September 20, 2024 • 45 mins
What if a simple adjustment could lead to miraculous health improvements for your child? Join us in a heartwarming and informative episode of the Good Neighbor Podcast as we sit down with Dr. Rai Harris, D.C. from Skyline Chiropractic. Dr. Rai's journey from St. Louis to the heart of the Greater Chattanooga Region is both inspiring and touching. Not only do we delve into her personal life, filled with a love for sports and community spirit, but we also explore the crucial role her chiropractic practice plays in supporting local families and businesses.
Dr. Rai opens up about the profound reasons families seek preconception care at her practice, shedding light on the innovative Healthy Human Program designed to optimize health before conception. Her story takes a poignant turn when she recounts the dramatic birth of her daughter, Kaya, whose severe medical challenges were miraculously improved through a gentle chiropractic adjustment. This life-altering experience ignited Dr. Rai’s passion for pediatric chiropractic, showcasing the incredible impact such care can have on young lives, from resolving colic to improving digestion.
Our conversation also delves into the vibrant chiropractic community in Chattanooga, where collaboration among practitioners ensures the best care for patients. Dr. Rai passionately discusses the urgent need for radical changes in children's health, addressing concerning trends in life expectancy and envisioning a healthier future for the next generation. The episode wraps up with a heartfelt call to action, encouraging listeners to support local businesses and engage with the community to keep the vibrant heartbeat of Chattanooga alive.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is the Good Neighbor Podcast, the place
where local businesses andneighbors come together.
Here's your host, Scott Howell.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Hello, good neighbors , welcome to the Good Neighbor
Podcast brought to you by theFriends and Neighbors Group of
the Greater Chattanooga Region.
Again, my name is Scott Howell.
I'm your host for today.
I'm your host for today.
The reason for that we have theGood Neighbor podcast is just
simply that we desire to bringan awareness to the residents
who live in our communitiesregarding locally owned and or
(00:33):
operated businesses in yourneighborhood, your city, maybe
all the way across theChattanooga region, however it
might be, we want everyone toknow.
You know local businesses arethe backbone of our communities,
way before corporate giants,way before these large retail
names.
You know local owned businesseswere the one that the people,
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everybody shopped with, thepeople, everybody you know done
business with, took theirmedical help to, and so we just
want to keep that in the mind'seye of all of us that we could
continue supporting localbusinesses.
And, of course, you know, everystore excuse me, every local
business has a story to tell,and here at the Good Neighbor
(01:15):
podcast, we just want to helpthem to shout it loud and proud
so all you good neighbors outthere can hear.
And you know, today we've gotone of our good neighbors here
that not only lives here butalso has a business here, and
we'd like to introduce her, drRye Harris, and she is with
(01:36):
Skyline Chiropractic, and sowe'd like to introduce you today
, dr Rye.
We're glad to have you on theGood Neighbor Podcast.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
I'm so happy to be here, Scott.
This is going to be so much fun.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Yeah, absolutely, we were talking before we started
recording.
I was trying to get her nameright.
If y'all that don't know it,it's spelled R-A-I.
I just want to make sure I hadit right.
And she told me it was.
What was it you said?
Speaker 3 (01:59):
I say rye like the bread, but since I moved to the
South, people told me it'sactually rye like the whiskey.
So you know, depending on theperson you know, you got to see
what's better to pronounce it.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
Whichever one you like rye bread or rye whiskey.
That's Dr Rye.
We are glad to have you, dr Rye, and looking so forward to
hearing about you, know all yourpractice and all your journey
and all that you do.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
But before we jump into the business side of it, I
like to give you an opportunity,if you want to, to say a little
bit about yourself and yourfamily.
Oh yeah, um, I that's.
That's really exciting.
I don't think I've ever beenasked that on a podcast before.
I feel like people usually jumpright into.
Like let me talk about yourbusiness.
Um, so that's really exciting.
I am 32.
So a lot of people find, andour business has been open for
six years.
So my husband and I were reallyyoung when we opened our
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business, which was a lot of fun, had a lot of hurdles.
We have two daughters.
They are five and a half andone.
Yeah, they're so cool, thecoolest kids.
I feel like everybody probablysays that about their kids, but
you know, we're like overlyobsessed with our kids.
We love them.
Um, let's see, what do we liketo do for fun?
(03:13):
We um my husband is a gamer, sowe like games.
We really love sports.
That's honestly that's kind ofour jam, okay so we're big
mizzou fans.
It's football, so we're bigMizzou fans.
It's football time, so we'rebig Mizzou fans.
We have we can be converted toVol fans since we live here, so
we, we root for the Vols.
(03:34):
You know it was since we'rehere.
We think Neyland stadium is oneof the coolest places on earth.
So yeah, we, we like all sports, though We've been to some
softball games at UT.
We have yet to go to like aTitans game or a Falcons game or
anything like that.
But we have gone to a lot ofcollege sports, been to a couple
of UTC games of various sports.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
So yeah, sports are kind of our thing, apparently.
Hey, whatever someone likes andenjoys, and they can do with
their family and that's great,you know, and you're talking
about your big Mizzou fans.
Now a lot of people mightwonder why, but you moved here
from Missouri, right?
Speaker 3 (04:12):
I did, I did.
My husband and I are originallyfrom St Louis, missouri.
We actually grew up about amile away from each other and we
were actually dated in highschool, so we are both literally
from the same part of town andthen we moved here together.
But yeah, we are originallyfrom Missouri.
So big Mizzou Tiger fans, so go, tigers, throw that in there.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
I understand that I was born and raised in Alabama
and so I tell Alabama of courseyou have the Roll Tide and you
have the Auburn Tigers.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
Well, I'm a Tide fan, but I tell people I'm also
being originally from Alabama.
I'm also an Alabama lover asfar as the sports go.
So if Auburn is not playingAlabama, I'm for Auburn.
Yeah, absolutely Auburn andAlabama is playing.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
Sorry, sorry, all you Tigers out there, but I'm a
Tide fan you have to be specific, living now that we live in SEC
country.
Back when we were in St Louisthere weren't a ton of SEC teams
around, so now that we're herein SEC country we have a lot of
shirts that say Tigers on themand you know, from far away the
navy blue and the black can kindof look similar, so people are
(05:25):
like tight, tigers, tigers.
We're like the zoo and they'relike, oh, okay, okay that's
funny.
Now you you what brought youhere from uh Missouri so when we
were debating on when, where wewere going to open our practice
.
So my husband's not achiropractor but he knew that he
(05:46):
wanted to work in the officewith me.
So we're actually.
We have a different type ofchiropractic office than people
usually think of.
We are actually preconception,prenatal and pediatric.
And so when?
Yeah, so when I told him thathe was going to get to play with
kids all day, he was like, signme up.
He was like that sounds likethe best job ever.
(06:08):
He was like this is great.
I was like, yeah, I just needyou to like entertain them.
Make sure that, like, whilethey're getting adjusted, or
their siblings are gettingadjusted, like, we don't have to
.
You know, there's not like justchildren running in circles or
doing whatever.
And he was like you need totell me it's like a glorified
babysitting gig.
He's like I'm down easy.
Um, so when we were deciding onwhere to open, we knew that we
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were, we were kind of overMissouri, especially when you,
when you have this opportunityin front of you to, literally
when the world is your oysterright, and you're like if I
could live anywhere in the world, where would I live.
And we got some really, reallygreat advice from tons of
mentors at the time that said,look, you don't have to, you
don't have to open your practicethere just because you're from
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there, because you live there.
Like, figure out where you wantto live, where you want to
raise a family, where you'regoing to be excited to be every
day and open a practice there,like don't, don't just open it
like here because you live here.
And so we made a huge list oflike things.
We wanted things that were likethat we absolutely wanted from
where we lived and, ironically,my husband and I are very
(07:16):
similar but our lists weretotally different.
He wanted like mountains andoutside things to explore and
lakes, so he could like go gofishing and he wanted to be like
, if you can't tell, we like toget outside.
So you know he wanted to, likehe wanted the opportunity to
hunt if he wanted to or fishlike he just wanted all of these
options.
(07:36):
I really like a city, Like Ilove getting outside to go to,
like a farmer's market or orjust like walking around and
seeing the sites and like seeingold buildings, and I I think
that is really fun.
And so, um, I said we shouldmove to like connecticut outside
of new york, like lots of oldbuildings, lots of people.
(07:58):
This is gonna be awesome.
And he was like I think weshould move to denver, like lots
of mountains, lots of like coolnature.
And we were both like, okay,those things don't really jive.
So we had to pick the thingsout of those cities that we
really enjoyed and that we werereally hoping to like experience
(08:19):
and continue experiencing forlife.
And as we were making that list,ironically we were driving to a
wedding in Atlanta from StLouis and we stopped in
Chattanooga because we saw allof those ridiculous Ruby Falls
signs.
Like, if you've been here andyou're just like driving down,
they happen every five, likefive miles.
So we were like, okay, what isthis?
(08:41):
Ruby Falls things Like we haveto stop because apparently
everyone's obsessed with it.
Um, I'm so thankful for thoseruby fall signs now because, we
stopped and we were like, wow,this is a really cute city, like
let's just explore.
And we happened to be drivingup lookout mountain to go to
ruby falls and, uh, my husbandjake joked.
He said, oh, look, there's anoffice space for lease, we
(09:03):
should look at it.
And I was like, oh, you'refunny.
And then we drove back down themountain after we saw Ruby
Falls and we were like, but whatif we did open here?
Like I don't know that I wantto open my business on a
mountain?
But what if we did open like inChattanooga?
We drove around on our way backfrom the wedding.
We stopped again.
We had to go to a conference inAtlanta, so we stopped again.
(09:25):
We ate at Champy's downtown onMLK.
Oh my gosh.
We walked around, we went toClumpy's, we stopped at the Choo
Choo, we did all the reallytouristy things downtown in.
Chattanooga and we were like,wow, we really like it here,
this is really cool, we couldsee ourselves here, and so, you
know, then we were kind of stuck.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
Well, I tell you what you picked a fabulous city.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
We really did.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
This whole region is just beautiful and all the
things that you mentioned onboth your lists, I mean just
check them all off.
It sounds like, and it's just.
It's a fabulous place and andglad to have you, glad to have
you here.
