After years of playing sports, numerous falls and injuries had taken their toll. I was in my early twenties but suffered from low back pain daily.
Every night when I would lay in bed, my back hurt until I finally fell asleep. I just assumed this would be something I would have to live with for the rest of my life.
By chance, my mother worked for a dermatologist that shared a professional complex with several other doctors. One was a chiropractor named Dr. Victor Fitch. My mother had met him and thought he seemed nice. She told him of my interest in healthcare. He told her I was welcome to visit his office to meet him and learn about chiropractic. Boy am I glad I listened to my mom! After watching in amazement as Dr. Fitch helped person after person with various problems, he asked if I would like to be checked. I told him I didn’t really have any problems, but sure. I never even thought to mention my back pain!
That night, much to my amazement, my back didn’t hurt. It almost seemed odd to me. Could years of pain really be gone? I was convinced. I knew then I wanted to be a chiropractor and help others get relief and live more enjoyable lives.
I thought so much of chiropractic, I decided to marry a fellow student at Logan College of Chiropractic in St. Louis. Dr. Lori and I met as I was finishing and she was practically starting chiropractic school. I moved to Birmingham to be close to family, and she joined me after graduation. Who says long-distance relationships don’t last! Today, Dr. Lori and I are proud to serve the Mountain Brook community.
My chiropractic journey began whenever I was a young child, and I would go with my Mom to her chiropractic appointments to help her with her lower back pain. She fell down a flight of stairs as a college student and suffered with low back pain for years. At the young age of six I realized that my Mom’s chiropractor, Dr. Hughes, was helping her to be able to do her daily activities and to be able to stand and teach for long periods of time.
I would watch him adjust her and also explore in his office. I would find models of the spine, interactive posters that showed how nerves controlled different organs and different nerve patterns. It was very fascinating to me to see how my Mom would get better after her adjustments.
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