General Info

I have practiced in Pacifica since 1978, but if we haven't met I would like to give you a little personal history. The eldest son of nine children, I am the product of a military family and grew up living in many parts of the world. At age 19 I left college to join the U.S. Air Force and served in Bien Hoa and Phan Rang. After my Vietnam service, some lingering back injuries led me to try Chiropractic care for the first time. I was so impressed by the benefit it provided me, and the skill of the doctor providing the treatment that I began investigating Chiropractic as a career. I was surprised to learn that historical records indicate that manipulative therapies have existed throughout recorded time. Manipulation was documented in Chinese literature as far back as 2000 years ago, and from ancient Greece 2500 years ago. Hippocrates, the father of modern medicine instructed his students to, "Get knowledge of the spine, for this is requisite for many diseases." The following statemen t is attributed to the inventor and futurist, Thomas Edison in 1902, "The doctor of the future will give no medicine but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease". In short, I became convinced that Chiropractic?s core has both a solid past and a promising future. The rest is history. I put the "G.I. Bill" to work, and ultimately, I graduated Magna Cum Laude from Cleveland Chiropractic College in Southern California in 1977.