I have had a history of severe neck problems and quite a bit of lower back situations since my late teens (I am now in my middle forties), and have attended many chiropractic clinics throughout that time all over the world as we travel a lot with my husbands job. We had arrived in California for a temporary stay of a year, and I had been in the country only ten days when I had the most chronic neck pain I had ever had. My neck had locked solid and it was as if my head had become too heavy for my neck to support. (It was not due to the amount of brains I was carrying either). Being so new here, I did not have a clue who to turn to, and my husband very luckily picked The Irvine Family Chiropractic telephone number out of the yellow pages.

Dr. Shakib very kindly fitted me in as I was in so much pain and began to assess the damage. She took an x-ray, no-one had ever done that before, and I was given comprehensive treatment for the relief of the major pain. Over the next few months she set about putting right years of damage, even using massage to put right muscles etc. The most amazing thing to me was that Dr. Shakib, having acknowledged that I have had a lot of trouble over so many years, gave me a series of neck muscle exercises that I had to do at least 30 minutes per day in order to prevent this happening again. No-one had ever suggested that there was a way of preventing the recurring trouble; I have faithfully done these exercises and I honestly feel for the first time in years, I may just beat this debilitiation condition that has "dogged" my every sleeping and waking moment.

More than that, Dr. Cocks and Kara as well as Dr. Shikab have taken a perfect stranger and welcomed me to their "chiropractic family", and that has been very special to me. Without doubt I would recommend this practice to any one.

Pam Gooderham
Turtle Rock
Irvine.

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