Amazing - took me from 2Xweek with OLD Chiro to 2-3X per YEAR!
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
I moved to Kirkland and needed a new, convenient Chiropractor because I was going all the time and couldn't keep driving to Bellevue for my previous guy. The Massage Therapist I'd been seeing recommended Dr. Karen Shepard at Northwest Chiropractic. Right away, she began weaning me off of the too-frequent visits and over-adjustment done by my previous chiropractors. From the beginning, she urged me to see if I could wait just a little while longer between each visit. She explained my tissues were stretched and weakened from over adjustment - which was why my neck & back kept chronically going "out." Within a few months, with her strengthening exercises and moral support, PLUS the dietary changes recommended for lowering systemic inflammation by my awesome naturopath (Dr. Sheila Dunn-Merritt in Bellevue), I now only go about 2-3 times per year! (Unless something unusual comes up - like having to sit a long time in really un-supportive chairs at a conference...).
Dr. Shepard is caring, supportive, a great listener, and has really changed my life with her gentle, responsible, wellness oriented care. When she hasn't been available, I've also seen Dr. Tim Clanton, and he's AMAZING, too!
You will be SO glad you found this clinic - they want you to get BETTER and tell all your friends, instead of keeping you dependent on chronic care! They DON'T want to suck you into an endless, money-draining, physically dis-empowering spiral of increasing visits and costs - like most of the other chiropractors I saw before finding Dr. Shepard.
If you want to get BETTER, go see Dr. Shepard.