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Visiting Consultation

Visit CIHP for 1 to 5 days. Work with our world-class clinical and movement practitioner team to heal unresolved pain and improve resilience and performance—for life.

Clinical Services

Local to St. Louis. Receive a personalized treatment plan with interdisciplinary rehabilitation services to resolve pain, heal from injury, and build resilience.

Enhance Human Performance

Training for an athletic endeavor? Motivated towards specific training goals? Work with our interdisciplinary team to help you get from where you are to where you want to be.

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Discover The Power of Doing What Matters

Find meaning and purpose with The Power of Doing What Matters. Combining science, stories, and practical exercises, The Power of Doing What Matters was written to guide you on a journey of self-discovery and help you reach your greatest mind-body resilience.

Authored by CIHP Founder and CEO, Dr. Clayton Skaggs, The Power of Doing What Matters is based on over 20 years of experience helping elite athletes and everyday performers heal pain, overcome injury, and build resilience for a lifetime.

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A legacy of art and science, blended into real solutions

For nearly 20 years, CIHP has been providing solutions to pain, injury, and performance where others could not.

Our team has been hands-on with thousands of individuals and organizations trying to reduce pain, injuries, improve their health and/or performance. The population has been broad and unique …

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Solutions rooted in science

Your Needs

Your needs are always 2 parts. What you think they are and what they really are. Bringing these 2 parts together is an important first step.

Your Goals

To be free of pain, get stronger, live longer, live better, perform better. All of these and more are possible.

Proprietary Assessment

Our assessment is a difference maker. First, we assess you. Not your condition or your occupation or your gender or age. Second, we talk, listen, observe and interpret how and why you arrived to this point in your life. Our assessments are a blend of art and science and last up to 4 hours.

Your Solution

Your solution and plan are designed from the sum of your needs, goals and our assessment. Your solution is designed for you as an individual.

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