So you've been here six yearsnow and I find it really
interesting that you said yourpractice is basically pediatric,
(10:11):
but you also said prenatal.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
Preconception prenatal.
So we do fertility, pregnancyand pediatric yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
Okay, preconception as well.
So is that when somebody maybeis having difficulty conceiving?
Is that kind of what that'sabout?
Speaker 3 (10:26):
Yeah, a lot of.
So there's really two facetsthat people come to our office
for preconception Sometimes it'sdifficulty conceiving, so like
they've had previous fertilityissues as far as like maybe
they've tried IVF or IUI, ormaybe they've just been trying
naturally for a long time andjust can't seem to figure it out
.
So there's that stance.
(10:46):
There's also what we call ourhealthy human program, which is
hey, I'm looking to have a baby,but I just want to make sure
that my body, my husband's body,that our baby is going to be
the healthiest that we can helpand that we can figure out.
So it's people that really justwant to set their child up,
like genetically andfunctionally for an incredible
(11:08):
life, and so they look at theirhealth prior to conceiving to
make sure that, like hey, areall of our ducks in a row, Are
we doing everything that we needto to set our child up for
success in the future?
Speaker 2 (11:20):
Wow, you know I I have been privileged enough to
interview several chiropractors,but no one that's actually
practicing from that point ofview.
So that's very interesting.
I didn't even know that was.
If I could use an old Southernphrase, I didn't know that was a
thing.
So how did you decide to becomea chiropractor?
Speaker 3 (11:41):
Oh gosh.
So that's a really long storythat I will save you the
shortened version of, but youcan take whatever part of it you
want to.
Well, I originally was going togo to med school.
I had literally said from thetime I was about seven years old
, people told me I talked toomuch, which is why podcasts are
really great for me.
They have always told me I talktoo much, and so from that time
(12:05):
I said you know what mom I'mgoing to be a lawyer or a doctor
, because when doctors talkpeople should listen and lawyers
just get to talk all the time.
So apparently one of those twoprofessions is for me.
So I've said that since I wasreally little and once I got to
undergrad, I was really little.
And once I got to undergrad,taking the MCAT, applying to
(12:27):
medical school.
You know that feeling, scott,when something just like doesn't
sit right.
Like things are going well,doors are opening, but it just
like, yeah, it doesn't feel good, like something feels off about
it.
And so I was applying, I tookmy MCAT, I got into like I even
got accepted into a really greatprogram at our school that
(12:50):
helped five students like reallyreally buckle down to study for
the MCAT.
It was like our schoolinvesting in these students to
say like, hey, we know you'regoing to do really well, so
we're going to give you thisextra attention on the MCAT.
I mean, I was really blessed inthat I, you know, I had a few
scholarships for that that I wasable to take advantage of like
so many really really greatopportunities to like study and
(13:12):
and do interview prep and doreally well for like all of my
med school admissions.
And as I was doing interviewsand as I was like just getting
this information, something justwasn't sitting right and I was
like I don't even know what tocall it, cause I I mean I was
what 20, 21, like I didn'treally know about intuition or
(13:32):
anything.
I felt like so I I didn'treally know what to call it.
So one day we were at ourpre-med club and one of and
someone a representative from achiropractic school came to talk
to our pre-med club which youknow, tracks make sense and she
was asking me like what my planswere and like where I was going
to school.
So I was telling her about likemy most recent medical school
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interview and how, like that wasprobably the school I was going
to attend and we were kind ofgoing on about it and she was
like, really I actually wasgoing, wanted to go to a DO
school, and she said, well, whydo you want to do that?
And I said, you know, there'ssomething about that DO
profession and healing with yourhands.
That I think is incredible.
And she said I don't meanoverstep, but it sounds like you
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want to be a chiropractor.
You just don't know whatchiropractic is.
And so, like any 21 year old, Iwas supremely offended.
It's like, excuse me, you don'tknow anything about me.
Yeah, how dare you tell me thatyou know more about what I want
to do with my life than I do?
Because, like any other 21 yearold, I apparently knew
(14:37):
everything there was.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
Oh, yeah, everything.
Yeah, you should have beenapplying to NASA.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
Yeah, exactly, yeah, you should have been applying to
NASA, yeah, exactly.
So I listened to herpresentation about the school
and I was like, dang it, shemight be right she was
presenting about it.
I was like, wow, that does kindof sound like what I want to do
.
So I pulled her aside, didapologize, did apologize for all
the listeners out there, um,and was asking her a little bit
(15:04):
more about that particularschool.
Um, the school happened to bein my hometown, which made like
because that was a latetransition, um, because I, at
this point, most people that youknow like apply to med school
and things like that know likeif you're already applying and
interviewing for med schools.
We were like, well into mysenior year at this point.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
So I was like oh gosh we got to go Right.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
And so that school happened to be in my hometown.
So I was like, okay, not thatbig of a deal, like it's not,
like I have to find housing andfly across the country, like I
could always just go home.
And so I started shadowingchiropractors and I was like,
wow, wow, she was right, this isexactly what I want to do, like
this is what I was imaginingthat DO school was.
And so at that time I wanted myundergrad degree.
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I went to a really cool schoolthat allows us to self design
our major.
So my undergrad degree isactually in sports medicine.
And so I really wanted to belike a sideline chiropractor,
which you probably couldn't tellfrom our introduction about
sports.
But I wanted to be like asideline chiropractor, which you
probably couldn't tell from ourintroduction about sports.
But I wanted to be a sidelinechiropractor and I was like this
is going to be fantastic.
I'm going to go be achiropractor for the pros and
(16:12):
it's going to be a blast.
We're going to have so much funbeing on the sideline.
I get to combine sports and Iget to adjust people.
This is great.
And then I call myself gettingconverted, when I was in school,
to a family practitionerbecause, gosh, I just started
seeing how we can change theworld and change children and
their functionality from such ayoung age.
(16:33):
And then, as you can probablytell by my practice, I just
realized that you could startchanging things earlier and
earlier.
People would ask me well, howdo I prevent my child from with
this happening?
And I say, oh well, that'sprobably more of a prenatal
issue.
And then and then we started tosay how do well, how do I
prevent these prenatal issues?
And then that turned into apreconception issue, and so then
(16:54):
we stumbled into preconception,prenatal and pediatric
chiropractic and I really say it, it's honestly ordained Like it
was.
It was God's gift that he justkept opening doors and those
doors felt right, like it's notthat the other doors you know
were bad or felt wrong, but likeit just wasn't.
They didn't feel as easy and asseamless as the doors that were
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opened and like, now that we'vestarted our practice this way,
just how everything has kind offallen in line.
I mean, you're like that.
That was the plan for me allalong.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
So by the time that you actually opened the practice
, did you know then that youwere going to be in that
specialized field, or did that,did that kind of come later, or
yeah, so when we opened, we wereI would say we were more family
centered and more familyfocused.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
Honestly, it was the birth of my daughter that really
swung things to pediatricchiropractic for us.
So I had been studying.
I had been studying pediatricchiropractic in school.
I knew, I knew that was going tobe a heavy focus on my practice
, but I thought you know thereare parents involved, so you
kind of you know the parentshave to bring them, so you might
as well see the parents too.
(18:01):
And so we were preparing toopen our practice and my
daughter was born in January of2019.
And when she was born shewasn't breathing and she was
seizing and it was just.
It was an extremely traumaticsituation for us and after about
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three days um in the NICU withher kind of sort of progressing,
there wasn't really muchhappening.
Uh the doctors looked at her MRIand said there's a, there's a
lot of brain damage here.
Um, and I just don't know, Idon't.
I don't think she's going tomake it.
(18:45):
I think you're looking at areally tough life.
I think you're looking atsupport for feeding, support for
living.
I frankly, I don't know ifshe's going to make it out of
the hospital.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
So sure yeah.
Speaker 3 (18:57):
It was really tough.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
No doubt.
Speaker 3 (18:59):
And so, looking at her MRI, I saw there's there's a
bone in your body that's calledthe Atlas and I could see.
I could see, I could see herAtlas and her MRI and it looked
different to me than other thanyou know, normal MRIs or normal
Atlas that we looked at.
So I did the only thing at thatpoint that I felt like I had
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control to do and that I knewhow to do, and I went and
adjusted her and ideally, as apediatric chiropractor, you know
, you have this image of likeadjusting your child right after
birth, but like, since Icouldn't touch her or hold her
or like barely even see herright, after birth.
At that moment I was like youknow what if?
If she's going to pass, I'mgoing to make sure that she is
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totally clear.
She's going to look into myeyes one time.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
It's going to be amazing.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
I adjusted her and the monitors went crazy.
And I had never done anadjustment on a child on
monitors.
I had done plenty ofadjustments on infants and on
new babies.
I'd never done an adjustment ona child that was hooked up to
monitors and the monitors wentabsolutely crazy she started
breathing.
She started breathing.
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She started breathing on herown.
And the next thing, like 12 to15 hours later, they were
calling us and saying hey, Ithink we're going to take her
ventilator out.
She's over breathing theventilator.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
Oh, wow.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
And then she started breathing on room air, and then
she started eating, and then shestarted sucking on a pacifier,
and then she just started makingall of these leaps and bounds
and two weeks later we took herhome.
Obviously, as a chiropractor I Iknew the the miracles of
chiropractic, I knew all aboutpediatric chiropractic.
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But my husband always says thatin that situation, like in that
moment, that was the momentthat made him a hundred percent
in.
He was like, yeah, you know,you explained the job really
well.
I'm so glad that I was able,that I'm, you know, able to help
babysit these kids and, likeyou know, work around the office
.
But he was like seeing seeingthat happen to our daughter.
(21:04):
He's like every child.
Every parent should get to knowwhat it's like to have a clear
child.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
Wow, what an amazing story.
Oh, my goodness, I mean youknow when?
Speaker 3 (21:21):
you said it was God ordained.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
I mean, that's proof right there.
Yeah, it's quite possible.
If you hadn't sought the fieldthat you're in, that you'd have
been telling a totally differentstory today Exactly I mean wow.
Who can argue with that?
Speaker 3 (21:36):
Right.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
Wow, you know, man, I just want to stop a minute and
cry after hearing that.
