Testimonials

“The very beginning part of my journey – I had a concussion 5 years ago and it was pretty severe. I had to do physical therapy for 5-6 months. I had chronic neck and shoulder pain and headaches, my upper back was chronically in pain. I got to the point where I didn’t even notice it because it was there all the time. I was to the point where I was just going through the day. I wasn’t really living. It was about 3 years before I started coming here.

After the concussion, when I would sleep, I would startle – I constantly startled. I knew that was related to my nervous system. I also have always had gut issues. I had a lot of food allergies and intolerances. My immune system was so out of whack and was just reacting to everything I ate.I’ve been diagnosed with celiac and I have another autoimmune disorder – psoriasis. It’s not severe by any means but that was triggered about two years ago when I had high stress levels. So I decided I needed to come back and make this part of my health rehab.

I had a lot of high stress with work, I own my own practice. The stress on top of the damage from my concussion was overwhelming. I had actually gone to a naturopath that suggested I do something like this.

For so many years I’ve taken the holistic approach. Years ago when I was diagnosed with celiac, I was taking more of the traditional route with medications but I’m so sensitive to medications, I just couldn’t do that. I got to a point where I knew I would have more and more symptoms. Once the psoriasis hit, that was it, I needed a reset and a lifestyle change.

I had gone to other chiropractors for more short term, pain relief. I never saw chiropractic as long term, keeping your nervous system and all the other systems in check. I had never really heard that until I heard Dr. Nikki and Dr. Mike speak about it. It made sense to me. The scans lined up with the organ systems that I was having problems with.

I think it took about 8 months here until I felt in a stable place. My neck and back were out for so long that it kept wanting to go back. I was no longer having the headaches, I was no longer having the chronic neck pain. I’ll be honest, I got worse before I got better. I was doing chiropractic but also had to do cranio-sacral massages to help release some of that stress. I detoxed hard. I knew it was something I had to go through in order to get to the other side and create that stability.

I can definitely tell a difference after coming so long. I have more energy. I’m sleeping better – I don’t have that startle anymore in the middle of the night, I sleep more soundly. I don’t feel the bloating after I eat anymore. I don’t have the pain that I had before. I don’t have tightness in my chest and neck like I used to; with my high cortisol that’s where I would hold my stress. I exercise now. Before when I tried to exercise I would be exhausted the rest of the day but I wanted to exercise because it was good for me mentally. Now, I’m energized by exercise.

Once I got stable and got over that hump, it was all worth it.“

“Before starting care at CLC, Jackson’s neck was getting stuck to the right side and his head shape was being affected. So I sought out care when he was 5 weeks old. My first stop and main thing we wanted to try was chiro care; we knew this would likely help a lot of other things too. The added benefits of sleeping and breastfeeding were things I thought about too.

I started realizing this was working for him and had an impact on him when we would see his head shape changing quite a bit. His family would notice and comment on how good it looked. We saw those physical changes.

We’ve seen the changes in his head but we are continuing to bring him for the overall health benefits because chiro can help with all sorts of things throughout his body. I have plenty of friends who have kids that get ear infections all the time, so if there’s something I can do to help potentially prevent that or help him through that, I’m all for it! They change so much and grow so much in the first year of life; if there’s anything I can do to try to put him ahead, especially during this crazy time in life, then I’m all for it.”

“Before starting care here I had lower back pain, issues with my knees, tightness in my shoulders, being more sore after workouts and work, and feeling more tired than what I’d like.

I had tried other chiropractors before coming here, they’d do the same adjustments each time, I only felt good for a couple days after then the soreness was right back. Stretching helped some but I was too tight to do it comfortably.

What was different here was all the scans you did and explaining the body more – like the fight or flight and what stress does to the body. Before, it was explained to me that I was just tight and it needs adjusted. It didn’t all come together before, the scans really bring it all together. I started to see this working at my second scan when I started to see everything shifting and adjusting better, my sleep was better, workouts were better, work was better. I’m more comfortable with the way I move around, I’m not worried about getting tight like I used to. I have more energy now!

Life isn’t filled with lower back pain anymore, it’s extremely better now. There’s times I go so long without even thinking about it. I can actually run now comfortably and enjoy it. I’m much more conscious about the things I’m eating now from the things you guys talk about and show. It all comes together and it’s related.

With my new son, Ridge, here, when I hold him my body feels it but I think it would have been much worse if I wasn’t doing what I’m doing now with care here. I think it would be 10x worse. We’re extremely grateful we met you guys. Everything has come full circle when you figure out what’s going on and you get help.”

“We started bringing Rosie to CLC because she seemed really “wound up” and was way too anxious for a three year old. We were all adjusting to having a new baby in the house, so there were just a lot of changes happening all at once. Even though we were always outside, going on bike rides, eating really well and doing “all the things”, her energy was still not being released. That especially showed up at bedtime. It was almost impossible to get her to go down to bed. It was super frustrating because I felt like we were doing all of the other things, and we were still just having a really hard time. It left me wondering what we were missing!

