In May 2018, I was in a head-on collision with another driver who turned left at the last minute in front of me. Although I, thank God, was able to walk away from the accident, my car was totaled and I just could not seem to get back to normal following this event. When I did go back to work, it was really hard for me to think clearly and deeply about my tasks, problem solve, make decisions, and focus. My interests in social outings decreased as I was exhausted all of the time. I became irritable and my symptoms of depression and anxiety grew worse. Communication with others was difficult because my brain was fuzzy and I had a hard time getting my thoughts across to others clearly. Even the littlest things stressed me out. I constantly felt discouraged because I didn’t think that I would be able to work, think, and live like I did before, and wondered if I’d just have to just get by for the rest of my life.
I struggled with physical symptoms following the accident as well. I work with children and getting up and down off the floor with them was laborious, as I was stiff and limited in my range of motion. My hips began hurting shortly after the accident and walking was painful. Numbness in my arms was a regular occurrence, as was pain in my upper right shoulder,
In July, I started seeing a great physical therapist but, despite all of the effort I put into doing the exercises that she prescribed, my progress was slow and my stiffness and pain remained. At the end of 2018 and beginning of 2019, I read about Matrix Repatterning and, by January, had set an appointment to see Dr. Berger. Although I had been dealing with the symptoms of a concussion, I hadn’t brought myself to accept that that was what I was suffering with until he diagnosed me with a head injury at my evaluation appointment.
Thankfully, Matrix Repatterning was the treatment that I needed to treat not only my concussion but also my body pain and limited range of motion. Within the first couple sessions, I noticed that I could think more clearly, for longer periods of time, and could express myself better, with greater confidence! Now, I no longer have the old symptoms of irritability, depression, or brain fog either.
Dr. Berger also corrected skull misalignments around my eyes to help my visual system process information better and referred me to a wonderful developmental optometrist who helped me overcome the symptoms of Visual Traumatic Disorder.
Every time that I saw Dr. Berger, my physical symptoms decreased, although recovering physically was a slower process. I now have very little, if any, hip pain and no shoulder pain or arm numbness. My ability to move smoothly and with ease is much improved, even better than before the accident.
Dr. Berger’s nutritional work also identified that I have gluten and dairy intolerances and had bacterial infections, which were affecting my overall health. Between the new diet that he put me on and the supplements that he prescribed, I am now feeling much better overall.
Through Dr. Berger’s work, God brought me to a level of health and wellbeing that is even better than it was before the accident, and I now feel hope that I will continue to feel well and be healthy in the coming years. I was even able to move to Romania to be a therapist for children living in an orphanage for 5 months because of how well I feel. Dr. Berger’s treatments have given me my life back, and I now have a spring in my step that hadn’t been there in a long time!
I found Dr. Berger on the recommendation of a friend who is knowledgeable about alternative medicines. I felt as if I had seen nearly every allergist in the city in the course of 15 years trying to find help. I was treated by family physicians, allergists and even had surgery done by an Ear, Nose and throat specialist. None had been able to do more than treat symptoms with medications that caused their own complications. I had taken everything from over the counter decongestants to prescribed nasal steroids. As years passed, I literally forgot what it was like to breath through my nose. I spent my days gasping for air and feeling exhausted.
Admittedly, Dr. Berger was my last resort. By the time I started treatment here, I had progressed to occasional asthmatic episodes. . . even landing in the emergency room for treatment. There was apparently no long lasting help from the traditional medical community. Dr. Berger provided acupuncture, nutritional and chiropractic care. The combination of these therapies has created a practically miraculous turn-around in my general health and specifically in my respiratory problems.
I now rarely have breathing problems and they resolve quickly when they do arise. I don’t catch all of the colds, flus, etc. Those things were very debilitating to me before and now I rarely them a thought. I feel so much stronger!
I highly recommend Dr. Berger and advise people to stick with the course of treatment. By employing his natural and gentle methods, he has given normal life back to me.