Wow, that's amazing.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
Now we get to show people pictures of kaya and I
mean she has, you know, she hasher deficits and you know she's
uh, she is in a wheelchair andshe's a little bit non-verbal.
I say a little bit because nowshe's like five and fiery and
she doesn't have words that mostpeople can understand, but we
understand her perfectly yeah.
(22:07):
And so you know, now she's, likeyou know, mostly typical
five-year-old and yelling atpeople and pushing over her
sister and she she is notambulatory, so she doesn't walk
because she has some spasticityissues in her legs, but she
crawls like a mad woman and soshe like, is all over everything
.
She gets in and out of likechairs by herself, and so she
like, is all over everything.
She gets in and out of likechairs by herself.
(22:29):
She loves water, so she swimsall the time, like she just does
all of these amazing things andshe's such a light to so many
people's lives and you know,sometimes we we just have to sit
back and wonder we're like man,what would happen if Kaya
wasn't here?
Speaker 2 (22:45):
and wonder we're like , man, what would happen if kaya
wasn't here?
Oh wow, yeah, true, I can'timagine.
I can't imagine how that makesyou feel to think about that,
because it's such an amazingtestimonial of of what that you
know, your craft, your practice,uh is able to to do for people.
I mean that little baby, uh,hanging on life or death, and I
(23:07):
mean you couldn't, there'snothing you could do about the
damage that had already beendone.
You're talking about the braindamage.
There's nothing you could havedone about that, but now, now it
was a difference between livingor not.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
Right.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
And now you, there she is.
I don't know if you get achance to bring her to the
practice with you or not.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
Well, yeah, every day .
Speaker 2 (23:24):
That's what people love about our practice.
Speaker 3 (23:26):
Both of my kids are there every day.
She's in school now, so shedoesn't she's not there all the
time every day.
But yeah, we, um, we bring ourkids to the practice because you
know we want people to see whatit's like Like you know we're.
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we're just like them, freakingcrazy kids that scream at people
and eat everything and you know.
But but we want people, we wantto show people what it's like
like, hey, our kids get adjustedand they're clear and they,
they function well.
And I usually say there's threethings that kids are supposed
to do they're supposed to eat,they're supposed to sleep and
they're supposed to poop.
And if they're not doing one ofthose three things, that's a
pretty good indication that theyneed to get adjusted.
If they're not eating well,sleeping well or pooping, that's
pretty much your guide rightthere, like let's go see what's
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going on because their body, ata basic level, is not
functioning the way it'ssupposed to.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
You know I hate to bring a negative into this, but
I want to bring the negative soyou can turn it into a positive.
So a lot of people you know arereally reluctant as adults to
go to a chiropractor.
So what kind of myths andmisconceptions do you hear and
help people through when they're, when you're talking about
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bringing their child?
Speaker 3 (24:39):
Oh yeah.
Well, the big one is you canprobably imagine, it's probably
the first thing that popped inyour head.
People are like.
I've seen those crazy videos ofchiropractors on tiktok and
youtube and they're like so youdo that to my baby, like
everyone's imagining me justlike dangling their baby upside
down, being like all right ripthem and crack them and I was
like that's not what that lookslike at all at all.
(25:02):
Um, so that's probably thenumber one myth and
misconception is I and it'sfunny because, like, so I tell
people's kaya story and we talkabout pediatric chiropractic and
you can tell when they'relooking at me in the eyes that
they're always just kind of like, and what does that look like?
Like, how does that?
(25:23):
How do what do you mean?
So that's the number one myth.
When, in fact, when I'madjusting babies, most people
laugh once, especially ifthey've had that misconception
and they bring their babies intoour office.
They laugh because when I'mholding a baby and adjusting
them, you probably can't eventell that I'm adjusting them.
(25:44):
Like people literally just thinkI'm walking around our office
carrying babies while I'madjusting them.
It's really gentle, it's alight touch.
In fact, when people watch meadjust babies, they're like this
is really boring, like I've hadstudents come watch and I've
had interns come watch andthey're just like there is
nothing interesting aboutadjusting a baby Because it's
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mostly a lot of like sustainedpressure, it's a lot of holding.
So I'm literally just likeholding their spines.
Um, it's a lot of like tonechanging on their spines Like
they're.
It's they're very delicatebeing so there's not much doing.
I mean I'm talking like it'smoving my fingers like this much
Right.
I had a mentor that told meit's kind of like checking the
ripeness of a tomato.
You can't over squeeze a tomato.
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You're gonna get tomato juiceeverywhere.
So, it's literally just likethat light little squeeze, you
know so very small movements.
In fact, most parents, ifthey're super reluctant, they'll
bring their kid to get adjustedthe first time and they're like
staring at me, they're likewhat's happening?
And I'm like, yeah, theadjustment's almost done?
And they're like, oh, to thepoint where, like by their
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second, third, you know, fifth,tenth adjustment, their parents
are like, here, while you'readjusting them, I'm gonna go to
the bathroom, I'm gonna go get adrink.
Can I run?
to my car really fast, like I'mnot just gonna sit here and
stare at you and watch youadjust them.
Um, so that's probably thebiggest misconception or myth
that we see all the time.
That's really common, honestly,because there are like tons of
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videos on the Internet andthere's just not as many videos
adjusting babies.
Because once again, you wouldnot stop and look at that on
your TikTok feed.
You might look at it becausethe baby's cute, but like you're
not going to watch me adjust ababy, you're going to be like
you're just holding head, likewhat do you want?
What do you want me to look at?
There's no wow factor in it.
You know the wow factor comesin in the physiology.
Later the wow factor comes inlike the screaming colicky baby
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that is not screaming colickyanymore.
The wow factor comes in thebaby that hasn't pooped in a
week, that literally has blowoutfive minutes after they get
adjusted.
The wow factor comes in babiesthat are struggling with nursing
, like literally walking intoour office, not latching,
walking out of our office,latching to their mom's breast,
perfectly Like.
That's where the wow factorcomes in.
There's no wow factor in whatit looks like to get adjusted.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
So you mentioned something I want to just now
that I want you to touch on alittle bit more.
Yeah, colicky.
Speaker 3 (28:07):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
So what, man?
I guess almost probably everyparent goes through that.
You know where the baby gets tocolic and screams all night and
can't nobody sleep.
You know, yeah, what is yoursolution or treatment, maybe is
a better word for that.
Speaker 3 (28:25):
Yeah yeah.
This is a really funny questionin chiropractic, which honestly
kind of goes back to your otherquestions on myths and
conceptions and misconceptions.
We're we're so used to thetraditional medical model that
has a, that has a treatment foreverything you know.
That's like, hey, here's thisdiagnosis and here's how you're
going to treat it, or you canhave this thing and this is how
you treat it.
(28:46):
So once again, I tell peoplelike it's it's kind of boring
when you look at it from a froma bird's eye view because I'm
like, what's my treatment?
I'm going to adjust them.
Like, oh, are you colicky?
I'm going to adjust you.
Oh, are you having troublelatching?
I'm going gonna adjust you.
Oh, your kid's being reallypicky and eating and they're
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like they can't seem to eatanything but macaroni and cheese
and dino nuggets.
We're gonna adjust them.
Oh, your kid has add, we'regonna adjust them.
It like it doesn't reallychange that much of like all of
the things that kids have comeinto our office with.
I'm like, yeah, okay, cool,we're also gonna get them
adjusted right.
Like of course there are otherthings that we tell parents
about how to support thatadjustment based on what's going
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on with their particular kid.
But yeah, it all boils down tothere's a dysfunction in your
nervous system.
With colicky babies inparticular, it's usually a
digestive dysfunction.
Right?
So there's a dysfunction inyour nervous system.
We're going to remove theinterference so your body knows
how to do what it's supposed todo, and then they're not going
to be colicky anymore.
Speaker 2 (29:48):
Wow, so how, when, when you make that adjustment
and with a baby, that's colicky,just, and I I hate to just ask
for specifics.
So you correct me again, whichis like you did just now, if I
ask it the wrong way.
But how soon do they usuallysee a change?
Speaker 3 (30:07):
Yeah, sometimes immediately.
I mean there's all the times.
I literally just had a mom tagme on social media not too long
ago.
She said my kid hates her carseat.
Like she puts her.
You put her in the car seat,she is going to scream.
She left our office and sleptin her car seat for four hours
straight.
Like mom was like I don't wantto take her out of her car seat
because she's still sleeping.
(30:28):
Like I don't know what to do.
She's sleeping Because inchiropractic I, I, I in
particular I'm not doing any ofthe healing.
It's the body that's doing thehealing.
I remove the interference, so Imake an adjustment to remove
the interference.
What I'm doing is really justthink about it like opening up a
floodgate.
I'm just allowing the body toin the brain to do what they
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normally know how to do.
There has never been a humanbody that goes.
You know what I really hatedoing basic functions of staying
alive, like I really hate beingable to eat, I really hate
being able to sleep and I reallyhate being able to poop.
It's terrible.
I would never want to do that.
Like that said, nobody ever thehuman body at a basic
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biological level wants tocontinue to survive.
That's how biology hascontinued to go on the
interference from thatparticular organism.
Right, let's remove theinterference.
Their body, biologically, isgoing to do what it needs to do
to survive, so that it canprocreate, so that the species
can continue.
Speaker 2 (31:33):
So that's a good way of removing the interference
yeah.
I love the way you explain thatremoving the interference.
I love that because sometimesyou know, just like you said,
you see these videos out therewhere you hear all the cracking
and the popping and you hear allthese things.
You know people making remarksabout being adjusted.
But when you explain it thatway just removing the
(31:56):
interference so the body canwork like it's supposed to that
makes total sense.
I mean, it just kind of opensyour understanding to say, oh,
wait a minute.
Okay, I see.
Speaker 3 (32:05):
now you know it takes a lot of mystery away, you know
exactly, and, like I, inparticular, I obviously I see a
lot of kids, because that's justwhere my heart lies, and
especially I can write are, likewe said, I think that's just,
that's just ordained.
But I look at it from adultsperspective too.
When people tell me, like, ohman, I would never get adjusted,
or I don't know what it's liketo get adjusted, and I'm like do
(32:25):
you like to eat, do you like tosleep, do you like to poop?
