Ocean Chiropractic Center

I just started seeing Dr. Fretty about 2 months ago because I was in some serious back pain. So far my back pain has been significantly relieved and I was put on a really adorable payment plan since my insurance doesn’t cover chiropractic care. Really happy with the care/​results I’ve received so far :) highly recommend him!!!

This chiropractor is alriiiiiight. Major lack of communication in general, especially when it comes to discussing reassuring updates on improvement. You are not given undivided attention towards your health issues and needs– like how it should be when dealing with medical concerns. You just go in real quick and get out. Been retreating to this service for almost 2 months. Repetitive visits week after week! And still no real changes. My issue was not even that severe to begin with. But Dr. Fretty was making it sound like it was. If anything, the adjustments were only making things worse. This being the first chiropractor I’ve ever been to, I didn’t know any better. But after awhile I realized healing realllly shouldn’t even take this long. Got suspicious after I’ve read online that some chiros dupe you into making consecutive returns. So I’ve researched better chiros in my area and the one I went to addressed the true solution to my issue RIGHT away. My experience with this chiro was waaay different and EXTREMELY more professional than here at Ocean. ONLY 2 – 3 visits and I should be back to normal health. Soo happy on that part, but makes me feel like I just wasted a whooooleee lot of time over here!!!

This was NOT the chiropractic experience I was looking for. It takes more than an ice pack and a quick adjustment to achieve true results. While there are great chiropractic doctors offering top-​notch services, this office is not among that group. This is the most cheesy, non-​medical chiropractic experience I’ve ever had.

Dr Fretty is really good. no nonsense. effective. to the point. my best chiro experience ever.
Lory his receptionist/​Assistant is also pleasant and helpful.

Have you ever lived with lower back pain and tried to find the chiropractor who can save your life???
Ocean Chiropractic Center has Dr. Fretty who slowly became that hero for my pain. For twelve years, I suffered and lived with lower L-​4/​L-​5 disc bulge, and a painful lower back that was probably damaged from other wrongful chiropractors who claimed to know how to fix me. Wrongful chiropractors who never did and who have only instead, made me feel worse and achieved nothing but disappointments.
Dr. Fretty had been adjusting my back for one month and I have been feeling better slowly after every adjustment. «It takes time, and it will soon get there,» says Dr. Fretty, each time he completes my adjustments.
Ocean Chiropractic Center looks small from the outside, surrounded by the hustling cars, and nestled next to a tiny Thai Restaurant and a small office building with some nail treatment care. This can make the office seem skeptical and can make patients question about whether or not the place is legit. But this place is legit and this chiropractic office has X-​Ray! Yes, X-​Ray where they can see how your spine looks like right now. For $ 27. After that X-​Ray, Dr. Fretty determines a treatment plan and diagnosis about how to heal/​recover!
From the beginning, I was afraid of another chiropractor who was only out there for money and no healing. I was even afraid it was going to be bad a place like the Rincon Center near Spear Street who never completed my back care and who went belly up in the middle of my care. Thus, from my prior bad experience, I was a talkative patient on a quest to find someone to heal my back.
So far, it’s been a month and Ocean Chiropractic Center seems to be that place for recovery. However, from the very beginning of my treatment, I had a rough painful start from the very first adjustment by Dr. Fretty that brought tears and chest pain. But that was only my first week, I had to keep in mind that I did have a bad spine for 12 years, and it takes a while to get adjusted back.
«It’s inflammation you are experiencing,» says Dr. Fretty. As I follow the treatment and persevered with ice pack, I am currently feeling better than I was at the beginning of the month. I can actually feel my lower disc centered and pain slowly going away. And I’m happier being able to move, exercise, with the feeling of less pain and discomfort from nerve spikes.
I’m looking forward to my next X-​Ray on my third month after back adjustments. To make this review short, here are the Pros and Cons:
Pro: Office hours are great. Monday, Wednesday, Friday — 9:30AM to 12:30PM & 3:30PM — 6:30PM. Tuesday and Thursday — 4:00PM to 6:00PM. They are open on Saturday, by appointments only. Also, they have a receptionist, Laurie, who is very friendly, hardworking, and welcoming.
Cons: The office is very busy. They have a lot of patients. You have to make sure you tell Dr. Fretty or Laurie, about how you feel. Especially, when you really feel like you’re in pain or any kind of discomfort. It is a medical office and Laurie is dressed in nurse outfits. So, you gotta talk talk talk. And ask questions, just like a patient would.

Dr. Fretty is an amazing chiropractor not only did he adjust me but he also adjusted my two sons. We got into a horrible car accident that left us all in pain and Dr. Fretty made sure we were all better throughout our treatment.
Lorie is the BEST!

