Chiropractic helps patients with a wide variety of stressors and injuries.

Chiropractic patients report better sleep, increased feelings of calm, and demonstrate signs of stronger immune systems.

People see chiropractors for the following issues:

• Aches and pains
• Tingling or numbness
• Sinus problems
• Digestive issues
• Headaches/migraines
• Allergies
• Anxiety and depression
• Poor sleep
• Immune system disorders
• Hormone imbalances
• General stress

Many of these symptoms are caused or aggravated by underlying nervous system dysregulations and compensation patterns people develop in response to stress and injury. In Somatic Chiropractic, we work directly on the root cause of the problem—interference in the nervous system communication—which most often reduces or eliminates the symptoms.

Traditional chiropractic finds and corrects spinal misalignments or subluxations to facilitate proper function of the nervous system and therefore the health of the individual. This is often done with manual spinal manipulation.

Somatic Chiropractic takes a more holistic approach and examines the entire body and ecosystem of health, instead of just focusing on the spine. It addresses the underlying causes of stress, injuries, and tension patterns. The body is a self-healing and self-correcting organism, and Somatic Chiropractic uses attuned touch to bring the nervous system’s awareness to the holding patterns, allowing them to release on their own with minimal force.

Somatic Chiropractic takes into account how the body stores emotions, how it processes food and chemicals, and how it copes with everyday physical stressors. To learn more, visit our Services page.

The first visit is an hour-long appointment.

We complete a comprehensive health history and physical exam: we perform neurological, orthopedic, and chiropractic-specific tests, and assess your posture, spine, muscle tension, and breathing patterns to get a holistic understanding of your body and find the root cause of your complaints. You will likely receive your first adjustment on this visit. Learn more about our services here.

Your second visit will be 30 minutes long and we will give you recommendations for how we can help you reach your health and life goals.

We will discuss the results of our exam and the consistency of care.

After the first few adjustments, you can expect to feel generally calmer, more grounded, and more settled in your body and nervous system.

That said, as you begin to release holding patterns and their associated stress, your body needs to actively work through the tensions and “retrace” them. This sometimes means feeling a little sore or uncomfortable right after an adjustment, like soreness after you exercised, or getting a runny nose after your sinuses have been clogged. Healing is never linear and your body needs the time and space to work through whatever it needs to in order to clear out the stress it has been holding.

Most importantly, you can expect to be safe in our hands: we are dedicated to doing everything we can to treat the root cause of your problems and help you optimize your health. Somatic Chiropractic will always meet you right where you are, with whatever your body is holding onto. The practice can be gentle, deep, physical, energetic, or whatever else is most appropriate in that moment.

Yes! The most important thing you can do is show up, and follow through. Somatic Chiropractic entails releasing patterns of stress and injury and then building a new foundation for health and adaptability.

During this process of transformation, there can be points of challenge or discomfort. This is when showing up and following through becomes most important. We see this process through with many patients and are here for you throughout your healing journey.

We are an out-of-network provider. This means that we require payment upfront, and can give you an itemized receipt with all of the necessary codes to submit to your insurance for reimbursement.

Medicare only covers spinal manipulation, while a lot of the adjustments we perform are gentle contacts to the spine or broader skeletal structure. Medicare will not cover these adjustments. If you have Medicare, we can provide you with an itemized receipt for the visits that included spinal manipulations.

Soma Connection is dedicated to integrating personal healing with community resilience. We offer options for those with less access to resources, and for those with more who would like to supplement the care of others.

Please email info@somaconnectionchiro.com for more information.