I grew up in the saddle and on dirtbikes — the kind of childhood where you collect a few injuries and never really get them looked at. You just dust yourself off and keep going. From the age of nineteen I was working with horses full-time, and those untreated knocks quietly came along for the ride.
Then one ordinary morning I went into work and simply couldn't stand up straight. The headaches and the lower-back pain I'd learned to live with had finally caught up with me. Instead of reaching for medication, I decided to see a chiropractor.
It isn't normal to live with headaches and lower-back pain — and within six weeks of adjustments, I felt the best I had in years.
That sentence changed how I thought about my own body — and, before long, my whole career. Feeling that good again made me want the same for my horses.
So I went looking for a qualified equine chiropractor to care for them. I couldn't find one. That gap stuck with me, and eventually I decided that if the right practitioner was hard to find, I would become one.
While I was training, my boss bought a horse to fix up and sell. When it arrived, it had significant spinal abnormalities — the kind that make you wonder whether the horse will ever be comfortable, let alone ridable.
A chiropractor came out to help. Within a couple of weeks, that same horse was moving normally and back under saddle. Watching it happen confirmed everything I'd come to believe: gentle, skilled chiropractic care can give an animal its body back.
Today I bring both sides of that journey to every appointment — a decade of hands-on horsemanship and certified, registered chiropractic training. It's a perspective I'm proud of, and it's the reason I do this work.