Dr. Robert DeMartino

Why did I choose chiropractic? Years ago something happened to me that changed my life forever. Let me tell you my story.

When I was a kid, I used to get migraines. Really bad migraines. They were so horrible, to this day I can vividly remember how bad they made me feel. I got them all the time, sometimes 4 times in one week. They caused me to miss a lot of days of school. I wasn’t able to go out and play with my friends. They were destroying my life. Our family medical doctor had me on some pretty powerful medications, but nothing seemed to help. In fact, they were getting worse. By the time I was 12, I had every medical test imaginable done to me. And they had no idea what was wrong. Was I going to have to live like this forever? I started to get pretty scared. But listen to this...

My parents took me to this new doctor. He did an exam, took some x-rays and gently adjusted me. The adjustment didn’t hurt, it actually felt really good. And guess what? I started getting better right away. If you haven’t already figured it out, this new doctor was a chiropractor.

He told me that my nervous systems controlled everything in my body. The stress that we go through in our everyday life, when they get too overwhelming, can cause damage to that system and it gets interfered with. Chiropractors, he explained, remove that interference so that your body can heal itself. It made perfect sense to me, and I had gotten the results to prove it!

I was so impressed by the results and the other miracles that I saw around his office that I went to chiropractic school myself. I graduated with magna cum laude honors from Palmer College of Chiropractic, the place where chiropractic was founded over 100 years ago. Now people bring their families to me with their health challenges and are getting the big idea about health: A healthy nervous system will keep you healthy, even keep you from having pain. That is the ultimate ideal: To stay healthy rather than just avoiding being sick.

My goal is to optimize people’s nervous system and remove any damage that may have occurred. At the same time, to help people create healthy lifestyle habits that will not only stop them from recreating the damage, but build stronger, healthier bodies to last them an entire lifetime with the highest possible quality of life they can imagine. That is what I want for my practice members, and I am fully committed and passionate about helping them achieve optimal health.