Without spines, humans would be like puppets: limp, easily manipulated, and irrelevant since the advent of the battery. Keep your independence intact with today's Groupon to Tropical Chiropractic Group in Coconut Creek. Choose from the following options:

• For $39, you get a consultative exam and spinal-decompression therapy (a $460 value).
• For $40, you get a one-hour hot-stone massage (a $80 value).
• For $50, you get a chiropractic laser treatment (a $100 value).

Licensed chiropractor Dr. Scott Herman and his troupe of spine specialists pitch their tent upon the whole-body approach to tackling tension, pain, and other back-related ailments. During the 45-minute nonsurgical spinal-decompression therapy, back aches and neck annoyances will be slowly excavated from their bothersome caves with the help of gentle stretching techniques, which decompress the spine through an alternating roster of stretching and relaxing. Through the easygoing procedure, a process called imbibition occurs, in which the disks receive proper nutrient intake, relieving them of the need to whine through painful joints, tingling, and raspy love ballads. Alternatively, backs invisibly bruised from tension and strain can bask in an hour of stress-melting bliss with a tenderizing muscle massage, complimented by heated stones optimally placed to improve circulation and calm the nervous system like a lullaby composed in a bowl of alphabet soup.

Forty-five minutes of noninvasive cold-laser therapy introduce the specters of red and near infrared light to problematic areas. Tropical Chiropractic's experienced laser-yielders aim articulate photon beams at cells and tissues, where they are absorbed like spilled milk by a sponge cake. Some believe the photons have restorative effects upon cells through the conversion of biochemical energy, and the procedure may also improve circulation, minimize pain, and relieve strains.