My Mission Statement

Back in May of 2024, 131 days ago, I wrote out a mission statement for my Free to Feel Healthy project. What is this project? Ultimately, I hope to have a non-profit to help serve the underserved. Instead, I decided to start first by providing musculoskeletal treatments and movement empowerment training as a private practitioner to the wonderful people of the Santa Cruz community. And in about a month, I will be starting my adventure of providing continuing education training to chiropractors and hopefully other healthcare providers once or twice a month. That's what's happening now and what's on my horizon. 

I thought that I was going to get the keys to my vision quest of an office on October 1st and that I’d have to wait until October 8th to start providing treatments to my patients. However, today, I was very surprised when the property manager handed over a set of keys to my very own office. This is a big deal. I’ve been a professor and worked predominantly with the 23-26 year-old cohort for almost 2.5 decades. And now, I am going to be a woman-owned business of something I’ve never seen, a chiropractic office and healing haven that serves as an empowerment center for patients and fellow chiropractors. I visualized my place looking like a yoga studio, simple, soothing, rejuvenating, and supportive. I saw a wide space, wooden floors, uncluttered walls, and warm daylight lighting. Later the corners of my room will have tall plants and there will be some equipment here in there, but my goal is to keep it open and airy. Today, I was able to see this lovely office in its pristine state matching my every visualization. The 4000 kelvin LED lights bring a soothing energy to the room replacing the 1970s fluorescent lights hanging by chains from the ceiling. The ceiling has been brightened with a fresh coat of paint giving way to a clean sweep energy of brightness and new horizons. And the flooring is a perfect look to fill my desire to have a blond wood floor look. I am so happy. My dream is coming true.

A Space to Find your Calm

Simple, soothing, rejuvenating, and supportive. A haven. A place to come to be cared for and to care for yourself.

Yesterday, I thought I should probably have a blog on my new website that I've enjoyed creating. Hopefully all the users have enjoyed the simplicity of the website and its serenity without a lot of drop-down menus and flashing ads and so on. However, let’s not talk about what is absent, let's talk about what is. I am happy to have created a website that is easy for people to navigate and to hopefully easily gain the content they're seeking. I also hope that it serves well to provide my current and future patients with knowledge about what I intend to provide to them and their friends and family. So back to my thought of what I should write in my first blog. I managed to come up with a good idea. I love serendipity. I love synchronicity. So, after I thought to myself and put a request out to the Universe, I randomly and completely by accident opened up my mission statement from May 13th, 2024.

I hope this mission statement helps you understand my love for my profession and for helping people feel better.

What is Our Mission Statement?

To provide quality chiropractic care (diagnosis, treatment, and home care) at an accessible price. 

What does a rehabilitative chiropractor provide?

A rehabilitative chiropractor is not only able to differentially diagnose musculoskeletal problems as well as rule in or out issues that need outside referral but is also able to provide a patient and condition specific treatment regime of massage, adjustments, adjunct physiotherapies, active care, and home exercise programs. 

The rehabilitative chiropractic evaluation uses a combination of orthopedic and movement assessments in order to determine the patient's mechanical musculoskeletal advantages and disadvantages. This is to discern their movement capabilities (what gives them relief) and to make note of what activities of daily living they should avoid or modify at any specific moment of the healing continuum.

Chiropractic adjustments, when appropriately applied in a manner that is patient specific and meets the patient’s mechanical needs, allows for the restoration of appropriate mechanical function of the patient's dynamic and musculoskeletal system.

Frequently, in spite of excellent physical therapy instruction including rehabilitative exercises and stretches, patients do not feel better. Without appropriately restoring the normal mechanical patterns of the joints, the exercises and stretches are not adequate and may be destined to fail. Seeing the chiropractor will help with the mechanics of movement. It’s like straightening the spokes on the wheel of a bike, it makes the tire roll more smoothly. 

The main message I frequently share with students, friends, and patients is the following message: Remember, pay attention to what you feel. Find your confidence to try movements and positions that will yield you comfort. It takes persistence and a team of support including your own support to get yourself feeling fantastic again.

So, with that I excitedly embark on this new adventure. I look forward to all of the wonderful people I will meet along the way. I'm grateful for all the people who have helped me get here so far. This is just the beginning, and I know there is so much potential.

Sincerely, Dr. Lew, rehabilitative chiropractor and life enthusiast