I was playing junior hockey in my hometown of Chatham, Ontario. I got hit one night and landed on my backside. I had never had lower back pain before and I did not want to miss any playing time, so I called up the local chiropractor. It was a Saturday morning and I really didn’t expect his office to be open. To my surprise, the doctor himself answered my call and told me to come straight to the office. I was shocked and totally impressed that he was not, in fact, at the office on Saturdays and that he arrived in his parking lot right after me and my parents. He came in that day especially to see me! Wow. And what a huge help he was! He had my body working just right before our next game and he didn’t give me one single pill! I was absolutely impressed!

I already had an interest in how the body worked, in natural health, and performance. This chiropractic thing was an automatic career interest for me. Two years later that same chiropractor helped me return from a knee injury I sustained while playing hockey in the U.S. college system. I was back in the line-up weeks faster than anyone expected. That did it: I wanted to be a Doctor of Chiropractic and help others just like I had been helped. Little did I know just how helpful chiropractic truly is in achieving optimal function and optimal health! My experiences were awesome. But there is so much more to today’s chiropractic!

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Dr. Lorne Papernick became interested in chiropractic while he was a competitive swimmer at 18 years old and was injured in a car accident. Due to neck pain from the accident, an x-ray was taken of his spine and the doctor that he saw told him that he was suffering from osteoarthritis of his spine. He went to see a chiropractor to try and get relief and to see what could be done.

Even though he never had pain prior to the accident, he was told by a chiropractor that having osteoarthritis at this age was not unusual and that the spine begins to degenerate ever since you are born. The degeneration is caused by stresses including the birthing process, falls as a child, bad posture, sports injuries, etc. which cause misalignments in the spine (subluxations) and interference on the nervous system. These subluxations can cause degeneration approximately 2 weeks after the subluxations occur. He was told that pain can come on years later, at any time.

He began regular chiropractic care and was able to reverse the damage done to the spine. He also began to notice other problems that he was suffering from started to go away as well such as continual stomach pains. His chiropractor explained to him that the nervous system controls everything you do in your life including; the ability to heal injuries, your thoughts, your emotions, the organs being able to function properly, etc. When your spine gets adjusted by a chiropractor, interference on the nervous system is removed and your body is able to function better.

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