As I sit at my desk it is hard to believe that I have been working in my San Diego Chiropractic office for 15 years now. It hit me the other day when one of my patients came in for a routine maintenance treatment. She had her boyfriend in tow who was complaining of a stiff, painful neck condition. I asked my patient how old she was and I was shocked when she said 21. When I first bought this office in the early 90s she was 6. Sometimes I would see her because she had specific aches and pains but more often than not her visits were related to general tension that was relieved with treatment.

This patient is just one of hundreds / maybe thousands that I have seen in my San Diego chiropractic office over the years. Although there have been challenging moments for myself as a sole practitioner in this office, most of my memories of the last 15 years are fond.

Chiropractic care is a wonderful form of treatment. Releasing spinal tension and allowing the body to fully express its own healing abilities is a miraculous process to witness.

Many large western medical centers advertise wellness care and preventative care yet still focus on delivering “sick care”, shunning the patient who wants to be seen simply to advance their own efforts to improve their health. I hear stories all the time from patients whose doctor wants lab work done or other special testing because they fear that their patient is ill yet the tests or follow up visits are scheduled weeks or months down the road. Do you really think that they have time to schedule prevention or wellness appointments? I don't see much evidence of that.

The beauty of chiropractic care is its focus on prevention and wellness. Maintenance chiropractic care is extremely valuable with the modern, fast paced stressful lifestyles that we lead. Don't get me wrong, we do have excellent results with relieving acute and chronic types of pain, but as the saying goes, “an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.”

If you are not a current “wellness” chiropractic patient, do your health a big favor and become one. Perhaps you can be like the patient that I referenced in the beginning of this article and have a nice long run of health and wellness.

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