Her Story
About Hali
Hali Deters is a sports rehab chiropractor and the owner of her practice in Chicago, Illinois. With over six years in the field and one year operating her own business, she provides individualized care through thorough assessments, hands-on soft tissue and extremity work, and rehabilitation exercises. Her career path started after a rugby injury introduced her to chiropractic, leading her to pursue chiropractic school via a rugby scholarship instead of physical therapy training. Finding adjustment-only methods insufficient, she built a practice emphasizing patient empowerment and movement confidence over fear-based approaches. Deters works within a gym environment, coordinating with personal trainers, acupuncturists, pelvic floor physical therapists, and massage therapists. She credits sports with building her self-confidence to take on challenges and create opportunities, and she recommends that women entering the field lean into being themselves to foster authentic connections and growth.
Her Interview
Ten minutes with Hali
01What do you attribute your success to?
Sports has really built confidence in myself enough to take space in the world and created a lot of opportunity for me. It cycles back in on itself to like oh I can do hard things and therefore it drives every other aspect of my life where it's like okay well if I can push through physically with these things like I can put myself out there.
02What advice would you give to young women entering your industry?
Being yourself because when I was earlier in my clinic days I tried to be the doc and he was his own person and I always felt like I had to be him and so obviously that's inauthentic and so the more I've leaned into being myself and getting to do things how I want to do things versus how I thought I should I think doors just open up and people can feel that and they're more comfortable being themselves and you become a role model for those around you.
03What are the biggest challenges or opportunities in your field right now?
People seeing the wrong thing like putting their sites on numbers and metrics instead of being true to themselves and being a human at the end of the day.
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