Dr. Freddy is an amazing chiropractor! My neck and back pains have improved drastically after just a few visits. I would recommend him to anyone.

Dr. Fretty is nothing short of an amazing chiropractor. I’ve been a loyal patient for almost 3 years and I always feel great when I leave the office. He and his assistant Laurie make me feel welcome the minute I walk in the door. I first came to him recovering from a couple of compressed disks in my lower back and persistent headaches/​migraines. I’m not the type of person who personally likes to take prescriptions or over-​the-​counter remedies and I respect Dr. Fretty’s approach of as little medications as possible. Chiropractics is all about healing your body with minor adjustments and manipulations. Dr. Fretty is very knowledgeable in the field and I hold his opinions and recommendations in the highest regard. In a medical practitioner, I look for someone who actually listens to my concerns and responds appropriately; it puts me at ease knowing I’m in good hands. I know that every time I walk in the office, Dr. Fretty cares about my health and well-​being.

Dr. Fretty is an amazing chiropractor. He actually cares about your health. Not to mention his super nice assistant Laurie.
He is the only chiropractor I see. I am doing so much better now and i cant wait to go back.
Please be aware of his hours, it changes daily.

Dr. Fretty and his secretary Laurie, are amazing to say the least. After a rough accident they helped my friend and I out as much as they could, and I would say they went above and beyond. The office is extremely relaxing. Fretty is very caring and is a doctor you can actually talk to. I felt at ease and my condition improved 100%. Fretty will work with you in any way possible. I absolutely love this place and I would recommend to anyone who is considering seeing a chiropractor. I know I will be going back if I ever have back problems again. Thank you.

Great adjustments and the office is friendly and always willing to work with you. So happy I found them!

I want to apologize in advance for the long review but felt the need to explain what led me to Chiropractic and how I went from 0% quality of life to 100%.
It was 2013 and running out of options, exhausted all forms of western medical care. Did everything in my power to aleviate my pain. Including stretching, taking all the pills shoved at me which made me feel like a zombie and toxic. (I hated pills, always have but was desperate) I have countless voicemails saying they don’t know how to help me other than to treat the symptoms as they arise. Anyone with half a brain knows that this doesn’t get to the root of the problem. MRI’s and X-​rays. I can’t give up, the average retirement age states that I have a minimum of another 30 years to work ahead of me. Better get to work, but can’t walk? They threw every possible diagnosis out there; piriformis syndrome, sciatica (very vague), a scandinavian gene I tested positive for (I could have told them that), bulging discs, and a condition women get after giving birth (only I’d never given birth). Trigger point injections, steroids, etc. Do physical therapy AGAIN, even though you’re not walking. Wait, WHAT?! How? I even got in touch with an Osteopath in Australia which told me to take massive amounts of fish oil. The Osteopaths around here charge $ 400 or more per visit. Hardly working if at all, that seemed like a far fetched dream vacation. Only it was my health and seemed helpless.
In my 20s and hardly living, this made absolutely no sense whatsoever. When a ‘flare up’ subsided I went back to working out and work, but ever so cautiously because I was scared it could come back to bite me in the ass quite literally. One step forward, two steps back. I mean, I was always considered active even as a child, and had physical jobs including massage therapy since 2004, so I took this into deep consideration. Did I fall one too many times? Did I ‘play’ too hard? Never had trauma.
Thought about a career change but it broke my heart thinking about it. So, I just worked less. But that’s no way to live either especially when you’re an independent woman raised by a single independent woman. My pride was shot down. My quality of life was suppressed by my ‘flare ups’ which started back in 2007 – 2008. I’ve been in the emergency more times than I care to count. Screaming in agony even doing the most mudane of tasks like sitting up or going to the bathroom. Having to be carried to the bathroom, missing countless days of work. Even at times used a cane and a walker. Alternative healthcare, I did it. I believed in it. But when chiropractic was brought up to me, I thought are you kidding me I can’t even move an inch let alone have someone else move me without that excruciating pain.
My life changed December 12, 2013
I went to Ocean Chiropractic Center. A friendly staff: Dr Fretty and Lori greeted me with compassion. They believed in me so long as I believed in them. This was an average day I was able to get out of bed but still had that peculiar limp that I was always self-​conscious about. I wasn’t at 100%. I felt it, so I know people could see my pain. I mustered up the courage to try this form of treatment. Dr. Fretty put me on the Paleo diet and asked me to come three times a week. Within 24 hours of my first treatment that nagging charlie horse pain and my limp, COMPLETELY GONE. It’s now January 1^st and still the symptoms are completely gone to this day. Even though the pain was gone they explained that it was important to stay on track with treatment course and diet. Feeling this great I’ll stick to anything. Seeing is believing, my only regret was not trying chiropractic sooner. :) A great way to start 2014, I’m excited!
Go to your Dr’s but if you’re not getting the answers you seek and feel you’re on a hamster wheel then PLEASE venture outside the box. Get second, third and fourth opinions. Dr’s are human too and to error is human.
THANK YOU SO MUCH!

