When Allie first met Broc Sheets, she was a nurse who knew next to nothing about chiropractic, except that when her mother had been in a car accident she had sought care from a chiropractor. Allie assumed that because she didn’t have any injuries, she didn’t need chiropractic care.
It took about a month of the two dating before Allie allowed Broc to perform a chiropractic adjustment on her.
“When I woke up the next day, I didn’t have the usual tension in my shoulders,” Allie says. “Everyone has normalized that kind of pain, so I just thought that was what happened as you get older.”
Broc describes it as a “common mindset.”
“But you don’t have to live with that kind of pain,” he says.
As Broc continued to adjust her over the next several months, a cyst on her wrist went away and she began to see her health improving in other significant ways, as well.
“I realized that, even as a nurse, there was so much more than what I knew about the body,” Allie says.
Broc had experienced a similar realization through personal experience a few years earlier.
As a football player, he had suffered multiple concussions leaving him with brain fog, migraines, vertigo and other symptoms that had become a part of his daily existence. While he sought physical therapy for his neck and back which helped some, he took prescription muscle relaxers and relied on over-the-counter pain relievers to get through the day.
Broc had been told there was really nothing more he could do … until he went with his father to a chiropractic appointment one day.
“When the chiropractor began explaining the nervous system, something just sort of clicked,” Broc says. “For the first time in a while, with chiropractic, I had some hope.”
Fast forward to today, Broc and Allie are married and both have Doctor of Chiropractic degrees. They opened Prana Chiropractic in Carmel in October 2022.
According to Allie, most of their patients start off getting treated for pain.
“Pain has been normalized, but it’s not normal,” Allie says.
“Really, any kind of symptom is some form of dysregulated nervous system,” Broc explains.
Allie talks about three Ts in our lives: thoughts, traumas and toxins. When the nervous system fails to integrate and adapt, these stressors can end up stored in the body.
"Our job is to help you identify those stress patterns and what is creating the tension in your life," Broc says.
"Our big goal with patients," Allie adds, "is to increase adaptability to stressors in your life so that you can function better."
First-day appointments begin with a thorough evaluation.
“I think what sets us apart is that we are very catered to the individual,” Broc says. “Two people might come in and get two completely different adjustments—two people can come in with right hip pain, but it could be for two different reasons.”
The Sheets have worked to create an environment that truly reflects their holistic approach, a place that is calm and family-friendly.
As a former NICU nurse, Allie specializes in providing care for women, especially before, during and after pregnancy, as well as for babies and children. She understands firsthand the benefits of chiropractic on these populations as she had been told for years, before she started her own chiropractic journey, that she would have a hard time conceiving. She and Broc now have two beautiful children.
“We love caring for families because we know how much stress is involved in raising children,” Allie says. “Parents are juggling so much.”
Broc especially enjoys treating young professionals who are fathers.
“Oftentimes in our culture, men have not felt comfortable in expressing themselves or feeling like they can actually feel what they feel,” Broc says. “But, we have noticed a shift recently. Here at Prana, we are grateful to see a good amount of men come in for care so they can show up as the best version of themselves for themselves, their loved ones and their communities.”
And like Broc and Allie experienced with their own care, patients often see their overall health improve in unexpected ways.
"We are a safe space for people to come at any point in their healing journey," Allie says. "We are trying to help our patients live better lives."
"Here at Prana, we are grateful to see a good amount of men come in for care so they can show up as the best version of themselves for themselves, their loved ones and their communities," Broc says. "Men deserve chiropractic.”