My first experience with a chiropractor was when I was 11 years old, on my way to hockey practice. My friend’s mom was going to do her fortnightly adjustment and asked if my friend and I would like to come in and watch. I thought, “Sure! It has to be better than sitting in the car.” I saw the Doctor use his hands to do these things that he called adjustments. My friend’s mom got up from the setting and said, “Ahhh, that was amazing!”
I thought “WOW! That was great!” So, I asked her mom what just happened. She explained that she had had chronic pain for years and finally decided to go see a chiropractor. After she started going, it helped her with chronic pain. She felt so good and energetic that she was now going to receive maintenance care.
I said, “I want to do this when I’m older.” She asked why and I remember saying, “Well, I always wanted to work with my hands and help people, and this seems like a good way to do both. I had just witnessed this incredible experience and thought maybe I should research this one. Chiropractor The interesting thing here was: I had decided that I wanted to become a chiropractor even though I had never experienced chiropractic care.
All of that changed a few years later, when my mother started suffering from chronic migraines. She had been examined by many doctors, but no one seemed to help. The headaches were getting worse and now interfered with family time. My mother was at the end of her rope! Then a friend suggested to my mom that she see a chiropractor. She was willing to try anything right now.
My mom had a checkup and the doctor told her that he could help. I was there when my mom got her first adjustment and over time her headaches became less painful and then less frequent. I remember that for a time my mother was absent from family functions because her headaches always affected her. So when I witnessed the transformation in her health, I REALLY decided that chiropractic was what I wanted to do. It was also then that my mother decided that I was going to be under chiropractic care and I received my first adjustment.
So, I set off in my studies to pursue this dream. I studied Kinesiology and then worked as a personal trainer using all of this knowledge to help me get into chiropractic school. And now here I am entering my second decade as a chiropractor.
I am living my dream and doing what I love to do: using my hands, knowledge and experience to help people.
Thank you for reading.
