Palm Desert, CA

(760) 401-0341

Yucca Valley, CA

(760) 365-0881

Serving the Morongo Basin Since 1987: Yucca Valley, Joshua Tree, 29 Palms, Morongo Valley, Flamingo Ht.s, Landers, and Wonder Valley

For an appointment Call: (760) 365-0881

Testimonials

We value our patients' experience at Yucca Valley Family Chiropractic. If you are currently a chiropractic patient, please feel free to complete the following Client Experience Questionnaire. The Questionnaire is in Adobe Acrobat format, and requires the free Acrobat Reader to view.

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Dr. Nelson Goff
Your Yucca Valley Chiropractor


Sarah H.

How long have you been a patient of Family Chiropractic?

3 months.

Are you seen by the Dr in a reasonable amount of time?

Mostly.

Was the staff knowledgeable, friendly and professional?

Yes.

Are you satisfied with the quality of service?

Yes.

Was Dr. Goff able to answer your questions and sufficiently explain your diagnosis and plan of care?

Yes. He explains everything that I ask very well.

How would you describe the results you had with chiropractic care at Family Chiropractic?

I feel like I have more energy and my body doesn't hurt as frequently. Two days ago I felt like the sky looked bluier and brighter. Could this be because of Chiropractic? I think so.

How would you describe the office's atmosphere?

I like it. It is a nice atmosphere. It's got a homey feel.

What do you like most about your experience with Family Chiropractic?

I enjoy the videos and learning about chiropractic.

Would you recommend Family Chiropractic to your friends and family?

Yes, definitely!


Dan K.

How long have you been a patient of Family Chiropractic?

21 years.

Are you seen by the Dr in a reasonable amount of time?

Always.

Was the staff knowledgeable, friendly and professional?

Always.

Are you satisfied with the quality of service?

Always.

Was Dr. Goff able to answer your questions and sufficiently explain your diagnosis and plan of care?

Always.

How would you describe the results you had with chiropractic care at Family Chiropractic?

Great. I have been coming in every week for 21 years.

How would you describe the office's atmosphere?

Inviting, welcoming and comfortable.

What do you like most about your experience with Family Chiropractic?

Feeling better (and being Nelson's friend).

Would you recommend Family Chiropractic to your friends and family?

Always.


Jackie P.

How long have you been a patient of Family Chiropractic?

10 years.

Are you seen by the Dr in a reasonable amount of time?

Yes.

Was the staff knowledgeable, friendly and professional?

Yes. Caring and kind understanding people.

Are you satisfied with the quality of service?

Yes.

Was Dr. Goff able to answer your questions and sufficiently explain your diagnosis and plan of care?

Yes. He takes the time to explain things when it is necessary.

How would you describe the results you had with chiropractic care at Family Chiropractic?

Improvement in pain control and mobility.

How would you describe the office's atmosphere?

Warm, friendly, family feeling. You feel like an individual who is cared for.

What do you like most about your experience with Family Chiropractic?

Caring but no B.S. (and being Nelson's friend).

Would you recommend Family Chiropractic to your friends and family?

Yes and I have. My husband is now a patient.


Donna J.

How long have you been a patient of Family Chiropractic?

1 month.

Are you seen by the Dr in a reasonable amount of time?

Yes.

Was the staff knowledgeable, friendly and professional?

Yes very.

Are you satisfied with the quality of service?

Yes.

Was Dr. Goff able to answer your questions and sufficiently explain your diagnosis and plan of care?

Yes.

How would you describe the results you had with chiropractic care at Family Chiropractic?

Fantastic.

How would you describe the office's atmosphere?

Very welcoming and very friendly.

What do you like most about your experience with Family Chiropractic?

How friendly everyone is the way I feel afterward.

Would you recommend Family Chiropractic to your friends and family?

Yes.


David B.

Describe the Condition for Which You Consulted Your Chiropractor, Including:

In big pain. Numbness in my legs, arms, and lower back. It has lasted almost all of my life with different levels of severity.

