Chanda Plan Foundation

I have been getting services from the Chanda Plan, and now the Chanda Center for Health for about 5 years due to a spinal cord injury I sustained 19 years ago. Chanda and her amazing therapists have done so much for my health and keeping my body from breaking down from life in a wheelchair! I could never thank them enough for all they have done. This is definitely an organization who cares about their clients like family and I am forever grateful for all the hard work they do raising money and advocating for all disabled people.

Twenty-six years ago I suffered a spinal cord injury(C4-5) resulting in quadriplegia. During this time I have experienced all types of integrated therapies. For the last 2 years the Chanda Center for Health has proved adaptive yoga, physical therapy, acupuncture, massage, chiropractic, biofeedback, nutrition classes, and helping make connections to other community resources. This is the first time I have been able to access all these services in one location. My experience at the center has changed my life in some of the following ways reduction in pain, decreased medication, increase range of motion, and decrease in depression.

I first began working with the Chanda Plan in 2015 when I applied for an exercise grant they approved. I was able to use that money to work out at a local gym to help strengthen my legs and help my self-esteem.

Today I use the Chanda Plan aka Chanda Center for Health as part of my health routine through the spinal cord injury waiver. The treatment providers are a wonderful group of people who show genuine compassion and caring for me. They have really helped me with my chronic pain and I could not be more thankful to them for taking the time to make me feel like a valuable participant.

Rachel is my current massage therapist and I can say without a doubt that she is truly one of the most compassionate, kind, and caring individuals I have ever met. She will go above and beyond a one hour massage just to make sure my body is getting the care it needs and to make sure I am feeling my absolute. I don't know where I would be without these amazing people that make having a physical disability a little less challenging.

I have witnessed The Chanda Plan Foundation providing unique holistic services that have changed so many people’s lives. Their organization inspires me and they do such an amazing service to the community and their participants!

Beautiful people and amazing location. The facilities and treatments are like a five star spa

Safes my life love everyone there really supportive and they sit down with u making sure u have a game plan on getting better really suportive

Amazing organization doing AMAZING things for paralysis

After being a client for 2 1/2 years at Chanda foundation because of a severe spinal cord injury Chanda abruptly discontinued my massage therapy appointment ments with Rachel because we had formed a friendship and that was against their policy rules (no personal relationships.) Not once during the year and a half was I ever informed of this and Rachel told me she had personal relationships with all her clients . They completely abandoned me and left me with no therapy at all.
I trained Rachel in Thai massage for year and a half taking time out of my own sessions to train her to do Thai massage. I even gave her a mat to work on. With my help she brought thai massage to the disabled community and the staff at the Chanda foundation, who found the benefits to be as helpful as myself.
Being almost the only one who could walk there I was discriminated against. I was told that I would have to make 2 to 3 trips down the mountain for my appointments as apposed to combining them all together in one day because “I could walk and it was harder for others who couldn’t “. I will tell you there are challenges in driving yourself down as well as getting a ride . At the time I did not have a car and was relying on public transportation from the mountains with a sever spinal cord injury that temporarily paralyzed me and almost took my life.
The massage therapist there are NOT very experienced and mediocre, that’s coming from someone who’s practiced massage for almost 20 years. The treatments they offer are very limited and not at all up to date. The counselor is completely worthless and out of touch. The chiropractor is horrible and hurt me. But the Chanda foundation was my only choice because of my insurance . So I tried to help train one of their staff and 2 1/2 years later was punished for doing so. On one particular difficult day they told me I could no longer continue with Rachael because of this personal relationship and left me with no other choice but to leave the foundation completely after feeling abandoned and betrayed . I had invested or year and a half in training one of their employees and now had no one to go to for this treatment .
I found the foundation to be very insensitive prejudiced and incapable. I would NOT recommended it if you’re interested in working with someone who actually cares about your, healing progress or has your best interest in mind. I think it’s more of just a business to them and nothing further. To me it was very corporate and in personal. What other kind of relationship ship can you have with a person other then then “personal” ?? Especially somebody who is in charge of you with your healing process.
It is impossible for the Chanda foundation to know what’s best for you because no one takes the time to actually get to know you including Chanda.
I am looking forward to finding healing in a place with a higher vibration .