Chiropractor I am a Chiropractor with additional training in Functional Neurology through the ACNB.
I treat people with back pain, prenatal and postpartum issues, infants and children, people with chronic health issues and neurological issues, such as concussions and migraines.
11/13/2025
Whether it’s the start of the season or mid-season, it’s never too late for baseline testing – ideally done before a concussion occurs to better guide recovery if one does happen.
Why do Concussion Baseline Testing? – Baseline testing gives a clear picture of how your brain functions before an injury. If you ever sustain a concussion, your healthcare provider can compare your post-injury results to your baseline, which makes diagnosis and treatment more accurate.
Baseline Testing:
- Helps detect even mild concussion changes more accurately.
- Guides a personalized and safe return-to-play, school or work.
- Prevents long-term complications from returning too soon.
- Gives peace of mind for the athlete, parents and coaches.
Another Tasty Tuesday brought to you by Kira .holistic.nutrition.
A simplified healthier version, without the grains, but with all the flavour.
Directions:
1. Make the meatballs: Preheat oven to 350ºF. Grate the onion with a box grater or finely chop. Combine it with the remaining meatball ingredients.
2. Form the meatballs into bite sized meatballs and place on a rimmed backing sheet. Bake for 15-18 minutes depending on size.
3. Make the soup: Heat the olive oil in a large stockpot over medium-high heat. Sauté the carrots and celery for 5 minutes.
4. Pour in the Chicken Stock, 2 tsp of salt and pepper to taste and bring to boil.
5. Reduce heat to medium, add cooked meatballs and stir in spinach and cook for an additional 5 minutes, until wilted.
6. Season to taste.
Tidbits: Nutritional yeast can be used in place of traditional Parmesan Cheese.
Recipe Credit’s go to: Danielle Walker’s Against the Grain: Meals Made Simple
11/10/2025
This Wednesday, November 12th, Dr. Dave will be talking about Inflammation and how it affects brain function!
If you or someone you know struggle with any of the following: brain fog, poor concentration, memory issues, anxiety, low motivation, irritability, mood swings, sleep disturbances, headaches, migraines, sensitivity to light, fatigue… this talk is for you.
Come join us at 7:30pm.
To help us plan you can send us a quick message or give the clinic a quick call to let us know if you plan on joining.
Walk-in’s welcome!!
11/05/2025
Tonight kicks off November’s Brain Health Series with Dr David! Come on down to Hope Wellness Clinic for 7:30pm.
Topic for tonight will be on The Brain Pyramid - The Foundations for Good Brain Health. Come check it out at no cost!
To help us plan, send us a quick DM or call the clinic and let our admin staff know if you plan on joining. Walk-ins also welcome!
11/04/2025
Tasty Tuesday recipe brought to you by Kira .holistic.nutrition
Ingredients:
6 slices of bacon cut into 1” pieces
1 lb sweet or spicy Italian sausage meat
Crushed red pepper to taste
1 medium yellow onion diced
5 gloves garlic minced
2 large russet potatoes about 1.5 lbs, peeled and cut into 1/2” cubes
6 cups chicken stock or bone broth
4 cups kale chopped
1 cup coconut milk full fat
Sea salt and pepper to taste
Instructions:
1. Heat a large stock pot over medium high heat. Add the bacon pieces and cook, stirring occasionally to evenly brown, until crisp - about 5-8 minutes. Use a slotted spoon to transfer to cooked bacon to a paper towel lined plate to drain.
2. Lower the heat to medium and save the bacon fat in the pot. Add the sausage to the pot and sprinkle with crushed red pepper, if desired. Cook, stirring and breaking up lumps with a spoon, until browned - about 5-8 minutes. Use a slotted spoon to remove the sausage to a plate to drain. Save the fat in the pot.
3. With the heat still over medium, add the onions to the pot and cook until translucent, then add the garlic, stir, and cook another 45 seconds. Add the potatoes to the pot, sprinkle the potatoes, onions and garlic with sea salt and pepper to stir and coat.
4. Add the broth to the pot and bring to a boil over medium high heat. Lower the heat to medium and continue to cook until potatoes are fork tender - about 10 minutes. If using mushrooms or cauliflower*, move onto next step after broth boils.
5. Add the coconut milk to the pot and the sausage, stir and cook about 5 minutes to blend flavours. Stir in the kale and cooked bacon, cooking just another minute or so until the kale is wilted and vibrant green. Season the soup with sea salt and pepper to taste, if desired.
6. Remove from heat and serve - the soup will thicken as it cool. This soup stores well covered in the fridge for up to 5 days. Or can freeze up to one month.
Be mindful of sausage quality and ingredients. We purchase ours from a local butcher to ensure clean nutritious meats. Swap out potatoes for sweet potato, parsnips, rutabaga for a change!
Recipe credits to Paleo Running Momma
10/28/2025
Tasty Tuesday recipe brought to you by Kira!
Roasted Butternut Squash Soup
Ingredients:
2 tbsp olive oil
1 medium onion, halved
2.5 cups meat stock or bone broth
4 large garlic cloves, whole with skin on
Whole Butternut Squash, ~2 lbs
Directions:
-Preheat oven to 400 deg, and cover a baking sheet with parchment paper
-Slice butternut squash in half length-wise, and hollow out seed cavity
-Rub squash and onion halves with olive oil. Salt and pepper the squash to taste.
-Place squash on the parchment with the skin side up. Tuck garlic cloves inside the hollowed out seed cavity. Place onion halves on parchment, flat side down.
