I’m Dr. Shawn Berard, welcome to our website.
Dr. Shawn Berard
It was designed specifically for you to discover and understand health, how your body works, and how chiropractic can be a benefit to you and your family.
Our goal here at Berard Family Chiropractic is to help those who are healthy and want to stay that way, those who have health problems and are interested in finding and correcting the cause, and those who may have lost hope, or resolved themselves to thinking there is no alternative to a life of suffering and dependence on medication.
Dr. Berard’s Chiropractic Path
I attended Life Chiropractic College West in Hayward California. I graduated with honors in 1994. I chose this school primarily because it has a strong philosophical base in chiropractic and the body’s natural healing abilities. Our Current medical system is based entirely on treating symptoms and disease. Unfortunately, like our medical counterparts, many chiropractors have reduced the tremendous capacity chiropractic has to provide a lifetime of health by focusing only on pain and pain relief. Our bodies are self healing, we just need to take proper care of them, and when injured, make sure that the problems are corrected before complications arise. A side effect of a properly functioning nervous system is a lack of pain and decreased risk of developing a disease process.
In chiropractic schooling, we receive many hours in anatomy, physiology, biochemistry, and pathology, however I particularly enjoyed embryology; how the body develops in the womb. It is amazing how the nervous system controls the development of the individual organs and how each cell with the same genetic information as all the others can have a particular function. It was this class that helped me understand that life begins at conception, and that the nervous system is central to health and function throughout a persons lifetime.
My practice philosophy is simple, to help people obtain the health that they deserve.
Our bodies are self healing, and it is our birthright to be healthy. We achieve health by eating healthy food, exercising, and maintaining a healthy nervous system. My purpose is to educate each and every patient on how to maintain their health and enrich their quality of life. We all have certain activities that make living worth while, from riding horses to spinning wool, to teaching children. My goal is to help others improve and maintain the quality of life that allows them to continue doing what they enjoy.
I take each and every persons health very seriously. I do not guess at what is causing their problems. My primary objective is to identify the cause, then determine if chiropractic will be beneficial in correcting that cause. Our health is our most valuable asset. When our health declines, it not only decreases our quality of life, it affects those around us as well; our friends and loved ones. It may be a day of lost wages, the inability to participate in a family activity, or mood swings because we are irritable from the pain or problem. Consider this: a mother of small children experiences two migraine headaches a week. On these days she snaps at her children, is not capable of making a healthy meal, cannot perform household chores, etc. That amounts to approximately 8 such days in a month, 96 days a year, and 960 days in a 10 year period. That is over two years that she and her family will never get back. I ask you, what is the value of your health?