Our Services
At Welcome to Wellness Chiropractic, our goal is to offer chiropractic services aimed at enhancing your well-being and enabling you to lead a life free from pain. Dr. Renee is highly trained and experienced, and she will work with you to develop a treatment plan tailored to your individual needs.
We provide various chiropractic services, including:
At Welcome To Wellness, we are here to help you uncover what’s been invisible or hidden from you about your health. We know that often the underlying causes of symptoms are not investigated. That’s where we come in…
Functional medicine focuses on identifying and addressing the root cause of symptoms. Each symptom may be one of many that are contributing to an individual’s symptoms.
Looking at the picture below, you can see the organs and systems that can be affected by inflammation. Whereas others will look to stop the symptom, or suppress the symptom, we look for the root cause. The keys to health and longevity are to figure out where the inflammation is coming from and how we can address it to heal YOU from the inside out.
Every person is different based on their genes, environment, and lifestyle. Only support that addresses the right cause will have a lasting benefit. We seek to help your symptoms, versus symptom chasing. We, of course, look at your symptoms, but we also look beyond the symptoms, to see you, the person as a WHOLE. Then we create a custom program designed specifically for YOU!!
Here at Welcome to Wellness our focus is on:
- helping your body lower inflammation
- Reset and Rebalance hormones
- Help your body reverse age or age in a healthier and easier way
- Deal with menopause better
- Find out why you have gut issues
- Uncover reasons for skin issues
- Lose weight
- Decrease Body Fat
- Help your body build and keep muscle
- AND TEACH YOU ABOUT YOUR BODY SO YOU DON’T HAVE TO RELY ON OTHERS FOR YOUR HEALTH GOALS!
Here are some testimonials that speak to our work.
Hi Dr. Renee!
You helped me to understand my body from a functional medicine perspective. What truly helped me a great deal is the way you analyzed my blood work and showed me that standard lab results do not show ranges that are for optimal organ and system functioning. Understanding the narrower ranges for optimal vitalization has really been life changing in raising my awareness about my own health.
Finally, I appreciated your style. You are real, direct, knowledgeable, and you took the time to show me and teach me.
Much Love,
Laurie
Breathing Wellness:
WHAT IS SOMATO-RESPIRATORY INTEGRATION
And
WHAT CAN IT DO FOR ME?
Breathing Wellness is not about teaching you how to breath. It’s about teaching you and your body to adapt to life stresses because of how your body has stored stress from the present and the past. It’s about your wellness because it releases the stress, traumas and emotions that no longer serve you, your life, or your wellness.
Breathing Wellness works with the Vagus Nerve and balances your nervous system and brain. A balanced nervous system will help you hustle when you need to hustle and heal, repair and recover when you need to heal, repair and recover.
Breathing Wellness is a specific set of exercises designed to help connect your body (somatic), your breath (respiratory), your body’s energy and inner wisdom. Life, and all the things that come with life, can distract us from staying grounded. Breathing Wellness helps reconnect you to your center so that the outside distractions do not throw you off your game.
Breathing Wellness lays its foundation in Somato-Respiratory Integration, which originates from Dr. Donald Epstein, the creator and developer of Network Spinal Analysis.
According to Dr. Epstein,
“When we can breathe fully and freely, we bring life, movement, peace, energy, and relaxation throughout the body. When these elements are combined or integrated, what results is a breakdown of old tension and a release of healing power for use to the benefit of your greater being.”
Traumatic events in your life that are interpreted by your brain as not “safe” to experience will be stored in the body as vibration. Over time, that energetic vibration will take physical form as muscle spasm, pain, spinal distortion, posture changes, reduced breathing, and reduced motion. Your ability to connect with those areas of the body becomes impaired, since your body perceives that original vibration as unsafe to deal with. It is only when you can experience the original energy in safety, can you turn that once offensive event into your medicine; your fuel for healing!
Each Breathing Wellness exercise addresses a pattern that has been stuck in the body. With your hands placed on your body in specific places, we can free the bound-up energy and spontaneous healing can occur.
Breathing Wellness exercises differ from breath work therapies. Think of these exercises as connection exercises. Just like you go to the gym for greater muscle strength and cardiovascular health; these exercises can be incorporated into your daily routine, strengthening your connection of your body, nervous system, health, wellness and mood.
