About Chiropractic for Life:

Chiropractic can answer your questions about...

•What is Optimal Health?

•Where health comes from?

•How your body works?

•What interferes with your health?

•How stress affects your health?

•How to get healthy and stay Healthy?

Chiropractic is about helping your body function optimally.  Chiropractic in not about fixing symptoms or curing disease.  It helps the body achieve and maintain optimal health. 

Barbara Smith DC

From Dramatic Above-Ice Aerials to Chiropractic

In one sense, Dr. Barbara Smith literally “fell” into chiropractic as her chosen career field.

At the age of 9, Barbara decided that she wanted to be a professional figure skater.  With her characteristic enthusiasm and determination, she worked hard to develop her skating until, at only seventeen, her dreams were realized when she earned a role in the Ice Capades. 

Tragically, Barbara suffered a major fall during one of her shows.  While performing a dramatic maneuver forty feet in the air, her safety harness broke and she plummeted to the unforgiving ice below.  Thus, her skating career was prematurely terminated. 

Fortunately, Barbara’s recuperation and reflection period included an excellent series of chiropractic adjustments which helped her to make a complete physical recovery. 

And so, moved by her experiences and sheer determination, the twenty-three-year-old Barbara packed her bags and left for Dalhousie University with the long-term plan of becoming a chiropractor in order to help others just as she had been helped.  It was seven years (and much hard work) that later she received her license to practice from the CMCC.