I had been suffering from a dull ache in the lower left part of my abdomen since the birth of my son 16 years ago. I had a caesarian section in 1987 and by 2000 had been suffering from stiffness ion my lower back that had become intolerable. The stiffness was so bad that when I bent over to pull weeds in my garden I would literally get stuck and have to inch my way back to a vertical position. Since I am only 45 years old I felt this was much too young to be suffering the effects of old age! The pain in my lower abdomen would vary from just noticeable to extreme, especially when I became fatigued but I hadn’t connected the symptoms of the pain in the abdomen to to the stiffness in my lower back.
In 1987 I had the delivery doctor check my lower GI tract to see if my intestine had been damaged during the caesarian. He had given me a barium enema and an x-ray that found nothing wrong inside my intestines. He prescribed fiber to keep my intestines healthy but it never resolved the pain, which felt like a knot in my gut, so I decided I had to live with it.
I went to Dr. Allen Berger after hearing him speak at Jefferson Unitarian Church in July 2003. He asked me questions about how long I’d felt this pain in my lower abdomen and I replied since the birth of my son 16 years ago by c-section. Dr. Berger noticed my scar was a blue color and tightly bound. The skin below the bikini-line was taut where as the skin above was flabby. Dr. Berger diagnosed the pain to be a pulled ligament to the left of my scar and prescribed an acupuncture treatment for the scar itself. He seemed to think the scar could be affecting the pain in my lower back AND the pain in my gut.
I received one acupuncture treatment with a pulsating electric vibration for about 30 minutes at my first visit. I could feel the electricity move across my scar from right to left. At first the current seemed as if it were as if it were jerking between the acupuncture needles but then became a more fluid movement across the scar. After the treatment, we noticed the scar had loosened up, the color was normal flesh tone and the skin on both sides of the scar was flaccid. At the follow up check a week later it was noted that the scar had appeared considerably reduced in thickness and muscle tone appeared normal on both sides of the scar.
I have felt no more stiffness in my lower back and the pain in my lower abdomen is gone! This treatment was truly amazing!
Working with Allen and Wendy has led me to a happier, healthier life. My family and I have been seeing them when needed over these last 10+ years. They are amazing healers and well worth the time and energy.
Allen’s technique and use of matrix repatterning has eliminated pain for me on different occasions in as little as one session. I broke my foot, and although I was declared “healed” I still could not walk normally nor pain free. After just one session with Allen, I was walking naturally, pain free. After the second session, I walked up and down stairs, normally without pain. The pain has never come back.
Several years ago, my ankle was swollen. My regular doctor, and some specialists told me that I’m just getting old and that happens. I should elevate my foot as much as possible. So I did, for years. I mentioned this to Allen. He was justifiably horrified at the approach suggested by my doctors. In one session Allen restored my ankle was to its normal, non-swollen, condition. It has never gone back to swelling. I thank Allen each time I look at my ankle. Allen’s treatments are never painful and lack side effects or risks.
Wendy has incredible insight into healing. Her use of NET combined with her vast array of skills have healed me on many levels. I have been restored to a more balanced person in spite of my childhood issues and life traumas, some of which I cannot recall. I have worked with many other therapists in the past. Working with Wendy has been completely different. Every time I leave her office I feel better. I stay feeling better. Wendy’s approach is client directed, honest and straightforward. The results are immediate and long lasting. She is always gentle, kind, and truly cares. She has provided the kindest support for me especially when life became overwhelming.
I was too fearful and anxious to fly on an air plane. Wendy uncovered the root cause of my fear and helped to remove it for me. I now fly free of anxiety.
My family has seen both Wendy, for emotional support, and Allen, for physical ailments over the years. Wendy and Allen are successful in treating us, especially when other doctors and therapist have been unsuccessful.
My nephew was in a very bad motorcycle accident. After years of physical therapy and treatment, he was still very limited in movement and was in pain. He visited from out of state to see if Allen could help. My nephew experienced a significant improvement working with Allen for just a few days.
