Some providers end up in their specialty by accident.
I found mine through a patient I could not help in 2010, nineteen years of refusing to accept that "nothing could be done," and a dinner in March 2023 that changed everything.
This is the story of how this clinic became what it is.
Before the three-part story of how this clinic came to be, here is a quick look at the qualifications behind it.
Credentials and Training
19+ Years of Clinical PracticeCredentials
Clinical Focus
Dr. Addison's wife, Belinda, founded and leads the Georgia EDS Zebra Club, a private support community of more than 1,000 members living with Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome. Belinda's own lived experience with EDS, along with her years guiding this community, continues to shape how we listen, evaluate, educate, and care for every patient who walks through our doors.
Where It Started
I grew up in a medical family. My father is a physician and for most of my teenage years I assumed I was headed in the same direction.
In college I worked as a tech on the renal and cardiac floor of a local hospital. I loved the patients. I loved the staff. But something about the traditional medical path wasn't the right fit for me.
My best friend's father was a chiropractor. Over the years I watched how he practiced, how he interacted with patients, and what the patient experience actually looked like. It felt different from what I had seen in the hospital. More personal. More interested in the person than the diagnosis. More focused on the whole story than the most urgent symptom. That is what drew me in.
I enrolled at Life University and graduated in June 2007. Nineteen years later, I'm more convinced than ever that this is exactly what I was meant to do.
The Patient I Could Not Help
In 2010, a patient was referred to me. He had Ehlers Danlos Syndrome.
He came to me because I had developed a reputation for helping patients who had not responded to traditional treatment.
I tried everything I knew. I referred him to exceptional providers. I searched for answers on his behalf.
I could not give him what he needed.
That experience never left me. I realized what failed him wasn't a lack of caring.
It was a lack of answers.
I decided that if another patient like him ever walked into my office, I would be ready.
From that point forward, I made a decision. I was going to learn everything I could about complex pain, hypermobility, and the treatments that could help the patients the traditional system was failing.
That commitment drove the next thirteen years of clinical development. New certifications. New modalities. New protocols. A growing practice built around the complex cases that other providers were not equipped to handle.
Then, in March 2023, everything changed.
The Dinner That Changed Everything
I met Belinda over dinner. She was a woman with an extraordinary story, a fighter's spirit, and a passion for the EDS community that was immediately clear from the first conversation.
I wanted to hear everything: her journey through the healthcare system, the years spent searching for answers, the treatments that helped, the ones that made things worse, and how she had learned to advocate for herself when the system kept looking the other way.
I was moved by her resilience. I was impressed by her mission. And somewhere in that dinner I mentioned that I had a tool that might help with her nerve pain.
"It won't hurt. It might help." As they say, the rest is history.
After just three FSM sessions, Belinda experienced pain relief she hadn't felt in more than a decade. That moment confirmed what I had been searching for. There were answers the traditional system simply wasn't looking for.
That moment did not just change her life. It gave both of us a direction.
Belinda became the founder of the Georgia EDS Zebra Club, a support community for EDS patients and families across Georgia. Our clinic became what it is today: a practice built around the patients the healthcare system too often overlooks.
We have been together ever since. Every day I practice, I bring with me what I've learned not only from the clinical literature, but from walking alongside someone who has lived this journey every single day.
What This Clinic Actually Looks Like
Most people hear chiropractic clinic and picture something specific.
Tables lined up side by side. People sitting in jump seats waiting for a quick in-and-out adjustment. A conveyor belt of standard care applied to whoever walks through the door.
That is not what we do.
The EDS patient who has been dismissed by twelve providers and is trying one more time.
The travel baseball player protecting the arm that could earn a college scholarship.
The CrossFitter who wants to keep doing what she loves without getting injured every season.
The auto accident patient whose symptoms didn't appear until weeks after the crash.
The patient I've cared for for nineteen years who comes in because they know what this care means for their quality of life.
Every single one of them gets the same thing from this clinic.
Someone who listens. An evaluation that looks at the whole picture. A plan built around their specific situation. Honest conversations about what is realistic and what the path forward actually looks like.
What I love most about this work is a specific moment that happens in the clinic more than almost anything else. A patient who came in not believing anything was going to help looks up at some point during their care and says something like:
"Thank you. I did not think it was possible, but now I see that it is."
That moment is why I do this. Every single time.
To the Skeptical Patient Reading This
If you have been burned before, if you have tried things that made you worse, if you have spent years feeling dismissed and invalidated and told everything looks normal when you know it does not, I want to say something directly to you.
I understand the skepticism. I truly do. Not because I read about it, but because I hear it every day in my clinic, and because I go home every evening to someone I love who lives this reality.
What I Will Not Do
What I Will Do
Come in skeptical. Bring the whole list. I want to hear it.
If you're ready to work with someone who has spent nearly two decades building the experience, clinical perspective, and personal understanding needed to care for patients who are too often overlooked, I would be honored to hear your story.
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