MEET DOCTOR
Alaina Gelineau

I started chiropractic school because I was fascinated with the body and how it functions. I have long believed in the fundamental idea that, given the right circumstances, the body can and will heal itself. This tenet is the basic premise of chiropractic and the reason I chose it as my profession.

A year before I was to finish school, I became pregnant with my first son, Jack. We had a very challenging labor and after he was born I started to notice that he had certain persistent postures that were not resolving with traditional chiropractic care.

When he was two, he was not sick for three weeks out of the whole year. He caught pretty much any germ that drifted in his direction, and they all tended to settle into his ears. He ruptured each of his ear drums due to recurring infections. When he was four, we enrolled him in soccer. He couldn’t run very fast and got winded very easily. He literally couldn’t run very well because of the way his body was aligned.

I felt powerless as I watched him grow. Even with the tools and training I had, I couldn’t help him. I took him to several other chiropractors over the years, but the way his body was growing he was on a one way road towards a pretty significant scoliosis. I started to lose faith in the very profession I had chosen as my life work.