Growing up, my parents, both realtors, worked really hard slowly improving homes to rent out for their retirement.

I worked for them when they needed help with general cleaning, cutting up and removing dirty carpet, landscaping and light repair work as a young boy. Unfortunately when lifting a heavy roll of carpet, I severely injured my lower back, I could feel a deep strain or tearing of the disk in my lower back. I was 14 years old.

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Over the next few days my lower back pain was not getting any better.

My back was shooting pain down my leg and was increasing in severity. Not getting better. I could barely stand up straight, sitting was painful and  I could not find any position to get relief. My back injury/condition continued to worsen, my disk continued to bulge and swell, so that I had pain shooting down the back of my thighs down into my calf. The pain was an odd mixture of both severe pain in my back and leg pain and numbness to the rear of my thigh. I was told that it was sciatica and it would go away.

The torn, damaged bulged disk in my lower back worsened to the point that the nerve was severely compressed leading to me having mild bladder control issues. This was a problem at 14 years old!

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I can remember attempting to pee, I had to push to get my pee started and when finishing urinating as I walked away from the bathroom I would continue to uncontrollably dribble a little. Not good.

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Finally I was taken to my family's medical doctor and x-rays were taken of my lower back. He told my mom that I had what looked like a 60 year olds back. And that I might need surgery on my lower back. My mom's friend suggested that I be taken to her chiropractor to see if he could help. I can remember my first visit, being stretched and cracked, oh man it was painful. I continued to be taken to the chiro and after about 8 visits I began to feel relief and move a little bit better. Eventually the chiro treatments and time, I gradually got relief of the sciatic nerve pain. Then weeks later I felt mostly good. 

This experience and how I used chiropractic to manage my future flare-ups motivated me to become a chiropractor.

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I went to school at Arizona State University, then earned my chiropractic degree from the Los Angeles College of Chiropractic in 1988. 

I had a desire to learn about wellness early on and my continued focus has been on the biomechanical causes of lower back and neck pain and working on the underlying factors that cause and contribute to back and neck pain. In my practice, I emphasize addressing both muscular and bony conditions that are causing the muscular, joint and disk discomfort. And get people back on there feet. ​​​​​​