I graduated from Palmer College of Chiropractic-West, the California branch of Palmer University, in 1989. I studied spinal trauma (neck and back injuries) and sports injury. I am an active community speaker on injury / illness prevention, and have developed safety programs for numerous companies in the Bay Area. I have testified as an expert in many injury cases. I am not only the doctor, but I am also a patient. Severe neck injuries had rendered my spine unstable and had made it impossible to study or focus in school, I met a chiropractor through a school friend. He taught me about chiropractic. Where orthopedist, neurologist, and physical therapist had given up hope and told me to "learn to live with it." A chiropractor restored the movement to my spine and enabled it to heal. He taught me that it is not the doctor or the medicine that heals, but a patients own God given ability to heal, if you can just remove what is sometimes blocking it. This doesn't mean I'm against the use of drugs or surgery. I just believe you should avoid unnecessary drugs and surgery and first seek natural and less invasive procedures.