As a chiropractor with many years of experience, I am committed to promoting the health and well-being of my patients. If you live in Georgetown, Ridgefield, Redding, Wilton or Weston please consider Georgetown Chiropractic to be your neighborhood chiropractic and wellness center. I use a "whole person approach" when taking care of my patients. Two different people with the same symptoms can have them for completely different reasons and should not necessarily be treated the same. We are all unique! By combining the very best evaluation methods and hands-on-techniques with state of the art rehabilitation (stretching and exercise) and physiotherapy procedures, I can help you accelerate your journey to pain relief, a return to your favorite activities, and good health
A Little More About Dr. Fox
As a child in Brooklyn, if asked what I wanted to be my answer was “I don’t know” or “baseball player…explorer...astronaut…fireman” depending on my age. In other words, I had no idea. My parents and teachers said I could become anything I wanted to be. Great, but so much to choose from! Eventually, I went to S.U.N.Y. Stony Brook, majored in biology and thought of becoming a marine biologist “I like water…love to swim and snorkel…already a lifeguard in the summer. Besides, Stony Brook had a Marine Biology program in Jamaica!” Unfortunately, by the time I could apply, S.U.N.Y. used the Marine Biology money to send language students to France. Come to think of it, I wasn’t ready to devote myself to studying lovely little sea creatures. This soon made me a Bachelor of Sciences in biology without a career goal.
This period grew into several years of travel with work as a lifeguard and New York City taxi driver to support myself. I did yoga, calisthenics, played basketball and walked daily, felt in tremendous health and believed fully the yoga saying, “the key to good health is a well aligned, flexible spine.” I found movement of any kind to be beneficial to me. In Berkeley, California I met an 80-year-old retired nurse who told me that as a 25-year-old new nurse she worked for an elderly doctor who was a great healer. Before dying, he held her hands, looked into her eyes, blessed her and passed his healing power on. She then took my hands in hers, looked me in the eyes and said she was ready to pass her healing power to me.
Back in New York several months later I realized I wanted a career, but the inevitable question arose, “What?” I knew a well aligned, flexible spine was crucial to good health, had a biology degree and hands perhaps blessed with healing power. I also knew movement was healing. If I could fit that together, I’d be on to something. A local chiropractor began a series of radio ads explaining that chiropractic was a hands-on, drugless, non-surgical method healing method. He said it works by moving vertebrae to take stress off the spine, improve nerve flow, and allow the body to heal itself. Something clicked! Chiropractic was like doing yoga on people to help them recover from injury and improve their health.
From that moment on my path was set. I attended the National College of Chiropractic, did well in my studies and have been a chiropractor ever since. I have come to truly respect what chiropractic can do for people. Most often people come to see me with headaches, neck pain and stiffness, shoulder/arm pain, whiplash from car accidents, backaches, sciatica pain, numbness in the arms or legs, athletic injuries and chronic pain of many years’ duration.
While all hands-on care is therapeutic, I don’t only rely on touch to help people. For 20 years in my post-graduate studies, I have pursued many treatment methods. I use soft tissue work (myofascial release, active release, trigger point work) and methods which improve nervous system communication with the body (neuromuscular re-education, somatic, analysis and treatment methods of Vladimir Janda, M.D.). I love to teach people simple rehabilitative stretches and exercise (movement!) to help correct their problems. This gives me the ability to help people post-injury or with long term chronic problems to a greater extent than just by adjusting them and using physical therapy modalities. In practice I teach and encourage people to become and stay healthy. I emphasize a healthy lifestyle through chiropractic, good nutrition, movement, and a positive mental attitude (having fun is good for us too!) I believe good health is our natural birthright, achievable for most people.
Way back in 2005 I completed the Certified Chiropractic Sports Practitioner program offered through New York Chiropractic College. This is the same program all chiropractors who work with Olympic athletes take. It’s a fantastic program and has been an invaluable experience for me in treating patients.
Fortunately, before going to chiropractic school I met Charlene while I was working as a lifeguard in a summer camp in Beacon, New York. Charlene is a talented artist, as you can see by a quick look at my office. Together we have four sons: Isaac, David, Josh and Marcus.
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