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This is the Good Neighbor Podcast, the place where local businesses and neighbors come together.
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Here's your host, Sophia Yvette.
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Welcome to the Good Neighbor Podcast.
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Are you in need of a chiropractor?
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Well, one may be closer than you think.
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Today I have the pleasure of introducing your good neighbor, dr David Benham, with Whole Body Chiropractic.
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Dr David, how are you today?
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I'm doing good, Thank you.
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How are you Sophia?
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I'm doing well.
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So, david, we're excited to learn all about.
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You started about, uh, seven years ago and we have six locations.
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Our newest location is in McKinney and, um, that's somewhere we've always been trying to get back to.
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Half of my doctors that work with me and, for me, live in McKinney, so we love the area and, uh, we are, um, we focus on a lot of things.
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All of our doctors are certified with Webster techniques.
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We work with pregnant women, we work with babies.
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We do a lot of we work with geriatric and elderly.
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We have a lot of really gentle techniques that we perform, and then we also do personal injury as well.
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So we're really experienced in taking care of like a lot of acceleration, deceleration type injuries, concussions, things like that.
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And then our third big thing that we're known for also is just like for functionality.
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So a lot of our doctors are sports chiropractors as well, and so it's just all about wellness and you know, and just pain, treating pain and treating function.
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So and so how did you get into this business?
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So the way I got into chiropractic is I had a brother in law that was a chiropractor and still didn't know much about chiropractic, and I was a ski instructor at Purgatory Mountain in Southern Colorado for many years and I actually ended up breaking my back on the mountain in multiple places and then and ended up, and also completely rupturing my ACL, my right knee and I didn't really have the money at the time and health insurance to go the medical route.
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So I went to a chiropractor my brother-in-law and he got me better and then right away I just instantly knew that that's what I wanted to do and then found out that he went to school here in Parker, which is right here in Dallas, texas.
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So I moved to Dallas and then ended up staying here and falling in love with the area and opening up my practices here and so but because of like my personal experience, my personal story, I tend to attract a lot of similarity, similar doctors and staff working for us as well, and so we're just like also really passionate about it.
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Because of you know that and because of that we also tend to about it.
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Because of you know that and because of that, we also tend to attract a lot of the harder cases too.
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So we take care of a lot of people, that a lot of times, even post-surgical cases that people have given up on, and just because we understand, you know just the power of like how the body can heal itself and just working kind of with that and that's kind of like our vibe and you know how I got into it and what the story is with the underlying story of whole body chiropractic.
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Wow, well, my goodness Glad to see you made a full recovery from that.
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And so what is the number one myth or misconception in your industry?
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I would say the number one myth probably is one and done so many people like the miracles, you know, and miracles happen and as well, and those are usually things that we can't explain how they happen and that's why you don't hear a lot about it.
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But as far as the repeatability of it in chiropractic and what it is, a lot of people think like if they have something, especially something that's been going on for a long time, that they can get it fixed with just one thing.
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But the truth of the matter is you can't fix anything with just one thing.
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You can't fix it with typically one pill or one procedure or one therapy and the body.
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And when you look at the body and how it heals and the tissue structures it, the body's on a six to eight week, like your typical sprain, strain or a bruise or an injury takes six to eight weeks to heal.
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And so we work in those cycles with the body, keeping it in alignment so it heals, optimal and um and so.
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But the the myth and the conception is so.
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So why can't?
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Why can't it just fix once?
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And you know it, and it takes time and we work with that.
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But the body does heal and it does fix and it does correct.
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And when you work with that natural cycling, you take that time if you actually heal better and you recuperate faster and in some cases you can come back better as well, and so, um.
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So I would say that you know you can't go to.
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If you want to get in shape and you go to a personal trainer, he's going to tell
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you you need to work out three times a week for eight weeks.
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If you want to lose a certain amount of weight, they're going to tell you you need to work out and diet, do this for three to eight or six to eight weeks.
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If you want to go to get more flexible and you go to yoga, you know and they tell you it's going to take a three to six weeks to you know, or six to eight weeks.
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You got to come in three times a week, you know, to get flexible, and that's because physiologically that's how our body works, and so, um, and, and we kind of just work with that cycle as well, and so I think that's a big misconception.
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Most definitely, and getting into it a little bit more who are your target clients and how do you tend to attract?
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them.
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Our practice is most of our practices.
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All six of them are anywhere from 80 to 90 percent referral word of mouth, so that's how we attract most of our people, and so our target client, I think, is and because you know I said just like the wide array of what chiropractic does help, and our motto is we just want to help as many people as we can.
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We never like to turn anybody away, and so if you have a spine, if you're a human with a spine, you're our target model, and but we, you know, I think a personal injury is a big part of it.
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We're really passionate about understanding that and because we also do have a whole team of network that we've built up over the last 10 years of other surgeons, neurologists, medical doctors, holistic medical doctors, functional the whole gamut.
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We have a whole team that we can triage people to anywhere, and so we love working with those type of cases and we also are really passionate about, like I said, every single doctor that works for me is certified in taking care of children and pregnant mothers.
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So that's also another aspect of what we like to target as far as our target market goes.
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Let's go ahead and switch gears back to you for a second.
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Cheers.
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Back to you for a second.
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I know you did get into this a little bit, but instead of describing the hardship or life challenge you overcame since you already did tell us what you got out of overcoming that challenge- yes, so so much.
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I got like I changed my life, overcoming that challenge.
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First of all, I regained my health and and then I learned about health.
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I didn't know.
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I was always healthy and grew up active and had an active lifestyle, active family and so, but I didn't realize what holistic health really was.
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And so just breaking my back, finding chiropractic, learning about holistic ways to heal and how we can do that, that is, you know, kind of like a big thing that I got out of that and just an understanding and a knowing of that and then a faith in that as well, just like a believing in that.
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Another great thing is it's allowed me to just help people and serve more people and the chiropractic is like the epitome of the service industry.
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I feel like, and I also feel like chiropractors are some of the last doctors that still like care for people by putting our hands on them and you know, having having positive intentions and things about that type of work, and so I feel like being able to, it's been allowed me to be a part of that.
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That is pretty big.
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And then also, just it had allowed me to become a teacher and teach.
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It had allowed me to become a teacher and teach, and that's always something that I always, for some reason, since I was very young, wanted to be a teacher of some sort, and so, in a lot of ways, the word doctor means teacher actually, and so in a lot of ways, we are teachers, we're helping people, you know, educating them about holistic health and chiropractic as well, throughout the whole and their injuries or their conditions that they're dealing with and that we're treating them for.
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So, um, you know, I I feel very blessed and I think that I had that accident not happened, I would have never gone that route and wouldn't have got to experience the richness of what this is, you know.
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So for sure, for sure, a blessing in disguise, as they say, no exactly.
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I always say it was an accident on purpose.
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It wasn't an accident, you know, on accident, it was on purpose.
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And so where can our listeners go to learn more about Whole Body Chiropractic?
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So you can find us at wholebodycom.
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We also have a Facebook.
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We have Instagram wholebodycom we also have a facebook.
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We have instagram.
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Um, we have a website.
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Uh, and then, um, all of our doctors.
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I think, if you can, if you go like our um, dr aaron he's working up there and then dr lauren and dr cody, who they are part owners of that practice as well, they're, and they live here in the community of mckinney you can go through there and find their social media and connect that way as well.
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So Awesome.
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Well, Dr BinaI, really appreciate you being on the show and we wish you and your business the best moving forward.
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Thank you so much, Sophia.
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I appreciate that.
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Thank you for having us on.
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