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Dr. Mendonca

General Chiropractic

Tulare, CA

Dr. Kendell Mendonca has been providing quality chiropractic care to his patients in Tulare and Kings County for over 22 years now. If you suffer from back pain, neck pain, headache, sciatica or have been in an auto collision, Mendonca Chiropractic can get you back on the road to health. We treat a variety of conditions but probably have become known best for our consistently excellent results treating various types of disc conditions conditions (i.e. herniated, degenerated and stenotic) utilizing "state of the art" Non-Surgical Spinal Decompression techniques. We receive numerous case referrals each month from many other doctors in the medical community who are looking for more conservative means of treating their patients with ways that don't require surgery, injections or handfuls of pills.

Dr. Shows

General Chiropractic

Visalia, CA

In practice since 1981, Dr. Michael Shows has established an excellent reputation in the community. “I guard my reputation like a pit bull,” he said. His patients respect him and know that they’ll get the results they’re seeking. A Warm Oasis of Healing When you walk into our cheerful practice, you’ll quickly know you’ve come to the right place to begin your journey to health and wellness. You’ll feel encouraged and listened to. If you are not getting good results, we stop and find out why. I’m here to make you feel better and not to hurt you, our treatments are relatively painless. Our Practice Philosophy At Shows Chiropractic, we take a whole-body holistic approach to health. The brain is the master controller of all body functions. The brain communicates with the rest of the body through the nervous system. When there’s no interference in that communication, the body can function like it’s supposed to. Don’t Ignore Your Body’s ‘Check Engine’ Light Are Headaches Normal? Patient Success Story It may sound strange, but pain is your friend. Why? It lets you know that something is wrong. It’s similar to the red light that comes on the dash of your car. Ignore that light and your car could break down. Similarly, if you ignore pain and just cover it up with medication, your health will suffer. When you malfunction, dis-ease begins. Over a period of time, dis-ease turns to disease. Then at some point, your body will produce one or more symptoms that let you know that something is wrong. A symptom could be stomach pain, respiratory problems, twitching in the eye or something else. If your body is under mechanical stress, it can’t function normally. Unfortunately, most people will wait until their health deteriorates before doing anything about it. Smart people take their car in for regular service to reduce the likelihood that it will run bad. You should do the same thing for yourself! It is so much easier to prevent something bad from happening than it is to fix it once it has. Someone may say that they have “normal” everyday headaches, but it’s not normal to have a headache every day. That person may say that their headaches go away when they take pain relievers. Dr. Shows’ reply: “So you’re trying to tell me that you have headaches because your body is running low on pain medicine? That’s like putting air in a tire that has a hole in it. You’re just covering up the symptom and not addressing the problem.” Here, we’ll address the cause of the problem and let your body do what it was designed to do ever since you were created—heal itself! From the youngest patient of one day old to the oldest patient of 102, people of all ages can get highest quality natural health care at our clinic. Here is a memorable success story. Help for epileptic seizures Many years ago, a young husband and wife brought their children in for care when they were infants. The husband got transferred and the family moved back to Texas. Dr. Shows got a call about six months or so later. The couple was panicked as their son was having epileptic seizures. The child was taken to a doctor who said that the couple’s son would have to be on seizure medication for the rest of his life. Dr. Mike asked the couple if they took their son to a chiropractor near where they lived. The dad indicated that they did, but that the chiropractor didn’t feel that he could help. So the couple flew back to Visalia to see Dr. Shows. After taking X-rays, he could see that the infant’s head wasn’t properly aligned on the neck. “The spine and head were in two different zip codes,” said Dr. Shows.

Dr. Hobbs

General Chiropractic

Visalia, CA

Dr. Hobbs began his interest in health in the 8th grade. Even at that time, he knew that he wanted to help people be more healthy and that to be healthy long-term it is necessary to find and address whatever is causing the condition. So, Dr. Hobbs’ choice of profession, his bachelors in Anatomy, his Doctorate in Chiropractic, his extensive nutritional/biochemical education (cert. in Functional Medicine), and his hundreds of hours of neurology training (board cert. in Chiropractic Neurology) have all been for the purpose of thoroughly evaluating his patients to find the cause and to be able to help them correct the cause of their condition for the long-term. The Education of Chiropractors is quite extensive even before all the postgraduate work. From the very beginning, even filling out the intake paperwork, it is clear that our approach to healing is focused on being very thorough and wholistic, which means looking at the function of your whole body and its parts working together to find out how you can be as healthy as you want to be. We look at the contributing factors (structural, chemical, and mental), as well as the condition your body is in now, and then look for the best, natural way to help you reach your health goals. Where there is hope, there can be healing. I work to be very realistic in my diagnosis and prognosis (how well you can get and by when), but I am frequently amazed at how much and how quickly the body is able to heal if you give it the correct building blocks and remove some of the stumbling blocks. The other morning as I was brushing my teeth, I was thinking of how to best treat and educate a patient to help her body restore from the pain and disability in her body that she had been dealing with after a severe accident. I thought, “Other people stress about work even when they are away; am I stressing about work? No, I get to use my creative energy God gave me and learned knowledge and skills I have to find a way to help restore this woman’s life! That is not stress; that is a privilege!” — Jay Hobbs, DC, DACNB

Dr. Hobbs

General Chiropractic

Visalia, CA

Dr. Hobbs began his interest in health in the 8th grade. Even at that time, he knew that he wanted to help people be more healthy and that to be healthy long-term it is necessary to find and address whatever is causing the condition. So, Dr. Hobbs’ choice of profession, his bachelors in Anatomy, his Doctorate in Chiropractic, his extensive nutritional/biochemical education (cert. in Functional Medicine), and his hundreds of hours of neurology training (board cert. in Chiropractic Neurology) have all been for the purpose of thoroughly evaluating his patients to find the cause and to be able to help them correct the cause of their condition for the long-term. The Education of Chiropractors is quite extensive even before all the postgraduate work. From the very beginning, even filling out the intake paperwork, it is clear that our approach to healing is focused on being very thorough and wholistic, which means looking at the function of your whole body and its parts working together to find out how you can be as healthy as you want to be. We look at the contributing factors (structural, chemical, and mental), as well as the condition your body is in now, and then look for the best, natural way to help you reach your health goals. Where there is hope, there can be healing. I work to be very realistic in my diagnosis and prognosis (how well you can get and by when), but I am frequently amazed at how much and how quickly the body is able to heal if you give it the correct building blocks and remove some of the stumbling blocks. The other morning as I was brushing my teeth, I was thinking of how to best treat and educate a patient to help her body restore from the pain and disability in her body that she had been dealing with after a severe accident. I thought, “Other people stress about work even when they are away; am I stressing about work? No, I get to use my creative energy God gave me and learned knowledge and skills I have to find a way to help restore this woman’s life! That is not stress; that is a privilege!” — Jay Hobbs, DC, DACNB