University of Delaware Students: The Neck, the Shoulder, and Exam Week

University of Delaware students rarely search “subluxation.” They search for a chiropractor near campus after a week of library chairs, a club practice, or a shoulder that will not throw. The office that matches that search is Newark, not a Wilmington commute you will abandon when classes stack up.

Suite 302 sits off Routes 4 and 7. From main campus it is a short drive, which matters because a neck plan that requires I-95 will lose to a problem set. Bring a student ID. Tell the desk if this started in a practice, a lift, or a laptop.

Exam week produces a specific neck: chin forward, mid-back rounded, headache at the base of the skull by evening. Club and intramural sports produce the other file: a shoulder, an ankle, a back that flared after a game. Shockwave is not in this building. If a tendon is the driver, that machine is in Smyrna. It is not the default for a stiff neck.

I examine motion before I adjust. A student who cannot rotate to check a blind spot on the way back to campus has a measurable problem, not a posture lecture. Homework is the workstation you actually use — usually a laptop on a dorm desk — not a standing-desk fantasy.

Call (302) 365-5470. If the pain started with a hit, a fall, or numbness into the hand, say that when you book.