief before you leave," she said.
Darnell is just starting to draw labs, which are processed by Quest Diagnostics. She earned 300 hours credit outside of her chiropractic studies in functional medicine.
She also does a little bit of nutritional counseling and sells supplements through an online dispensary.
She doesn't perform Kansas Department of Transportation physicals, but she is hoping to offer those soon.
She also hopes to add a massage therapist to the practices in Stockton and perhaps Phillipsburg.
The clinics will bill Blue Cross Blue Shield and Medicare. She offers detailed bills so patients with other insurance can submit the bills to insurance themselves for reimbursement.
You can call 785-261-1132 to make appointments at any of the three clinics.
You can also follow the clinics on Facebook and Instagram.