Most important in Breathing Wellness exercises is that your “higher” brain becomes engaged in the process. By this, we do not mean that you think, analyze, or rationalize what is going on in your session at that time. We are accessing the healing power of your body and your brain. The alternative is automatic breathing, which we do every day, but that may not be in your highest health interest.
Your connection to your body will be facilitated with a trained Breathing Wellness Educator. This is someone who helps you to find your inner peace, your inner strength, your inner empowerment, and/or your inner healing. When you tap into your body’s wisdom, it will improve your health and your life. You only have one body and we are here to help you take care of it!
The vagus nerve is a crucial component of the nervous system, responsible for regulating various bodily functions such as digestion, heart rate, and breathing. Supporting the vagus nerve can have a positive impact on overall health and well-being. Here are some ways to support the vagus nerve:
- Deep breathing: Slow, deep breaths stimulate the vagus nerve and help to promote relaxation.
- Exercise: Regular exercise can improve vagal tone, which is the measure of the strength and function of the vagus nerve.
- Meditation: Mindfulness meditation and other relaxation techniques can help to stimulate the vagus nerve and promote relaxation.
- Cold exposure: Exposure to cold water or air can stimulate the vagus nerve and improve overall nerve function.
- Probiotics: Research suggests that probiotics can improve vagal function and overall gut health.
- Massage: Gentle massage, especially around the neck and throat, can help to stimulate the vagus nerve.
- Social engagement: Positive social interactions, such as spending time with friends and family, can help to improve vagal tone and overall well-being.
Toxins come from our air, water, alcohol, drugs, medications, food and what we put on our body. These toxins get stored in our fat cells. The liver and skin do their best to get rid of these toxins but sometimes it’s too much and the body gets overloaded by them.
This sheet shows some of the effects of toxins on the body.
If you are looking for healthy ways to cleanse or get rid of toxins, we can create programs designed specifically for you. These programs include proper nutrition based on testing that we do to figure out where you’re lacking in vitamins and minerals. We also look to see if you have too much of certain vitamins and minerals.
At Welcome to Wellness, we have detoxification tools in our office such as an infrared, RED LIGHT, sauna as well as a detoxification foot bath station. These methods, coupled with the inside out approach makes for the perfect program for your body and the health goals that you have.
We look forward to working with you!
Biofeedback is a powerful tool to empower individuals to tune into their body’s signals. These signals can be out of the level of awareness because they are subtle and therefore, overlooked.
Biofeedback involves using a non invasive, pain free device to get information about the body’s functions back to the individual. This allows someone to gain a deeper understanding of their body. It’s like holding up a mirror to the inner workings of one’s body, revealing the effects of stress, relaxation, and emotional states on physical health.
Biomechanical changes and stress to the neuromusculoskeletal system are present during and immediately after pregnancy. Chiropractic evaluation and treatment during this period may be warranted and considered a safe and effective means of treating common musculoskeletal symptoms that many pregnant patients encounter. Scientific evidence supports the effectiveness of pre and postnatal chiropractic support.
Chiropractic care during pregnancy may improve your emotional well-being, alleviate stress, and help with common discomforts such as back pain, pelvic pain, and sciatica.
In postnatal care, chiropractors may offer treatments to address emotional well-being, stress, nutrition and musculoskeletal issues that may have arisen during pregnancy or childbirth.
The normal birthing process is a potential source of trauma to the infant’s spine. At Welcome To Wellness, Dr Renee extends her understanding of spinal segmental dysfunction, or subluxation in chiropractic terminology, to apply to newborn spinal function, with the resultant concern for the health of the infant. Correction of such a presentation may be accomplished through various light, precise, gentle techniques.
Retreats with Dr Renee (and collaborators) are held twice a year as an immersion experience into healing, body restoration and regeneration of the power inside you.
Life is incredible, but it does get in the way.
The retreat setting offers you the opportunity to have a safe and loving space. A community if you will, so that you can fully be yourself and fully focus on yourself and your healing. There are no “to-do” lists here. We welcome you “to-be.”
Our retreat setting will give you the tools that you can take home and use in your daily life. The tools we use will help amplify your health and healing. The experience will help you fill your cup, (physically, emotionally, mentally, spiritually), because it is challenging if not impossible to give from an empty cup effectively.
Here’s Sheila sharing her experiences at the retreat in Hawaii:
