About Dr. Van Wagner

I became a chiropractor in the same way most people become patients.  Most chiropractic patients have some condition that they have found is not being helped by traditional methods.   While I was in school, on my way to becoming a physical therapist, my wife, Nichole, woke up one morning and couldn't move her neck and was in a ton of  pain.  We went to the hospital, and after medications and waiting a week, she wasn't any better.  Her friend told her about a chiropractor, we reluctantly went thinking it was not going to help, but didn't know what else to do.  We were amazed.  After one adjustment she was back to normal without the use of any medications, or other invasive treatment.  I was taken back.  I saw medicine fail, and was amazed at how easy it was to fix the problem without it.  You see, she had a misalignment in her neck that started some really bad motion patterns in her vertebrae.  The muscles had had enough and the only thing it could do was completely seize up and stop moving.  It was a condition called acute torticollis. It didn't need medication, it just needed to start moving correctly again.  I immediately looked up the best chiropractic college and began the process of applying and taking classes necessary to start the program in the fall.  

In school I realized that chiropractic was not just for people in pain, but for achieving a better, more optimally working nervous system.  In doing so, the body works more efficiently at every process it is doing.  I knew right away that this was my path!  My passion lies in empowering people to achieve a more optimal health status without the use of drugs and surgery, to give options to patients with complex health conditions that need more than one treatment type, and to support the efforts of individuals already practicing wellness.  If you are sick and tired of being sick and tired, see a chiropractor, it could change your life.