What was your motivation to become a chiropractor?
So my motivation to become a chiropractor it started early on with my deep desire and
passion to help people. Lower Back Pain of so many people needing help, it just seemed right that I should help
So I didn't know quite what that look like or how I was gonna help people.
I started, it really started when I became a massage therapist, I worked for a chiropractor.
So I was seeing people, massage, doing massages, but seeing a chiropractor and what he was
doing for people, literally changing people's lives was mind blowing to me.
But the pipe bomb didn't really go off until I saw the changes in myself.
So I had a lot of ailments, back pain, neck pain, shoulder pain so all that started getting
better. St Louis is need of a Chiropractor with a different approach to lower back pain, neck pain and other health related issues.
But the real thing that kinder got me on that path of knowing I wanted to do Chiropractic,
is I had chronic problems, digestive issues, stress, all these different things never thought
a chiropractor would be able to help with.
And they all miraculously went away.
So I knew then like I had to share this first and foremost with my family and friends and
then with the surrounding community.
So the patient became the doctor?
Pretty much.
That's really cool.
When you got into the chiropractic field, and you know you are going to school and another
thing, what methodology did you start to kind of lean toward and why?
So that took me out quite out of a journey set.
That was when I first started getting adjusted networking for the chiropractor, all I knew
is what that guy did for me.
How he adjusted me so that's all I knew.
But the one thing that kind of set things apart, people got well.
A lot of people got well but still people had questions.
So they didn't feel like they are getting their questions answered.
By the chiropractor, No, if against him they still had questions.
It was, and I just kept list because I would see every patient for a couple of minutes
before the chiropractor would come in.
So time and time again, more and more people just more questions.
So I just kind of had a drive to find a technique, a specific technique that could maybe answer
those questions.
Or further studies that I could do to get to the answers for those questions for those
people.
So I could help definitely many people.
Okay, and what was that method?
So during school year while I had so many different at Logan, here in Chastitute* in
Missouri, we are allowed to, there are so many techniques that your subjected, not subjected
to but then you can take as an elective.
So I tried many different techniques.
And the one that just stood out and, was a no brainer for me.
Was code SOT.
So SOT, the abbreviation for SOT is sacro occipital technique.
So it's a very thorough technique.
So there's a lot of cheque and balances.
So, it's very specific to the patient when they come in, so there is a needs in assessing
what exactly needs to be addressed that day.
And then once we address it then the indicators that we look for go away, so we know that
we made progression for that day.
So again it's like the checks and balances, but its encompassing all techniques so now
that we are addressing anything from your cranium down to your feet and everywhere in
between, that organ function, it looks to a little bit of everything.
And again its checks and balances.
So we know we are making the corrections and the patient can see the corrections as we
go on.
Okay, okay.
Along with it as SOT method is there anything else that you incorporate with that?
We do, so when individuals come in with specific complaints, we take care of them within the
chiropractic world, as best we can, and then if they don't respond as we expect them
to, or if they have further issues, digestive issues, diarrhea issues, whatever they may
have, then we can look at further testing such as blood work or saliva testing to look
at we call functional medicine , to look at this function before it gets to pathology,
they might not get in a medical model, so then we can address it through dietary changes,
and supplementation and try to help them so that then they can get over those hurdles
and like I said earlier with the questions that people had , that is one of the major
stepping stones that I found to help my patients even more , this is the functional medicine
and other services that we offer in our office.
You can look at and tell when a person has somethings going wrong but they are not at
emergency room level yet.
Correct.
You can kind of take that one off and get that back in order so that they don't have
to go to the ER.
Ideally.
Okay.
If we can understand their symptoms, how they are responding to care, my chiropractic stand
point.
So when their symptoms aren't changing and they are having other symptoms, so it's
kind of very unique to that individual and then based on that we never can diagnose anything lower back pain, neck pain, overweight, nerve damage, sports injuries....
or treat anything.
But we can support normal processes throughout the body with those things that I just mentioned
with dietary changes supplementation.
So we allow the body to heal itself.
But again before it gets to pathology like you said before they are in the hospital,
hopefully helping them before they even get to that point.
Okay, great.
Now what if you have a patient of yours who is actually under doctor care for let's
say diabetes.
Is there anything that you can help them with as far as along those lines?
Absolutely.
So when we look at chiropractic, and what we do as chiropractors, is we free up nerve
interference.
So if there's misalignment within the spine, anywhere in the spine it can interfere with
the nerves that come out of that level, a lot of times it's in the areas of say your
pancreas.
So your pancreases secrete insulin when you eat.
So a lot of diabetics have a problem with insulin.
So if we start with a chiropractic, part of it making sure that the nervous system is
functioning properly, that's kind of the baseline, absolutely we'll start there.
But then we can also look at supplementation and dietary changes to definitely support
the diabetes whichever one it is if it's in type one or type two.
And work directly with the doctors too.
So sometimes people are allowed, no, not allowed.
Sometimes people when they start balancing things out they don't need their meds as
much.
Or sometimes they have been able to get off their meds.
And that's something that we tell them up front, like we can't tell you anything about
your medicines, like you have to follow up with your medical doctor for that.
And there is nothing that I could tell you about your meds.
But we will help support all the other areas and so forth normal processes in your body,
we are not treating anything.
Okay.
Have you addressed any other type of problems that people have like you know like ADHD or
you know other things that are kind of common in our world today?
So a lot of times what we find they are thyroid issues.
So a lot of thyroid issues allow auto immune issues.
A lot of digestive issues.
IBS which is kind of a blanket for your bowel dysfunction we don't know what's wrong
with him.
Collits, Crohns disease.
So a lot of digestive, thyroid, blood sugar.
Also a big one right now is SEBO, small Intestine bacterial overgrowth.
So all of these things, allergies, like food intolerances.
So there's many different things that people come in with, that we've been able to help
with. We helped so many people with not just lower back pain, but many other ailments, such has foot pain, neck pain and many other issues
Wow, that's awesome.
Now, looking at your office you are the chiropractor and of course you address things to the nutritional
level, sort of things are there any other services that you offer here?
We do.
So massage therapy, we have a great massage therapist.
And we have an acupuncturist.
So she practices Chinese medicine.
So both of those kind of go hand in hand with the chiropractic what we are looking at the
entire body, and how everything's connected.
And how we can better balance that system with all those different various techniques
and services.
Okay great, great.
Well I think that is all I had for you today.
I really appreciate your time.
That's absolutely very informative.
Thank you very much absolutely. We can help you with an holistic approach to your health and wellness.
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