Non-surgical chiropractic solutions for a healthier life.

Ascend Spine Center began its journey in 2001 as Patel Family Chiropractic in Montclair, NJ. Over the years, we've expanded, evolved, and served our communities with dedication—from Montclair to Bloomfield, NJ, and now to our new home in St. Augustine, Florida.

Our move to St. Augustine marks an exciting new chapter. We’re proud to bring our safe, natural chiropractic care to residents of St. Augustine Beach, Nocatee, Palencia, Ponte Vedra, Hastings, Elkton, and World Golf Village. While the location may have changed, our commitment to your health remains the same.

Chiropractic care is more than just back and neck pain relief. Our patients often report improvements in conditions such as allergies, sciatica, pinched nerves, and herniated discs. We specialize in non-surgical spinal decompression, helping patients recover faster and avoid surgery.

We look forward to continuing to serve our community with personalized, effective, and affordable chiropractic care—and to helping you feel your best, naturally.

Dr. Harsha Patel is a board-certified chiropractor proudly serving the St. Augustine, FL community. Since 2001, Dr. Patel has been delivering expert, compassionate care to patients of all ages—originally in Montclair and Bloomfield, NJ, and now in sunny Florida.

A graduate with honors from Life University in Atlanta, Georgia, Dr. Patel combines over two decades of clinical excellence with a deeply personal commitment to holistic healing. Her mission is to help patients regain health without medications or surgery—naturally.

Passionate about pediatric chiropractic care, Dr. Patel believes that many adult conditions stem from childhood imbalances. She has advanced training in treating children of all ages, including those with developmental disabilities.

Welcome to Ascend Spine Center—where over 20 years of experience and personalized care come together to help you live your best life.

Don’t wait—contact us today to begin your journey to better health.

What is Chiropractic?

Chiropractic doctors practice natural, drugless, non-invasive health care and rely on the body's ability to self-heal. Sounds ideal, but just how does it work?

We look at the whole picture.

Like other health-care providers, we follow a standard routine to gain information about the patient. We consult, review the case history, conduct a physical examination, and we may request laboratory analyses and/or x-rays. Unlike other health-care providers, however, chiropractic physicians also conduct a careful analysis of the patient's structure and pay particular attention to the spine. We also ask you about your life— Do you eat well? Exercise at all? How do you deal with stress? Do you have children? What do you do for work? And so on.

We seek the origin of the problem.

Using this information, a diagnosis is made. Included in the diagnosis is the probable reason for your pain or discomfort. It is important to note that chiropractors seek the origin of the illness in order to eliminate it-we do not simply treat the symptoms. If your roof is leaking, do you simply catch the drips in a bucket for years on end, or do you repair the roof to prevent it from leaking? Similarly, if the migraine headache you've had all week is being caused by misaligned vertebra and an irritated nerve, do you continue to take pain killers indefinitely, or do you realign the vertebra to prevent the pain? You get the picture.

We fix the origin of the problem.

Chiropractors have a term for misalignments: subluxations. A vertebral subluxation is a misalignment of the bones that protect the spinal cord. It's a leak in the roof. Or a kink in the wiring of your nervous system. The severity of the subluxation can vary, and there are a number of potential contributing factors that can be physical, emotional, mental, or chemical. The subluxation can be caused by any number of incidents, from birth trauma to an auto accident to simple repetition or over-use.