Maybe you've dealt with back pain for months or years. Sometimes it's pretty manageable. Other times it flares up and becomes much more noticeable. You've learned what tends to aggravate it, what temporarily helps, and perhaps even how to work around it.
When a problem has been present for a long time, we're usually dealing with more than something that happened yesterday. Your body has had time to adapt around the pattern, and re-establishing better movement may require more consistency up front.
For someone in this category, I would generally plan on weekly sessions for roughly three to six weeks to start. That's not a predetermined treatment plan or a guarantee of how many sessions you'll need. It's a reasonable starting expectation based on the fact that we're addressing something that's been there for a while.
As you begin feeling and moving better, the goal is to start spreading those sessions farther apart.
Eventually, some people reach the point where they simply come in whenever they feel they need it. Others discover that they feel their best when they come in periodically—whether that's every few weeks, every couple of months, or some other frequency.
There's no universal schedule we're trying to get everybody onto. The goal is to help you get feeling good and then need us less and less often.

This one can be particularly frustrating.
You weren't playing basketball. You didn't spend six hours moving furniture. You didn't do an intense workout.
Maybe you simply bent over to pick up a pencil, reached for something, got out of bed—or were just going about your normal day—and suddenly you “threw your back out.”
And it makes absolutely no sense.
Because you felt fine before it happened, it's natural to assume this must be a brand-new problem. You expect to walk it off, give it a couple of days, or have somebody work on it once and get right back to normal.
But when something seemingly insignificant produces a major response, especially when nothing you try seems to make it settle down, that can be an indication that the pattern didn't actually begin that day.
Your body is remarkably good at adapting. It can compensate for restricted movement and other stresses for a long time without necessarily getting your attention.
Sometimes that seemingly insignificant moment isn't really the beginning of the problem.
It's simply the moment your body finally announced it.
When that's the pattern we're dealing with, it may take more consistency up front. We may recommend starting with weekly sessions while things are settling down and then gradually spacing those sessions farther apart as your body responds.
It's difficult to know exactly how much care you'll need before we've actually had an opportunity to work with you. You may notice a significant change after your first session, but one visit doesn't always tell us the whole story.
By the end of your third session, we'll usually have a much clearer picture of how quickly your body is responding and a better idea of what you may—or may not—need going forward.