The scans you do were so fascinating to me. I remember Rosie’s scans being all over the place, and it confirmed what we already knew about her having a ton of pent up energy inside her system that was not being released. In the past, we were also never talked to about going to the chiropractor more than once a month. Having her come more frequently made a huge difference. Things started to get easier with Rosie right after our first week of care. She would take a nap after her adjustments and I felt like those were the best days ever. She would wake up from the naps like a brand new tiny human! My husband even said she was more calm! He was definitely much more skeptical and hesitant, so when he really noticed how much better she was doing, he really believed in what you guys were doing here. So much so, that he actually started coming for care too.

The biggest difference I’ve noticed with Rosie is how much better she is able to sleep. She’s able to nap when she needs to and follows her own cues when she needs to rest. Our whole family comes to get adjusted together on Wednesdays and we use that day to spend time together. As a nursing mama, I can’t wait for my adjustment each week! My husband is on his feet all day and complains much less now that he’s getting adjusted. Our baby Zinnia was 4 months old when we started coming and we’ve never dealt with the “witching hour”, and that was something that was really hard with Rosie. Bedtime is much more enjoyable now, and there is just much more calm in our family!”

“One day I had woke up with the worst back pain!! It was so painful to move/walk.

Obviously I called Congruent Life Chiropractic since I was already taking two of my kids there! They were amazing right from the start!

After seeing my scans and seeing all of the areas where I had so much stress it was so eye opening! Sometimes we just live with the pain and ignore what our body is trying to tell us. The scan showed what I hadn’t spoke with my mouth. Areas that I had been struggling with because of my postpartum hormones. I definitely felt like I was struggling with mild PPD for probably the first 6 months of Eric’s life. My hormones made me feel all over the place, super irritable and not enjoying my kids/life at all.

It was the worst feeling and I know I was miserable to live with as a wife and a mother! I couldn’t believe the difference I felt within a couple months of being regularly adjusted. It wasn’t an overnight change but I’m here to tell you there did come a day that I wasn’t feeling those PPD feelings any longer and able to handle stress much easier.

Focusing on what I was putting into my body, trying to become healthier and of course getting regular adjustments (so my nervous system can function properly) has been such a great change in my life!!

I’m a huge advocate for Chiropractic and believe that it can help in SO many areas!! I hope that if you or your kiddo is struggling in any way that you’ll give CLC a shot!!”

“Before starting care at CLC, I had general back issues and stressors, but the main reason I came was because I was having debilitating vertigo. My daughter has been coming for her pregnancy and told me I should give you guys a try.

I had been dealing with vertigo for over 2 years but over the last year it was more ‘on’ than ‘off’, almost on a daily occurence. I would get up and start my day and suddenly I would get hit with it out of nowhere, an aura would start and I knew I would have to change my plans for the entire day. It would completely interfere with my life; it was very debilitating. After struggling with it for so long with no relief, I thought “this is my life now.” I had to organize the last year of my life around my vertigo.

Before finding you guys, I went to an ENT. They put me on steroids, diuretics, they shot steroids in my ear, they told me to change my diet…I took a lot of meclizine which makes me tired the rest of the day and makes me really moody. Then I went to a PT and he would do exercises with me and it didn’t seem that effective. I also went to a different chiropractor but saw no change in my vertigo. After trying ALL of those things with no relief, I completely lost hope, I figured this was how I was going to feel the rest of my life. I tried to just be happy when I wasn’t dizzy, but that was getting really hard to do as those days were few and far between. I was sad and felt defeated, I was like “okay, this is it.” The hardest part of it all was that I never knew when I was going to be down and out for the day which made it incredibly difficult to make plans; it was so frustrating.

The first time I thought what you were doing here was working was about 4-5 months ago after my very first adjustment. One of the first times you worked on me, I actually got dizzy and I knew you guys had hit the spot. That was one of the last times I’ve been dizzy! After 2 adjustments, I haven’t had an episode since! I almost can’t believe it, after YEARS of vertigo, it’s gone! There’s been a little bit of an aura here and there, but it has never turned into a full blown vertigo episode since I began care. I no longer wake up everyday with that dread of “I’m gonna get dizzy today” and have to worry about how close I could be to my bed because that’s where I’d need to be. There’s been some awful situations where I had pushed myself too far and I overdid it in the past, the vertigo would come on so quickly. I’d always be worried about where I would be at, what I would be doing, and how it would affect my day. There were so many times I would be driving down the interstate and I would literally have to pull over on the side of the road for hours because the vertigo would come on so fast. We once had friends visiting from out of the country and I had to spend the entire week in bed because I couldn’t even stand without getting dizzy. I don’t have those worries any longer! My vertigo is no longer holding me back! CLC has completely changed my life!

I’m 62 years old and I feel really good! I exercise and eat really well; I don’t like to see doctors or use medications. I’m determined to stay on this path of holistic care, keeping my spine in check, and continue to stay active as I get older. I’m not living a life of hurting at my age. Keeping your spine in check affects a lot of other things in the body!