I started seeing Allen Berger in the late 1990’s while I was in high school. I’d been experiencing piercing chest pains for some amount of time which my physician thought were the result of my having some inflamed cartilage in my rib cage. To cure the problem that he thought I had, he put me on a daily regimen of ibuprofen for about a month; the chest pains persisted, but thanks to the ibuprofen my stomach began aching constantly. I went to see a gastroenterologist who first diagnosed me with both acid reflux and a number of stomach ulcers, then put me on Prilosec for my reflux and a number of other drugs to get rid of my ulcers. Surprisingly to me at the time, the Prilosec did nothing for my reflux, and the ulcer medication only made my stomach condition worse.
On a wing and a prayer, my mother contacted an old friend of hers who she had heard was running a chiropractic office in Denver, this, as you may have already guessed, was Dr. Allen Berger. During my first visit to Dr. Berger’s office he administered a number of traditional chiropractic methods to relieve me of a number of problems which I was unaware I had been dealing with (namely a slightly curved spine). Not only did his adjustments at that time make me feel markedly better, but after seeing him for no more than 2 weeks my ulcers were completely gone and my reflux was no longer a problem.
In the years since then I have slowly but surely come to count on Dr. Berger for an increasingly wider range of my varied medical problems. Since my initial visit, which occurred some 7 years ago, Dr. Berger has aided me greatly in recovering from chronic headaches, a severely sprained ankle, a second batch of ulcers, various liver issues (mind you I was in college at CU for most of the years that I have seen Allen), a severe and remarkably persistent head injury, as well as numerous problems which arose from my taking a cycle of Accutane to clear up my skin. On top of all of this, Allen foresaw that I was developing an anxiety disorder months before my emotional state reached a point in which traditional doctors were willing to admit that I indeed had a definite emotional problem. It is within the last three issues which I have mentioned; my concussion, Accutane problems, and anxiety disorder, that Allen has done by far his most remarkable work. His laser therapy, acupuncture techniques, and understanding of Matrix Repatterning have been nothing sort of essential in my recovery from these varied issues, and that’s really the most superb element of Allen’s care: It’s always changing.
Unlike many alternative caregivers who take one discipline (be it chiropractic, acupuncture, or otherwise) and view it as a cure-all for any issue related to human health, Allen is always eager to explore and eventually master new, cutting edge, methods to better treat his patients. I truly am quite frightened to imagine the dire straits which I’d currently find myself in had my mother not referred me to Dr. Berger all of those years ago. I am absolutely indebted to the man for the assistance which he has provided to me, but don’t ask him if that’s the case, there’s no way he would admit it.
I first came to see Dr. Allen Berger two years ago on the recommendation from a friend. I was having lower back pain that had been ongoing for over 20 years, however it had become much worse. I had been seeing chiropractors much of the time for relief and had limited success with their treatments that would help the pain temporarily. I was having pain on a daily basis and if I walked much I would have pain from the hip shooting down my leg. The chiropractic treatments were not working any more for more than an hour or two until the problem and pain returned.
Dr. Berger analyzed what was going on said the problem was not my back. He maintained that an old injury from a leg break was causing the problem and said it was a trauma area that he needed to treat near my ankle as well as do the matrix re-patterning on me.
I tried to be positive about what he said, however, I was a bit skeptical about what he did that first treatment and when I left his office I thought to myself that I’d probably wasted my time and money. I didn’t understand the re-patterning at all and thought working on my leg and bone tissue wouldn’t relieve the pain in my lower back. Anyway, I was wrong. I felt considerably better the next day and I began a month of going 3 times a week, then 2 times a week for a month, then once a week for a couple of months.
I try to go every month now, however last fall I missed 6 months of seeing Dr. Berger and was not that bad, but really was much better when I resumed monthly maintenance.
He didn’t treat the symptoms like traditional chiropractors, he fixed the problem and I never have the extreme pain in my back and leg anymore. It used to limit my activities and cause problems when skiing and cycling or hiking. I can do whatever I want to do now and without pain. This is 2 years of pain free after 20+ years of ongoing pinched nerve in my lower back and pain shooting down my left leg.
