The Villages, Florida
Back Pain Treatment
in The Villages, FL
Non-surgical care for a back that has started rationing the garden, the golf swing and the drive, at 929 US-441 #404, Lady Lake, FL 32159. New patients start with the $47 consultation, exam, X-rays if needed and report of findings.
- Lady Lake office
- Non-surgical, drug free
- 22 years in practice
- $47 new-patient exam
Medically reviewed by Dr. Justin Bergin, DC Updated September 18, 2026
Why is a back at seventy-four a different conversation?
Back pain at seventy-four is a different conversation from back pain at forty. At forty the question is how quickly you get back to work.
Here it is whether you will still kneel in the garden in April, and whether you can play out a full pickleball ladder. It is whether the drive up to see the family is worth making, and whether this is the year somebody says the word surgery.
Have you already been around the block with this one?
People call the Lady Lake office about a back having already been around the block. Rest it. Stretch it. Take something for it.
A report came back with words nobody explained. A fair number arrive with an operation behind them, and somewhere along the way they were told, kindly enough, that this is what happens at their age.
Can a back sore for years still be named?
Very little of that is useful. A back sore for years still has a structure producing the pain, and it can usually be named in one examination.
Dr. Justin Bergin, DC does that examination himself here.
Back pain is usually mechanical, meaning it comes from the discs, joints, muscles and ligaments of the spine rather than from a disease. In an older, still active population it more often involves a narrowed canal, worn facet joints, a stiff or replaced hip loading the low back, or the level above an old fusion. Care at the Lady Lake office is non-surgical and starts at $47.
This page covers The Villages specifically. The neutral back pain page covers the clinical picture for both offices.
Symptoms
What The Villages patients describe when they call this office.
- A deep ache low across the back
- Legs that tire and ache after a few hundred yards
- Relief the moment you lean on a golf cart or a shopping cart
- Half an hour of stiffness before the body loosens up
- A catch when you straighten up out of a flower bed
- Pain that builds through a long drive and stays
- Pain spreading into the buttock or down one leg
- Trouble standing still in a line or at a counter
- Waking when you turn over in bed
- A back that gives out on the backswing
Common causes
Lumbar spinal stenosis
The canal your nerves travel through narrows with age, so the legs tire after a few hundred yards and settle the moment you lean on a cart. It is a common reason walking distance shrinks here.
Worn facet joints
The paired joints at the back of each level take extra load once a disc thins. They give a one-sided ache, worse leaning back or standing about, easier sitting. Gardening and golf load them hard.
Disc degeneration and a bulging disc
Discs lose height and water over a lifetime, which changes how the joints above and below behave. A disc can also bulge and irritate what sits beside it, sending pain into a buttock or a leg.
A stiff or replaced hip loading the back
A hip that will not extend makes the lower back do the work instead, every step. After a replacement the pattern persists long after the joint is fine, because nobody retrained the movement.
The level above an old fusion
When one segment is fused the segments beside it move more than they were built to, and years later that is where pain turns up. It is looked for on every film where surgery is in the history.
Deconditioning and the sudden Saturday job
Three quiet weeks, then eight hours of mulch, edging and lifting bags out of a car. The muscles that stabilize a spine lose condition quickly at this age.
How we treat it at our Lady Lake office
Care here is non-surgical, and it begins by working out which structure is producing the pain, because a disc, a facet joint, a sacroiliac joint and a narrowed canal all behave differently. Dr. Justin Bergin, DC examines you, reads your films, and writes the plan down before anything starts. What follows is some combination of these four, on the three days this office treats.
Decompression for a disc or a canal out of room
Where the examination points at the disc, or at a canal out of space, a computer-controlled table applies cycling traction to one level so it is unloaded rather than compressed. It is quiet and it does not hurt. The level and angle come from your own findings, not a preset.
Adjusting for spinal joints that have stopped moving
A joint that has stopped moving recruits the muscles around it into constant guarding, and after decades that guarding is most of what you feel in the morning. Lower-force techniques get used often here, which matters when a spine is arthritic, thinning or already fused.
Hands-on work for muscle that has guarded for years
Active Release Technique and Graston instrument work address the thickened, adhered tissue that builds around a back painful for years. It is often the difference between an adjustment that holds and one gone by Thursday.
instrument and manual work on a back that has splinted itself
Rehabilitation for a back that was operated on years ago
An operation fixes a structure. It does not hand back the movement that stiffened while that structure was protected, and movement that never came back is what this work is for. Work here is graded around your surgeon's restrictions.
Our Lady Lake office
Chiromed Wellness Centers929 US-441 #404
Lady Lake, FL 32159
- Monday8:30am to 1:00pm and 2:30pm to 6:30pm
- TuesdayBy appointment
- Wednesday8:30am to 1:00pm and 2:30pm to 6:30pm
- Thursday8:30am to 1:00pm and 2:30pm to 6:30pm
- FridayBy appointment
- Saturday and SundayClosed
Dr. Justin Bergin, DC performs the examination personally at this office, 22 years into practice. Full office details are on our Lady Lake office page.
What we are near
Where exactly is the Lady Lake office?
You will find us at 929 US-441 #404, Lady Lake, FL 32159, on North US-441 just above where CR 466 comes in. The suite to look for is 404.
Spanish Springs Town Square is the closest of the three squares, Lake Sumter Landing a straightforward drive and Brownwood Paddock Square the longest run.
Can I get in without stairs, or come by cart?
Everything from the car to the treatment room is at ground level, no garage and no stairs. That is the first thing people with a bad back ask about, and the right thing to ask.