I mean you don't have to sayyes, but most people are going
to say yes in their brains,right, like yeah, you like to do
all those things.
Right, are you not doing thosethings?
Well, I mean, you could blameit on 15,000 things, but like,
at the end of the day, is yourbody doing fundamentally what it
needs to do?
If the answer is no, then youshould probably get adjusted.
Speaker 2 (32:48):
OK, so, and one more question about the children's
aspect, not your children aspect, but the other side of it.
So if a parent needs adjusting,do you have someone you refer
them to, or do you do thatyourself, or how does that?
Speaker 3 (33:02):
work At this point in time.
We take care of our parents too.
Um they're the only people.
Honestly I'll be totally honestwith you, scott the only people
who feel really awkward in ouroffice are single men.
Because they come in andthey're like everyone is either
pregnant or has a baby or islike in a couple that is
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actively trying to have a babyin this office.
So they kind of walk in andthey're like, um, it feels like
I'm not supposed to be here andwe've actually been asked by men
.
Often they're like do you seemen?
Because, like, I was referredand I would really like to see
you, um, but it feels like thisisn't the place for me.
(33:44):
I will usually see them.
I don't enjoy turning peopleaway.
I will see them.
But some people have foundthey're like I don't mean this
in a terrible way, but is thereanyone you can refer me to?
Because this just doesn't feellike I like the aspect of
chiropractic, this just does notfeel like the fit for me, which
(34:05):
is totally fine.
Speaker 2 (34:06):
Have you made a lot of good connections in the
chiropractic community inChattanooga.
Speaker 3 (34:11):
Oh yeah, like chiropractic is one of the most
amazing fields, because, becausewe all think a little bit
differently, right, we're allfriends.
So people will say like, ohwell, I used to see this doctor
and now I see, you know, now Iwant to come see you and I'm
usually like, oh yeah, likewe've talked about that like you
(34:32):
know, like, yeah, like wefigured you were gonna come over
because, like, most of us arefriends and like we know that
there are people that don't jivewith us.
You know, like there's there'sthere's personalities for every
situation and like sometimesthey're just, they're just
people.
That it's like you like theconcept, but you just you don't
jive very well with me.
You might jive with like sevenof my other friends in town, but
(34:53):
it's just not me.
So yeah, we talk about it often.
We actually really love whenpeople jump from like our
friends offices to anotherfriend, because then I can talk
to them and I know exactly howyour care was going, exactly how
you've been progressing, likewe can co-manage it together and
make sure that you have asmooth transition.
I mean, we always want peopleto be comfortable, so, yeah, we
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have tons of people to refer tobecause, yeah, we're all friends
.
Speaker 2 (35:17):
Dr Rye.
I always like to ask thisquestion before we wrap up a
podcast, regardless of the typeof business or practice that it
is.
If there was one thing that youwish our listeners knew about
the heart of Dr Rye and SkylineChiropractic, about the heart of
(35:40):
you and your business, but theyprobably wouldn't know unless
you share it with them and you'dlike know, share it today, loud
and proud, on the good neighborpodcast.
What would that be?
Speaker 3 (35:52):
Oh man, that's a really good question.
Um, you know, I think for us andI'm going to speak for my
husband too, cause he's usuallylike the spokesperson of our
office, and I'm going to speakfor my husband too, because he's
usually like the spokespersonof our office OK, I would say
(36:12):
it's that we just we have aheart for the kids in our
community, you know, and thekids of the future.
I think.
I think we are seeing now,because we have so much access
to social media, we are able toreally see how the world is
progressing on a generationalstage, are able to really see
how the world is progressing ona generational stage, and I
think this is the first time inlife, you know, in human
existence, that we've reallybeen able to see that, because
we can see multiple generationsinteract with each other and we
(36:34):
can see the way that they aregoing to commit to the world.
And I think that that has justincreased our passion to say,
like we need to take care of ourkids, because our kids turn
into the people that are goingto take care of us, and so, if
we're going to pass the torchalong to them, because, you know
, this is actually the firstgeneration of kids that I don't
(36:57):
know if you know this, scottthat is not expected to have a
longer life expectancy than thegeneration previously no, I
didn't know that Wow.
So this is the first generationof kids that have a shorter life
expectancy than their parents.
So if we continue to down thattrend, we would get to a point
(37:18):
where parents were outlivingtheir children by decades.
Oh wow, we got to a point whereyour parents were outliving
children by decades.
We got to a point where yourparents were outliving children
by decades.
The human race will not survive.
I mean, frankly, like you cantell, I look at things from a
biological perspective.
If we got to that point,generation after generation
after generation, we have nomore humans Right, and so we
(37:40):
need radical change, like thereis something we have to do to
make big changes in our kids sothat we can take that trajectory
and move it back to where it'ssupposed to be.
Before this generation, beforeGen Alpha, every generation
previously had been expected orhad a longer life expectancy
than the generation previously.
Like right, like Gen X has, Ithink their life expectancy was
(38:03):
in the 80s and baby boomers werein the 70s, and then
millennials it's like mid 80s,and then, you know, gen Z was
like mid 90s and then Gen A nowis like, I think, mid 80s or
something like that again.
So it's I mean, it's not a hugetrend difference in this, like
in this particular generation,but, holy cow, if we don't make
(38:24):
a change soon, that's a problem.
That's a big problem movingforward, and so we're just so
passionate about kids and makingsure they get a good start to
life, because you just neverknow where that's going to go.
Sometimes I wonder you know,like I made an adjustment on my
daughter and it was thedifference between life or death
, but how do I know that I'm notadjusting?
(38:44):
I mean, we're in a, we're closeto an election.
How do I know I'm not adjustingthe next president of the
United States?
How do I know I'm not adjustingthe next, the next Supreme
Court member?
How do I know that I'm notadjusting the next CEO of a big
company that that makes hugedecisions for our economy?
Like, how do I know that that'snot the brain that I'm clearing
(39:06):
out in that moment?
We have no idea.
We have to create that potentialfor our kids to make sure that
the world that we've createdcontinues to function.
So it's a big deal, it's a bigresponsibility.
Speaker 2 (39:18):
Good point.
Wow, that's a.
That's a.
I didn't know that, I hadn'theard that.
That's, it's kind of eyeopening.
But you're right, I mean, andI'm glad there's people out
there like yourself that arefocused on children, because you
know, the children are innocentvictims of, of even even
neglect that is not intended,intentional neglect, you know,
(39:42):
and so they are those innocentvictims intentional neglect, you
know, and so they are thoseinnocent victims.
You know, I've thought aboutbefore, you know, the big debate
about seatbelt laws.
You know why should I be forcedto do something as an adult?
But then, when it comes toputting babies in car seats, we
call it in those car seats, andyou see that, because they can't
(40:04):
protect themselves.
Right, they can't protectthemselves.
So nobody argues that point.
You know, although when I was akid there wasn't such thing as
a car seats, you know my motherwas the seatbelt, you know right
.
Speaker 3 (40:15):
Exactly.
Speaker 2 (40:20):
But yeah so.
But you know, I reallyappreciate you today.
You, you've been fabulous andso explanatory, but in a real
fun way as well.
You know, getting across toeveryone.
And when you, when you say, Iguess if I take away anything
from this, that it's that you'removing to interference.
That's one thing that juststands out to me.
When you said that, I thought,wow, what a wonderful way of
(40:41):
describing what you do.
And before before we leave herefor just a moment, I want you
to take the time to tell peoplehow to contact you or, if they
want to find out more about youonline or offline, spread the
word here.
Speaker 3 (40:57):
Absolutely so if you want to learn more about
anything that I talked abouttoday, a bunch of that is on our
website, which iswwwgoskychicom, so
G-O-S-K-Y-C-H-Icom, I am workingon improving our social media
presence.
So you know I'm not a big fanof social media.
(41:19):
I really struggle with it, butI am working on improving our
presence.
So at Sky Chi Chat you can findus on Facebook, Instagram and
Threads I think is a new one I'mworking on.
So yeah, and on our website.
It actually has a really greatplace where you can schedule a
consultation with me.
(41:39):
Those are totally free.
It really just helps us figureout if we're the right place for
you or if if this is even theappropriate next step for you.
Um, so if anybody is justwondering, like, hey, I don't
know if that really fits me, ormy kid, or, um, if that's the
office for me, but if you couldhelp me find the office for me,
um, we love serving ourcommunity in that way.
So you can just schedule aconsult for me, and those are 15
(42:02):
minutes and we can chat abouteverything that has to do with
your life, you know as much aswe can get in 15 minutes where
are you located?
we are located at 6025 leehighway, so if pretty much
everybody in chattanooga knowswhere sam's club is, we are in
the business park, the executivebusiness park, right next to
sam's club okay, okay, greatgood location, too Easy to find
(42:26):
yeah.
Yeah, right in the middle ofthe city.
Speaker 2 (42:28):
Well, Dr Rye, it has been a pleasure talking to you
today and hearing all about youand what you do and your family
and your daughter.
That was an amazing story andthank you for just going into
all the detail that you didtoday.
I know that people are going toenjoy listening to this episode
(42:48):
, especially if they havechildren or grandchildren, or
even anticipating havingchildren in the future.
So thank you for all this goodinformation.
Speaker 3 (42:56):
Oh, thank you, Scott.
Thank you for having me, it wasreally fun.
Speaker 2 (42:59):
It was my pleasure and to all the good people, all
the good neighbors out there inthe greater Chattanooga region.
You know, after listening to DrRye explain, you know Skyline
Chiropractic and what she doesand how she goes about doing it,
and I mean, couldn't you just alot of y'all are only hearing
this through audio, but couldn'tyou just hear her passion for
(43:20):
what she does?
I mean, if you those of you whowill see the shorts, reels and
clips you'll see that passion aswell, but but you know, there
is such a passion in what shedoes and the story of her, her
daughter, just wow.
I mean wow, that's all I cansay about this episode.
Wow, it's just such a blessingto know that there's people like
(43:43):
Dr Rye out here in thecommunity serving your children
and serving you as well.
So I know she hopes that you'll, you know, take a moment to
consider what she does, what shehas to offer and, you know, to
schedule that initial consultand give her a chance to explain
and talk and you know, and see,maybe see your child as well,
(44:04):
to explain and talk and maybesee your child as well.