Describe Previous Treatment and Results:

Yes I had previous treatment for this pain, a bone crusher chiropractor and he didn’t help me in anyway

Tell What Drugs And/or Medication You Were Taking, If Any, and If You Feared Addiction:

Aspirins

What Led to Your Decision to Try Chiropractic?

My wife

Had You Been to a Chiropractor Previously?

None before that

Did You Have Any Doubts That Chiropractic Would Help You?

Yes

What Were Your First Impressions of Chiropractic, this Office and the Doctor?

It worked

What Recommendations Were Made by the Chiropractor?

Keep up the work and watch what I do and how I lift things and drink lots of water

Describe Your Results, Including Time Involved:

Watch yourself, drink lots of water, and make sure you bend at the right spots to pick things up

Is Anyone Else in Your Family a Chiropractic Patient? If So, for What Conditions?

Yes my wife

How Has Chiropractic Helped Them?

Her back, yes it has helped

What Would You Recommend to Others Who Are Sick, Suffering or in Pain?

I would recommend to others about chiropractic

How Many Others Have You Told about Chiropractic?

Everybody I can

How Do You Feel about Chiropractic, Now That You Have Enjoyed its Benefits?

I like it I keep coming back because it works


Walter L.

Describe the Condition for Which You Consulted Your Chiropractor, Including:

I initially sought a chiropractor in order to deal with pain that I know is related to the condition of my spine and I felt that I could reverse the overwhelming feeling that I was aging extremely quickly. I had a number of subluxated vertebrae that were causing pain in 3-4 different areas of my body.

What Led to Your Decision to Try Chiropractic?

Well I have tried chiropractic before and I am aware of the healing benefits so you go to the source when you have problems

Did You Have Any Doubts That Chiropractic Would Help You?

No I didn't

Describe Your Results, Including Time Involved:

Well, my results are everything I’d hoped for. You know maintenance of my spine is the most important relationship I have with chiropractic so continuing to receive treatment is the ongoing care I need to deal with my situation also I have a little scoliosis which is a curvature of the spine of towards the left and I just need to maintain as healthy vertebrae I can and given my profession and how I use my body on a regular basis I also need to sustained regular treatments in order to feel better.

How Many Others Have You Told about Chiropractic?

I have tried

How Do You Feel about Chiropractic, Now That You Have Enjoyed its Benefits?

I am a complete fan of chiropractic I would do any thing I could to help other people to understand it’s benefits


Cliff H.

Describe the Condition for Which You Consulted Your Chiropractor, Including:

Lower back hurting real bad

What Led to Your Decision to Try Chiropractic?

Well, I was seeing another chiropractor but I wasn’t going often enough I would only go when it was hurting which it was like once a month and seemed like it was never getting better so I heard about Dr. Goff and decided to come over and try him and I feel a lot better now.

Did You Have Any Doubts That Chiropractic Would Help You?

Um, you know really no doubts.

What Were Your First Impressions of Chiropractic, this Office and the Doctor?

Oh very impressive

What Recommendations Were Made by the Chiropractor?

Well, first of all he told me to I am not a young man anymore Ha, Ha not to be doing a lot of things I used to do so that’s what he said to me things are starting to work out better for me.

Describe Your Results, Including Time Involved:

Results at the beginning I was kind of having doubts because it was like 2-3 months and I was going ”Geez is this ever going to get turned around” but it finally getting it turned around and now I have been going almost a year and sometimes I feel like even though I come once a week because I really know I need it I sometimes feel like I don’t even need to come but I do just to keep it going because otherwise I would be back where I was originally before I came in here just coming when it was hurting and then it would take a while to get everything back into place.

How Many Others Have You Told about Chiropractic?

I told my fiancé so she is coming out I know she is doing a lot better too.

How Do You Feel about Chiropractic, Now That You Have Enjoyed its Benefits?

Well, I feel really good about it I just wish is was a little more affordable you know that’s part of it so you know I do appreciate the plan where you can pay ahead so I know I am saving a little money there but overall the payments are great.


