Storytelling - A Tradition Of Hope

One thing you will notice about us,
we love telling our Stories.

Our Stories are our vehicle of Hope. When someone goes through hell and comes out the other side, their Story is another persons’ Hope. Their Story signals to someone who is beaten down to keep fighting. It tells someone who has given up it’s possible. When you can bring Hope to someone who feels hopeless, you can change the trajectory of their life. What greater contribution is there?

You will also find that our Stories are our benchmarks and bragging rights for our Coaches. Our Coaches purpose is to create Stories. When we are creating stories, we are impacting lives. That’s our mission...so that’s our benchmark.

Our message to you is simple. We want you to be our next Story. And we want you to be someone’s Hope.

– Matthew Lister, Founder of Align

Marcie and her husband

Marcie’s Story-Back Pain Journey

I had been pretty active physically off and on for 20 years. I had a group of four girls I would regularly do 65-100 mile rides with. But in 2014, I tore my hip labrum and since 2009 had experienced a deep ache in my upper middle back. Eventually I just stopped moving.

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Jill

Jill’s Story-Back & Leg Pain Journey

My pain story started 37 years ago. It was 1981. My family was in a car accident that left me with compression fractures in my lower spine and broken bones and nerve damage in my foot. I was in a metal back brace and a foot cast for months.

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Nancy

Nancy’s Story-Neck & Shoulder Pain Journey

Nancy was facing a common problem for people in pain. She had multiple experts telling her contradictory opinions and advice. Her right shoulder and arm was numb, tingling, and painful and she didn’t know who to believe or what direction to go.

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Katelyn fishing

Katelyn’s Story-Hip & Knee Pain Journey

Katelyn has been one of Align’s youngest clients. She came to Align when she was 14 years old and stayed with us for over 3 years until she moved to college. She came to us scared, confused, and frustrated. At 14, she was in immense pain and was staring down the barrel of double hip and double knee surgeries.

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Jeff with his bicycle

Jeff’s Story-Back Pain Journey

About 10 years ago, I was diagnosed with bone spurs on my lower back vertebrae. I experienced shooting and throbbing pain down my right leg. Many mornings I woke up with lower back pain. I was easily fatigued and experienced back pain when I walked for any real distance or stood for any period of time.

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Marijo stretching

Marijo’s Story-Knee Pain Journey

Before I came here, I had a severe knee pain and I was always an active individual. I never gave it any thought to go from point a to B up downstairs. My job required, physical, enthusiasm. And, I had an injury and it nothing helped. And I became, I walked, badly. I couldn’t go up and down stairs.

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Jean

Jean’s Story-Neck Pain Journey

When I came in, I had a intake interview with Matt and it was very difficult with me. I was in tears a lot of the time because I was in so much pain with my neck. And I was to the point that I didn’t think that anything was ever going to be able to help me. And so, I was doubtful, but I thought, you know, what, if I don’t give this a try, I’m not going to know.

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Ray doing ropes excercise

Ray’s Story-Hip Pain Journey

When Ray came to Align he had nowhere left to turn. All the medical diagnostics had proven fruitless and he was looking at exploratory hip surgery, which he was less than optimistic about. To say that Ray has had a turn-around is a dramatic understatement. He went from bent over, sleeping in a recliner, with severe pain to 100-pound deadlifts, lunges, and hiking.

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