From Kiddo to Chiropractor

Jacklynn’s Chiropractic Story:

The first time I got adjusted was when I was 8 years old. I did not have any significant health concerns, but my brother was struggling with wetting the bed at night.

When we started care at the chiropractor in my hometown, my family learned how chiropractic helps with body function. I remember the chiropractor visually showing us how vertebral subluxation can happen by having my family hold hands.

Our hands twisted out of place represented how dysfunction can happen in the body. It provided clarity as to why my brother was wetting the bed. The twisting of our hands represented nerve interference within the body and how, when that happens, the brain can’t communicate with the nerves controlling different organs of the body. It made so much sense to me. When your spine is out of place, putting strain and tension on your nerves, you can have dysfunction of the body, even without your body expressing symptoms such as pain.

I have been regularly adjusted by many chiropractors since I was 8 years old, and I contribute my symptom-free, healthy childhood and now adulthood to that. In college, I was trying to figure out what I wanted to do with the rest of my life, as many other college students were doing. I started out as a business student and knew that it wasn’t something I wanted to do forever.

After my first year of college, I started talking with my hometown chiropractor more about her career and what it takes to become a chiropractor. During my general classes, I realized that science classes were not as bad as I thought they would be, and I took the leap to begin my journey to become a chiropractor.

I just graduated with my Bachelor of Science degree and am starting chiropractic school in a couple of months! What I am most excited about as a chiropractor is being able to provide healing to a community of people. I believe that everyone should have an opportunity to function at their fullest potential and live a symptom-free, pain-free life!