However, all that goes with yourconsult, and I would like to
also stop for a moment and justthank all of you listeners out
there for taking the time out ofyour day and listening to the
Good Neighbor podcast.
Always remember to support thelocally owned and operated
businesses in the greaterChattanooga region.
(44:26):
As I always like to say, fromCleveland to Dalton, from Jasper
to Benton, it's a beautifulplace here in this great, this
greater Chattanooga region, andlet's all do all we can to
support our local businesses.
Everyone, go out, try today andtry to make this a remarkable
day.
Speaker 1 (44:44):
Thank you for listening to the Good Neighbor
Podcast.
To nominate your favorite localbusinesses to be featured on
the show, go to gnpclevelandcom.
That's gnpclevelandcom, or call423-380-1984.
8-4.
This is the Good Neighbor Podcast, the place
where local businesses andneighbors come together.
Here's your host, Scott Howell.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Hello, good neighbors , welcome to the Good Neighbor
Podcast brought to you by theFriends and Neighbors Group of
the Greater Chattanooga Region.
Again, my name is Scott Howell.
I'm your host for today.
I'm your host for today.
The reason for that we have theGood Neighbor podcast is just
simply that we desire to bringan awareness to the residents
who live in our communitiesregarding locally owned and or
(00:33):
operated businesses in yourneighborhood, your city, maybe
all the way across theChattanooga region, however it
might be, we want everyone toknow.
You know local businesses arethe backbone of our communities,
way before corporate giants,way before these large retail
names.
You know local owned businesseswere the one that the people,
(00:55):
everybody shopped with, thepeople, everybody you know done
business with, took theirmedical help to, and so we just
want to keep that in the mind'seye of all of us that we could
continue supporting localbusinesses.
And, of course, you know, everystore excuse me, every local
business has a story to tell,and here at the Good Neighbor
(01:15):
podcast, we just want to helpthem to shout it loud and proud
so all you good neighbors outthere can hear.
And you know, today we've gotone of our good neighbors here
that not only lives here butalso has a business here, and
we'd like to introduce her, drRye Harris, and she is with
(01:36):
Skyline Chiropractic, and sowe'd like to introduce you today
, dr Rye.
We're glad to have you on theGood Neighbor Podcast.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
I'm so happy to be here, Scott.
This is going to be so much fun.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Yeah, absolutely, we were talking before we started
recording.
I was trying to get her nameright.
If y'all that don't know it,it's spelled R-A-I.
I just want to make sure I hadit right.
And she told me it was.
What was it you said?
Speaker 3 (01:59):
I say rye like the bread, but since I moved to the
South, people told me it'sactually rye like the whiskey.
So you know, depending on theperson you know, you got to see
what's better to pronounce it.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
Whichever one you like rye bread or rye whiskey.
That's Dr Rye.
We are glad to have you, dr Rye, and looking so forward to
hearing about you, know all yourpractice and all your journey
and all that you do.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
But before we jump into the business side of it, I
like to give you an opportunity,if you want to, to say a little
bit about yourself and yourfamily.
Oh yeah, um, I that's.
That's really exciting.
I don't think I've ever beenasked that on a podcast before.
I feel like people usually jumpright into.
Like let me talk about yourbusiness.
Um, so that's really exciting.
I am 32.
So a lot of people find, andour business has been open for
six years.
So my husband and I were reallyyoung when we opened our
(02:52):
business, which was a lot of fun, had a lot of hurdles.
We have two daughters.
They are five and a half andone.
Yeah, they're so cool, thecoolest kids.
I feel like everybody probablysays that about their kids, but
you know, we're like overlyobsessed with our kids.
We love them.
Um, let's see, what do we liketo do for fun?
(03:13):
We um my husband is a gamer, sowe like games.
We really love sports.
That's honestly that's kind ofour jam, okay so we're big
mizzou fans.
It's football, so we're bigMizzou fans.
It's football time, so we'rebig Mizzou fans.
We have we can be converted toVol fans since we live here, so
we, we root for the Vols.
(03:34):
You know it was since we'rehere.
We think Neyland stadium is oneof the coolest places on earth.
So yeah, we, we like all sports, though We've been to some
softball games at UT.
We have yet to go to like aTitans game or a Falcons game or
anything like that.
But we have gone to a lot ofcollege sports, been to a couple
of UTC games of various sports.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
So yeah, sports are kind of our thing, apparently.
Hey, whatever someone likes andenjoys, and they can do with
their family and that's great,you know, and you're talking
about your big Mizzou fans.
Now a lot of people mightwonder why, but you moved here
from Missouri, right?
Speaker 3 (04:12):
I did, I did.
My husband and I are originallyfrom St Louis, missouri.
We actually grew up about amile away from each other and we
were actually dated in highschool, so we are both literally
from the same part of town andthen we moved here together.
But yeah, we are originallyfrom Missouri.
So big Mizzou Tiger fans, so go, tigers, throw that in there.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
I understand that I was born and raised in Alabama
and so I tell Alabama of courseyou have the Roll Tide and you
have the Auburn Tigers.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
Well, I'm a Tide fan, but I tell people I'm also
being originally from Alabama.
I'm also an Alabama lover asfar as the sports go.
So if Auburn is not playingAlabama, I'm for Auburn.
Yeah, absolutely Auburn andAlabama is playing.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
Sorry, sorry, all you Tigers out there, but I'm a
Tide fan you have to be specific, living now that we live in SEC
country.
Back when we were in St Louisthere weren't a ton of SEC teams
around, so now that we're herein SEC country we have a lot of
shirts that say Tigers on themand you know, from far away the
navy blue and the black can kindof look similar, so people are
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like tight, tigers, tigers.
We're like the zoo and they'relike, oh, okay, okay that's
funny.
Now you you what brought youhere from uh Missouri so when we
were debating on when, where wewere going to open our practice
.
So my husband's not achiropractor but he knew that he
(05:46):
wanted to work in the officewith me.
So we're actually.
We have a different type ofchiropractic office than people
usually think of.
We are actually preconception,prenatal and pediatric.
And so when?
Yeah, so when I told him thathe was going to get to play with
kids all day, he was like, signme up.
He was like that sounds likethe best job ever.
(06:08):
He was like this is great.
I was like, yeah, I just needyou to like entertain them.
Make sure that, like, whilethey're getting adjusted, or
their siblings are gettingadjusted, like, we don't have to
.
You know, there's not like justchildren running in circles or
doing whatever.
And he was like you need totell me it's like a glorified
babysitting gig.
He's like I'm down easy.
Um, so when we were deciding onwhere to open, we knew that we
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were, we were kind of overMissouri, especially when you,
when you have this opportunityin front of you to, literally
when the world is your oysterright, and you're like if I
could live anywhere in the world, where would I live.
And we got some really, reallygreat advice from tons of
mentors at the time that said,look, you don't have to, you
don't have to open your practicethere just because you're from
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there, because you live there.
Like, figure out where you wantto live, where you want to
raise a family, where you'regoing to be excited to be every
day and open a practice there,like don't, don't just open it
like here because you live here.
And so we made a huge list oflike things.
We wanted things that were likethat we absolutely wanted from
where we lived and, ironically,my husband and I are very
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similar but our lists weretotally different.
He wanted like mountains andoutside things to explore and
lakes, so he could like go gofishing and he wanted to be like
, if you can't tell, we like toget outside.
So you know he wanted to, likehe wanted the opportunity to
hunt if he wanted to or fishlike he just wanted all of these
options.
(07:36):
I really like a city, Like Ilove getting outside to go to,
like a farmer's market or orjust like walking around and
seeing the sites and like seeingold buildings, and I I think
that is really fun.
And so, um, I said we shouldmove to like connecticut outside
of new york, like lots of oldbuildings, lots of people.
(07:58):
This is gonna be awesome.
And he was like I think weshould move to denver, like lots
of mountains, lots of like coolnature.
And we were both like, okay,those things don't really jive.
So we had to pick the thingsout of those cities that we
really enjoyed and that we werereally hoping to like experience
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and continue experiencing forlife.
And as we were making that list,ironically we were driving to a
wedding in Atlanta from StLouis and we stopped in
Chattanooga because we saw allof those ridiculous Ruby Falls
signs.
Like, if you've been here andyou're just like driving down,
they happen every five, likefive miles.
So we were like, okay, what isthis?
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Ruby Falls things Like we haveto stop because apparently
everyone's obsessed with it.
Um, I'm so thankful for thoseruby fall signs now because, we
stopped and we were like, wow,this is a really cute city, like
let's just explore.
And we happened to be drivingup lookout mountain to go to
ruby falls and, uh, my husbandjake joked.
He said, oh, look, there's anoffice space for lease, we
(09:03):
should look at it.
And I was like, oh, you'refunny.
And then we drove back down themountain after we saw Ruby
Falls and we were like, but whatif we did open here?
Like I don't know that I wantto open my business on a
mountain?
But what if we did open like inChattanooga?
We drove around on our way backfrom the wedding.
We stopped again.
We had to go to a conference inAtlanta, so we stopped again.
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We ate at Champy's downtown onMLK.
Oh my gosh.
We walked around, we went toClumpy's, we stopped at the Choo
Choo, we did all the reallytouristy things downtown in.
Chattanooga and we were like,wow, we really like it here,
this is really cool, we couldsee ourselves here, and so, you
know, then we were kind of stuck.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
Well, I tell you what you picked a fabulous city.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
We really did.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
This whole region is just beautiful and all the
things that you mentioned onboth your lists, I mean just
check them all off.
It sounds like, and it's just.
It's a fabulous place and andglad to have you, glad to have
you here.
So you've been here six yearsnow and I find it really
interesting that you said yourpractice is basically pediatric,
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but you also said prenatal.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
Preconception prenatal.
So we do fertility, pregnancyand pediatric yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
Okay, preconception as well.
So is that when somebody maybeis having difficulty conceiving?
Is that kind of what that'sabout?
Speaker 3 (10:26):
Yeah, a lot of.
So there's really two facetsthat people come to our office
for preconception Sometimes it'sdifficulty conceiving, so like
they've had previous fertilityissues as far as like maybe
they've tried IVF or IUI, ormaybe they've just been trying
naturally for a long time andjust can't seem to figure it out
.
