There's a new chiropractor in town, and she is able to offer relief for more than just human aches and pains. She can also help out with your four legged friends.
Dr. Angela Martin-King has treated animals for as long as she has been treating humans.
“My first official patient was a horse,” says Dr. Martin-King adding that she had 10 animal patients before she treated her first human in her practice.
Kingstone Animal Chiropractic, Dr. Martin-King’s clinic, has been in operation since the fall of 2010. Until recently, it has been a completely mobile practice. In October of this year, Dr. Martin-King and her husband Shawn purchased a house in Meaford with the plans of open part of the house up to her animal patients.
They will be celebrating their official grand opening on November 18th 2011 with a Grand Opening & Fundraising Event.
Although her practice is now based in Meaford, Dr. Martin-King travels hundreds of kilometres a month throughout the Georgian Bay area and treats a multitude of animals from family pets to highly-prized show horses. Her goal, other than to help her furry friends, is to integrate animal health care and show how animal chiropractic can have a dramatic effect on the health and well-being of animal patients.
“I’ve always wanted to be a veterinarian and I’ve always had a fascination with the way the body works. My plan was always to become a large animal vet. But fate intervened one day when I met an animal chiropractor who worked wonders for some of my family’s horses. I saw how much they loved his care, how much they benefited from his hands,” says Dr. Martin-King, “I watched this animal chiropractor, a man with no previous horse experience, take a horse who had broken his pelvis and could barely walk straight, to jumping full courses in 3 treatments! I was hooked! To be able to provide a form of healthcare that could help those animals that traditional care could not help, what an opportunity!”
That inspiration motivated Dr. Martin-King to earn her certification from the International veterinary Chiropractic Association just months after graduating from chiropractic college.
“There are a lot of similarities between human care and animal care. The concepts and principles of chiropractic are all the same but the anatomy is different. I was lucky enough to have a lot of animal experience, with horses and with small animals. Once I could understand and picture the animal’s anatomy it came pretty natural to me,” says Dr. Martin-King.
Four legged animals aren't the only ones who benefit from Dr. Martin-King's skills. For those of us with just two legs, she can help ease nagging pains.
“I’m a chiropractor that can care for your whole family! My practice is half people, half pets. I am splitting my time between my human practice at Fascinato Chiropractic Clinic in Meaford, my new home clinic for small animals, also in Meaford and my mobile animal service is available for larger animals. It makes for very few days off, but when you love your job, days off aren’t so necessary,” she says.
You can learn more about Dr. Martin-King's new practice by attending her official grand opening which takes place Friday November 18 from 6 to 9 pm at 144 Nelson St. W. In Meaford.
More information can also be found on her website by clicking here.
