To mark a quarter-century of practicing chiropractic medicine in Wilton, Dr. Elihu Rosen is reviving an old-time tradition that is on the verge of extinction. “I’ve just added house calls to my practice,” said Dr. Rosen.

He said he treats “hundreds, if not thousands” of active patients in towns ranging from Greenwich to Westport. Each patient receives “personal, one-on-one, non-assembly line care,” he said. “We are a patient-oriented office — about the needs of the patients, not the doctor and staff.”

Dr. Rosen’s office at 465 Danbury Road, where his practice has been since 1999, is now open every Saturday in addition to weekdays. Before that, his office had been on Godfrey Place in Wilton Center since 1985, when he was Wilton’s first full-time chiropractor, he said. He also recently launched a new Web site, thechiropracticdoctor.com.

Lately Dr. Rosen has seen a marked uptick in the stress levels of his patients, which he described as “financial stress” from the economic downturn. Stress creates a “backlash” that can lead to a range of illnesses and aches and pains, according to Dr. Rosen.

One approach to treating stress-related problems is Dr. Rosen’s own invention, “trigger-point therapy.” He developed it when he was in school at the National College of Chiropractic Medicine in Illinois.

“It’s my unique approach,” he said. “Trigger points are made up of normal lactic acid, which gets trapped in the spinal muscles from some combination of physical, chemical or emotional stress. These spinal muscles then become imbalanced, eventually pulling spinal bones out of alignment, causing the spinal bones to then press on the nerves between them.”

Dr. Rosen’s treatment eliminates the knots or triggers of lactic acid, he said.

His ultimate goal is “to make people feel better than even before the pain started, then maintain spinal wellness and nerve flow, preventatively. … You don’t just go to a doctor or dentist when you are in pain, so why would you only go to chiropractor when you’re in pain?”

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