My advice is to talk to Allen about any problems and seek the treatment he recommends. It is different and so much better than anything out there. His natural treatments and treating the cause instead of the symptoms is the best. I have sent friends to him and he has helped all of them – no exceptions. The friend that recommended me see him is an MD and she would not tell me what he did but said it was unconventional. She said just try it – most traditional medical doctors will not recommend any non traditional treatments like this. You won’t find treatment like this anyway. Give it a try, it’s the best.
If you want to talk to me about my recommendation, I gave Dr. Berger’s office permission to put anyone with questions in touch with me about recommending this treatment and my really good experience and the ongoing health benefits.
I am sleeping in the same room with my wife after 24 years of sleeping in separate bedrooms, which has been most of our 41 years of marriage. This is thanks to Dr. Berger for curing me of snoring [using Matrix Repatterning]. Until a few months ago when Dr. Berger started working with me on this problem, my snoring was so loud at times that my wife could hear it through the wall separating our bedrooms and would wake up from a deep sleep because of it. You can imagine that there was no question of sleeping in the same room with her, as she would not get the sleep she needed.
Recently we had gone on a trip and were sleeping in the same hotel room in separate beds. As usual, my wife had turned the fan on full bore to help cover the noise of my snoring and was gearing up for a fitful night of broken sleep. However, for several nights in a row she was surprised and pleased to report that she did not hear me snore at all. One night she reported hearing me snoring, but that it was very soft and did not wake her as she was already awake. After that trip we decided to try sleeping in the same bedroom again after 24 years in separate bedrooms, and we have been doing so for several weeks now. Every morning I ask my wife if she heard me snore, then I hold my breath waiting for the answer – but thankfully the answer is always the same: She did not hear me snore at all. Once in a while she reports that she hears me snore very softly when she is already awake. The evidence is also clear in my ability to wake up more quickly in the morning and feel more refreshed throughout the day. The way I was snoring before was preventing me from sleeping restfully as well.
Granted, I have done my part – like training myself not to sleep face down, which seemed to make my snoring worse; but there is no doubt that the various treatments Dr. Berger gave me are mainly responsible for my ability to sleep through nights consistently without snoring.
My sincere thanks for what Dr. Berger did for me.
Dr. Berger: My very own miracle worker
I could make this testimony very loud and detailed, or I could just say, “I came; he saw; he conquered.” End of story! But I think I need to go into some detail about where I was with this crippled body when I first met Dr. Berger in September 2004 and where I am today, nearly free of all pain along with being free of lots of extra pounds as well.
I moved to Denver from the Midwest in August 2004. While living in the Midwest, I had been diagnosed with Fibromyalgia, Plantar Fasciitis, used a cane, was given pain pills and cortisone injections in the feet and had a permanent handicap placard in my car. I was working part time in a bookstore that only increased the pain. I felt hopeless, helpless and destined to live out my life in chronic pain with all it’s limitations.
Following a thorough discussion of my life, including not only physical problems but emotional ones and life events as well, Dr. Berger then did a nutritional assessment and determined that a great deal of my pain was being caused by foods I was eating that was feeding on bacteria in my system that increased the pain. He directed me on what foods to avoid, gave me nutritional supplements and began his treatments. I have had the privilege of being treated with all his methods of treatment from matrix repatterning, NET, acupuncture, low level laser treatments, along with his gentle caring and listening and having orthotics ordered for my shoes to ease the pain of plantar fasciitis.
Initially I was seeing him three times a week and wondered how I would make it through the days off. But almost immediately I was experiencing a decrease in pain in all area of my body. I am now seeing him twice a month, working on easing some of the chronic pain that will be there for a while, but nothing, NOTHING like the pain I had when I first came to see him.