CLC has been so different than anything else I have tried in the past. You were amazing at explaining what was happening neurologically that related to the symptoms I was having. You were able to see exactly where my stress was in my nervous system on the scans, I hadn’t seen it pinpointed like that before, it gave me a lot of hope right away. You were really able to target my vertigo, along with so many other issues I was having too! I even started having more regular bowel movements, which is something I had struggled with for years!

When I saw my scans match up with how I was feeling, it all made so much sense. You kept talking about this area between the top of my spine where I didn’t have as much blood flow and that made sense, too. I honestly didn’t think chiropractic was the answer, but I do now. I have gotten my life back!

“Before starting care, I had a bunch of problems with energy, stress, tension in upper neck and shoulders, back pain and migraines. I used to see a chiropractor up until my senior year of high school and once I came to college 4 years ago, it was too much of a hassle to drive home all the time. Freshman year I made it work but sophomore and junior year I really struggled with pain. I tried a bunch of different treatments. The last 3.5 years have been a real struggle before I came here.

My pain affected me mentally. I had to adjust my entire life. I could not stand for long periods of time. As a college student, I wanted to go to all the football games and I knew that I could not stand there. I made it through the first quarter and I was in so much pain that I was in tears every single game. It hurt to walk home because I was in pain after that. I couldn’t sit for long periods of time, so when we had our hour and a half to three hour class, I would be that student to get up in the middle to go for walks because my back hurt so bad. It really affected a bunch of different things, I knew I couldn’t sit for long periods of time but I also couldn’t stand for long periods of time. It really affected a lot of things; I am 20 and couldn’t even sit in a chair like a normal person.

I went to 8 different doctors trying to find out what was wrong, I had been tested for rheumatoid arthritis; all sorts of different tests done, everything came back negative. Basically they told me I had arthritis and that it was just something I had to deal with or I could be on chronic pain management for the rest of my life. I didn’t want to do that. I tried steroid injections, cortisone shots, physical therapy, it was just absolutely unbearable. I completely limited all my activities so that I wouldn’t hurt. But now here I am.

I didn’t think I would be able to run again because of all my pain. But a month ago I ran 2.5 miles and it wasn’t unbearable pain afterwards! I did it and I was so proud of myself. Some days I was so frustrated I couldn’t run, now I have that if I want to do it!

I honestly was kind of skeptical at the beginning of chiropractic care, I thought, “These people say they are going to fix everything, they’re just like everyone else.” But then around week 3 my body finally started feeling better and I have not had a migraine all week, I feel so relaxed. I finally have hope again after years of chronic pain! I’ve even noticed my energy levels have improved; I’m not always exhausted the way I used to be! Despite my skepticism, this actually was helping me so much!!!

What was different here is that you guys listened to me. To all the other doctors, I was just another patient. I’d walk in, tell them my pain and they’d be like, “You can take pain medicine.” I came here and you’re like, “That’s unacceptable, that’s not going to happen, we’re going to work through this.” You guys didn’t only care about just my pain, but you also helped me with my diet, my mental health and making me feel better about myself, and just completely changing everything; I can be a normal college student now that I’m not in constant pain and I have CLC to thank for that!”

“Chiropractic made a world of difference for Owen!!!

He struggled greatly with digestive issues! Sometimes it would be 7-14 days between bowel movements, very painful for him to go & always with never ending tears!! We even took him to our family doctor and insisted on blood tests to help us figure out how to help him. Those tests all came back fine and showed he has no intolerances. He had struggled with it for a few months and I could kick myself for not getting him in to see the chiro sooner.

It was amazing to see the technology that Congruent Life Chiropractic uses and to be able to see the problem areas on the scan align with his symptoms/struggles. The first thing we noticed was he was able to go to the bathroom within 24 hours of getting an adjustment and he was able to go 2-3/week; SO much better than once every two weeks. He finished his treatment plan and it was a sigh of relief that he no longer cried when he went to the bathroom and his body was able to regulate!!

Owen has continued to get adjusted since mid 2019 and we have been blessed that he no longer has any digestive issues and has been healthy. I think he has maybe started to get sick one time since starting care and even then it didn’t even turn into a full blown cold!! So thankful to have a chiro office that specializes in pediatrics and families!”

“Originally, I brought Miles to CLC because of painful breastfeeding. My lactation consultant recommended CLC to help. Along with breastfeeding problems Miles’ neck was getting stuck to the right side and that was causing a flat spot on his head.

I could tell chiropractic was working when feedings started to get less uncomfortable. Miles also started sleeping really well and turning his head a lot more. If he ever had constipation issues, an adjustment would immediately relieve him! I noticed an all-around change in him. I can tell when he needs an adjustment and after, I always leave with a calmer baby. We definitely had to make sure we were following the doctors’ recommendations for care, but the team made that so easy! CLC was not an immediate fix but we are so glad we were recommended it.

With everything going on in the world right now, I want to set Miles up for the healthiest life possible! In general, I want Miles to have the best functioning body! By starting him with chiropractic at a young age, he will have an advantage as he grows and develops!”