Martha H.

Describe the Condition for Which You Consulted Your Chiropractor, Including:

I have been diagnosed with carpel tunnel in both of my wrist and someone suggested I see a chiropractor and that’s what brought me in.

Did You Have Any Doubts That Chiropractic Would Help You?

I wasn’t sure I had ever seen a chiropractor before. I had heard a lot of good things from other people but I had never attempted it

What Were Your First Impressions of Chiropractic, this Office and the Doctor?

Walking into the office it was a very nice feeling I was surprise that I was even greeted by the doctor so it was a very friendly atmosphere I was really impressed with it.

Describe Your Results, Including Time Involved:

Well, I went from wearing a brace to not wearing anything I started I believe was in February thru August and in half that time my wrist I would say by 80 percent improved and I have no pain in my wrist from that other than a little tingling which were still working on I have no problems with them.

How Many Others Have You Told about Chiropractic?

I tell just about everybody that I see that complains about anything to go see a chiropractor.

How Do You Feel about Chiropractic, Now That You Have Enjoyed its Benefits?

I’ve learned a lot just sitting in the waiting room watching the videos and taking some literature home and I am amazed that the small things that can cause big problems if you don’t take care of them.


Michelle F.

Describe Previous Treatment and Results:

The adjusting is a bit different like I got a lot more cracking and now he is a lot more gentler I guess.

Had You Been to a Chiropractor Previously?

Yes, In Canada where I used to live

What Were Your First Impressions of Chiropractic, this Office and the Doctor?

Oh, yeah the atmosphere is great I love the way the décor it is great

Would you recommend this office to other people?

Oh, definitely yes.

How Do You Feel about Chiropractic, Now That You Have Enjoyed its Benefits?

Very good, everyone very friendly and no problems at all, it’s been great.


Andy C.

Had You Been to a Chiropractor Previously?

No, I have heard a lot about this office, and several people that come here have referred me.

What Were Your First Impressions of Chiropractic, this Office and the Doctor?

Everybody is friendly, everybody is high-spirited and the doctor always gives me good hope and tells me that I am improving and slowly but surly I feel better.

Is Anyone Else in Your Family a Chiropractic Patient? If So, for What Conditions?

Yes, I have been even thinking about bringing in my daughter to have you look at her just for an exam.


Julie S.

Describe the Condition for Which You Consulted Your Chiropractor, Including:

I have scoliosis and I was having really bad headaches on a regular basis. The headaches were severe.

Describe Previous Treatment and Results:

Just taking over the counter Tylenol

Tell What Drugs And/or Medication You Were Taking, If Any, and If You Feared Addiction:

I felt I was having to take way too much of it, I don’t think I realized how much damage it could cause but I was concerned because I was taking so much of it and so often

What Led to Your Decision to Try Chiropractic?

2 things: 1. My husband got adjusted and I noticed what a difference it made for him. And then secondly when I was pregnant with our oldest son my sciatica nerve was pinched and when I got adjusted for that I realized what a difference it could make

Had You Been to a Chiropractor Previously?

No

Did You Have Any Doubts That Chiropractic Would Help You?

It has been so many years now I don’t remember; I guess because Dan got adjusted I didn’t think so, I thought it would make a difference

What Recommendations Were Made by the Chiropractor?

I guess when I saw the x-rays and then I realized just how bad my back was I was really shocked and the damaged that I had done with it over the years by not having it adjusted was a real shocked and that I knew that he couldn’t make it completely go away but he makes it much more comfortable to live with

Describe Your Results, Including Time Involved:

It really has been amazing because I went from probably a big bottle of Tylenol a month to possibly one big bottle in 2 years so it really made a difference my headaches went away I used to have an catch when I breathed in my ribs and it wasn’t until I got adjusted I realized it was a rib out and so that’s all gone away I am much more comfortable walking now than I used to be so it has made a big difference.

Is Anyone Else in Your Family a Chiropractic Patient? If So, for What Conditions?

