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Clear Passage is a marvelous approach to treating infertility, bowel problems, pre- or post-surgery adhesions, and other concerns.

Dr. Peterson’s approach is to take all the goodness that Clear Passage offers, and add to it.

I have not been treated by Clear Passage or spoken with Clear Passage practitioners, so the differences I gather are from the website.

In addition to what Clear Passage provides, Dr. Peterson adds

Some conditions like fertility, PCOS, and endometriosis have a hormonal and inflammatory component. Dr. Caroline Peterson can help you address the internal medicine components of your health in addition to your manual therapy needs.

Most of the chronic conditions Dr. Peterson treats respond with 10-20 hours of manual therapy.

Because Dr. Peterson is in Portland only periodically, it is best to schedule “intensives”.

Dr. Peterson recommends two hour sessions for five visits, if you are local, then following up again when she is back in town.

If you are from out of town, you can schedule 2-4 hours of treatment daily to receive 20 hours of therapy while you are in town.

After 10 hours of therapy, you should be significantly improved, and probably there will be more work to do.

If you just schedule a one hour visit as a new patient we will spend about half the time taking the history, and then we will be left with only 30 minutes of treatment.

With that limited amount of treatment, you will probably not see positive changes and it will be difficult for your body to hold the changes until Dr. Peterson is in town again.

When Dr. Peterson is not in Portland, OR she is in Sarasota, FL

She has a practice there and you are welcome to come to sunny Florida and receive care.

We can also do phone consults for any functional medicine issues, energy medicine, and neuroemotional technique.

Dr. Peterson does not bill insurance.

You can request a superbill and submit it to your insurance for reimbursement.

Usually insurance has a cut off of reimbursing one hour of manual therapy each day.

Medicare and all add-ons only cover chiropractic manipulation of the spine for a new spinal injury. Medicare does not cover any history, exam, other manual therapy, extremity adjusting, or treatment of any chronic conditions.

Since Dr. Peterson only treats chronic conditions Medicare will not cover the services Dr. Peterson provides.

No. You do not need a diagnosis to receive care.

Most people with complex cases do not fall into one diagnosis.

I treat the person, not the diagnosis.

That said, the rubic for understanding constellations of signs and symptoms (AKA the diagnosis) is helpful guidance.

Yes, Dr. Caroline Peterson treats men for chronic pain, pelvic pain & dysfunction, abdominal adhesions & digestive issues, and varicose veins.

Many patients I see have another chiropractor that they continue seeing for regular adjustments.

There are many specialities in chiropractic, so many chiropractors use lenses that include more than moving bones.

I would say the thing that makes me different from many chiropractors is that I draw from many traditions to try to help you.

While massage therapists can be trained in many of the manual medicine techniques Dr. Peterson practices, they are not trained to diagnose and treat internal medicine issues.

While Dr. Caroline Peterson received her pelvic floor training from PTs (and midwives, and chiropractors, and naturopaths) when treating the pelvic floor she has a lens that is broader than the pelvic floor, and more inclusive than the musculoskeletal system.

Dr. Caroline Peterson was trained in pelvic exams (speculum/annual exams) in chiropractic college and midwifery school. She conducted many pelvic exams over the years, and no longer does the speculum exam, pap smears, and tests for infection and sexually transmitted infections because many others offer those services. She was also trained in endometrial biopsy with naturopaths, but also no longer practices that.

As a former midwife, Dr. Caroline Peterson has experience suturing the pelvic muscles after traumatic births. Experiencing the pelvis in the process of pregnancy, birth, immediate postpartum, and later postpartum helps Dr. Caroline Peterson understand the dynamics of the pelvis.

Dr. Caroline Peterson has studied pelvic floor therapy with Tami Kent, MSPT and her Holistic Pelvic Care, Bryan Baisinger, DC, Herman & Wallace, The Barral Technique of pelvic visceral manipulation, and midwife Anne Frye.

Dr. Caroline Peterson has spent over 30 years working with the pelvic bowl in many ways.

I think the thing that is most unique about my practice is the inclusion of the fluid body (artery, vein, lymph, cerebral spinal fluid) along with the other more readily recognized bodies.

It is easy to find someone who treats the musculoskeletal system (chiropractor/massage therapist), the chemical system (MD/DO/ND), the emotional system (therapist), the energy system (shaman/energy worker), the lymph system (lymph drainage specialist), and the cerebral spinal fluid system (craniosacral therapist).

It is harder to find someone who treats the venous system and recognize the congestion and other symptom-presentation it can have.

It is also harder to find someone who treats all these things.

The greatest thing that prevents people from receiving care is lack of appreciation for complexity

In my experience the greatest thing that prevents people from receiving care is lack of appreciation for the complexity of their body and the difficulty of interpreting signs.

Many people think they have things figured out. They have a paradigm that they are comfortable with that includes pain and dysfunction that is normal for them, and involves seeing practitioners or taking medicines for temporary relief.

It is hard for them to imagine a world in which chronic pain and dysfunction could be banished.

After all, they have already tried everything.

It is hard for people to wrap their minds around the influence that different systems have on each other, especially distant systems.

We are programmed to “know” that musculoskeletal pain is of muscle/joint origin.

After all, if heat is applied, or tylenol taken, or they receive a massage or adjustment on that area the pain improves . . . . temporarily.

It is hard to imagine an organ or vein or lymph can cause pain, and that the origin of the problem could be far away.

When I took the GRE (Graduate Entrance Exam required prior to graduate school) in the early 1990s, I was 96th percentile in analytical abilities.

That section was so fun for me. I didn’t even have to study.

There is something in my brain that really likes finding patterns and meaning in those patterns.

By the time I took the GRE again in the mid-1990s, the analytic section was gone.

In our culture there is not a high valuation of pattern recognition and analytical abilities.

The second greatest thing that prevents people from receiving care is a misapprehension of “normal”.

Culturally we believe things that are common (like leaking pee after having a baby or after menopause, or back pain, or painful periods) are normal.

Things that are common are often not normal.

But, because common things are . . . eeer . . . common, there is a complacency and acceptance around them.

The biomedical model is based on watchful waiting until something becomes pathological and thereby justifies intervention.

A functional medicine model that encourages early recognition and treatment of patterns that have begun to deviate from the ideal, is very different.

Resonance

Edgar Cayce said every person has a resonance for the intervention that will heal them.

Sometimes it is drugs, and sometimes it is herbs.

When I was a midwife, and I talked to women about the location of birth, I always spoke of resonance.

A woman must feel safe and at peace where she gives birth, and wherever she feels the most safety and peace is the correct place for her to birth.

Only when a person comes into resonance with a therapy can they heal.

I am not here to convince the satisfied.

It is good to be satisfied.

In fact, that is what we pine for.

I am here for the seeker.

The unsatisfied.

The person who wants more.

The person who is willing to try something new, and perhaps, be transformed.

Your desire to be cracked is legitimate, but you need to go to a different chiropractor.

Dr. Caroline Peterson does not just crack people.

When the spine is adjusted, endorphins are released, the fluid body is pumped, the muscles are stretched.

All that feels good!

The paperwork is extensive because the population Dr. Caroline Peterson serves have complex cases and complicated histories.

If you just need to be cracked and don’t want to fill out a bunch of paperwork, check out The Joint, or see what chiropractors are covered by your insurance and contact them.