Holman Claire-Marie DC

Dr Holman really cares about her clients. This is why her treatments are so comprehensive. Not a 2 minute ‘crack’, ‘crunch’, see you next week! She carefully analyses your problems, warms up your body with heat and massage, then works through a complete routine to find the exact spots to adjust. You leave feeling cared for, not traumatised. I give her a total recommendation.

I’ve been seeing Dr. Holman for about 15 years and am so grateful for her. She is a wise, gentle, clear partner in my healing and long term care.
She understands the nuances of my back and neck situation, and provides just the right energy to bring the joints into a healthier alignment.
She also has helped me with hip, knee and ankle issues over the years.
As a yoga practitioner, I also appreciate her knowledge of yoga — common ground, common language.
more stars than I can count :)

I’ve been seeing Dr. Holman since she first opened her practice, and over the years she has treated me, my wife, and both kids at various times for mild-​to-​severe injuries, aches and pains, and regular tune-​ups. In years when I spent a lot of time cramming my tall frame into small airplane seats, she helped keep me in the air. Her manner and her treatments are soothing and effective and have helped us all with various alignment issues in knees, ankles, thumbs, hips, elbows, spines, and shoulders. Each treatment starts with heat and a back massage. Heavenly!

My husband and I have been seeing Dr. Holman for the last almost 20 years for various aches, pains, injuries and pregnancies. During the last 8 weeks of my pregnancy, she saw me weekly and was able to adjust my back with me lying on my side. It was literally a life saver as the baby was starting to pinch a nerve going down my leg and the chiropractic care got things in alignment for about a week before I had to go back.
Her approach to working with patients is kind, loving and super competent. She is ready to celebrate your return to health and to help you when you are in pain. In short, her practice is «as good as it gets!»

I hesitate to recommend Claire-​Marie because if you read this review, you will want to see her and I want her schedule to remain open so that I can book appointments, too! I’ve seen her for 20 years. Even when insurance adjusters sent me to other Chiro’s, I always come back to her, even when I self-​pay. She helped me with carpal tunnel, back injuries, sprains, mis-​alignments, neck pain, and plantar fasciitis. She is probably the only Chiro who gives a back massage with the activator. I walk out feeling 10 feet taller, well maybe only an inch or too. And, her adjustments hold because she works the tendons, muscles, etc. not just the bone. I hope I explained that correctly, Dr. H!

She is an amazing chiropractor. I called her Friday after I injured myself in yoga class. I needed to get on a plane Sunday and even though she had no idea who I was she offered to come in on Saturday to help me. She patiently and expertly diagnosed condition and then made the necessary adjustments with her clicky device. The results were extraordinary! Immediately after the session I felt complete relief. The pain was gone and the next day’s flight was no problem.
Just a note: Dr. Holman uses the «soft» method of chiropractic adjustment, which is quite nice if you’re built small and don’t desire the more vigorous, football like, «hard» method.

One unique attribute of Dr. Holman is her understanding of the body through her own intensive and extensive Hatha Yoga practice. This gives her an understanding of the body’s systems from «inside out». Her very own body has been her teacher., along with her formal chiropractic training. More than once she has provided me with an «Aha!» gem of understanding that completely changed my relationship to my body and empowered me participate in healing myself.

I have been seeing Dr. Holman for many years. She is not only lovely and caring but she is an excellent chiropractor. She uses a very gentle technique to healing your back and is also an expert with cranial work. I highly recommend her treatment.

I first went to Dr Holman after I had fallen on my tailbone (about five years after) and that was cured in six visits. Since then I have been going about once a month if I am otherwise well, more if not and I think it’s one of the best decisions I have ever made. She is an amazing and very skilled person.

I’ve been seeing Dr. Holman for thirty years; she’s my go-​to lady anytime I get a kink in my back, arm, whatever. I used to cook professionally, and would hurt myself regularly. I would limp in, and come prancing out, often after just one visit. Dr. Holman is warm, kind, and gentle, and she never, ever hurts you. She uses a «non-​force» method, with a little gadget that you barely feel, but actually moves bones. I’ve been to other chiropractors, but I just get tense and scared, anticipating the pain they will cause. With Dr. Holman, she starts with a heating pad and an amazing massage that turns you into a relaxed blob of jello. Then, a few super-​gentle clicks with that gadget, and you’re done. Miraculously, you can stand tall again, move your arm freely, walk without a limp, whatever. See her before you agree to surgery or cortisone shot, which can do way more harm than good. Highest possible recommendation.

After I strained by back last February (2008) and landed in the ER with back spasms, my co-​worker referred me to Dr. Holman.
Dr. Holman uses heating pads to warm up your back, and then uses the low-​impact adjustment techniques involving only a small handheld «clicker» (I cannot for the life of me find the scientific name of this thing) instead of using her weight to crack entire sections of your back. The procedure is very relaxing and has over time really helped control my back pain.
Dr. Holman has wonderful bedside manner and is a joy to work with.