Why did you get into chiropractic? I became interested in chiropractic after shadowing several (13) different specialty doctors while I was in college. I had an early understanding of what good manual therapy could do. I was treated often by a chiropractor and ‘old...
Why did you get into chiropractic? I volunteered at a hospital for three years throughout my undergraduate education at Cal State Long Beach. From that experience I learned that I wanted to be on the opposite side of healthcare, focusing on educating and empowering...
Why did you get into chiropractic? A few reasons: 1.) Selfishly: at 20 I had a catastrophic lower back injury and wanted to learn how to help myself overcome excruciating discomfort*. I can safely say that now at 34 I feel better than I did before I was hurt because...
Why did you get into chiropractic? When I was 20 years old, I was in a traumatic snowboarding accident that left me with a fully compressed thoracic vertebra and fractured cervical vertebra–the damage to my spine rendered me functionally paralyzed. I was...
This is the last of a short series of articles on “runner’s knee.” In Part 1 we looked at the basics of two common types of “runner’s knee” conditions (although anyone can get either one of them!) called patellofemoral discomfort* syndrome and iliotibial band syndrome...
