Our Vision
We dream of seeing people, families, and communities in greater Edmonton that are passionately pursuing and reaching their purpose. We believe that health comes from within and need not limit you when living your best life.
Chiropractic care is both an ongoing and collaborative approach to your health over your entire lifetime. We look at your health and life holistically, exploring everything from movement to mindset, nutrition to sleep habits, overall lifestyle to joy, and beyond. Whether you are on a health journey or seeking support for a family member, we recognize that each person we have the opportunity to serve is beautifully and uniquely made, and the approach to their health should reflect that.
We exist to support, inform, and care for individuals of all ages, ranging from babies and toddlers to school-age children and teens, to adults and beyond. We work to create an ever-strengthening foundation of health that you can build your dreams on.
Our Unique Perspective on Chiropractic Care
You are an expression of your lifetime of experiences. How you move, think, and eat all contribute to your current level of health and how your body is expressing itself. Often people don’t realize that all the physical, mental, and emotional experiences (or traumas – including the little ones) get stored in your body. This creates an accumulated load that impacts your health and healing, and if left unaddressed often develops into illness and disease over time.
We help teach you how to take control of your health. As Chiropractors, we look for the interference that is developed as a defense mechanism within your body to experiences or traumas, whether they be small or large, which the body is holding onto. Because you’re still holding on, your body goes into self-protection as it tries to protect its most sensitive systems (nervous system, brain, spinal cord). It goes into a form of lockdown as if the threat is still present when in reality it isn’t.
Here are some examples of how this can present:
In adults, we often see short tight muscles, swelling, spasms, weakness, loss of function, etc). In teens, it can look like appetite changes, sleep changes, or challenges in focus and motivation. In babies it often presents as fussiness, crying excessively, latching issues, holding their body rigid, not being cuddly, or not liking tummy time. In athletes, it creates muscle imbalances, a higher likelihood of injury, or performance issues.
This is a very limited list, but what you need to understand is that your body starts to redirect and block communication between the brain and the body and the body has to adapt to that which is exhausting. This blocked communication expresses itself not only in pain but very subtly in other areas first, some of which are described above.
Your body has to get out of these states to begin healing. Our approach to this, after beginning with a thorough assessment, is adjusting the neuro-spinal system to reset your system and restart communication with the brain and the body to heal, repair, and replace cells. You have within you the ability to heal yourself from the inside out – we support you in reconnecting with the power that is within your body to help you heal and function at your best, every time without exception.
Your health journey, including the rate and speed at which you heal, is dependent on your commitment to yourself. We partner with you each step of the way, but ultimately it’s up to you to do the work required to support healing and reach your health goals.
Let’s add life to your life.
Dr. Wendy Coburn
Dr. Wendy Coburn is an inspirational leader, educator and caregiver with over 20 years of “hands-on” experience in the field of Family Chiropractic. In addition to the gentle care of the spine to properly detect and correct misalignments (subluxation), thereby restoring the flow of critical nerve impulses and responsiveness through the body, “Dr. Wendy” promotes holistic health and wellness integration through the recommendation, instruction, and practice of proper nutritional, physical and spiritual regimens.
As a teenager in Guelph, Ontario, Dr. Wendy was involved in a low-velocity motor vehicle incident. Although no immediate symptoms of injury were apparent, within months she was unable to walk. Initially diagnosed by a medical practitioner as a muscle strain, Dr. Wendy sought the care of a chiropractor, and soon discovered – through a thorough examination, x-rays and a report of findings, that she suffered from a disc bulge, injured spinal cord and spine with muscle spasm. Why so much damage happened was due to a weakened structure comprised of mild thoracolumbar scoliosis. It was here that her experience with, and affection for, Chiropractic began – first as a regular patient, and then as a student and practitioner – completing her undergraduate Physical Education Degree (now known as a Kinesiology degree) before attending chiropractic college.
“While in school I worked for different chiropractors and got to see the miracles happening around the country for people receiving care. I saw everyone getting help, from babies to great grandparents. This strengthened my conviction to become a chiropractor,” she says. Dr. Wendy is a loving wife and mother of three young children, and, with help from regular chiropractic care herself, is also an accomplished equestrian and triathlete. She firmly practices what she preaches and teaches, and believes that “Chiropractic is not something we need just in case, or in case of emergency, it is something we should all be incorporating into our regular routine as part of our healthy lifestyle.”
“We are Chiropractors, and we will always provide principled Chiropractic Care. Today we will love everyone, serve everyone, and give the message of chiropractic to everyone, because every man, woman, and child needs Chiropractic in order to become and remain subluxation free. At no time will we withhold the truth of chiropractic for fear of ridicule. We are experts at detecting and correcting subluxations, and will correct subluxations on everyone we care for today. When we deliver a chiropractic adjustment, the power within the human body will help them heal and function at higher levels, every time, and without exception.”
– Dr.
Wendy Coburn