So there's that stance.
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There's also what we call ourhealthy human program, which is
hey, I'm looking to have a baby,but I just want to make sure
that my body, my husband's body,that our baby is going to be
the healthiest that we can helpand that we can figure out.
So it's people that really justwant to set their child up,
like genetically andfunctionally for an incredible
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life, and so they look at theirhealth prior to conceiving to
make sure that, like hey, areall of our ducks in a row, Are
we doing everything that we needto to set our child up for
success in the future?
Speaker 2 (11:20):
Wow, you know I I have been privileged enough to
interview several chiropractors,but no one that's actually
practicing from that point ofview.
So that's very interesting.
I didn't even know that was.
If I could use an old Southernphrase, I didn't know that was a
thing.
So how did you decide to becomea chiropractor?
Speaker 3 (11:41):
Oh gosh.
So that's a really long storythat I will save you the
shortened version of, but youcan take whatever part of it you
want to.
Well, I originally was going togo to med school.
I had literally said from thetime I was about seven years old
, people told me I talked toomuch, which is why podcasts are
really great for me.
They have always told me I talktoo much, and so from that time
(12:05):
I said you know what mom I'mgoing to be a lawyer or a doctor
, because when doctors talkpeople should listen and lawyers
just get to talk all the time.
So apparently one of those twoprofessions is for me.
So I've said that since I wasreally little and once I got to
undergrad, I was really little.
And once I got to undergrad,taking the MCAT, applying to
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medical school.
You know that feeling, scott,when something just like doesn't
sit right.
Like things are going well,doors are opening, but it just
like, yeah, it doesn't feel good, like something feels off about
it.
And so I was applying, I tookmy MCAT, I got into like I even
got accepted into a really greatprogram at our school that
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helped five students like reallyreally buckle down to study for
the MCAT.
It was like our schoolinvesting in these students to
say like, hey, we know you'regoing to do really well, so
we're going to give you thisextra attention on the MCAT.
I mean, I was really blessed inthat I, you know, I had a few
scholarships for that that I wasable to take advantage of like
so many really really greatopportunities to like study and
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and do interview prep and doreally well for like all of my
med school admissions.
And as I was doing interviewsand as I was like just getting
this information, something justwasn't sitting right and I was
like I don't even know what tocall it, cause I I mean I was
what 20, 21, like I didn'treally know about intuition or
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anything.
I felt like so I I didn'treally know what to call it.
So one day we were at ourpre-med club and one of and
someone a representative from achiropractic school came to talk
to our pre-med club which youknow, tracks make sense and she
was asking me like what my planswere and like where I was going
to school.
So I was telling her about likemy most recent medical school
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interview and how, like that wasprobably the school I was going
to attend and we were kind ofgoing on about it and she was
like, really I actually wasgoing, wanted to go to a DO
school, and she said, well, whydo you want to do that?
And I said, you know, there'ssomething about that DO
profession and healing with yourhands.
That I think is incredible.
And she said I don't meanoverstep, but it sounds like you
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want to be a chiropractor.
You just don't know whatchiropractic is.
And so, like any 21 year old, Iwas supremely offended.
It's like, excuse me, you don'tknow anything about me.
Yeah, how dare you tell me thatyou know more about what I want
to do with my life than I do?
Because, like any other 21 yearold, I apparently knew
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everything there was.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
Oh, yeah, everything.
Yeah, you should have beenapplying to NASA.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
Yeah, exactly, yeah, you should have been applying to
NASA, yeah, exactly.
So I listened to herpresentation about the school
and I was like, dang it, shemight be right she was
presenting about it.
I was like, wow, that does kindof sound like what I want to do
.
So I pulled her aside, didapologize, did apologize for all
the listeners out there, um,and was asking her a little bit
(15:04):
more about that particularschool.
Um, the school happened to bein my hometown, which made like
because that was a latetransition, um, because I, at
this point, most people that youknow like apply to med school
and things like that know likeif you're already applying and
interviewing for med schools.
We were like, well into mysenior year at this point.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
So I was like oh gosh we got to go Right.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
And so that school happened to be in my hometown.
So I was like, okay, not thatbig of a deal, like it's not,
like I have to find housing andfly across the country, like I
could always just go home.
And so I started shadowingchiropractors and I was like,
wow, wow, she was right, this isexactly what I want to do, like
this is what I was imaginingthat DO school was.
And so at that time I wanted myundergrad degree.
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I went to a really cool schoolthat allows us to self design
our major.
So my undergrad degree isactually in sports medicine.
And so I really wanted to belike a sideline chiropractor,
which you probably couldn't tellfrom our introduction about
sports.
But I wanted to be like asideline chiropractor, which you
probably couldn't tell from ourintroduction about sports.
But I wanted to be a sidelinechiropractor and I was like this
is going to be fantastic.
I'm going to go be achiropractor for the pros and
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it's going to be a blast.
We're going to have so much funbeing on the sideline.
I get to combine sports and Iget to adjust people.
This is great.
And then I call myself gettingconverted, when I was in school,
to a family practitionerbecause, gosh, I just started
seeing how we can change theworld and change children and
their functionality from such ayoung age.
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And then, as you can probablytell by my practice, I just
realized that you could startchanging things earlier and
earlier.
People would ask me well, howdo I prevent my child from with
this happening?
And I say, oh well, that'sprobably more of a prenatal
issue.
And then and then we started tosay how do well, how do I
prevent these prenatal issues?
And then that turned into apreconception issue, and so then
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we stumbled into preconception,prenatal and pediatric
chiropractic and I really say it, it's honestly ordained Like it
was.
It was God's gift that he justkept opening doors and those
doors felt right, like it's notthat the other doors you know
were bad or felt wrong, but likeit just wasn't.
They didn't feel as easy and asseamless as the doors that were
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opened and like, now that we'vestarted our practice this way,
just how everything has kind offallen in line.
I mean, you're like that.
That was the plan for me allalong.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
So by the time that you actually opened the practice
, did you know then that youwere going to be in that
specialized field, or did that,did that kind of come later, or
yeah, so when we opened, we wereI would say we were more family
centered and more familyfocused.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
Honestly, it was the birth of my daughter that really
swung things to pediatricchiropractic for us.
So I had been studying.
I had been studying pediatricchiropractic in school.
I knew, I knew that was going tobe a heavy focus on my practice
, but I thought you know thereare parents involved, so you
kind of you know the parentshave to bring them, so you might
as well see the parents too.
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And so we were preparing toopen our practice and my
daughter was born in January of2019.
And when she was born shewasn't breathing and she was
seizing and it was just.
It was an extremely traumaticsituation for us and after about
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three days um in the NICU withher kind of sort of progressing,
there wasn't really muchhappening.
Uh the doctors looked at her MRIand said there's a, there's a
lot of brain damage here.
Um, and I just don't know, Idon't.
I don't think she's going tomake it.
(18:45):
I think you're looking at areally tough life.
I think you're looking atsupport for feeding, support for
living.
I frankly, I don't know ifshe's going to make it out of
the hospital.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
So sure yeah.
Speaker 3 (18:57):
It was really tough.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
No doubt.
Speaker 3 (18:59):
And so, looking at her MRI, I saw there's there's a
bone in your body that's calledthe Atlas and I could see.
I could see, I could see herAtlas and her MRI and it looked
different to me than other thanyou know, normal MRIs or normal
Atlas that we looked at.
So I did the only thing at thatpoint that I felt like I had
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control to do and that I knewhow to do, and I went and
adjusted her and ideally, as apediatric chiropractor, you know
, you have this image of likeadjusting your child right after
birth, but like, since Icouldn't touch her or hold her
or like barely even see herright, after birth.
At that moment I was like youknow what if?
If she's going to pass, I'mgoing to make sure that she is
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totally clear.
She's going to look into myeyes one time.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
It's going to be amazing.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
I adjusted her and the monitors went crazy.
And I had never done anadjustment on a child on
monitors.
I had done plenty ofadjustments on infants and on
new babies.
I'd never done an adjustment ona child that was hooked up to
monitors and the monitors wentabsolutely crazy she started
breathing.
She started breathing.
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She started breathing on herown.
And the next thing, like 12 to15 hours later, they were
calling us and saying hey, Ithink we're going to take her
ventilator out.
She's over breathing theventilator.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
Oh, wow.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
And then she started breathing on room air, and then
she started eating, and then shestarted sucking on a pacifier,
and then she just started makingall of these leaps and bounds
and two weeks later we took herhome.
Obviously, as a chiropractor I Iknew the the miracles of
chiropractic, I knew all aboutpediatric chiropractic.
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But my husband always says thatin that situation, like in that
moment, that was the momentthat made him a hundred percent
in.
He was like, yeah, you know,you explained the job really
well.
I'm so glad that I was able,that I'm, you know, able to help
babysit these kids and, likeyou know, work around the office
.
But he was like seeing seeingthat happen to our daughter.
(21:04):
He's like every child.
Every parent should get to knowwhat it's like to have a clear
child.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
Wow, what an amazing story.
Oh, my goodness, I mean youknow when?
Speaker 3 (21:21):
you said it was God ordained.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
I mean, that's proof right there.
Yeah, it's quite possible.
If you hadn't sought the fieldthat you're in, that you'd have
been telling a totally differentstory today Exactly I mean wow.
Who can argue with that?
Speaker 3 (21:36):
Right.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
Wow, you know, man, I just want to stop a minute and
cry after hearing that.
Wow, that's amazing.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
Now we get to show people pictures of kaya and I
mean she has, you know, she hasher deficits and you know she's
uh, she is in a wheelchair andshe's a little bit non-verbal.
I say a little bit because nowshe's like five and fiery and
she doesn't have words that mostpeople can understand, but we
understand her perfectly yeah.
(22:07):
And so you know, now she's, likeyou know, mostly typical
five-year-old and yelling atpeople and pushing over her
sister and she she is notambulatory, so she doesn't walk
because she has some spasticityissues in her legs, but she
crawls like a mad woman and soshe like, is all over everything
.
She gets in and out of likechairs by herself, and so she
like, is all over everything.
She gets in and out of likechairs by herself.
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She loves water, so she swimsall the time, like she just does
all of these amazing things andshe's such a light to so many
people's lives and you know,sometimes we we just have to sit
back and wonder we're like man,what would happen if Kaya
wasn't here?