All of us are, all 4 of us

How Has Chiropractic Helped Them?

Definitely even the little one’s we started them off within I think, Rene was just a couple of months old not even 2 months old, and Ely wasn’t more than a week old it made a big difference

What Would You Recommend to Others Who Are Sick, Suffering or in Pain?

Definitely to come in

How Many Others Have You Told about Chiropractic?

I have, I have had a couple of people come in after talking to them and recommending it

How Do You Feel about Chiropractic, Now That You Have Enjoyed its Benefits?

I can’t live with out it seriously I use it as often as we can and I know when I haven’t been in it makes a big difference


Jackie P.

Describe the Condition for Which You Consulted Your Chiropractor, Including:

I fell in April of 2000. I consulted my chiropractor for lower back pain, right wrist pain, neck pain, right shoulder pain and right knee pain.

Describe Previous Treatment and Results:

I saw a orthopedics specialized with no results.

What Led to Your Decision to Try Chiropractic?

One of Dr. Goff’s patients recommended that I see him, thank God

Had You Been to a Chiropractor Previously?

Yes

Did You Have Any Doubts That Chiropractic Would Help You?

I knew chiropractic would help

What Were Your First Impressions of Chiropractic, this Office and the Doctor?

(Laugh) he is appropriate he is professional, he has very good people skills he makes the patient relax and comfortable he is a little warped personally (Laugh) but I mean you know you take that a long with whatever. And you and Linda are terrific too always appropriate, professional very helpful and he couldn’t be as good as he is if he didn’t have good support staff.

What Recommendations Were Made by the Chiropractor?

I am thinking I am old, some treatment was recommended and he gave me some exercises to help strengthen my back and my neck and shoulder

Describe Your Results, Including Time Involved:

I got very good results

Is Anyone Else in Your Family a Chiropractic Patient? If So, for What Conditions?

My brother

How Has Chiropractic Helped Them?

It has helped him out with a back that has a I think the whole vertebrae that is about twice the size that it should be it’s elongated his whole body. Dr. Bell told him the first time that he did the evaluation on him that he had the problem with the vertebrae and he asked him, “Is your mother fuss at you all your life for sitting on your spine “and he said “Yes how did you know” because that is the only way that you can possibly sit and be comfortable. And Jerry told him that, that was the only way that he could sit without his legs going numb. This vertebrae is like this wide from top to bottom he got a rather interesting looking x-ray if you ever see it

What Would You Recommend to Others Who Are Sick, Suffering or in Pain?

I have and I do

How Many Others Have You Told about Chiropractic?

Any body that will listen seriously

How Do You Feel about Chiropractic, Now That You Have Enjoyed its Benefits?

I think it is differently one of the best things that you can do for your health the medical doctor has his limitation just like chiropractic has its limitation it can’t take care of everything that is possibly wrong with you but it can take care of just about everything that is wrong with you. (She is a register nurse with many years of experience)


Gulia G.

Describe the Condition for Which You Consulted Your Chiropractor, Including:

My neck was always bothering me and my lower back. The pain was pretty well constant when I first came in they found that my neck was so straight that’s why I was having all the trouble that I was having with my lower back

Describe Previous Treatment and Results:

Everything that they did was not helping the neck situation.

Tell What Drugs And/or Medication You Were Taking, If Any, and If You Feared Addiction:

At times yes, that could be too (about being addicted) I never really thought about it

What Led to Your Decision to Try Chiropractic?

I had heard a lot about it and I decided that was a good way to go because I had gone to doctors and they were not really helping me

Had You Been to a Chiropractor Previously?

Yes I had and like I said all they did was jerk me around and popped my neck and that kind of thing

What Were Your First Impressions of Chiropractic, this Office and the Doctor?

I’ve enjoyed every bit of it when I came in they were very friendly and they wanted to really help

What Recommendations Were Made by the Chiropractor?

