Dr. Chanelle "Nellie" Poulin

Owner, D.C.

Before she built SPC, Dr. Chanelle “Nellie” Poulin learned what it meant to compete at the highest level. She captained the varsity field hockey team at Providence College and earned All-American honors twice in Division I NCAA Field Hockey. She went on to earn a Bachelor of Science in Biology from Providence College and her Doctor of Chiropractic degree at Life University in Atlanta, GA. She is also certified in Chiropractic Biophysics (CBP), Functional Movement Systems, Graston Technique, and Russian Kettlebell Training. That athletic background, the years of training, competing, and pushing through, is part of why she approaches chiropractic care the way she does today.

That approach was shaped most by what happened after chiropractic school, when Dr. Poulin developed severe hip pain of her own. It affected her sleep, her walking, her training, even sitting for too long. “The most frustrating part wasn’t even the pain,” she says. “It was feeling like a hypocrite. I had just gone to school to help people get out of pain, while secretly wondering if the thing I’d dedicated my life to even worked.” She tried the traditional route: adjustments that gave temporary relief but never solved the underlying problem.

That experience changed how she views chiropractic care entirely. She realized how many patients walk around feeling exactly the same way: frustrated, unheard, told to stop doing the things they love, starting to wonder if their own bodies are failing them. It’s why SPC was built differently, not around chasing symptoms or quick fixes, and not around telling active people to stop being active. SPC is built around finding the real reason pain keeps coming back, so people can trust their bodies again and get back to the sport, training, or movement they love.

Outside the office, she’s still an athlete at heart, with a passion for hockey, skiing, hiking, running, and spending time with her family and 2 pugs, Hatty and Zamboni.