My blog name is Chiro Chick, yet I never talk about the "Chiro" part of it :-P I thought I had in a previous post but I can't seem to find it (if this is a repeat, then I apologize!) Practicing chiropractic here is very different for me here in Singapore. Not only because I'm in Singapore, but because my boss runs her practice very differently than anything I've ever seen.
The office is located on the 31st floor of one of the high rise buildings in the central business district. It is just one office, not a clinic with multiple rooms. The office contains a desk, a few chairs, a filing cabinet, the adjusting table, and the spine. :) That's it. Plain and simple chiropractic...how it should be :) And the view is gorgeous. The only office I've seen that was in a high rise building was in NYC and that even had multiple treatment rooms. There are front desk people who let me know when my patient is here. I do everything else. Patients are schedule every half an hour and new patients are scheduled one per hour. The treatment takes anywhere from 5-15 minutes depending. Many of my patients receive trigger point therapy related to their problem meaning I work on the tight knots in their muscles related to their problem. I perform all manual adjustments on patients. In two years I went from all instrument adjusting to all manual adjusting (per doctor's choice). I've had amazing experiences with both adjusting styles. Chiropractic works no matter what technique you use! I've seen it firsthand. :) I think personally I enjoy manual more. It's more of a challenge than the instrument and I've really grown as a manual adjuster in the past year. And the Greek origin of the word Chiropractor means "done by hand". :)
During the first consultation and exam, we educate the patients using the spine and showing them what's going on. I think this is one of my favorite parts. Most of the patients have never been to a chiropractor or have gone once and thought that one adjustment would fix the problem. This is the part where I come in and explain how it all really works. I have strongly believed in chiropractic since I was 15 when I first learned about it. I remember in high school how cool I thought chiropractic was (I still do obv!) and telling people about it way back then. By senior year, that's the only thing I could think of doing with my life. Occasionally I veered away from it during undergrad because the thought of 8 years of school freaked me out (remember when I switched to basket weaving as my major Anon ;-) )! When you are 17, you don't realize how fast the time will actually fly. I am very happy with the choices I made. I doubted my choice several times over the last two years, I think mostly due to unhappiness with where I was working along with other insecurities I had. Now I am truly happy to be a chiropractor and can see myself doing this for many years to come.
My patients are from all over the world which makes my job interesting. All the patients are very pleasant to take care of. In general, I think the people here are more appreciative of what I do. Chiropractic is not very well known here and I love that I get to be the first one to educate some of these people. In the US, I don't think I was respected as much as a Doctor. For a couple reasons: a) I am so young looking and people don't believe I am a Doctor b) Many people in the US have had experience with chiropractors and think they know it all. I am proud to say I have educated a numerous amount of patients back in the US and hopefully gained their respect through that process. I also know I have much more experience and confidence now which plays a part on the respect you get.
Gonna keep on rockin' and adjusting the world! :-D
Have you ever been to the chiropractor (ok...so half of you are chiros or have been my patients at some point :-D)? Who is your favorite chiro?? (haha this is SO a trick question?) If you haven't gotten your spine checked, what's holding you back?
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