Speaker 2 (22:45):
and wonder we're like , man, what would happen if kaya
wasn't here?
Oh wow, yeah, true, I can'timagine.
I can't imagine how that makesyou feel to think about that,
because it's such an amazingtestimonial of of what that you
know, your craft, your practice,uh is able to to do for people.
I mean that little baby, uh,hanging on life or death, and I
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mean you couldn't, there'snothing you could do about the
damage that had already beendone.
You're talking about the braindamage.
There's nothing you could havedone about that, but now, now it
was a difference between livingor not.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
Right.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
And now you, there she is.
I don't know if you get achance to bring her to the
practice with you or not.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
Well, yeah, every day .
Speaker 2 (23:24):
That's what people love about our practice.
Speaker 3 (23:26):
Both of my kids are there every day.
She's in school now, so shedoesn't she's not there all the
time every day.
But yeah, we, um, we bring ourkids to the practice because you
know we want people to see whatit's like Like you know we're.
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we're just like them, freakingcrazy kids that scream at people
and eat everything and you know.
But but we want people, we wantto show people what it's like
like, hey, our kids get adjustedand they're clear and they,
they function well.
And I usually say there's threethings that kids are supposed
to do they're supposed to eat,they're supposed to sleep and
they're supposed to poop.
And if they're not doing one ofthose three things, that's a
pretty good indication that theyneed to get adjusted.
If they're not eating well,sleeping well or pooping, that's
pretty much your guide rightthere, like let's go see what's
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going on because their body, ata basic level, is not
functioning the way it'ssupposed to.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
You know I hate to bring a negative into this, but
I want to bring the negative soyou can turn it into a positive.
So a lot of people you know arereally reluctant as adults to
go to a chiropractor.
So what kind of myths andmisconceptions do you hear and
help people through when they're, when you're talking about
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bringing their child?
Speaker 3 (24:39):
Oh yeah.
Well, the big one is you canprobably imagine, it's probably
the first thing that popped inyour head.
People are like.
I've seen those crazy videos ofchiropractors on tiktok and
youtube and they're like so youdo that to my baby, like
everyone's imagining me justlike dangling their baby upside
down, being like all right ripthem and crack them and I was
like that's not what that lookslike at all at all.
(25:02):
Um, so that's probably thenumber one myth and
misconception is I and it'sfunny because, like, so I tell
people's kaya story and we talkabout pediatric chiropractic and
you can tell when they'relooking at me in the eyes that
they're always just kind of like, and what does that look like?
Like, how does that?
(25:23):
How do what do you mean?
So that's the number one myth.
When, in fact, when I'madjusting babies, most people
laugh once, especially ifthey've had that misconception
and they bring their babies intoour office.
They laugh because when I'mholding a baby and adjusting
them, you probably can't eventell that I'm adjusting them.
(25:44):
Like people literally just thinkI'm walking around our office
carrying babies while I'madjusting them.
It's really gentle, it's alight touch.
In fact, when people watch meadjust babies, they're like this
is really boring, like I've hadstudents come watch and I've
had interns come watch andthey're just like there is
nothing interesting aboutadjusting a baby Because it's
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mostly a lot of like sustainedpressure, it's a lot of holding.
So I'm literally just likeholding their spines.
Um, it's a lot of like tonechanging on their spines Like
they're.
It's they're very delicatebeing so there's not much doing.
I mean I'm talking like it'smoving my fingers like this much
Right.
I had a mentor that told meit's kind of like checking the
ripeness of a tomato.
You can't over squeeze a tomato.
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You're gonna get tomato juiceeverywhere.
So, it's literally just likethat light little squeeze, you
know so very small movements.
In fact, most parents, ifthey're super reluctant, they'll
bring their kid to get adjustedthe first time and they're like
staring at me, they're likewhat's happening?
And I'm like, yeah, theadjustment's almost done?
And they're like, oh, to thepoint where, like by their
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second, third, you know, fifth,tenth adjustment, their parents
are like, here, while you'readjusting them, I'm gonna go to
the bathroom, I'm gonna go get adrink.
Can I run?
to my car really fast, like I'mnot just gonna sit here and
stare at you and watch youadjust them.
Um, so that's probably thebiggest misconception or myth
that we see all the time.
That's really common, honestly,because there are like tons of
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videos on the Internet andthere's just not as many videos
adjusting babies.
Because once again, you wouldnot stop and look at that on
your TikTok feed.
You might look at it becausethe baby's cute, but like you're
not going to watch me adjust ababy, you're going to be like
you're just holding head, likewhat do you want?
What do you want me to look at?
There's no wow factor in it.
You know the wow factor comesin in the physiology.
Later the wow factor comes inlike the screaming colicky baby
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that is not screaming colickyanymore.
The wow factor comes in thebaby that hasn't pooped in a
week, that literally has blowoutfive minutes after they get
adjusted.
The wow factor comes in babiesthat are struggling with nursing
, like literally walking intoour office, not latching,
walking out of our office,latching to their mom's breast,
perfectly Like.
That's where the wow factorcomes in.
There's no wow factor in whatit looks like to get adjusted.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
So you mentioned something I want to just now
that I want you to touch on alittle bit more.
Yeah, colicky.
Speaker 3 (28:07):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
So what, man?
I guess almost probably everyparent goes through that.
You know where the baby gets tocolic and screams all night and
can't nobody sleep.
You know, yeah, what is yoursolution or treatment, maybe is
a better word for that.
Speaker 3 (28:25):
Yeah yeah.
This is a really funny questionin chiropractic, which honestly
kind of goes back to your otherquestions on myths and
conceptions and misconceptions.
We're we're so used to thetraditional medical model that
has a, that has a treatment foreverything you know.
That's like, hey, here's thisdiagnosis and here's how you're
going to treat it, or you canhave this thing and this is how
you treat it.
(28:46):
So once again, I tell peoplelike it's it's kind of boring
when you look at it from a froma bird's eye view because I'm
like, what's my treatment?
I'm going to adjust them.
Like, oh, are you colicky?
I'm going to adjust you.
Oh, are you having troublelatching?
I'm going gonna adjust you.
Oh, your kid's being reallypicky and eating and they're
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like they can't seem to eatanything but macaroni and cheese
and dino nuggets.
We're gonna adjust them.
Oh, your kid has add, we'regonna adjust them.
It like it doesn't reallychange that much of like all of
the things that kids have comeinto our office with.
I'm like, yeah, okay, cool,we're also gonna get them
adjusted right.
Like of course there are otherthings that we tell parents
about how to support thatadjustment based on what's going
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on with their particular kid.
But yeah, it all boils down tothere's a dysfunction in your
nervous system.
With colicky babies inparticular, it's usually a
digestive dysfunction.
Right?
So there's a dysfunction inyour nervous system.
We're going to remove theinterference so your body knows
how to do what it's supposed todo, and then they're not going
to be colicky anymore.
Speaker 2 (29:48):
Wow, so how, when, when you make that adjustment
and with a baby, that's colicky,just, and I I hate to just ask
for specifics.
So you correct me again, whichis like you did just now, if I
ask it the wrong way.
But how soon do they usuallysee a change?
Speaker 3 (30:07):
Yeah, sometimes immediately.
I mean there's all the times.
I literally just had a mom tagme on social media not too long
ago.
She said my kid hates her carseat.
Like she puts her.
You put her in the car seat,she is going to scream.
She left our office and sleptin her car seat for four hours
straight.
Like mom was like I don't wantto take her out of her car seat
because she's still sleeping.
(30:28):
Like I don't know what to do.
She's sleeping Because inchiropractic I, I, I in
particular I'm not doing any ofthe healing.
It's the body that's doing thehealing.
I remove the interference, so Imake an adjustment to remove
the interference.
What I'm doing is really justthink about it like opening up a
floodgate.
I'm just allowing the body toin the brain to do what they
(30:51):
normally know how to do.
There has never been a humanbody that goes.
You know what I really hatedoing basic functions of staying
alive, like I really hate beingable to eat, I really hate
being able to sleep and I reallyhate being able to poop.
It's terrible.
I would never want to do that.
Like that said, nobody ever thehuman body at a basic
(31:12):
biological level wants tocontinue to survive.
That's how biology hascontinued to go on the
interference from thatparticular organism.
Right, let's remove theinterference.
Their body, biologically, isgoing to do what it needs to do
to survive, so that it canprocreate, so that the species
can continue.
Speaker 2 (31:33):
So that's a good way of removing the interference
yeah.
I love the way you explain thatremoving the interference.
I love that because sometimesyou know, just like you said,
you see these videos out therewhere you hear all the cracking
and the popping and you hear allthese things.
You know people making remarksabout being adjusted.
But when you explain it thatway just removing the
(31:56):
interference so the body canwork like it's supposed to that
makes total sense.
I mean, it just kind of opensyour understanding to say, oh,
wait a minute.
Okay, I see.
Speaker 3 (32:05):
now you know it takes a lot of mystery away, you know
exactly, and, like I, inparticular, I obviously I see a
lot of kids, because that's justwhere my heart lies, and
especially I can write are, likewe said, I think that's just,
that's just ordained.
But I look at it from adultsperspective too.
When people tell me, like, ohman, I would never get adjusted,
or I don't know what it's liketo get adjusted, and I'm like do
(32:25):
you like to eat, do you like tosleep, do you like to poop?
I mean you don't have to sayyes, but most people are going
to say yes in their brains,right, like yeah, you like to do
all those things.
Right, are you not doing thosethings?
Well, I mean, you could blameit on 15,000 things, but like,
at the end of the day, is yourbody doing fundamentally what it
needs to do?
If the answer is no, then youshould probably get adjusted.
Speaker 2 (32:48):
OK, so, and one more question about the children's
aspect, not your children aspect, but the other side of it.
So if a parent needs adjusting,do you have someone you refer
them to, or do you do thatyourself, or how does that?
Speaker 3 (33:02):
work At this point in time.
We take care of our parents too.
Um they're the only people.
Honestly I'll be totally honestwith you, scott the only people
who feel really awkward in ouroffice are single men.
Because they come in andthey're like everyone is either
pregnant or has a baby or islike in a couple that is
(33:22):
actively trying to have a babyin this office.
