Animal Chiropractic

Yesterday, toward the end of my workday, I received a frantic call from my husband. Julia’s right eye had popped out and was bleeding.

Chrissy taught me that loving an animal sometimes means fighting for more time—and sometimes it means listening when they tell us they have had enough.

They Weren’t Done Yet

Atlas was an 18-month-old Red Angus steer raised by AM PM Farms in Fountain Inn. Through a partnership with the farm, I had the opportunity to provide chiropractic care for him from July through October.

In February 2026, I traveled to Nebraska for the Life West Nexus Conference.

The Longest Ten Minutes of My Life

What Happens When You Adjust the Chickens? In May 2025, I decided to explore a question most people had probably never considered: Would eggs from chiropractically adjusted chickens test differently from other eggs? As an animal chiropractor, I had already seen changes in the movement, behavior, and overall function of animals receiving chiropractic care. That made me curious about whether supporting the health of laying hens could somehow be reflected in the eggs they produc

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The American Veterinary Chiropractic Association is the primary national credentialing organization for animal chiropractic in North America.

Farm Animals Have Spines Too When people hear the words “animal chiropractic,” they often picture a dog or horse receiving an adjustment. But what about cattle, goats, sheep, pigs, and poultry? Farm animals have spines, joints, muscles, and nervous systems too. They also place considerable physical demands on their bodies. They navigate uneven ground, step in and out of trailers, interact with herd mates, breed, give birth, and repeatedly travel between their shelter, pasture

When the Adjustment Isn’t Enough

We were told that he had a broken leg. Because he was so young and potentially injured, the shelter would only allow me to handle him because I am an animal chiropractor. The moment I held him, I knew there was something special about this little kitten. In fact, Jacques received his very first adjustment while we were still sitting in the shelter’s waiting room, completing the paperwork to bring him home. It was the beginning of both his care and his life as part of our fami

She is wild and intense by nature, but she is also incredibly creative. She experiences the world boldly, with a personality that refuses to quietly blend into the background.

As an animal chiropractor—and as Tessie’s mama—this experience was an important reminder: chiropractic care has a valuable place, but it cannot remove a physical obstruction. When an animal continues vomiting, appears painful, becomes unusually quiet, or simply isn’t acting like herself, we have to recognize when she needs veterinary care—and act quickly.

This was happening just as I was beginning my animal-chiropractic education. I was learning more about medications, aging animals, and what chiropractic care could offer as part of a more complete approach.

Before I became an animal chiropractor, I spent three years of my undergraduate education volunteering as a veterinary technician. I worked alongside nine veterinarians in Haywood County, North Carolina, in a practice that treated both large and small animals. No two days were quite the same.

When I first met Biscuit, she was a 13-year-old bird dog whose life had changed after one trip down the stairs. About a year and a half earlier, Biscuit had been chasing geese at her family’s lake house when she injured herself going down the steps. After that, she stopped walking. She was also struggling with skin and gut issues, and her family was watching their beloved senior dog lose the strength and independence she once had. At 13 years old, it would have been easy to a

When Zolani arrived at the rescue, he was emaciated. At 15 years old, this gelding had already lived a great deal of life, but his body showed the effects of everything he had endured. The volunteers at the rescue began caring for him and helping him regain the weight and strength he desperately needed. As Zolani started bouncing back, something else happened: The volunteers fell in love with him. Eventually, they adopted him and gave him a permanent home where he could conti