Carts are an ordinary way to arrive here. Because cart routes change, ring ahead for the current one and where to leave it.
Which communities bring their backs to this office?
Backs come to this office from all over The Villages and from Lady Lake, Summerfield, Wildwood, Oxford, Fruitland Park and Leesburg, ten miles or so south east. That catchment runs across Sumter, Lake and Marion counties.
Ocala National Forest lies about fifteen miles north. We are a short drive from the Lake-Sumter State College campus in Leesburg and close to UF Health The Villages Hospital, and we are not affiliated with either.
Our Lady Lake office is a short drive from the Lake-Sumter State College campus in Leesburg, and we serve the same tri-county community. We are not affiliated with the college.
ChiroMed is an independent practice. Naming nearby hospitals, colleges or landmarks describes where we are, not who we are affiliated with. There is no affiliation, partnership or endorsement of any kind.
- The Villages
- Lady Lake
- Summerfield
- Wildwood
- Oxford
- Fruitland Park
- Leesburg
Independent background: Back pain causes, National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases.
Patient experience at our Lady Lake office
Is there a review about back care at this address?
Lady Lake is the newer of our two offices and its review file is still short. No review at this address describes back care, so none is offered here as proof of it.
What can you check instead of a back-care review?
What you can check instead is 22 years in practice and a written plan you see before any care starts.
From the ChiroMed Journal
Longer reading on this subject, written by the practice rather than bought in.
- Back Pain That Keeps Coming Back: What to Try Before Surgery
Recurring back pain usually has a disc or joint driver nobody named. How non-surgical decompression works, who suits it, and what the traction research shows.
- Chiropractor or Physical Therapist: Who Should You See First?
Back or neck pain and unsure who to call? How joint restriction and lost capacity point to different first visits, and what to do when nerve symptoms appear.
Back Pain in recent research
These sources are independent of this practice and none of them endorses it. They are listed so the reasoning behind the care can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Noninvasive Treatments for Acute, Subacute, and Chronic Low Back Pain: A Clinical Practice Guideline From the American College of Physicians
The guideline that puts non-drug care, spinal manipulation among it, ahead of medication for most low back pain. It is the order care is built in at this office too.
- Spinal manipulative therapy for adults with chronic low back pain
The current Cochrane review of manipulation for long-standing low back pain, reporting modest rather than dramatic benefit, which is exactly what patients here are told to expect.
What to expect
Your first visit, step by step
Nobody is treated at a first appointment here before being examined. Dr. Justin Bergin, DC works out whether the pain is coming from the disc, the facet joints, the sacroiliac joint, the hip or a narrowed canal, and he says so plainly when the answer is not a mechanical one at all.
Get in touch
Book at our Lady Lake office
Choose The Villages on the form and the Lady Lake desk calls you back during office hours. Leave a message after hours and they call back the next open day.
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Send the form
Two minutes. Tell us what hurts and which office is closer.
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We call you back
A real person, during office hours, to find a time that works.
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Exam and answers
History, orthopedic and neurological testing, imaging on site when it changes the plan.
- $47 consultation, exam, X-rays if needed and report of findings
- Payment plans available on the self-pay programs
- Booking for our Lady Lake office
The Villages questions
Tap a message for the honest answer. Call The Villages (352) 915-7150
I have already had back surgery. Can I still be treated at this office?
Yes, and a good number of patients at this address are in exactly that position. What changes is the examination and the technique, not whether you are seen. Dr. Justin Bergin, DC wants to know what was done, at which level and when, and he will ask for your operative notes or films if you still have them. Adjusting is kept away from a fused segment and lower-force methods are used around it. If your findings say the answer is your surgeon rather than us, you are told so at the first visit.
Do I have to give up golf and pickleball while my back is treated?
Rarely all of it, and complete rest is not what is advised here. What tends to change for a while is volume, plus the one movement that reproduces your sharpest pain.
The usual advice here is to keep walking, play shorter, and drop the single thing that hurts instead of the whole week. That gets decided from your examination findings and reviewed as the plan progresses, not guessed at on the phone.
Which days is the Lady Lake office open for back care?
This office treats Monday, Wednesday and Thursday, 8:30 AM to 1:00 PM and 2:30 PM to 6:30 PM. Tuesday and Friday are by appointment, and this office is closed Saturday and Sunday. A back plan here is built around those three days.
If our other office is the easier drive for you, its own treating days are listed on our Lakeland office and its own treating days. Ring (352) 915-7150 and ask what is open this week rather than assuming.
Will Medicare pay for back care at your Lady Lake office?
Coverage varies by plan and by service. Chiropractic care at ChiroMed bills insurance and our team verifies your benefits before your first visit, including what a Medicare or Medicare Advantage plan says about spinal manipulation. The decompression program is self-pay and is quoted in writing before it begins. Payment plans are available for self-pay care. You are told what applies to you before you commit to anything.
Is there parking I can manage on a day when my back is bad?
Parking is at ground level immediately outside suite 404, with no garage and no stairs between the car and the treatment room. If getting into and out of a car is currently the worst part of your day, say so when you ring and the front desk will tell you where to pull in. Plenty of patients come by golf cart instead, and because cart routes change the desk will talk you through the current one rather than let you guess.
Same-week appointments
The Villages care, without the drive.
Call (352) 915-7150 or book online. Dr. Justin Bergin, DC performs the examination personally.
Consultation, Exam, X-Rays (If Needed) & Report of Findings: Only $47