They took x-rays and found that the neck was very straight and that is why I was having all of the pain. So then we went onto a plan that would work for me

Describe Your Results, Including Time Involved:

Very good result I did forget to say that I had a lot of ear noises and when he put my neck back to where it should be the ear noises went away so I really felt that it was really beneficial to work with that plan

Is Anyone Else in Your Family a Chiropractic Patient? If So, for What Conditions?

Yes my husband gets adjusted also and he has had his back trouble for so many years that I think he waited to long to go into a plan

How Has Chiropractic Helped Them?

It is helping him some if he would come regularly why it really does a lot of good but sometimes he gets lazy and don’t want to come

What Would You Recommend to Others Who Are Sick, Suffering or in Pain?

Absolutely, I would

How Do You Feel about Chiropractic, Now That You Have Enjoyed its Benefits?

I think it is absolutely for any body that has any kind of back pain, neck pain anything I think they should really get into a plan to help because it does help


David H.

Describe the Condition for Which You Consulted Your Chiropractor, Including:

I came in for lower back stiffness and there was some degree of pain but mostly I couldn’t move my lower back. 8 months before I came in and saw the Doctor I tried letting it ride and see what happened but nothing did so eventually I came in and started working in chiropractor

Tell What Drugs And/or Medication You Were Taking, If Any, and If You Feared Addiction:

A lot of Advil’s, I was somewhat concern about the addiction but not really but yeah I was taken too many that was a for sure

What Led to Your Decision to Try Chiropractic?

Well my wife had been going to Dr. Goff for several years so it was like, I should have to try

Had You Been to a Chiropractor Previously?

No

Did You Have Any Doubts That Chiropractic Would Help You?

I didn’t know weather it would work or not but I was willing to try and see

What Were Your First Impressions of Chiropractic, this Office and the Doctor?

Well, I had been coming in with Sheryl for years so it’s like I already knew it’s a pretty good set up so I felt comfortable with that.

What Recommendations Were Made by the Chiropractor?

Just his adjustments I haven’t really been given any exercise routine or anything like that to go with it so its been mostly an ongoing thing but it’s been a lot better. I know I have improved a lot, I can move a lot more freely

Is Anyone Else in Your Family a Chiropractic Patient? If So, for What Conditions?

My wife Sheryl is

What Would You Recommend to Others Who Are Sick, Suffering or in Pain?

Yes I would recommend chiropractic to others

How Many Others Have You Told about Chiropractic?

Yes I have in my immediate family a couple of other friends perhaps half a dozen people in all and it’s been overall positive for me

How Do You Feel about Chiropractic, Now That You Have Enjoyed its Benefits?

It is more confirmed beliefs the alternatives were going for physical therapy routine that is what one doctor had suggested was that and then he suggested taking even more Ibuprofen which I was not going to do that I know how that goes if your just taking medications to hide the pain it is not actually helping anything your just masking symptoms. I hardly take painkiller I don’t like to take anything I don’t take cold medication no pain medications. I worked myself over pretty severely skiing last week and then I came in on Monday and I was pretty maligned and I felt a lot better after I left and as a couple of days more I said oh okay yeah I am getting it back together again where I know my recovery time if I hadn’t come in and seen Dr. Goff it would have been significantly longer.


Maxine B.

Describe the Condition for Which You Consulted Your Chiropractor, Including:

Well for a long time. I couldn’t bend down 11 years ago and I could not feed my dog and I had a terrible time so I went to one of these health places and met him there

Describe Previous Treatment and Results:

I came here I went to an examination and in 2 days I was able to feed my animals but I didn’t quit there because you don’t quit or you revert back to the way you were if you don’t complete the treatment

What Would You Recommend to Others Who Are Sick, Suffering or in Pain?

Well, if they want to live as long as I have lived I think they need a chiropractor and they need treatment regularly because waiting for your back to go or something to go out that’s to late you need to do it before those things happen

How Do You Feel about Chiropractic, Now That You Have Enjoyed its Benefits?

I think they are good in everything they do. I tell you if you go to Dr. Goff he’s the best, don’t go to anybody else.

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