As so many other people say…’Chiropractic for me has been a life changer’, and it was and has been for me too.

As a kid I was a migraine sufferer. I missed a lot of school as a result. All the tests at the time showed a very normal teenage brain. Grasping at straws, and feeling desperate, my parents took me off to see a chiropractor, which changed my life. After that first consultation I no longer suffered migraines. It was to change my life forever, and eventually lead me to being here, now.

However there was a lot of time and life, in between that teenage kid and me the Chiropractor now.

I was working as a Fitter Machinist at the time when I was involved in a very serious accident, that put me in a wheelchair with a back injury. I was looking at a life time of pain and specialists appointments with months, if not years of rehab in front of me.

It was by chance that one day, I ‘ran into’ (not) my old Chiropractor, the one who had helped me all those years ago with my migraines. He was shocked to see me the way that I was, and suggested that he could take a look and see if he could help me. So I made an appointment.

His care over time, restored my mobility, decreased my pain and made a massive difference to my quality of life and health. It also allowed me to return to work. Big mistake.

Now, you may not know what a Fitter Machinist is or what one does, but let me tell you it is very hard work on a recovering body.

It was at this point that my Chiropractor asked me if I’d ever considered going back to study. Nothing could have been further from my mind, however he had sowed the seed. So I went back to school, and at the ripe old age of 32 (a long time ago), took myself and my fiancé Dee, off to New Zealand to study Chiropractic, at the NZ College of Chiropractic.

I guess being a bit older, having had some of the life experiences that I had, gave me such an appreciation for this chance to serve as a Chiro. I had learnt so much. I am in awe of the human body. Its ability to adapt, to heal, and to change. Just as I am in awe of Chiropractic and what it can do to help people. That’s what I hope for everyone that I see, that Chiropractic can do for you, what it has done for me. It gave me my health (and life) back.