The New Face of Seaside Chiropractic

Friday, April 16th — It’s two years now that I’ve been going to Seaside Chiropractic, for adjustments from Dr. David Klein. In those two years (I suddenly realized this week) there has been a lot of growth and change happening in the office.

The addition of a new and more modern “moving table” a couple of months ago brought us up to three tables and one chair-style adjustment piece in the main room. Admittedly, it’s a bit crowded now; but it’s interesting to see how patients have their favorite table. My own favorite is the old one in the corner. It works for me!

The staff is up to five full-time assistants, plus Dr. Klein, plus some part-time folks who help with paperwork and other stuff. When I started at Seaside, there were only DK and Roseanna, his long-time helper, and someone who answered the phone for a few hours a week. Staff members came and staff members went, but DK and Roseanna remained the core of the place.

Because David Klein is so adamant about patient education, there was a real need for more staff to learn about how chiropractic works, how the body itself works, and a myriad of other related topics — and then to pass these on to patients by means of The Game. You play The Game each time you visit the office. A staff member asks you a question, the answer to which can be found in one of Dr. Klein’s neat cartoon books on his website. (See the link at left of this post.) If you answer correctly, you get a space initialed on your 20-space card. If you don’t know the answer, Roseanna or Jenny or Caitlin or Brittany or Sarah will teach you what it’s all about — and initial your card anyway. A filled-up card earns you one free adjustment; five filled-up cards earn you a full month of free adjustments! I think it’s a brilliant idea for getting patients interested in learning what chiropractic actually IS!

DK has a knack for finding staff members who are lovely to look at, caring and personable, smart, and hard-working. Somehow they all fit together perfectly. As a result, the office is full of patients — as it should be, indeed.

This is a place where miracles happen — where sore and damaged and “stuck” bodies are realigned and rejuvenated. Lots of the patients I see there are twentysomethings — how clever is that? to use chiropractic as “preventive medicine,” rather than waiting till you’re retirement age and painfully twisted up? Wish I had had the forethought to do that!

But then I might never have been fortunate enough to find David Klein and Seaside Chiropractic. They’ve changed my life. I still have quite a way to go until the graph of my progress shows that I’m at least 90% “fixed” — but I am determined to stay with being adjusted two or three times a week until I get there. I’m patient. I’ve experienced the beginning of the miracle.

Thanks for reading — Betsy