Now, none months later, I am 35 pounds lighter, pain reduction of around 85% and feel better than I have in many years. Honestly and truly, I feel like a new person. I AM a new person. I have mobility that I thought was gone forever. I have received NO injections from him, NO pain pills, NO medicines to treat the symptoms or mask the pain. I have received new methods of treatment that treats the entire person and have been given a new life. I will be forever grateful to Dr. Berger for all he has done for me.
I’ve probably had migraine headaches all my life. The earliest one I remember is at age eight when I had to lie down in a dark room after being sick on the school bus.
I’ve had allergy tests twice. The amazing thing about those tests was that the real culprit (dairy products) causing the headaches (according to Dr. Berger) never showed up. I just injected myself with these antigens for five years to no avail. Now I know why this method never worked.
When I finally came to Dr. Berger on June 8, I’d had a migraine since Memorial Day weekend. I’d carried his card around in my purse six months after receiving a referral from my neurolinguistic programmer. I figured the problem was probably altitude because I’d spent the holiday in Huston and had a history of this symptom before. My husband and I had determined that we’d leave Denver if I couldn’t get relief somehow.
I kept a food diary. . . now I have given up all dairy products, sugar and alcohol. Believe me, the trade offs are worth it! A cure for these awful headaches was not what I had expected. I figured I’d just find a way to manage the pain. I never realized I felt terrible all the time. The acupuncture, chiropractic and nutritional methods of Dr. Berger have literally given me a new lease on life.
My gynecologist, prior to my treatments with Dr. Berger, had given me various prescription medications to help manage the headache pain, but I haven’t had so much as an aspirin since June 8, 1990. when I told her the good news during my check up in November, was she ever surprised! I think she’s considering this type of treatment because she has migraines too. I told her she really needs to get well so she can enjoy life the way it is meant to be enjoyed.
Thank you, Dr. Berger. This has been a positive factor in my move to Denver.
In February 1982, I paid my first visit to Allen Berger, D.C. This visit was prompted by repeated requests of all my family members due to the fact that my health had deteriorated to a point that my very existence was in jeopardy.
My problems were the result of poor eating habits, misuse of eating habits and stress. The liver was not functioning properly. And I was hospitalized for a period of twelve days. Upon my release a series of drugs were prescribed to no avail except side effects of pain in every joint and a severe rash up to my knees that would not respond to any treatment which was recommended by several medical doctors that had seen me or who had been consulted on my condition. It was quite evident that my ability to move about was waning and my condition was on a definite downward trend.
Dr. Berger immediately put me on various vitamin and nutrients. I made weekly visits to him for treatment for a period of months at which time blood tests were made and analyzed. These tests showed a continuing improvement. Dr. Berger would change the type of nutrient from time to time to further the betterment of my wellbeing that had started to make itself evident.
As of this writing the liver functions are all within normal range. The severe rash has completely healed. My strength has gotten to a point where I can fish a stream or hunt upland birds and small game, which as a retiree I have been able to do quite often these past year and a half.
Words are hard to come by to express the delight that Dr. Berger’s expertise in restoring my health had brought to my family.
I came to Dr. Berger’s with so many physical, mental, and spiritual ailments I felt like I was at death’s door. He quickly assessed what I needed to get back to life and within one session I had more improvement than years of working with other practitioners. There is no one else on this planet I feel I could trust to help me heal as this is very vulnerable work. The safe space Dr. Berger provides, combined with his vast and ever growing knowledge and tool kit, he is a one of a kind practitioner. I truly thank God every day that I found Dr. Berger through a referral from a friend and took the leap as it’s a five hour drive round trip for me to get there from the rural town I live in. Dr. Berger uses science and experience to help create long lasting healing on every level. I could not heal physically I did not address the emotional components and make the physical changes needed. After one year of working with Dr. Berger I feel I am a whole new person, and that I get to live my dreams now, and fulfill my life’s purpose as I heal myself and invite others to do the same.
I have been treated at Confluence Wellness Center for sore and stiff muscles, digestive disorders, headaches and most recently, a car accident. I first came in three years ago because of neck and shoulder pain caused by bowling! My family had seen a chiropractor when I was a child with good results, so I knew I could find relief with chiropractic work. During these initial treatments, I began to learn about Dr. Berger’s holistic approach.
