Success Stories

Reed Chiropractic has had many successes in it's 21 years of existance. We ask some of our patients to relate their stories of how chiropractic has helped them and their families. Our patients are our best ambassadors of what we do best. We hope you enjoy these testimonies in their own words.

I have needed Chiropractic Care since 1955.  I consider myself an expert on Chiropractors.  I have seen thirteen different Doctors, mainly because of moving.  I found Dr. Grant in Bellevue, Ohio when he practiced there.  He moved to Reed Chiropractic, so I now travel 1 1/2 hours to Solon for his excellent treatments.  He is my man.  I am, according to him, his most loyal patient.

Sincerely,

Veleda & Lee B.

P.S.  Lee is my better half

Elizabeth (Bette) Sayre Jenkinson 

In the Winter of 1993 at age thirty-nine I had a severe fall from my horse, Bucephalus aka Bebe, while riding bareback in an indoor arena.  As riders are trained to do, I got up and checked myself over then remounted continuing my ride.  Initially, I ignored the pain from that fall and in a gradual way over the next year I became unable to move at all without severe back spasms from the neck all the way down my legs.  I pursued every test known to Western medicine in well known hospitals until the only answer I was given was to “take the narcotics and live with the pain because we see nothing wrong with you and have no answer”.  Never once did any doctor or clinic I went to suggest I see a Chiropractor.  At one point both my husband and I were told I was mentally ill and imagining what was happening to me.  I gave up on the doctors but refused to take narcotics until I had an accurate diagnosis surviving on Ibuprofen in large doses.  Eventually, I needed assistance to walk from crutches and my husband spending most of my time bedridden often screaming in agony and despair.  I fell a couple of times requiring secondary surgeries to orthopedic injuries I sustained.  Twice I tried over the next six years to ride my horse again but each attempt ended in a month due to the incapacity I was experiencing.  During those times my stable manager, Elspeth Kick, suggested I go to see Dr. Randy Reed because several riders had been to him for help but I had been raised to fear Chiropractic and would not listen to her.  In all this time my horse, Bebe, waited in what became a ten year retirement to pasture at Red Raider stable.

In desperation in 1999 I finally went to see Dr. Reed with my husband, Dan Crudele, who had to assist me into the office dragging my right leg which I could no longer fully bear weight on.  Dr. Reed took an in-office xray and showed me immediately what no other medical professional had cared about – my pelvic area had twisted and I was out of alignment all the way up to my neck causing me to heal with scar tissue into that position from the soft tissue tearing in my lumbar area during the original fall.  The first adjustment and treatment he gave me that day enabled me to bear weight on my right leg and walk out of his office for the first time with less pain in six years and some hope for a future.  Subsequent treatments followed and in time a new MRI confirmed I had two bulging discs with a genetically displaced vertebrae in the lumbar region so I was injured in a place with a genetic deformation I was never even told about.  It took four years with Dr. Reed for me to walk well enough to begin to learn to ride my horse again in 2003 with a low dose of prescription pain relief which I continue daily.  In 2004 I moved us to a Dressage training facility in Chesterland and began to accomplish in the next three years what I had lost for ten years with Bebe.  I took my now twenty-two year old mount from Training Level to Second Level by the age of twenty-six.  On December 3, 2007, Dan and I said our goodbyes to Bebe and he gently went to sleep crossing over the RainbowBridge into Heaven having given me all he could.  Dr. Reed gave me back my horse and Bebe gave me back my legs.

This story would not be complete without telling you that I have now purchased a four year old Cleveland Bay Dressage prospect named IdleHour Forio from IdleHour Stud in Pennsylvania  who just arrived here to begin full training in Chardon, Ohio, with Nancy Lewis Stanton.  At the age of fifty-three I am able to begin a new riding partnership on a young horse because of Drs. Reed and Grant with continuing Chiropractic care from Reed Chiropractic of Solon, Ohio.

Elizabeth (Bette) Sayre Jenkinson