Orofino Wellness Center

12/30/2025

A HUGE thank you to Dr. Avallone at Pacific Chiropractic Dr John Avallone for trading adjustments while on vacation! What a gift. He was basically the Hawaiian version of me in so many ways. Even down to similar injuries.

12/20/2025

Our office will be closed for the holidays and will we reopen Monday January 5th. Have a Merry Christmas!

10/19/2025

Medicare has again cut our reimbursement by another 2% bringing our overall fee raise to 15.6% since I started practice in 1997. This is our 6th cut with zero increases since 2013, and is an overall 40% reduction in our regular fees. We will most likely be adjusting our non-covered services fee to compensate for this to keep Medicare patients profitable and will take this into consideration in 2026 as to whether or not we continue participation in the Medicare program.

10/12/2025

After getting an NPR "scientist" opinion piece on debunking vaccines and autism from a vehemently Pro-Vax patient, I printed out 20+ peer reviewed medical journal articles documenting a possible correlation between vaccine aluminum and thimerosal and autism, and without even looking at them, she got hostile that those were not accurate and they were the wrong scientists and were biased, and that it all has been debunked. It was a test to see if it was worthy of my time. It was not and I won't put in the effort again. Here is the info for anyone who wants to read them and form your own opinions:
▪️ http://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3878266/
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Causal relationship between vaccine induced immunity and autism
▪️ http://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12849883
Subtle DNA changes and the overuse of vaccines in autism
▪️http://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3364648/

Virus-induced autoimmunity may play a causal role in autism. To examine the etiologic link of viruses in this brain disorder, we conducted a serologic study of measles virus, mumps virus, and rubella virus. Viral antibodies were measured by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay in the serum of autistic....

10/02/2025

I have to say that I am more than disappointed.The MAHA Movement, instead of decreasing reliance on big pharma for Americans, now has opened a way to sell more drugs to more people at cheaper prices, as well as endorsing Pfizer, the company that created the COVID vaccine, as doing a "great job" during COVID. If that was some "art of the deal," I do not approve. What a sad day for America.

09/04/2025

We have one massage therapy cancelation opening tomorrow at 1:45 PM for 1 hour. If you are interested in filling this appointment slot call the office at 208-476-7091. We are usually booked out 6 weeks for massage therapy appointments, and it's rare that we have openings that come up.

09/01/2025

I had a patient years ago, who was a biochemist, who worked for a pharmaceutical company in San Diego. She quit her job because of the way the clinical trials were run. They were so unethical that she couldn't stand to work there anymore. And she said she'd rather be bankrupt and have no income rather than work for such a corrupt industry.

08/31/2025

This actually is not surprising.

08/31/2025

Here's a weird thought

08/20/2025

The conflict of interest here is mind boggling.

06/28/2025

In celebration of Independence Day, we will be open for chiropractic Monday, Wednesday and Thursday this week and will be closed Friday.

06/26/2025

I love this so much. I would offer this at the office if there was demand. One can dream...