Hello out there. Let's start with a quick introduction of myself:
Well, I'm Michael. I started at PCCW when I was 19, and I'm now a student intern in 9th quarter. I'm President of the Motion Palpation Club and Treasurer of the Palmer Pride Hockey Team. I was born and raised in Washington state and now live in California.

Why Palmer West?
When I was deciding on a school I thought all Chiropractic Colleges were the same. Now that I have been here for two years, I've realized they are not the same at all. Palmer West is a sports chiropractic based school. On campus we have our Sports Council (check out the website). Sports Council was a large reason why I picked Palmer West. Sports Council holds a couple sporting events per quarter where we get to go and provide chiropractic care at a community event. Through Sports Council we've worked at the National Senior Games at Stanford, many 5/10K runs, Sea Otter Classic (a large mountain bike race) just to name a few. Palmer West also starts students palpating in the first quarter. It's been great being able to start palpating so early because that's what you are going to do for the rest of your life. So when we are finally in clinic, we've already been palpating and setting up adjustments for two years.

How about Chiropractic?
I picked Chiropractic to work on musculoskeletal complaints. There are a lot of musculoskeletal problems out there, and not a lot of doctors that focus on the musculoskeletal systems. Personally, this is the area of interest for me. I do a lot of Graston (a soft tissue technique using what looks like a butter knife), A.R.T. (Active Release Technique, another soft tissue technique using hands to stretch muscles), and kinesiology taping (a stretchy tape seen in the Olympics). I also have an interest in rehabilitation, helping to strengthen muscles to prevent musculoskeletal complaints from reoccurring.

Back to class for now!