Making fascia fashionable again

Passions are discovered during different times in peoples’ lives, and some are discovered as a result of tragedy or other life altering event. Regardless of the reason these passions are discovered, they can lead to ripples felt throughout the community.
One Eunice native discovered a passion of helping people while working in Dallas and has returned to the Vidrine area to help those in need with pain relieving treatment, and he hopes to spread this treatment statewide.
“I just want to help people get better so they don’t have to live in pain,” said Dr. Jeb Cormier of STISOL (Soft Tissue Injury Specialists of Louisiana). “I want patients to have an experience that is second to none, and I want to give them a really good experience.”
Contributing to these patient experiences are what Dr. Cormier calls “wow moments.” As he said, “Wow moments are something along the lines of patients saying ‘I can move, and it doesn’t hurt.’ I love to give patients wow moments because I want them to see their injuries are correctable and fixable and they don’t need to live in pain. My biggest thing is I don’t want people to live in pain.”
Dr. Cormier relieves pain as a chiropractor and first became interested in chiropractic care as a patient himself. “I’ve been to chiropractors my whole life,” he said. “I started with headaches when I was seven-years-old, and my dad brought me to a chiropractor where I got really good results.”
He then went on to play football at Eunice High School and at Pearl River Community College in Poplarville, Miss. After playing football collegiality, he returned home and attended LSUE where he met his wife, Danyette. He then played one season of semi-professional football for the Louisiana Hurricanes. It is while playing in as a semi-pro in Lafayette that he first got pointed in the direction leading to his current life path.
“I met a chiropractor there in Lafayette, befriended him, and got to know him pretty well,” said Dr. Cormier. “When the season was over, I still went for treatments. I then ended up losing my job in the oil field, and things really weren’t going well for my family. So, we decided to move to Dallas where I became a chiropractor.”
“I wanted to work initially with athletes, but I learned going through school that I didn’t want to just cater to athletes,” he continued. “I wanted to cater to everybody who needed help. I was going to move back to Louisiana to open up a traditional office, but then I found out a specific provider group who was doing something different.
Dr. Cormier learned how to correct dysfunctional fascia in the body. He explained, “Fascia is a substance in our body that connects from head to toe, it never splits or breaks, but it’s intertwined in everything in our body and we need it for functionality. It has six times more nerve endings than anywhere else but has no blood supply, so it can’t mend itself.
Comparing dysfunctional fascia to Seran wrap, Dr. Cormier commented, “When you pull Seran wrap and tear it, it clings and overlaps. That’s what fascia does. When that happens, the muscle cannot respond like it needs to. He performs a very safe and effective hands-on soft tissue treatment to correct dysfunctional fascia.
Dr. Cormier is the only chiropractor in the state of Louisiana providing such specialized treatment and does so in offices in Lafayette and Vidrine. The Vidrine office opened about two weeks ago and is located inside Kim’s Total Image.
Treatment at STISOL begins with a thorough examination that is then followed by Dr. Cormier checking for range of motion and conducting several tests. “Then, we’ll be able to give an expert diagnosis on what is going on,” said Dr. Cormier. “We tell how long it’s going to take to fix. We’re going to treat that area, and then retest to see if it’s better, same, or worse.”
The treatment consists of about 20 minutes in the examination room and about 20 minutes in the rehabilitation room. Dr. Cormier expressed, “We are able to resolve most of these injuries anywhere between four and eight visits on average.”
By September 2019, Dr. Cormier hopes to hire a doctor to take over the Lafayette location which will allow him to be full time in Vidrine. The following year, he hopes to then hire another doctor to take over in Vidrine which will allow him to open new clinics and to “spread the word about STISOL.”
As he explained, “My main mission is to change the way musculoskeletal injuries are managed. I want to help with these injuries and get down to the root cause of these injuries.”
Though loving their life in Dallas, Dr. Cormier and his family decided to move back home. He explained, “We wanted to be closer to home for our kids to be able to get to know their cousins and family better, as well as getting to know their true culture and heritage. The next thing is I saw the opportunity to bring something good here and help the people of this area by giving them something different.”
He concluded, “I believe God allowed me to learn something different, to come back home, and to share it with the people of this community and this state by helping them get better from pain. That’s one of my biggest passions.”
Dr. Cormier is married to the former Danyette Bertrand of Vidrine, and they have 3 children, Camron, Alydia, and Brianna. They currently reside in the Vidrine Community.