Here are the answers in their own words.
William Soriano: “I originally was interested in law, but after working for the biggest law firm in Florida, I decided that was not the kind of life I wanted to live. That left me back on the job market looking for something new.
One day, while looking in the classifieds, I saw one that intrigued me. The ad simply said, “what do you know about health and chiropractic” so I called and was granted an interview.
My interview went great and the chiropractor told me I was 99% certain to get the job as long as I came to his lay lecture and connected with what he said. In my mind, I was going to tell him I connected no matter what he said. However, once he started talking about Innate Intelligence and how it uses the nervous system to coordinate every action in our bodies, I was really moved. Needless to say I secured the job.
After working there for 1 month, Dr. Accurso told me that I needed to tell my wife that I would be going out of town to attend a chiropractic seminar called Dynamic Essential in Atlanta, GA. At D.E., I heard some of the professions greatest philosophers including, Dr. Jim Sigafoose, Dr. Dick Santo, and many others. These guys were crazy and I wanted some of the passion that came from them.
While at D.E., Dr. Accurso spoke at Life and asked me to come along. I thought the campus was great and we I returned to Miami, I told my wife that I didn’t know when, but we would be moving to Atlanta so that I could become a chiropractor.
Three years later, that journey began.”
Dr. Frederick Schurger: “It was definitely a trial of 3’s. My first chiropractic adjustment was by a Palmer doc doing Gonstead in my home town. He was pretty solid principle, because you came, you got adjusted and you left. But absolutely no philosophy there, and really, only my mom went to him regularly. This was when I was a child, maybe 8-10 years old. I thought it was neat, but nothing more.
My second experience was when I was in undergrad for engineering, I put on some weight, and there was one year when my low back was all sorts of lit up. I went to a doc in Terre Haute who wouldn’t even try to adjust me unless I was on e-stim for 10 minutes. At that time I knew enough that all I needed was one good adjustment (to my low back at that time) was all I needed, and he really left me with a bad taste in my mouth.
Now oddly enough, it was about this time that I was introduced to the concept of the body being able to heal itself from one of my classmates, and I really started to move away from what was modern medicine to natural healing. It was about a 3 year transition that really set me in place for what I would end up figuring out with my third chiropractor.
I had been practicing Kung Fu for about 4-5 months when I had a fall. No big deal, I had a lot of falls while practicing Kung Fu. It just happens that after that fall, I couldn’t get out bed this next morning, as my right shoulder was killing me. There was a medical clinic down the road, and I wanted to make sure I hadn’t broken anything, and sure enough, no breaks.
Well, I started to put things together (the engineer that I am) as to who knew bones and alignment really well, and I deducted that a chiropractor would be my answer. A chiropractor had done a warm call on me after some of my colleagues at work had started care with him, and I figured he’d be as good as any.
Little did I know I walked into a principled chiropracTOR’s office, and we know how the story goes. I got better. I was still in there pretty frequently (my low back was horrible in those days), but what I saw amazed me. I was looking for something new, and sure enough, that’s where I had to go. I had calls out to Palmer (where Dr Buller graduated), and was figuring out how many classes I had to take. But within a month of starting care, I was registered for pre-req’s (during the end of their semester) and I pitched the MBA application that had been sitting on my desk for almost 2 years! The universe was moving me to where I needed to be.”
Dr. Victor Manzo: “I decided to become a chiropractor based upon many events in my life.
Ever since I was 12 years old, I always believed the body can do things beyond what the human mind can perceive.
When I turned 16 years old, I started educating myself on nutrition, herbs and so forth. I was very active in exercise, eating well, positive mindsets and sleeping well.
It wasn’t until I was 19 years old when Chiropractic chose me. I played rugby for Arizona State and after one year of playing, I had an array of symptoms that I believed had to be some sort of blood disorder.
When I came home for the summer, two days before going to the medical doctor, I decided to see my old chiropractor I used to see when I was nine years old until 11 years old. On the first day, first thing he said to me was, you would make the perfect chiropractor. Still to this day, I don’t know what he meant but he made me look into it.
After one month, all my symptoms were gone and I was on the road to rebuilding my health. I said to myself, “If chiropractic can help me with what I went through, I know there are people in this world who are suffering worse than me that could benefit from this and I will make it my vow and passion in life to serve people.”
Dr. Andres Jimenez: “Wow! In 2003, after 14 years of owning a transportation company in Puerto Rico, I got to the point I wanted to make a change in my life, and I was thinking about my childhood dream of becoming a lawyer.
In that same year, I met my dear wife on the beach, and I asked her what she was doing for a living. And she replied: “I am a chiropractor. Do you know what that is?” Innate sent this beautiful woman for two big reasons: one, to recruit me for the chiropractic army and, two, to marry her. My life has never been the same.
First, she made me go to the office where she was working and I started care. At that time, I was having trouble sleeping, and I was taking 3 to 4 different types of medication per night to sleep. After two months of care, I was able to sleep like a baby.
One Sunday night my wife asked me if I could adjust her because she was having a bad headache and I said to her “are you crazy?” Then, she taught me how to set up my hands, what of line of drive and force to use and I did my first adjustment. Surprisedly, she then told me “WOW, you are good!!” At that point, I decided that I wanted to study chiropractic.”
Dr. Peter Lawrence: “I was a professional ballet dancer for 10 years and lived and worked in Europe and toured all over the world. It wasn’t until I herniated 2 discs in my lumbar spine that I decided that it was time to stop resisting what was my inevitable path.”
Dr. Arno Burnier: “To be accurate I worked in a ‘pilot’ hospital called the Ambroise Paree Hospital in Boulogne, France, a suburb of Paris. We did experimental avant-garde cancer treatment.
My first visit to my Chiropractor Jean Belaval ignited my consciousness about a new and innovative approach to Life and Health. In three sentences he transformed my reality. After listening to me intensively he stated, ‘There is nothing that I can do about what is wrong with you, what I can do however is address what is right in you. You cannot fight darkness you must turn on the light. You cannot fight disease, you must turn on life.’ That was it.
I had spent three years in the symptom, sickness, and disease world and here came a man who stated ‘Address the well, the source, the cause of life and health.’
I had seen to many patients entering the medical system with one foot in the human junkyard or graveyard. We spent enormous amount of energy, money and professional medical power on these patients for little to no results.
The idea of addressing the source, the cause of life, the idea of supporting the body in life and health rather than attacking the symptoms or the disease made sense to me.”
