{"id":171900,"date":"2025-08-24T14:28:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T14:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/171900\/"},"modified":"2025-08-24T14:28:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T14:28:10","slug":"base-vitality-offers-a-holistic-approach-to-health-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/171900\/","title":{"rendered":"Base Vitality offers a holistic approach to health care"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; vertical-align: baseline; font-kerning: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px;\">Combining both her chiropractic and naturopathic expertise, Andrea Emde aims to provide a holistic approach to ensuring her patients are healthy. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; vertical-align: baseline; font-kerning: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px;\">\u201cYou can have all the fancy stuff, but if your basic health is struggling, you can\u2019t go anywhere,\u201d Emde, a licensed physician, said. \u201cHealth is the ultimate wealth.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; vertical-align: baseline; font-kerning: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px;\">Originally from Northern Washington, Emde opened Base Vitality, off U.S. 93 in North Kalispell, on April 1. The daughter of a chiropractor and a massage therapist, Emde said she grew up with a holistic view of health, which inspired her to pursue a career helping others using an all-encompassing approach. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; vertical-align: baseline; font-kerning: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px;\">\u201cIt\u2019s about getting better and feeling healthy,\u201d Emde said. \u201cIt makes a difference.\u201d \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; vertical-align: baseline; font-kerning: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px;\">Emde went to Washington State University to get her undergraduate degree in biology and then went on to pursue her naturopathic doctor degree from Bastyr University. During that program, she fell in love with chiropractic.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; vertical-align: baseline; font-kerning: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px;\">She decided that once she finished her naturopathic degree, she would earn\u00a0her doctor of chiropractic degree, which she did at the University of Western States. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; vertical-align: baseline; font-kerning: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px;\">After finishing her education in 2020 and moving to the Flathead Valley in 2021 to pursue her career, she worked for another chiropractor for four years, but always knew that she wanted to start her own practice. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; vertical-align: baseline; font-kerning: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px;\">\u201cI wanted to be able to integrate both of the degrees, to be able to practice the way I wanted,\u201d Emde said. \u201cAnd with Base Vitality I can do that.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; vertical-align: baseline; font-kerning: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px;\">Emde chose the name Base Vitality to highlight the importance of the work she does. To do the things people want to do, to improve athletically or structurally, requires base health. A healthy body can go on to do more. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; vertical-align: baseline; font-kerning: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px;\">\u201cI wanted [the name] to trigger self-reflection&#8230; you have to establish your baseline health to reach your potential,\u201d she said. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; vertical-align: baseline; font-kerning: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px;\">That\u2019s her favorite thing about her job, she said, helping people reach a point where they can do more. It\u2019s rewarding when a patient comes in, bent over in pain, and leaves with a new jump in their step. She hears success stories of people doing the things that they couldn\u2019t do while they were in pain, like holding a grandchild or going on a hike. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; vertical-align: baseline; font-kerning: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px;\">On the chiropractic side, Emde offers full spinal chiropractic care, including extremities. On the naturopathic side, Emde specializes in hormone optimization and injections for chronic joint pain. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; vertical-align: baseline; font-kerning: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px;\">From arthritis injections to allergy testing to hormone optimization to nutritional counseling to B12 injections, Emde\u2019s naturopathic side of her practice is expansive to best treat an individual. At the core of Base Vitality, Emde said, is individualized care. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; vertical-align: baseline; font-kerning: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px;\">By assessing the patient as a whole, Emde can address the main concern but also help clients live a life pain free. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; vertical-align: baseline; font-kerning: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px;\">\u201cWe do all of this by offering an evidence-based approach to chiropractic care by utilizing chiropractic manipulation, soft-tissue techniques, therapeutic rehabilitation, and a variety of chiropractic services to help achieve your health goals,\u201d Emde said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; vertical-align: baseline; font-kerning: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px;\">The clinic has one exam room, but plans are to one day expand to include space where multiple practitioners of different skills could come in to create a one-stop shop for all things holistic health care. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; vertical-align: baseline; font-kerning: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px;\">For more information, visit basevitality.com or call 406-220-5058. \u00a0The clinic is located at 103 Ponderosa Lane in Kalispell. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; vertical-align: baseline; font-kerning: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px;\">Reporter Kate Heston may be reached at 758-4459 or kheston@dailyinterlake.com. <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyinterlake.com\/photos\/2025\/aug\/14\/505867\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/BaseVitality_Heston-2.jpg.2780x1853_q85_box-0,0,5561,3707_crop_detail.jpg\"\/><\/a> \u00a0Andrea Emde, owner of Base Vitality. (Kate Heston\/Daily Inter Lake)<br \/>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyinterlake.com\/photos\/2025\/aug\/14\/505869\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/BaseVitality_Heston-1.jpg.2839x1893_q85_box-0,0,5679,3786_crop_detail.jpg\"\/><\/a> \u00a0Base Vitality, located off of U.S. 93, offers a holistic approach to care. 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