I've been there ... I am happy to share with you my story of becoming a chiropractor. Throughout my life I have loved playing basketball, starting out in the YMCA's program here in Missoula. I played on through middle school and at Sentinel High School. My senior year we won the last state championship that Missoula Sentinel has won (1986). I led in rebounding in the state championship game, and went on to play small college basketball for Lewis and Clark College in Portland OR. The school featured a new to the time rubber multi-sport floor. It was beautiful to look at, but hell on knees, ankles and backs! A few weeks into the pre-season my lower back went out, and I was literally crawling around my dorm room. After seeing a medical doctor and a back specialist with no results, a teammate recommended that I go to his chiropractor. I was very hesitant and skeptical at first, but that chiropractor took his time explaining the problem and treated me right. I began to see results immediately, and I was back in action in short order. It changed my life, and I knew from then on that was what I wanted to do. Many years later, in 1998, my dreams came to fruition and I opened my clinic here in my hometown of Missoula. The best advice I ever received in school was to "become the chiropractor that you would send your own friends and family to." That has led me to strive every day to provide the best, honest to goodness chiropractic care that I can to every patient that comes to see me, and to do this at a reasonable fee.