Portland, OR · Vancouver, WA
You don't have a pain problem. You have a movement problem.
Most clinics treat where it hurts. We find what's actually causing it and teach your body how to fix it for good.
2-hour first visits · one-on-one with your doctor · feel a difference by the end of session one
Our process
A clear path. From your first visit forward.
You don't need another vague care plan. Every patient walks the same three steps - and knows exactly where they are at all times.
Root-cause evaluation
A two-hour first visit. We watch how you actually move, find the pattern that's failing, and tell you whether we can help.
- — Full movement assessment
- — One-on-one with your doctor
- — Same-day hands-on treatment
Six-visit care plan
A clear plan, not endless visits. Six sessions designed to retrain the broken pattern with a re-exam to measure what changed.
- — Weekly visits, weekly progress
- — Soft tissue + nervous system work
- — Re-exam at visit six
Lifelong skills
After the plan, spaced visits and home practice keep the pattern strong. The goal isn't to need us forever - it's to teach your body what it forgot.
- — Spaced check-ins
- — Movement homework
- — Direct access if pain returns
The Movement Paradigm
Three patterns. Almost every pain.
After 10+ years of clinical work, we found that nearly every chronic pain pattern traces back to one of three foundational movements being broken.
Find the broken one. Retrain it. The pain pattern goes with it.
Reset the nervous system. Reduce neck strain. Restore shoulder mobility. The first thing we look at and often the first thing we fix.
Build a stable spine. Decompress disc bulges. Protect against injury. The bridge between breath and movement under load.
Move from the hips. Take load off the knees, neck, and low back. The single most underused movement in chronic pain.
Built for the skeptic
If you've tried everything, start here.
PT that didn't stick. Adjustments that wore off. Exercises that made it worse. We hear it every day. The reason care didn't work isn't you - it's that no one looked at how you actually move.
Our system gives you a clear answer in one visit: is this a movement-based problem, and can we fix it? If yes, we tell you exactly how. If no, we refer you to someone who can.
Why we're different
- 2-hour first visits, not 15-minute adjustments
- One-on-one with your doctor, every visit
- Movement-based, not adjustment-based
- A clear care plan with a re-exam at visit six
- If we can't help, we'll tell you who can
Two locations · Portland + Vancouver The team
Meet who you'll actually work with.
Every visit is one-on-one with your clinician. Each person below has their own story and clinical focus; Tap any to find the right fit before booking.
Chiropractic
Intern
In their own words
I'd tried everything. PT, three different chiropractors, two MRIs. The first visit at Move Better, they showed me what no one else had - the movement my body had stopped doing years ago.
A Move Better patient · chronic low back
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Notes for the patient who's already done the reading.
Ten years of clinical writing on movement, pain, and the patterns underneath both. Most of it for the visitor who's tried other care and wants to know if this approach is actually different.
The complete read
The Move Better Field Guide
Our whole approach in one place — the movement paradigm, the first visit, and how we work through the conditions we see most.
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Next steps
Find out in one visit.
If movement-based medicine is the answer for you, you'll know by the end of session one.