From a bicycle accident
to a life's calling
When I was nine years old, I experienced my first chiropractic miracle. Several months before, I had skidded out on my bicycle, concussed my head, and lost hearing in one ear. In a defining visit, a chiropractor named Dr. Caruso — in his nineties — restored my hearing with a single adjustment. I knew in that moment that I wanted to impact the world in a similar way.
Still, while I was 11 and 12, I spent hours balled up on the couch in chronic intestinal pain and experienced repeated ear infections. My parents didn't know then that chiropractic adjustments could help heal those conditions — or that the nervous system was foundational to all of it. Those years shaped my understanding of how intertwined chiropractic and nutrition truly are.
At nineteen, after seeing a chiropractor regularly from the time I was fifteen, I knew my path: become a doctor of chiropractic. I understood that the nervous system was foundational to healing — and that the changes could be instantaneous.