My name is Dee Carlisle. I have an amazing husband, am mother to 5 children and moved to Michigan from Indiana about a year ago.  I started my career in the dental field and, until recently, thought that was my passion. 

I’ve had a history of neck and back pain and had been seeing a pain management doctor for 8 years.  I’d also been plagued by recurring headaches and sensations of pins and needles traveling down my right arm.  Sometimes, I would find myself lying in bed just waiting for the muscles in my back to calm down.  I tried physical therapy, cortisone injections, massage therapy and just about every muscle/pain medication ever invented.  I took Advil PM every night just so that I could get some rest.  I had migraines so severe that they sent me to the emergency room just for a shot to calm them at least 3 times a year. Finally, I reconciled myself to the fact that I would just have to live with the pain for the rest of my life and adapted my lifestyle to accommodate my symptoms. It seemed the best I could hope for was occasional short term relief but I always questioned why I was having all this pain. 

Shortly after moving, my lower back went out while I was shopping in Wal-Mart.  It was bad—I was literally on the floor hanging on to the shopping cart.  To make matters worse, I was in a new state and had not yet found a doctor in the area. 

After getting help and finally getting home, my sister called her chiropractor.  I resisted because it was a Sunday and, after all, chiropractors are not REAL doctors!

It turns out that my experience at Wal-Mart in October 2009 was a life changing event for me.  I became a patient of Dr. Garrett Soldano--entering his office barely able to walk and thinking to myself that there was no way this doctor was going to help me considering my history and list of ailments.  WRONG!

After going through the exam process and hearing what Dr. Soldano had to say, I explained to him my beliefs about the chiropractic field. He listened intently and corrected my mistaken notions about the field of chiropractic.  Finally, he looked me in the eye and said, “I CAN HELP YOU”.  When I came back for my report of findings and looked at my x-rays Dr. Soldano pointed out the injuries that were causing all my pain and how old these injuries were.  Light bulbs started flashing!  The dots were being connected and I was seeing the root causes of my problems.

We had a lengthy conversation about the general health of my family. Both my husband and I attended a Health Awareness Seminar that Dr. Garrett holds every Tuesday night. It was at this seminar that I realized my whole family needed chiropractic care.  I love my kids with every ounce of energy inside of me; I only want optimum health and happiness for them. An exam and x-ray of each of my 5 children showed me why they would benefit from chiropractic care too. Their birth process, as well as all the falls, sports and accidents that happen to children had taken their toll.  I thought of all the symptoms they’d experienced that they needed medicine for:  flu, colds, asthma, headaches, backaches, neck pain, etc. but never thought to ask myself why they were having these symptoms.