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Helios Chiropractic, has been serving the greater Menomonie, WI area since 1992. Dr. Linda Capra has utilized Network Spinal Analysis (NSA) as her model of care from the inception of the office. Somato-Respiratory Integration (SRI)  was added in 2003 to bring a wholeness to our care model.

NSA and SRI are evolving bodies of health and wellness care developed by Dr. Donald Epstein. NSA has grown from over 100 years of research and use of the chiropractic model of health and well-being as coordinated by the spine.

SRI is the practice of exercises that are synchronized with the 12 stages of healing that Dr. Epstein organized in his 1995 book, The Twelve Stages of Healing . These stages and exercises have emerged from years of observation and interviewing people during their healing experiences as well as from world wide stories and practices.

As we change and grow, our work changes and grows. We are committed to becoming real and whole and human. We know this can be a hard and vulnerable experience; we also know that because of this, our life benefits are greater and more joyful than we have ever imagined. We know life is worth it. 
 
 Chiropractic is the largest form of health and wellness care in practice today. The concepts of health and wellness are evolved ways of thinking. 

We define wellness as being connected physically, emotionally, mentally, and spiritually.  It does not require excellent physical standards, emotional stability, mental sharpness or enlightenment.  But it does require the ability to observe one’s self and, moreover, the ability to accept and re-adjust one’s self according to our own potential and limits. 

Chiropractic was developed over 100 years ago to promote whole person care.  DD Palmer, the developer of chiropractic, melded scientific knowledge of the nervous system along with a philosophy of care which trusts that we have an inner wisdom which promotes life, health, and authenticity.  This Innate Intelligence is evident as a yearning for more. 

The nervous system is the communication channel that allows the conscious mind to understand and learn to trust the internal Innate Intelligence.  This Innate Intelligence is the knowing that keeps our hearts beating even while we sleep, digests our food, and allows us to dream.  It is the reflex that responds to sudden threats.  It is our ability to cry when others are in pain.  It is compassion, kindness, consideration, and love.  It is our desire, against all logic or reason, to embrace life; life that is messy, mean, and unfair.   It is also the part of us that can become dis-eased with addictions or compulsions; it is also the part of us that becomes scarred when we are abused.

DD Palmer never intended this form of care to be focused on symptom removal.   Headaches, back aches, sore legs, and such are the physical manifestations of a system that has been pushed beyond its limit.  Chiropractic care, in its beginning, was to be a way to harness the physical limits of being human and communicate with the Universal Intelligence of Completeness.  It is through this communication that we allow healing; and gain insight into our connection to all things, preventing further self destructive behavior.

Chiropractic care has proven itself to be efficient and effective in symptom relief but its glory, and our objective, is in the improvement of whole health.  As a person becomes more aware, efficiency sets in and we become more responsible for our own well-being, our own limits, and our own choices.