Chronic pain in San Francisco.
If you've tried PT, chiropractic, massage, and injections and the pain keeps coming back, the pattern is the issue — not the spot. Dr. Garrett finds where your body is out of balance and changes the source.
You've tried everything. Almost.
You've tried treatments. You haven't tried the pattern.
PT, chiropractic, massage, injections — they all work. They reduce symptoms. They give relief that lasts hours, days, sometimes weeks. Then the pain comes back. That's not a failure of the treatment. It's a sign that the treatment is addressing the wrong layer.
Chronic pain is almost always pattern pain
Pain that keeps returning to the same place is the body telling you something is consistently overworking. Something else has gone quiet. Until that pattern changes, the pain has a reason to come back. The pattern is the part nobody has been working on.
What changes when the pattern changes
Once Dr. Garrett identifies what's overworking and what's shut down, and brings the body back into balance, the area in pain stops being asked to overwork. The pain reduces. The relief lasts because the demand has changed. Most clients feel a noticeable shift in their first session.
This is exactly what your first session finds.
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Where chronic pain actually comes from.
Whatever your pain is, the mechanism behind it is almost always the same.
Parts of your body have gone quiet.
Sitting for hours, training imbalances, old injuries, life. Some structures that should be doing work have stopped. They're still there. They've just gone offline.
Something else is doing the work.
When stabilizers shut down, other muscles take up the load. The compensating areas overwork — they tighten, they hold, they ache. They're working a job they weren't built for, and they keep working it because nothing has changed.
The pain is the receipt.
Wherever your pain lives — back, neck, shoulder, hip, knee, jaw, foot, head — it's the body's signal that the load distribution is wrong. Change which parts are doing the work and the pain stops being needed.
What happens in your first session.
Full assessment, guided protocols, and a take-home practice. 60 minutes.
Assessment
Dr. Garrett assesses how your body moves. Where it's overworking, where it's shut down. He's looking at your whole body, not just the part that hurts.
Guided protocols
Using simple props (yoga blocks, foam rollers, gymnastic rings), Dr. Garrett guides you through protocols adapted to your body in real time. You're not lying on a table. You're moving, finding positions where your body starts to rebalance itself.
What changes
Most clients feel a noticeable shift during the first session. The overworked areas release. The underworked areas start to re-engage. You feel the difference before you leave.
Take-home practice
You leave with a short practice for what was worked on that session. About five minutes. You do it on your living room floor. It maintains the changes and keeps your body moving in the right direction between sessions.
Virtual sessions work well for chronic pain. The work is in finding the pattern that's loading you up — not in hands-on tissue work. Dr. Garrett assesses your posture and movement via live video and guides you through positions that change the pattern at the source. Most clients notice a shift during the first virtual session.
People who came in with the same thing.
Three different doctors told me to just live with the pain. I'm 78 years old. Never felt better.
I really have tried everything. Nothing has ever come close to this.
I've spent decades not listening to my body. Retirement gave me the time. Dr. Garrett showed me how.
Most clients feel a difference in their first session.
Book a session with Dr. Garrett. If you don't experience noticeable relief, we keep working with you until you do, at no additional charge.
Common questions.
If something isn't here, ask on a free discovery call. Dr. Garrett answers everything before you book a paid session.