|  Candice Mitchell
MSc (Chiro)
Member of:-
The United Chiropractic Association
S.O.T.O. Europe
British Chiropractic Association
Candice grew up in a small village in Yorkshire where she was schooled and eventually joined her father and two brothers in the family business, qualifying quickly to become a financial adviser. A successful career in finance spanned the subsequent ten years and a growing personal interest in health and fitness indirectly led her to studying chiropractic.
“In my spare time (of which there was very little!) I remember many conversations with a variety of health professionals, all the while searching for answers”, she recalls. “Yes, I was keen to stay fit and healthy but I longed to really understand the human body and why it deviated from optimum health. I attended various courses during those years to discover more, learning sports massage and acupressure, and exercise, initially from a westernised perspective, eventually travelling to India for many months to learn meditation, which is where I trained as a yoga instructor”.
During these years she also remembers her first meeting with a chiropractor; “Around the same time I noticed that my horse, Louie, was moving awkwardly and became aggressive after a traumatic episode involving a wire fence in the field. Someone at another yard recommended I consult a chiropractor, which I did, to be inspired by the experience. Louie was of an inquisitive nature generally and certainly had behavioural issues when I inherited him, but within several minutes of the chiropractor beginning his adjustments he was the most relaxed I had ever seen him, he was a different horse!”
“My first personal encounter with chiropractic occurred later, following a long period of physical and emotional stress. When I arrived in India, my spine felt like an old piece of wood, rigid and lifeless. I remember asking myself, at 28 years of age, how I could feel so disconnected with my body and why was I so far from reaching my toes?! Several weeks later, into an intensive yoga practice, I was frustrated as I came to term with my spine’s inflexibility. During every session I yearned for my back to be pain free. Fortunately, several weeks into my stay I received a series of chiropractic adjustments to my spine. Afterwards I felt more alive somehow. When I looked back, the state of imbalance and restriction that had been present in my life dawned on me. On returning to England I applied to study chiropractic. My whole life seemed to have a sense of clarity. I was excited about where I was and where I was going.”
“Chiropractic was the culmination of many years of searching. I am consistently and persistently amazed at the changes chiropractic care has made to people’s lives. What’s more, I am excited to keep learning and pass on its benefits. You could say that my ambition for achieving wealth is focused on the benefits which good health brings to my patients and their families.”
Candice qualified from the Anglo European College of Chiropractic (AECC), Bournemouth with merit. During her studies she taught yoga and during her clinical internship was a supervisor in the rehabilitation centre. She has since co-authored a paper discussing headache in infants which will be published this year (2009) in the peer reviewed “Journal of Manipulative and Physical Therapeutics” (JMPT). |