So they kind of walk in andthey're like, um, it feels like
I'm not supposed to be here andwe've actually been asked by men
.
Often they're like do you seemen?
Because, like, I was referredand I would really like to see
you, um, but it feels like thisisn't the place for me.
(33:44):
I will usually see them.
I don't enjoy turning peopleaway.
I will see them.
But some people have foundthey're like I don't mean this
in a terrible way, but is thereanyone you can refer me to?
Because this just doesn't feellike I like the aspect of
chiropractic, this just does notfeel like the fit for me, which
(34:05):
is totally fine.
Speaker 2 (34:06):
Have you made a lot of good connections in the
chiropractic community inChattanooga.
Speaker 3 (34:11):
Oh yeah, like chiropractic is one of the most
amazing fields, because, becausewe all think a little bit
differently, right, we're allfriends.
So people will say like, ohwell, I used to see this doctor
and now I see, you know, now Iwant to come see you and I'm
usually like, oh yeah, likewe've talked about that like you
(34:32):
know, like, yeah, like wefigured you were gonna come over
because, like, most of us arefriends and like we know that
there are people that don't jivewith us.
You know, like there's there'sthere's personalities for every
situation and like sometimesthey're just, they're just
people.
That it's like you like theconcept, but you just you don't
jive very well with me.
You might jive with like sevenof my other friends in town, but
(34:53):
it's just not me.
So yeah, we talk about it often.
We actually really love whenpeople jump from like our
friends offices to anotherfriend, because then I can talk
to them and I know exactly howyour care was going, exactly how
you've been progressing, likewe can co-manage it together and
make sure that you have asmooth transition.
I mean, we always want peopleto be comfortable, so, yeah, we
(35:14):
have tons of people to refer tobecause, yeah, we're all friends
.
Speaker 2 (35:17):
Dr Rye.
I always like to ask thisquestion before we wrap up a
podcast, regardless of the typeof business or practice that it
is.
If there was one thing that youwish our listeners knew about
the heart of Dr Rye and SkylineChiropractic, about the heart of
(35:40):
you and your business, but theyprobably wouldn't know unless
you share it with them and you'dlike know, share it today, loud
and proud, on the good neighborpodcast.
What would that be?
Speaker 3 (35:52):
Oh man, that's a really good question.
Um, you know, I think for us andI'm going to speak for my
husband too, cause he's usuallylike the spokesperson of our
office, and I'm going to speakfor my husband too, because he's
usually like the spokespersonof our office OK, I would say
(36:12):
it's that we just we have aheart for the kids in our
community, you know, and thekids of the future.
I think.
I think we are seeing now,because we have so much access
to social media, we are able toreally see how the world is
progressing on a generationalstage, are able to really see
how the world is progressing ona generational stage, and I
think this is the first time inlife, you know, in human
existence, that we've reallybeen able to see that, because
we can see multiple generationsinteract with each other and we
(36:34):
can see the way that they aregoing to commit to the world.
And I think that that has justincreased our passion to say,
like we need to take care of ourkids, because our kids turn
into the people that are goingto take care of us, and so, if
we're going to pass the torchalong to them, because, you know
, this is actually the firstgeneration of kids that I don't
(36:57):
know if you know this, scottthat is not expected to have a
longer life expectancy than thegeneration previously no, I
didn't know that Wow.
So this is the first generationof kids that have a shorter life
expectancy than their parents.
So if we continue to down thattrend, we would get to a point
(37:18):
where parents were outlivingtheir children by decades.
Oh wow, we got to a point whereyour parents were outliving
children by decades.
We got to a point where yourparents were outliving children
by decades.
The human race will not survive.
I mean, frankly, like you cantell, I look at things from a
biological perspective.
If we got to that point,generation after generation
after generation, we have nomore humans Right, and so we
(37:40):
need radical change, like thereis something we have to do to
make big changes in our kids sothat we can take that trajectory
and move it back to where it'ssupposed to be.
Before this generation, beforeGen Alpha, every generation
previously had been expected orhad a longer life expectancy
than the generation previously.
Like right, like Gen X has, Ithink their life expectancy was
(38:03):
in the 80s and baby boomers werein the 70s, and then
millennials it's like mid 80s,and then, you know, gen Z was
like mid 90s and then Gen A nowis like, I think, mid 80s or
something like that again.
So it's I mean, it's not a hugetrend difference in this, like
in this particular generation,but, holy cow, if we don't make
(38:24):
a change soon, that's a problem.
That's a big problem movingforward, and so we're just so
passionate about kids and makingsure they get a good start to
life, because you just neverknow where that's going to go.
Sometimes I wonder you know,like I made an adjustment on my
daughter and it was thedifference between life or death
, but how do I know that I'm notadjusting?
(38:44):
I mean, we're in a, we're closeto an election.
How do I know I'm not adjustingthe next president of the
United States?
How do I know I'm not adjustingthe next, the next Supreme
Court member?
How do I know that I'm notadjusting the next CEO of a big
company that that makes hugedecisions for our economy?
Like, how do I know that that'snot the brain that I'm clearing
(39:06):
out in that moment?
We have no idea.
We have to create that potentialfor our kids to make sure that
the world that we've createdcontinues to function.
So it's a big deal, it's a bigresponsibility.
Speaker 2 (39:18):
Good point.
Wow, that's a.
That's a.
I didn't know that, I hadn'theard that.
That's, it's kind of eyeopening.
But you're right, I mean, andI'm glad there's people out
there like yourself that arefocused on children, because you
know, the children are innocentvictims of, of even even
neglect that is not intended,intentional neglect, you know,
(39:42):
and so they are those innocentvictims intentional neglect, you
know, and so they are thoseinnocent victims.
You know, I've thought aboutbefore, you know, the big debate
about seatbelt laws.
You know why should I be forcedto do something as an adult?
But then, when it comes toputting babies in car seats, we
call it in those car seats, andyou see that, because they can't
(40:04):
protect themselves.
Right, they can't protectthemselves.
So nobody argues that point.
You know, although when I was akid there wasn't such thing as
a car seats, you know my motherwas the seatbelt, you know right
.
Speaker 3 (40:15):
Exactly.
Speaker 2 (40:20):
But yeah so.
But you know, I reallyappreciate you today.
You, you've been fabulous andso explanatory, but in a real
fun way as well.
You know, getting across toeveryone.
And when you, when you say, Iguess if I take away anything
from this, that it's that you'removing to interference.
That's one thing that juststands out to me.
When you said that, I thought,wow, what a wonderful way of
(40:41):
describing what you do.
And before before we leave herefor just a moment, I want you
to take the time to tell peoplehow to contact you or, if they
want to find out more about youonline or offline, spread the
word here.
Speaker 3 (40:57):
Absolutely so if you want to learn more about
anything that I talked abouttoday, a bunch of that is on our
website, which iswwwgoskychicom, so
G-O-S-K-Y-C-H-Icom, I am workingon improving our social media
presence.
So you know I'm not a big fanof social media.
(41:19):
I really struggle with it, butI am working on improving our
presence.
So at Sky Chi Chat you can findus on Facebook, Instagram and
Threads I think is a new one I'mworking on.
So yeah, and on our website.
It actually has a really greatplace where you can schedule a
consultation with me.
(41:39):
Those are totally free.
It really just helps us figureout if we're the right place for
you or if if this is even theappropriate next step for you.
Um, so if anybody is justwondering, like, hey, I don't
know if that really fits me, ormy kid, or, um, if that's the
office for me, but if you couldhelp me find the office for me,
um, we love serving ourcommunity in that way.
So you can just schedule aconsult for me, and those are 15
(42:02):
minutes and we can chat abouteverything that has to do with
your life, you know as much aswe can get in 15 minutes where
are you located?
we are located at 6025 leehighway, so if pretty much
everybody in chattanooga knowswhere sam's club is, we are in
the business park, the executivebusiness park, right next to
sam's club okay, okay, greatgood location, too Easy to find
(42:26):
yeah.
Yeah, right in the middle ofthe city.
Speaker 2 (42:28):
Well, Dr Rye, it has been a pleasure talking to you
today and hearing all about youand what you do and your family
and your daughter.
That was an amazing story andthank you for just going into
all the detail that you didtoday.
I know that people are going toenjoy listening to this episode
(42:48):
, especially if they havechildren or grandchildren, or
even anticipating havingchildren in the future.
So thank you for all this goodinformation.
Speaker 3 (42:56):
Oh, thank you, Scott.
Thank you for having me, it wasreally fun.
Speaker 2 (42:59):
It was my pleasure and to all the good people, all
the good neighbors out there inthe greater Chattanooga region.
You know, after listening to DrRye explain, you know Skyline
Chiropractic and what she doesand how she goes about doing it,
and I mean, couldn't you just alot of y'all are only hearing
this through audio, but couldn'tyou just hear her passion for
(43:20):
what she does?
I mean, if you those of you whowill see the shorts, reels and
clips you'll see that passion aswell, but but you know, there
is such a passion in what shedoes and the story of her, her
daughter, just wow.
I mean wow, that's all I cansay about this episode.
Wow, it's just such a blessingto know that there's people like
(43:43):
Dr Rye out here in thecommunity serving your children
and serving you as well.
So I know she hopes that you'll, you know, take a moment to
consider what she does, what shehas to offer and, you know, to
schedule that initial consultand give her a chance to explain
and talk and you know, and see,maybe see your child as well,
(44:04):
to explain and talk and maybesee your child as well.
However, all that goes with yourconsult, and I would like to
also stop for a moment and justthank all of you listeners out
there for taking the time out ofyour day and listening to the
Good Neighbor podcast.
Always remember to support thelocally owned and operated
businesses in the greaterChattanooga region.
(44:26):
As I always like to say, fromCleveland to Dalton, from Jasper
to Benton, it's a beautifulplace here in this great, this
greater Chattanooga region, andlet's all do all we can to
support our local businesses.
Everyone, go out, try today andtry to make this a remarkable
day.
Speaker 1 (44:44):
Thank you for listening to the Good Neighbor
Podcast.
To nominate your favorite localbusinesses to be featured on
the show, go to gnpclevelandcom.
That's gnpclevelandcom, or call423-380-1984.
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