Spotlight Series

Guest Name: Dr. Taylor Suval

Credentials:  DC – Radical Chiropractic

Dr. Taylor Suval: yes it is true

Dr. Betty DeLass: yes so thank you for being on today and we’re gonna jump right into that first question of like what made you decide to be a chiropractor obviously you were massage therapist first and then went chiropractic so walk us through

Dr. Taylor Suval: yeah yeah well it’s kind of a funny story um um looking back so I was a massage therapist and I got a job working for a local chiropractor downtown um my job was to show up and do massages and then leave right but the chiropractor wanted me to be a little bit more a part of the practice right wanted me to come in and get adjusted and learn about Chiropractic and I didn’t really know anything about it at the time um but I didn’t really want to do that I was like no no thank you I just want to work and leave right and so I didn’t show up for the free appointments that he set for me to come in and was kind of being dodgy and about 6 weeks or so of that he calls me into his office and uh basically said listen um you’re G to be a part of our practice or you’re not and if you’re not then we have to have another conversation so decide what you want to do right and he was actually much nicer about it than that I’m just condensing it down for the sake of the brevity but uh so I was like oh my gosh I’m gonna get fired if I don’t come in and get free adjusting I guess I’ll learn about it so I did I came in I started learning about about it um I got to see the effects of Chiropractic as I’d been there over time and I fell in love with it and decided I wanted to be a chiropractor and so that was how what convinced me to pursue Chiropractic

Dr. Betty DeLass: amazing amazing awesome and then what do you feel like Makes You Different in what you do and how you do things

Dr. Taylor Suval: um well so there’s a couple of things I would I would point out so one I’m a little bit older I got into um Chiropractic after I’d already been a massage therapist and floundered around and tried to figure out what I wanted to do with my life and so I have a little bit more of a mature adult perspective on things than a lot of people do um I think that oftentimes people get lost in the weeds of um like the right way to do thing or this is how it has to be and they don’t take into account the practicalities of life right like I could have a care plan for somebody and this is what you need to do to get better but you know maybe it’s a construction worker who has to work 60 80 hours we to support his family he’s not going to be able to do the things I tell him to do he’s not going to be able to rest and so you just have to merge the Practical with the um realities the situation with the realities of my recommendations right and adjust for that and some people are just like nope these are my recommendations and if he wants it he’ll do it the end um and the other end of the spectrum you have people that are sort of like checked out they just don’t care anymore and it’s like yeah well whatever um and so I think that I really hit the middle of the road right we really care about our patients we want to get see you get better um and we have room for the realities of Life of and and try to make things work given your unique situation whatever whatever that is

Dr. Betty DeLass: awesome awesome so cool okay who would you say would be an ideal fit for someone to come to your practice

Dr. Taylor Suval: so we really really love taking care of pregnant women right and children those are great we love those and then uh we’re really seeing there’s such a huge population of people that suffering from disc issues right um everybody know someone that’s suffering from a disc issue right whether you’re a hardworking laborer whether you are have more sedentary job and you sit right sitting is a new smoking affects all of us terribly right um pregnant women right how many women do you know that suffer sciatica or a disc issue because of as a complication from pregnancy right or after effects uh we just see that so often and it’s really funny how our practice um focus has shifted a little bit to dealing with so much of these disc issues because they’re so common and unfortunately the answers to deal with them are not very good right the answers basically are conservative care manage the pain until you can’t any longer and then surgery right and there’s a lot of steps in that pathway but that’s basically what it is right you start with Chiropractic or physical therapy the disc issue doesn’t get better you move on to pain management um that helps for a little while until it doesn’t and then you have you have to get surgery or you suffer right surgery or suffer those are the two options you’re left with which are not very fun options to have and so we’ve um really focused on trying to actually help solve those issues instead of just sort of put a bandaid on the treatment right come in get adjusted have a nice day come back and see me when it hurts again uh next week right we don’t like those answers

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

Dr. Taylor Suval: so um we’ve really tried to streamline this as much as possible we have and the biggest thing we’ve done is just online forms right so you can do all of our forms when no one likes to do paperwork right you can do it all online so you can do it from home or whenever it’s convenient so that when you show up you don’t have to great you’re here here’s 12 pages of paperwork to fill out right um you know I don’t like doing it I don’t know anyone that likes doing it and so that’s one of the biggest things right is to to paperwork issue and then after that um it’s really simple right you just sort of call and let us know and when we deal with you we see people that come in unexpected all the time we try to be we try to be accommodating because life’s messy

Dr. Betty DeLass: yeah yeah awesome okay and then what in the pregnancy postpartum world of like transitioning into that postpartum time frame what does that look like for recovery for you what like what’s your clinical ethos around recovery postpartum

