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Three Herniated Discs and a Pregnancy Test.

Most chiropractors find the profession through college. I found it because the system that was supposed to help me was managing my pain instead of solving it.

Before TBP, I ran Warren County Tree and Landscape. It was hard, physical work — climbing, hauling, running the operation. Three herniated discs into that career, I was doing the rounds: orthopedist, primary care, the obligatory referral to a chiropractor who treated me like a punch card. Nobody seemed interested in fixing the actual problem. They were interested in managing me.

Then Mary got pregnant with our first, Abigail. That changed the math. I wasn't going to be the dad who couldn't pick up his kid because my back was a mess and the system had given up on me. I sold the company, packed up the family, and went to Logan University in St. Louis for my Doctor of Chiropractic.

Logan was where the pieces clicked together. Not just adjustments — the full integration of biomechanics, neurology, soft tissue, and rehabilitation. The model I'd build at TBP started taking shape there: the body is a system, not a parts list. You can't fix the lower back without considering hip mechanics. You can't fix the shoulder without considering the thoracic spine. You can't fix any of it without considering what the patient actually does with their body all day.

While at Logan I connected the school with the XFL St. Louis BattleHawks — and ended up on the field as their team chiropractor for the inaugural 2020 season. I threw the inaugural pass to NFL Hall of Famer Torry Holt at media day. I treated professional football players whose careers depended on whether their bodies could hold up another week.

What I learned from those athletes is the same thing every TBP patient eventually learns: recovery isn't a luxury. It's a job. The pros take it seriously because their livelihood depends on it. Most regular people don't take it seriously — until something breaks, and then they're in the same boat I was in with the tree service. Managed, not fixed.

TBP is the practice I wish had existed when I was 27, herniated, and getting nowhere. Cash-based so we can do it right. Single-clinician so the same brain holds your whole case. Integrated so we don't pass you between specialists who never talk to each other. Outcome-driven so you graduate, not subscribe.