-Roast in the oven for approx 30 mins, or until the squash is tender and you can insert a fork into the thickest part.
-Meanwhile, warm up the broth in a pot on the stove.
-When vegetables are done cooking, flip squash over to let cool until handleable. Place onion into the warmed broth and squeeze garlic cloves out into the broth while squash is cooling.
-Once cooled enough to handle, scoop the squash into a high speed blender (may use a food processor or immersion blender), and carefully pour warmed broth, onion a,d garlic into the blender.
-Blend on high until completely smooth. Serve immediately.
This is a great light main dish, or a complementary side that can make use of fresh local harvests, and also provides support for the immune system!
10/27/2025
🧠 Your Brain Is Your Superpower—Are You Protecting It?
Join us this November at Hope Wellness Clinic for our FREE Brain-Health Series with Dr. David Hardy designed to give you the tools to help you sharpen your mind, reduce inflammation, and age with energy and clarity.
Each week we’ll dive into science-backed strategies for:
✔ The Brain Pyramid
✔ Inflammation & Cognitive Decline
✔ Sports Performance
✔ Longevity & Aging Better, Not Just Longer
To help us plan, send us a DM or let our admin know if you plan to attend! Walk-ins also welcome.
08/09/2025
Sometimes addressing food allergies can feel really overwhelming, especially with kids, but with a bit of learning and creativity, kids can live very robust lives on a limited diet!! Dr. Allison’s daughter’s birthday cake this year is made with coconut flour, honey and eggs, filled with homemade raspberry rhubarb jam and the whole thing including the icing and candies is gluten, dairy, corn, soy and even cane sugar and dye free!! Still delicious though 😋 but if you know you need to make changes and don’t know where to start, book and appointment with Kira Sinnamon .holistic.nutrition who is savvy with all of these allergies and with feeding picky kids!
08/05/2025
We are back! Our hours for the remainder of the summer are Mondays from 9:30-2:30, and Tuesdays-Thursdays 9 am-8pm. We are closed fridays for the month of August, but will resume Fridays in September!
08/04/2025
Happy August Long!! While our Hope Wellness team are enjoying the long weekend, we will be open again Tuesday August 4th with our regular hours! .holistic.nutrition
07/28/2025
We are looking for a part time admin who can work Tuesday and Thursday evenings from 5-8. Experience with medical billing and Jane are helpful but not necessary to apply!
07/28/2025
We are hiring again!! We are needing a part time admin to cover our Tuesday and Thursday evening shifts from 6-8 pm. Experience with medical billing and the EHR system Jane are very helpful, but are not required to apply.
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I am a Chiropractor. I treat sports injuries, back pain, chronic health issues and more complex issues, such as concussions and migraines. I offer both standard chiropractic treatments, as well as specific treatments and exercise programs that are more effective for complex or chronic issues. In addition, I have a heart for treating pregnant women, babies, and young children, having had my own 3 beautiful babies in the past few years. I am passionate about helping women overcoming chronic issues related to childbirth, including pelvic pain and pelvic dysfunction. I am trained to assess for diastasis recti and to teach a rehab protocol called Hypopressives or Low Pressure Fitness, to help restore pelvic and abdominal tone in both men and women, which can improve athletic performance, sexual function, and decrease incontinence and prolapse. I am also very knowledgeable about diet, supplements and lifestyles to support a healthy balanced life.
More about my story:
Having personally experienced chronic back pain and the issues related to chronic illness, I am passionate about helping people troubleshoot their health problems. I experienced a bad back injury when I was 18 and it wasn’t until 4 years later when I was in chiropractic school that an Applied Kinesiology instructor finally got to the bottom of my constant pain and was able to help me in one visit. This motivated me to learn Applied Kinesiology and to learn how to dig deeper for answers to my patient’s chronic complaints. I then was introduced to Functional Neurology through a very good friend of mine, and immediately knew that it was what I wanted to learn. It put together my need for understanding why chiropractic worked so well for some, but not so great for others, and gave me a way to be more accurate and offer more effective treatments to my sensitive or chronic patients.
In addition to my back injury, I also discovered that I had celiac disease in my first year of college. After going gluten-free, I could finally stay awake and alert through a school day, as well as get rid of my chronic migraines and digestive issues. This sparked a particular interest in nutrition as going through chiropractic school, which lead to me starting a blog and gluten-free club at school. Since then I have continued to study various diets and their benefits and uses, including gluten-free, dairy-free, GAPS, Autoimmune Paleo, Ketogenic, etc.
In 2015 I completed my training in Functional Neurology, and took my Diplomat, just before having my 2nd baby. Very shortly after, I fell and broke my tailbone at 31 weeks pregnant. This, yet again, opened up another window of learning for me, as I pursued various therapies to help me recover in such a precarious time of my life. Between that and seeing many of my friends and family suffer from childbirth-related dysfunction or pain, I knew that I needed to understand pelvic dysfunction and the different therapies available so I could help these women too. I took my first Hypopressive course while 20 weeks pregnant with my 3rd, and it changed the course of my pregnancy! I was only 20 weeks, but was having significant discomfort with walking and was dreading the rest of pregnancy. After learning the postures and breathing exercises that weekend my back and p***c bone pain was gone! After delivery I immediately started doing the exercises and my recovery was by far my easiest.
At this point of my life, I am a full time mom, a lover of learning and a part-time helper of others.
