I started chiropractic school at Logan College of Chiropractic in the fall of 2007. At Logan, there are three classes that start each year. The class that starts in the fall is always the largest. I was a bit overwhelmed. I heard stories of people having their high school and college sports career's saved by chiropractic. Many people had parents or siblings that had been or were currently chiropractors. I had none of that. We started with basic science and some palpation classes. Palpation is the ability to feel what is going on with the joints under the skin and what allows a diagnosis to be made. Combined with imaging such as CT scans, x-rays, and MRI's, and orthopedic testing (seeing what movements a patient can or cannot to perform to assess function of a joint or muscle), palpation allows a chiropractor to "see" what is happening with a patient and take the appropriate steps to address and correct the problem and get the patient feeling better and functioning better. We went through numerous courses on how to adjust, when to adjust, how to diagnose a patient, and the philosophy behind chiropractic. It still felt like something was missing. It wasn't until my sixth trimester of school (out of 10) that something finally clicked. I took an elective that only Logan offered called Active Release Techniques, or ART. It shifted a paradigm in my head of how I would treat patients and what my path would be in my time remaining at school. To be ART certified, you have to go for three basic courses: Spine, Upper Extremity, and Lower Extremity. Logan only offered spine, so I decided that before I graduated, I wanted to finish the other two courses. I completed lower extremity and upper extremity the following year. What I found was that while chiropractic works, it was not a complete picture. By the time I graduated, I had completed my full body certification and had changed the way that I would practice.