Structural Health in Cody, WY

Structure is not a metaphor

Park County bodies carry feed bags, ski gear, kitchen shifts, and long drives to Billings for a specialist. Structural health on this site means the orthopedic and neurologic exam inside the functional visit: gait, ranges, nerve screens, joint play, and whether an X-ray would change the next decision. It is the part of the clinic that still looks like chiropractic to people who came for “functional medicine” and are surprised when someone puts hands on a spine.

Dr. Thoma’s degree is Doctor of Chiropractic. He will adjust when an adjustment is indicated or requested. He will not adjust a problem whose safer next step is imaging, a medical referral, or leaving it alone. Structural care here is not a 12-visit prepaid plan sold the same day you walk in. The report of findings on Day 2 is where frequency, if any, is explained.

People arrive after years of “my back is just my back.” Sometimes that is a desk. Sometimes that is a stenosis story that needs a different building. A Cody clinic that tells the truth will send you to Cody Regional or a surgical consult when the exam says so. Remaining in the building is not a loyalty test.

What the first week looks like

Day 1 includes orthopedic and neurologic screens. If digital X-rays are indicated, they are discussed, not sprung as a surprise add-on at the front desk. Day 2 connects those findings to the rest of the picture — sleep, inflammation, old injuries, and whether the pain you named is the pain the exam found. A structural complaint can still have a metabolic amplifier. That is why this is not a stand-alone “back page” disconnected from the rest of the clinic.

Do not describe your pain, numbness, or bowel and bladder changes on the public form. Those sentences belong on a phone call or the intake. Cauda equina warning signs belong in an emergency department, not a request-an-appointment queue.

License 825, NPI 1679942775 / 1316783673, address 1120 Beck Ave, Cody WY 82414. Last reviewed September 15, 2026. Towns north and south still come here; we do not run a structural clinic in Powell or Lovell.

Load, imaging, and when we send you elsewhere

Structural findings are easy to over-tell. A degenerated disc on an X-ray can be an incidental roommate of a pain that is actually a hip, a rib, or a sleep-starved nervous system. That is why Day 2 exists. We will show you pictures when we took pictures. We will not scare you with language we would not use on a family member.

There are days this clinic should not be your first stop: a fall from a horse with head injury, a sudden saddle-anesthesia story, a fever and a back that will not move. Those stories belong in an emergency department. If you arrived here anyway, we will say so and help you get to the right door. Ego is a terrible spinal brace.

On-the-job injuries and auto claims add paperwork this small clinic may or may not take. Ask on the phone. Do not assume a functional-health start is a PI mill. $495 is a clinical start, not a lien product.

Home exercises, if prescribed, will be few enough to remember in a mudroom. If you need a physical-therapy gym, we will name one rather than invent a twelve-visit plan that duplicates what PT already does well in this county.

Structural care in Cody also has to respect ranch and kitchen load. We will not copy a city “desk-jockey” protocol onto a body that throws bales. We will not ignore a hip because the internet said it was a back. Day 1 is for finding that out with hands and screens, not a quiz.

Town pages exist so Greybull and Meeteetse drivers know they are still coming here. No satellite. $495 is the two-day start. Request an appointment; do not mail us a pain diary through the public site. License 825. Reviewed September 15, 2026.

X-rays, when ordered, are a decision tool, not a souvenir. If the picture would not change what we do with our hands or a referral, we will not take it. That sentence is how a small clinic stays honest in a county that already drives far enough for care.