Growing Your Animal Practice With Dr. Katie Lackey: Episode 193
Growing Your Animal Practice With Dr. Katie Lackey
If you’re like me, you have a weak spot in your heart for animals. Especially baby animals! I’ve lost track of how many times I’ve spontaneously gone home with a stray puppy or homeless kitten.
In chiropractic school, we didn’t have any formal training in our required curriculum about caring for animals. But there are post-graduate programs available for those who want to make the commitment to learning how to adjust animals.
I know that many other hands-on healing modalities are also able to be applied to animals, too, so whether you practice chiropractic, acupuncture, Reiki or something else… I hope you’ll join me for this conversation with Dr. Katie Lackey!
IN THIS EPISODE ABOUT CHIROPRACTIC FOR ANIMALS, WE CHAT ABOUT:
- Why building relationships is key in building a successful animal chiropractic practice
- How Dr. Katie expanded her reach by launching a podcast
- Dr. Katie’s most commonly asked questions
- Why over half the people who graduate from her local chiropractic school no longer practice animal chiropractic after 2 years
- How animals tell the story of chiropractic better than any human
- How horses saved Dr. Katie’s life and her passion to serve animals the way they serve us
- The rewarding nature of animal chiropractic
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Meet our Guest: Dr. Katie Lackey
I fell in love with horses at an early age. As a teenager, my mom took me for riding lessons at age 9 and continued to take me up through high school. I wasn't able to attend many shows, nor was I very talented to start out with, but I loved it and refused to give up and have been riding ever since. I initially thought I'd grow up to be a horse trainer.
I attended the University of Findlay after high school and earned an Associate's in English Riding and Training. I thought all I wanted to do was hunter jumpers when I started, but I was brought back down to basics and ended up falling in love with the mental challenge of dressage. Natural horsemanship and learning the subtle cues of how to communicate with my equine partner was ultimately what fascinated me.
I then thought the obvious choice was going to be vet school, but God told me to wait. I took a sabbatical from school for 6 months and became a working student at a dressage barn in Pilot Point, TX. I very quickly learned being in the horse industry was very demanding and I noticed a disconnect in horse to rider communication due to body alignment and postural changes.
I left my job as groom and then began exploring the field of physical therapy (briefly) before I attended an open house at Parker University. I learned about holistic health and how it could be applied to animals. From there, there was no turning back.
Then, while in school, I sustained a serious head injury (riding horses, of course.) I had already a mild concussion in high school, but had a full blown second concussion as I was finishing my studies at Parker. I had suffered mild tension headaches in the past, but after my injury, I started having migraines every day all day; I was light sensitive, moody, couldn't focus, and was antisocial. To be honest, I didn't know if I'd make it through school. I underwent an expensive brain MRI and multiple doctor appointments only to find out "the headaches were all in my head" and to just take pain medication.
I was very fortunate to be a student at the time and receive care at the Parker Clinics. I had the very best interns taking care of me, and to this day, am fortunate to have only mild headaches every once in awhile compared to horrible migraines everyday (no pain medication needed!)
I've experienced adjustments help me and I have also been witness to it helping animals. It is my life's mission to do all I can to bring this amazing gift to all spines. Now that you know more about me, I can't wait to hear about your chiropractic miracle story! (:
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