Chiropractic Care Created Precisely For You
Welcome to our practice! We hope that you will find this site helpful in learning more about our office, our values, our particular form of chiropractic care, and how chiropractic care can assist you in improving the quality of your life.
Every patient is unique, and therefore so is the care that they will receive here, and the time it may take for their pain to be relieved, and greater function restored. Depending on inherited traits, lifetime habits, type of diet and exercise, the quality of sleep you are having, underlying medical conditions, medications you may be taking, your emotional, social, work and family dynamics, accidents, impacts and injuries that have affected your body throughout the entirety of your life, ALL of this plays a part in the level of health you present with, when you walk into our office for the first time. There is never a can planned routine in my practice. Everyone has their own unique recovery, their own unique treatment. How many times have I heard over the years," but that happened 30 years ago! What does that have to do with now?" My pat response is always, yes! but have you switched spines since then? Educating patients about the nature and progression of musculoskeletal injuries, and joint wear, is always a part of my work.
While it is always personally rewarding to reduce the pain in someones life, what I find far more rewarding is shifting a patients perspective and priorities towards being an active partner in their health restoration so they can live their fullest, active, joyful life.
It is not fun to hurt. It frightens people, it makes them feel old, it causes them to miss out on activities they love, it begins to isolate and sadden them, make them withdraw socially, and grow weary. It affects their work productivity, and changes family dynamics creating stress in the home.
This, is what makes me get up every morning, the joy in my heart from helping to restore to peoples lives the quality of life that they have lost due to pain.
MEET THE DOCTOR
Welcome to my website. I congratulate you for making your health a priority by choosing to take the time to learn about the benefits of Chiropractic care, and to discern if I seem like a practitioner that you can feel comfortable with. A little background, I earned my degree by attending both Montclair State College and Sherman College of Chiropractic. I have been a chiropractor since 1983 and am proud to say that I am as excited to be a Chiropractor now, as I was when I first graduated.
I was quite astonished to discover mid-way through my Chiropractic education, that my great-grandmother had also been a Chiropractor, surprisingly, during the first few decades of it's discovery! These were the early days of Chiropractic, and while there were many Chiropractic schools starting to appear all around the country, and a degree could be earned, a Chiropractic licensing board was in its infancy of being established. In many states at the time, while you could earn your degree, it was illegal to use it! These early Chiropractors were routinely arrested and served time in jail, charged with "practicing medicine without a license". Chiropractic, with it's discovery in 1895, was one of the first" alternative medicine" systems that we now consider common place, to appear, and created quite the challenge to the established medical community at the time, and it's inclusion into the insurance industry, validation as a legitimate science, and respect of both the public, and medical community at large, has been long battled and hard won. The early Chiropractors had such a strong conviction that the public had the right to this type of care, that many literally practiced quietly and in secret in order to be of service to the public, while putting themselves at risk of imprisonment.