Meet Dr. Scott Godsey of Naturally Chiropractic in Parker CO

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Has it been a smooth road?

Lots of folks underestimate the education of a chiropractor; becoming a chiropractor was not an easy undertaking. It requires a minimum of 4,200 hours of classroom, laboratory, and clinical experience for the degree. I saw plenty of well-intended, hard-working students that just couldn't keep up with the rigorous schedule. But for me, it didn't seem like a chore. When you love something as much as I love chiropractic, I considered it my honor to get to study the details. I had to live like a church mouse for 6 years and it cost about $250,000 but it was worth every minute and every penny! Today I'm living my dream because of it... it was sooo worth it!

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So let's switch gears a bit and go into the Naturally Chiropractic story. Tell us more about the business.

My practice is located at 10233 S Parker Rd #100 in Parker CO. I specialize in correcting spinal misalignments that interfere with the nervous system and your good health. Chiropractors are most commonly known for dealing with spinal pain, headaches/migraines, low back pain, sciatica, burning sensations, pins 65 needles, numbness, or weakness/incoordination. But because your nervous system controls literally every cell, tissue, and organ in your body, a chiropractor can help with other things that are less intuitive. I‘ve helped people with bowel and bladder dysfunction, asthma, heart conditions, infertility issues, difficulty sleeping, low energy, and digestion problems and I've even had two patients that were diagnosed with Meniere's Disease that resolved. In my humble opinion. Chiropractic is the best-kept secret in health care! The "secret" is that I don't really heal anyone of anything! You were designed to be healthy. As I mentioned earlier, you are a self-HEALING and self—regulating organism. All I do is locate areas in the spine that are interfering with your nervous system‘s ability to regulate and heal your body. Once those are stabilized... your body heals itself! It really is miraculous to watch!

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How are you different from any other chiropractor?

Understanding that every individual's body is unique, our practice distinguishes itself from the typical chiropractor through our highly personalized approach to care. I adjust using many different techniques, each tailored to the patient's specific needs. I use the extremely gentle, specific prone or activator technique, for people who have never been to a chiropractor before or people who have anxiety about going to a chiropractor. I am NOT a "one—size—fits—all" doc. We believe in starting with a comprehensive understanding of your health. That's why we typically start your journey with us by taking X-rays. I can't tell you how many times I've found something on X-rays that needed follow-up care with a different physician or something that simply made adjusting the patient unsafe. It's rare, but it does happen. I'm more of a believer in humility than I am pride, but if there's anything for me to be proud of, it's that I pay close attention to my patient's health and keep my eyes open. I've found things in my patients that others have missed, tumors, abdominal aneurysms, early presentation of strokes, pulmonary embolisms, appendicitis, the list goes on and on and those are the things that can kill a person if it's not properly addressed immediately!

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How do you think the industry will change over the next decade?

Chiropractic has been around for over 5,000 years but it has really come to the forefront of Western medicine in the last 120 years. The acceptance of Chiropractic has been steadily growing. What was once considered "alternative medicine," is beginning to change into primary care. As insurance becomes more and more unaffordable, patients are beginning to see the light in preventative care. They are also acknowledging that allowing their body to heal, instead of medicating it, is not only safer but also more cost-effective.

When we survey the landscape and see places like CNBC, Johns Hopkins, and NPR are reporting that medical errors are the third leading cause of death in the United States, people start to look for other solutions. I realize that there is a debate in the medical community on how the number of iatrogenic (medically caused) deaths is calculated, but if it's anywhere near the annual 250,000 suspected, that's a lot of people! That's the equivalent of TWO fully loaded Boeing 787 Dreamliners hitting the ground and killing everyone on board, every day for of the YEAR! You can bet if THAT were happening, we wouldn't just be sitting around pretending like nothing was wrong.