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Sports chiropractor combining hands-on care, movement assessment, and strength-forward rehabilitation to help active people recover, move confidently, and keep pursuing the activities they love.
Schedule with LauraLaura combines chiropractic care, soft-tissue treatment, movement education, and progressive rehabilitation to help people understand what is limiting them and build the strength and confidence to move forward. She especially enjoys working with active adults, everyday athletes, and people dealing with stubborn extremity problems.
Laura particularly enjoys evaluating and treating the joints outside the spine, including the jaw, shoulders, elbows, knees, ankles, and feet. She welcomes stubborn problems such as tennis elbow, dysfunctional knees, and plantar fasciitis.
Drawing on her experience working with athletes and active adults, Laura combines movement assessment, hands-on treatment, and progressive exercise to help people recover from injuries and return confidently to sport, training, and recreation.
Laura uses manual chiropractic adjustments when appropriate, along with Active Release Techniques, instrument-assisted soft-tissue work, and neurodynamic techniques. She respects each patient’s preferences and can emphasize soft-tissue care and rehabilitation without adjustment.
Her experiences with two pregnancies and two unplanned C-sections gave Laura a personal appreciation for healing after surgery. She helps people gradually restore movement, function, confidence, and strength for the demands of everyday life.
Raised by two physicians with an enthusiasm for travel, Dr. Laura Peterson Wright spent her childhood moving every few years. She lived in Kenya, Wisconsin, Georgia, Zimbabwe and Virginia—experiences that fostered a lasting curiosity about people, places and how different lives are lived.
Laura attended the College of William & Mary, where she majored in linguistics. After graduation, her love of travel took her to Nanjing, China, where she spent a year teaching English. She then returned to Virginia to earn a degree in culinary arts, which ultimately brought her to Jackson, Wyoming, for a pastry position at the Four Seasons Resort.
What was intended to be one winter in Jackson quickly became six years. Laura fell in love with the mountains and the active lifestyle surrounding them, but her growing interest in sports and health increasingly conflicted with her work in pastry. Somewhere along the way—arm-deep in cookie dough—she decided it was time to pursue a career centered on movement, health and helping people stay active.
Chiropractic proved to be the right fit. Laura moved to Minnesota to attend Northwestern Health Sciences University, where she earned her Doctor of Chiropractic degree—and met Tyler. Knowing she wanted to return to a mountain community after graduation, she focused much of her training on the needs of recreational and competitive athletes. While in school, she worked with players from the Minnesota Vixen and Minnesota Freeze, treating sports injuries and developing rehabilitation programs.
After graduation, Laura and Tyler returned to Jackson and opened JH Backcountry Health. They spent seven years building the practice and helping people remain active in the sports, work and outdoor pursuits that mattered to them.
Laura had often said, “When Jackson gets too crazy, I’m moving to Alaska.” Eventually, Tyler called her on it. Within a year, they had packed up their lives, their two young children and their practice and moved north. Although Tyler had visited Anchorage only once—in February—Laura had traveled to Alaska several times to visit her childhood best friend, who has lived here for nearly three decades.
Moving to Anchorage and reopening the practice as Ascent Health & Performance gave their family the opportunity to pursue more of what they value: community, adventure, meaningful work and raising their children in a place where the outdoors remains part of everyday life.
Clinically, Laura enjoys working with active people who want more than temporary relief. She uses manual chiropractic adjustments when appropriate, but she respects that not everyone wants to be adjusted. Care can instead emphasize soft-tissue treatment, rehabilitation or gentler instrument-assisted techniques according to each person’s preferences.
Laura is full-body certified in Active Release Techniques and trained in Graston Technique and Smart Tools. She holds the FMT Performance Certification from RockTape, has studied neurodynamics and is a Certified Functional Strength Coach. Her approach combines hands-on care with movement education and progressive rehabilitation to help people understand what is limiting them and build the capacity to move forward.
She especially enjoys evaluating and treating extremity joints, including the jaw, shoulders, elbows, knees and feet. Feet happen to be one of her favorite areas to work with, and she welcomes the challenge of problems such as plantar fasciitis, tennis elbow and persistent knee dysfunction.
Laura’s perspective has also been shaped by two pregnancies and two unplanned C-sections. The experience gave her a personal appreciation for healing after surgery and for the gradual process of restoring function, confidence and strength while caring for a growing family.
After seven years of practice in Jackson, Laura and her family left one mountain town with plenty of snow for another. They are thrilled to be building Ascent within the Anchorage community and creating a practice where thoughtful care, movement and real-world strength belong together.
Outside the clinic, Laura enjoys learning about business, weightlifting and spending time with her and Tyler’s children, Madeleine and Westley. She has returned to running and completed several short races this year, occasionally bringing Maddie along for the experience. As the children get a little older, Laura and Tyler are also looking forward to returning to snowboarding, mountain biking and rock climbing—and discovering whatever adventures Alaska offers next.
