Spotlight Series

Guest Name: Dr. Matthew Roller

Credentials: DC – Kids Only Chiropractic

Dr. Matthew Roller: Thank you. I’m glad to be here.

Dr. Betty DeLass: Yeah what made you decide to be a chiropractor?

Dr. Matthew Roller: Well I was raised naturally um my mom always used homeopathics and and other and Chiropractic and other things to help keep us well and uh I originally wanted to be an ethnobotanist I was going to go be go out in the rainforest and find the cure to cancer uh but quickly realized that wasn’t going to meet my other goal of having a lot of kids and raising them in kind of a semi-normal way and uh I was in a bad auto accident I got T-boned and spun around my car around and up over a curb and into a tree in a fence and I went to uh I had a real horrible headache worst ever had in my life I went to a um the meds Medics and they’re like well uh here’s your drugs and I’m like well I don’t take drugs and like well nothing we can do for you so I went to a chiropractor and you got me way better I’m like wow this is really cool I can meet my natural healing goal and also you know help lots of people at the same time and raise my kids in in a city situation so.

Dr. Betty DeLass: Amazing love that hey what makes you and your practice different?

Dr. Matthew Roller: Well you know the only practice I know of in in Utah or the West that specializes in just taking care of kids and pregnant moms you know if the dads want care it’s uh Sorry Charlie there’s lots of adult chiropractors lots of them hundreds um but there’s only one of me and so you know there there’s other people that specialize and you know taking care the whole families but we don’t have time we’ve got too many kids and pregnant moms need care.

Dr. Betty DeLass: Awesome awesome okay and obviously that kind of leads to the next question of who’s an ideal fit for you.

Dr. Matthew Roller: Ideal fit is uh you know I love when Moms come in a lot get a lot of referrals from midwives um because one it makes their job easier um but the the the mom one becomes to and then if they continue care that becomes more and more and so I love I love taking care of moms and helping them through that Journey uh right from the beginning um even before they’re pregnant I can I can do an exam doing things I’ve I’ve caught things that would really important to know during pregnancy um and we’re able to resolve those situations and so they you know I’d love to see moms um and then we take care of kids you know I see a lot of babies um and I’ll I’ll sit on my at my table and moms will just hand me a baby after a baby after a baby it’s it’s a lot of fun uh we help with toric callus and and other things but a lot of fun.

Dr. Betty DeLass: Awesome awesome okay and then what does the process look like to work with you?

Dr. Matthew Roller: Uh so the it’s really simple we usually have same day appointments because I have a really strong feeling that uh it’s important to take care of people when they need care um and so we’ll stay late we’ll stay early we’ll come early um I see a lot of new patrons every day um and allow them not to I don’t I don’t I don’t believe in waiting lists I I believe uh that you know people need care when they need care and so they just give a call uh or text and we can get them right in usually and um that’s how it works it’s pretty easy.

Dr. Betty DeLass: Awesome okay and then in the grand scheme of things with pregnancy and postpartum what does recovery look like and what does that lens through the work that you do?

Dr. Matthew Roller: Yeah so you know you’ve got the relax and hormone going through your system for the next three you know three-ish months and it takes all that time to everything tighten back up and if I can get things lined up and it tightens in the right place you don’t become that Mom that’s like oh ever since that kid I’ve had this problem and so I love working with moms after delivery um and if they’re open to having more kids then they can stay on board with me but uh if they’re not then they go to adult chiropractor.

Dr. Betty DeLass: Gotcha awesome okay and then what’s something that most people don’t know that you think that they should know about either Chiropractic you health and wellness any anything and anything just give us a tidbit nugget that we can take.

Dr. Matthew Roller: Yeah well a lot of people don’t realize that when you come out of chiropractic school you know nothing about taking care of kids or pregnant moms for that matter um it’s training that happens after chiropractic school so you come out of school being able to take care of um geriatrics and and adults and things like that but the the the things that really are important for taking care of babies and kids and pregnant moms like the Webster technique um are not taught in in typically in schools once in a while they might have a class that they take you know off off campus while they’re a student but in general your adult caror does not know how to take care of pregnant moms and kids unless they’ve become certified and takes years of training after to do to do that.

Dr. Betty DeLass: Yeah that’s a great great piece of advice there okay um is there anything special that you want to promote to the audience here that’s watching?

Dr. Matthew Roller: Um nothing really I’m real simple I it’s it’s uh my pricing is very very uh low and it’s almost at cost and the reason why is because we’re on a mission to take care of many kids as possible and we do we see a lot of kids and which you know solves two things you know the reason why I do that is because I used to be just like the other Pediatric Care Proctors were several thousand um for a care plan uh which is totally reasonable it totally is and totally worth it but there’d be that one kid gets so much better but be four more in the lobby and I’m like what about them let’s get them checked like we can’t afford it and you know that just ripped my heartstrings out and I said no we’re going to fix that and we did and so we have one simple price that’s all the kids in the family regardless of how many it is because we want them all to get care.

Dr. Betty DeLass: That’s amazing that’s awesome thank you for sharing that and thank you for your passion through that um okay my favorite question is what do you want to be known for?

Dr. Matthew Roller: Uh what do I want to know know the baby Whisperer I guess I’m a baby Whisperer they’re like so I was I was out of gathering um and there were s several midwives there and she one one Midwife who I hadn’t met yet had her toddler in her arms and I came over to say hello and they she turned around and the toddler jumped into my arms and held me for about five minutes oh that is who I am I love babies I love kids they know it they feel it people bring their kids in they’re like they’re gonna be scared I’m like well they’re not gonna be scared with you not with me.

Dr. Betty DeLass: It’s like almost similar to like a dog right like you like dogs know if you like dogs or you don’t like dogs they like it’s like babies know it’s know.

Dr. Matthew Roller: Yeah yeah they know 100%.

Dr. Betty DeLass: Cool okay where can we find more information about you where’s your website social media all things like that how can we find you?

Dr. Matthew Roller: Sure I we have a great social media presence um I’m having a lot of fun with that uh we’ve kind of blown up and I’m like what the heck is happening here but it’s Kids Only Chiropractic uh if you go to the uh Tik Tok YouTube whatever your favorite one is I’ve got it set up to automatically retransmit among all the social medias even Pinterest um but so you just go in there search for Kids Only Chiropractic you will find us because we’re the only one uh that’s Kids Only Chiropractic um trademark um and uh so they kids only cpr.com um were’re pretty easy to find and pretty easy to contact you know when people send me text messages it goes to me and any hour of the day and I I answer those.

Dr. Betty DeLass: That’s amazing wow thank you so much this been a pleasure get jump into all the fun things with you Dr. Roller thank you for your service in our community and we look forward to seeing you soon.

Dr. Matthew Roller: Yeah thank you very much I appr appreciate the work you do and and uh it’s been wonderful working with you thank you thanks.