When I was seven years old, I was tested for allergies and given allergy shots for several years to relieve headaches from frequent colds. In college, I spoke to the school’s physician about my then week long headaches and he recommended codeine. I declined and continued trying, unsuccessfully, to relieve the headaches with stretching, exercise, hot baths and large quantities of Advil. I never learned the cause of the headaches.
After undergraduate school, I worked in a pre-primary class and found I had no immunity to the children’s colds and sinus infections. Repeated antibiotics only weakened by my immune system further. It was during this time I discovered I felt better when I avoided dairy products, although no one had ever spoken to me about dietary influences on my health.
When Dr. Berger began treating my suppressed immune system and taught me about the yeast imbalance created by years of antibiotics and poor diet, not only did my headaches disappear but I also lost excess weight, slept better, felt more relaxed and had more energy. He advocated a diet free of irritating foods such as dairy, sugar, fermented foods and alcohol. He also used chiropractic adjustments and nutritional supplements to improve my health. Within the first month I felt 50% improvement and after discontinuing oral contraceptives in the next month, I had a full restoration of wellness.
After my car accident, I was x-rayed in the hospital and given pain killers. They told me I could expect soreness for about a week. A month later, still in pain, I began to see Dr. Berger for a combination of acupuncture and adjustments and feel fully recovered.
One of the most important aspects of my experience with Confluence Wellness Center is that while Dr. Berger has greatly relieved my discomfort, he has also empowered me to heal myself. I have learned how I can maintain and enhance my health through diet, exercise and restful sleep. I understand more about my body functions and how I can take care of myself. If you are seeking a new form of health care, I encourage you to look for a healer who is trained to see past the symptoms to their causes, who understands the interrelatedness of the body’s systems and who will show you how you can actively participate in restoring your body to a state of health.
I knew the time had come for me to do something about the pain in my back when I could no longer stand up without leaning on something and could no longer find a position sitting, standing or lying, where my back didn’t hurt. My back had been giving me problems on and off for several years but finally the pain had become unmanageable.
But the question was, “What do I do?” At the time, I did not have a very complimentary opinion of chiropractors. I had never met one, I had never consulted one and had some vague uneasy feeling, based primarily on ignorance that chiropractors were incompetent.
I was in excruciating pain and everything else I had tried had provided temporary relief but offered no permanent solution for my back pain. So I decided to suspend my beliefs about chiropractors and go see Allen Berger. That was 11 months ago. The pain in my back is now gone!!! The pain returns every once in a while, but only in miniscule miniscule doses when ever I abuse my back. I still see Dr. Berger for minor adjustments every several weeks and those will soon be monthly visits.
I can not say enough complimentary things about Dr. Berger (what a difference 11 months makes). Obviously, I am delighted about the improvement in my back. But I am also delighted that I no longer face the prospect of pain medications or muscle relaxants for the rest of my life. And there is one other thing- along the way I have learned from Dr. Berger the information I need to take control of my own wellness- both in terms of how to keep my back healthy and in terms of nutrition. It has been a pleasure to deal with a healing professional who believes it is his job to make himself obsolete and who demonstrates this belief by giving his patients the information they need to assume responsibility for their own wellness.
Most of my life I have been troubled with allergies and asthma. Dr. Berger started me in a program of chiropractic adjustments, a nutritionally tailored diet and vitamin supplements. My health returned rapidly.
Today I feel better that I ever have in my life. I am able to think clearly for quite extended periods of time and I retain optimism for my work which inspires my entire department. My fellow workmates comment on my energy and success. Now several of them are modifying their diets and seeking chiropractic care.
The corporation which offers its employees chiropractic and nutritional care will gain a cost effective advantage over its competition. Developing healthy, efficient employees is a completely overlooked strategy. I strongly recommend chiropractic care as an excellent investment. I will happily answer any questions concerning the treatment I have received.