An interview with a chiropractor on Your Life Arizona. Two chiropractors from AFC Chiropractic, a Phoenix-based & holistic chiropractic clinic, are interviewed by Your Life Arizona about how they help people living with chronic pain and ongoing conditions with a holistic, highly customized treatment plan.
Suzanne:
Suffer from daily pain? There is a way to get relief and live life to the fullest. Here to tell us how is Dr. Kevin Wall and Dr. Jennifer Hernandez with AFC Physical Medicine & Chiropractic Centers. Good morning, you two. Great to see you.
Dr. Jennifer Hernandez:
Good morning.
Dr. Kevin Wall:
Good morning.
Suzanne:
Dr. Wall, let me start with you. Why do so many people suffer in pain needlessly?
Dr. Kevin Wall:
Well, Suzanne, thank you for having us on, but I don't think people are suffering needlessly. They just don't know what to do. They've tried things. They've went the typical routes of medication and surgery, and they've just not got answers, and they became hopeless. And what they need to know is that there's a cause of their problem. There's a reason they got sick. There's something that happened, and they need someone that can sit down with them, face to face, and actually figure that out, become a private investigator and really find out what was the cause, when did this start and get to the root of the problem. If you can get to the root of the problem, you're going to find solutions.
Suzanne:
And we have a patient that you treated that knows firsthand how you got to the root of the problem. Let's listen.
Lindsay:
I've suffered from migraines for most of my life. And after going to many different doctors and trying different treatments, I just wasn't seeing the results. I was referred to AFC Physical Medicine, and after just a few short visits, I wasn't only symptom free, I understood the root cause of what was causing the issue. Thanks to AFC Physical Medicine, I'm completely migraine free and it's changed my life forever.
Suzanne:
That is absolutely amazing. Dr. Hernandez, let me ask you, what is the trend right now in healthcare?
Dr. Jennifer Hernandez:
Yeah, the trend right now in health healthcare, just like Lindsay was saying, they're seeing multiple providers, are on multiple medications that are causing underlying conditions they're not aware of. I am seeing though that patients are looking for a more holistic approach. They're looking for a solution and not just something to mask their problem.
Suzanne:
Dr. Wall, how do we change this?
Dr. Kevin Wall:
Well, it's a bit of a daunting task at times. When you look at the trends of healthcare in America, we're getting sicker, we're really not gaining. We got more chronic illness, more heart disease, more diabetes, more obesity, more arthritis, pain, headaches, just like Lindsay, she's a classic illustration of the trend. And the reality is, it starts just one patient at a time though, one office at a time, one doctor at a time where you get to sit down. You can't treat patients as a number. They've got to be dealt with one-on-one, and we've got to dig in to find out, again, where did this thing come from, because there's an answer.
Suzanne:
Dr. Hernandez, who is your typical patient?
Dr. Jennifer Hernandez:
Well, most common patients that people think of are car accidents, back pain and neck pain, but we also see newborn babies for latching difficulties, constipation, colic. We're seeing young children that have anxiety and behavioral issues. We also are seeing kids that are having neck pain and headaches due to being on their cell phones too much. Our current oldest patient is 98, and she comes in for maintenance care because she wants to feel great.
Suzanne:
Exactly. She might be 98, but she wants to feel like she's 48.
Dr. Jennifer Hernandez:
Yup.
Suzanne:
Doctor Wall, what makes AFC so unique in the way that you treat patients?
Dr. Kevin Wall:
Well Doc, I'll let you maybe start with that one.
Dr. Jennifer Hernandez:
Okay. Well, we put our heart and soul into every patient. When you walk through the front door, you are an AFC family member. We're looking at you as an individual and not as a number.
Dr. Kevin Wall:
On top of that, we've been around the Valley for 27 years. We're here, we're dug in communities and we're here to stay, but we have a team approach. We have medical providers, chiropractic physicians, massage therapists, nutrition. We're going to look at the patient from a whole perspective. And as I say, we get to the root of the problem. We're going to do probably the most thorough consultation the patient's ever had, most thorough exam, and we're going to find solutions.
Suzanne:
And tell us about your special offer.
Dr. Kevin Wall:
Well, the one thing we know is people don't know where to go, they don't know what to do, and they often do nothing. Ultimately, we were going to try to remove that barrier. For $20.00, You can come into one of our clinics. We have eight of them throughout the Valley, and get an exam, a very thorough consultation. You're going to meet with our medical provider, our chiropractic physician, and we're going to sit down and see if we can find a solution. If we can help you, we'll let you know. But on top of that, we're going to charge $20.00 For that, and we're going to take that $20.00, and we're going to help an organization called Save the Family. They help women and families who've been abused or been in domestic situations. They provide housing. And so, we can help them and also get a chance to see if we can help some of your listeners and find solutions.
Suzanne:
So people don't have to live in pain. Dr. Wall, Dr. Hernandez, thank you so much.
Dr. Jennifer Hernandez:
Thank you.
Suzanne:
And if you want to learn more about everything we just talked about, you can visit their website, AFCmed.com or call the number you see right there on your screen.