A first-person account of early experiences with chiropractic care: the speaker began accompanying their stepdad to a chiropractor at about age 10, practiced manual techniques learned there, later worked on patients during summers, and by age 14 was invited to assist the chiropractor — leading to attending massage therapy school and becoming a certified massage therapist.
When I was about 10 years old, I started going to the chiropractor with my stepdad. He had a bad back, and the chiropractor would show me things that I could do to help him by putting pressure here and pushing here when he had a really bad flare up. So I would do that for my stepdad. And then after a while, I would actually work on the chiropractor. So it worked very well for your stepdad? Yeah, yeah. And he liked it. The chiropractor was impressed. And so I started working on him and he would adjust me, and that was our trade for about four years. And when I was 14 years old, told you, he's like, kid, what are you doing this summer? You're really good. And I said, well, nothing. He goes, well, I want you to come work on my patients. So that really started my kind of clinical expertise of working on patients, putting on the hot packs and adjusting the, you know, electrodes and, and doing manual therapies on them. And after four years, I decided to go to massage therapy school and I got. Became a certified massage therapist.