Dr. Fretty is a really caring chiropractor. He has helped me a lot. I have very little back pain anymore.

I love this place! I have been coming for years, and this office feels like family. I have referred tons of people here, and they have all loved their experiences. Dr. Fretty is knowledgeable, genuinely cares about his patients, provides great adjustments, super cool and is affordable. Its not that easy picking out a chiropractor, and I am so grateful to have found him! Other chiropractors even send their hard to adjust patients to him, he is that talented!
I tried another chiropractor previously and it was not a good experience. It was so expensive and I felt really ripped off. When my injury worsened, I managed to find Dr. Fretty and I feel so lucky! He has been taking care of my injuries ever since.
Parking is really easy in the area. Metered parking right out front, or free parking around the corner in the residential area. It is really easy to just drop in after your initial appointment too.
Don’t think you can afford a chiropractor? Come here, they will work it out with you and genuinely find a plan that is manageable for you. I have worked with this office for both a car accident claim and for a self induced injury taking the back seat out of my car. They always take care of me, hassle free!

I tried this place because of all the 5 star reviews here on Unilocal.
However, I really wanted to like Dr. Fretty, but after seeing him for a while, I had no signs of improvement. Plus, I didn’t like the fact that he seems to be very arrogant and when I first stepped into his office, he was saying the cause of my pain could be from when I was a baby and I was delivered wrong or was dropped?!? I was like WTF?!?
All you do every time is go in, get some ice or heat on you for 5 – 10 mins, then he comes by, cracks you in less than 2 minutes and off you go. I didn’t really feel this was that great of treatment.
I do want to say they are flexible in payment plans and that the front desk, Laurie, is one of the sweetest ladies I have ever met.
Overall, I just wasn’t happy with my results with not a single sign of improvement. If anything, I think I feel a little worse. Time to try elsewhere.

Dr. Fretty is a down-​to-​earth, friendly, and knowledgeable doctor.
If you’re looking for an awesome chiropractor, I’d recommend you stop by and see Dr. Fretty. If you have any questions, he is more than happy to answer any questions, just check him out.
He works with people of all ages, including families!
Take care of your nervous system and get you spine checked :) Just as I feel great after my adjustments, you can feel better too and Dr. Fretty can help you do so!
Tip: Park a few blocks down on a side street for free 2hr parking (check signs). Or bring some spare change for meter parking (there are meter maids every so often)

Dr. Fretty is first and foremost incredibly honest and very inexpensively priced compared to some. He is just real and will provide information, suggestions and advice that supports you into healing your alignment/​back issues in multiple ways which are in addition to his chiro work. I have had alignment issues my entire life and slowly that is all changing with his help and work.
Also he has done what is called a Nasal Specific technique on me (usually top athletes do this) which opens and clears the sinuses. It is making such an incredible difference. I stand and breathe better.
There are free evaluations so there is really no reason not to get an understanding of your back, spine and alignment health. I highly recommend Dr. Fretty!

My lower back has been a problem for more than half my life. As I march forward into my 30s, what was once an off-​and-​on irritation has become a constant and debilitating, life-​altering problem. I was unable to put on my shoes, or to even stand up straight without sharp pain in my back that ran down my legs and radiated through my whole body. Even after taking excessive amounts of advil and aleve, I was close to tears each day, not able to find a comfortable position to save my life.
One visit to Dr. Fretty and I already felt a million times better. That first night I slept great and felt like a whole new person the next day. I was still achy of course, but it was different, more bearable. I am not saying that I am cured, but now, 2 appointments in, I couldn’t be more grateful for my decision. Besides being an amazing chiropractor, he is a very nice, very mellow person, which makes you feel immediately at ease.
He and I agreed on a 4 week plan to set my back right and get me back to doing yoga. I have faith he’ll meet my expectations…

I saw Dr Fretty a few times and overall a very nice guy who wants the best for his clients. There was a bit of a lack of communication which caused me to end my sessions with him but I still think he is a good chiropractor. I recommend with reservations.

Dr. Fretty is amazing. When my hip went out, I immediately thought of Ocean Chiropractic because Dr. Fretty has been taking care of a friend of mine and I knew his treatments are very effective.
Careful, caring adjustments have made me feel like I can walk again.
Thank you, Dr. Fretty!