Introducing Richmond Chiropractor Dr. Franklin Luke
Chiropractic care is a lifestyle choice. It is more than healing an ailment. It is a natural approach to healthcare. Chiropractic adjustments help to improve your overall health and well-being. Often, we think of visiting a doctor when we are sick. However, chiropractic care assists individuals to improve their current health as well as to prevent future problems. Chiropractic is focused on the nervous system, the most important system in the body. The spinal cord and brain are the only parts of the body totally incased in bone for protection. A healthy nervous system is imperative for the body to function properly. It must operate at peak performance to ensure that the messages from the brain will be sent through the nerves without interference. This is the reason that doctors of chiropractic check for vertebral subluxations. A subluxation is a misalignment of the vertebrae. When left uncorrected, subluxations will not only slow and skew communication from the brain to the body but may lead to numbness, pain or other illness. Regular chiropractic care is essential to ensuring that the nervous system functions properly. Chiropractic adjustments remove nervous system interference enabling the body to better manage stress and maintain health.
In a football game while still in high school, Dr. Luke suffered an injury that caused him to have difficulty rotating his neck. He developed headaches, nausea and vomiting. A family friend recommended that Dr. Luke seek chiropractic care. Not only did chiropractic care heal his injury, Dr. Luke was able to participate and play on his football team once again.
Later, Dr. Luke served in the US Marine Corps for five years. He completed overseas assignments in Bosnia and Sierra Leone. Following his military duty, he worked as an aircraft technician for Quintiles, a Fortune 500 company, to support his undergraduate studies at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology. Always wanting to be a doctor from his high school days, he applied to the Cleveland Chiropractic College in Kansas City, Missouri, and graduated cum laude in 2005. While in school, an extra focus was placed on wellness and lifestyle factors in order to care for his patients many faceted needs.
Upon graduation, he accepted an internship at the Virginia Institute Chiropractic in Charlottesville, Virginia, working under Dr. Chadwick Hawk. After receiving his license, he was hired as an Associate Doctor serving patients in Charlottesville and Farmville. He worked for this practice until opening his own office in Richmond, Virginia.
Dr. Luke is passionate about helping individuals and families to learn to live better and work in a more productive way. Health and wellness are the cornerstones that will empower individuals to make a difference in their own lives as well as others. River City Chiropractic will provide care that will allow the body to experience new vitality. This care will focus on providing chiropractic adjustments, nutritional advice and education about lifestyle stressors.
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