Dr. Taylor Suval: well so this is a it depends a little bit on the pregnant woman in particular right so we always want to do a a check as soon as possible after uh giving birth because you know the pubis Can line up incorrectly or the hips can be off or um you know you might have a muscular skeletal issue from depending on if what how difficult was the birth or how strenuous right maybe they did some sort of intervention right maybe you had an episiotomy or something and now you’re suffering from those type issues excuse me sorry and the one of the biggest uh issues that we see is the sequela of after giving birth right so it’s not that like your hips are off and that’s like okay a centimeter off that’s not a big deal right well maybe not but you have a little bit of hip pain and then that carries over and you don’t do anything about it for six months a year 18 months now you have knee pain and your feet hurt and your back is hurting all the time because you didn’t get it checked and lined up appropriately after birth right we see that with with women all the time right where and sometimes it’s really simple fixes right it’s like fix put the body where it needs to be and then get out of the way and let it heal and so we recommend that you get checked right away and then we just sort of see right are you getting better or are you getting worse or or are you changing or not right if you’re changing for the better then we really don’t have to do anything maybe we a wellness adjustment and just let your body heal maybe you need some more interventions and then but we don’t know that always right away so we have to see and if you wait until you know a little problem becomes a big problem it’s a lot harder to fix right so that’s what we try and do with recovery is make it as simple and easy as possible

Dr. Betty DeLass: love that love that okay and then what is something that most people don’t know that you think that they should know either about Chiropractic about yourself about health and wellness about birth like anything what’s

Dr. Taylor Suval: well um uh this is I think that this is changing a lot especially after uh you know 2020 and covid and some of the things that are happening now but um chiropractors you know we’re licensed Physicians right we go to grad school we have an equivalent to a medical degree um I did not get a certification at a strip mall right I had someone ask me that um we’re you know we’re real doctors we go to real school we have to have postgraduate education all that type of stuff and so we are equally qualified if not better qualified in some instances to diagnose and treat um muscular skeletal disorders than like an MD you know and as for an example it’d be like like uh x-rays so we take a year of studying x-rays in med school they have like one semester right and if you go to like we regularly see this right where you go to the ER to see if something’s wrong they take an x-ray and say nothing’s broken you’re good well just because something’s broken or not broken rather doesn’t mean that you’re good right there could be lots of stuff that’s wrong that’s not broken in between healthy and broken there’s a lot that can happen there and we regularly see things that people have missed because I look at x-rays on almost every patient that I see I’m examining x-rays I’m looking to see if things are lined up appropriately are things shifted when they’re not supposed to be it can be not broken and still be injured and we just see that all the time and um people sort of have this idea that oh I went to the emergency room or I had an MD that said it was fine looked at it they might look at one x-ray a year or a month we look at you know dozens a day sometimes you know and it’s uh so it’s all about specificity right if you have a heart issue like you need a valve replaced you want to go to the guy that does heart valves M yeah you don’t go to your general guy that just yeah I’ll do surgery on whatever nobody wants to go to that guy you want to go to the guy that does the one valve all day long that you need done and it’s kind of the same idea if you have a a spinal issue or muscular skeletal issue you want to go to somebody that deals with those all the time that’s a specialist in those right you don’t want to go to someone say I can do that well do you do it regularly you specialize in it how many people do you see just because you see one a month doesn’t might not be the best fit right same for us right

Dr. Betty DeLass: same as PT we’re like are you really a pelvic PT yeah uh I don’t know about that exactly awesome awesome okay um is there anything special that you want to promote to our audience that’s listening here

Dr. Taylor Suval: so um I guess the biggest thing is that we’re we have a $47 special that we’re doing for that includes everything for the full consultation so when you come in we can go over what’s going on with you I’ll listen to your issues I’ll make some recommendations off what you tell me we’ll do imaging if we need to so we’ll take some x-rays if we think it’s appropriate all of that’s included including the first treatment right so we can have an opportunity to come in get your issues looked at um kind of find out what I think’s going on um if I think I can help with it right wasn’t always the case I just sent lady out yesterday um who came into our office because I didn’t think I was going to be able to help her right um and so that happens with the issues that I don’t think we’re going to be able to help you with and I’ll tell you that unfortunately if I think that’s the case you’ve come to the wrong place and so you have to worry about getting um oh if I go there I’m just I have to just go and get adjusted that’s what they’re going to tell me you know that’s sort of fear some people say once I getting adjusted I just have to keep getting adjusted well I mean that might be the recommendation that you have regular care but that’s not that something you have to do it’s like brushing your teeth just because you start brushing your teeth doesn’t mean you have to do it it might be recommended that you do it regularly but that doesn’t mean that you’re like pige like if I didn’t brush my teeth that first time I would never had cavities it doesn’t work that way right

Dr. Betty DeLass: awesome and then this is my favorite question to ask what is the main thing that you want to be known for

Dr. Taylor Suval: um you know I really think the biggest thing that we would love to be known for is just like how much we love and care for our community right we regularly come in after hours um we went in on Friday night to see a patient because um they were hurting in a car accident and didn’t know what to do didn’t know who to go see they went to the Urgent Care and Urgent Care sent them home with ibuprofen like well what am I supposed to do now right and um we just we regularly do those kinds of things because we care and we want to have enforce those relationships with our community and the patients that choose to see us that’s amazing

Dr. Betty DeLass: awesome where can we find you website social media all the things like that

Dr. Taylor Suval: yeah so we’re um on Instagram and our website you know radicalchiro.com um you can look us up you know Radical Chiro on Instagram and uh our social media is all all the same Radical Chiro and we would love to uh interact with anybody and come find us

Dr. Betty DeLass: amazing well thank you so much for taking some time out of your busy day to chat with us about all things Radical Chiropractic and um look forward to seeing you soon

Dr. Taylor Suval: thanks you so much