Dr. Kris K.M. Kennedy

Even as a child, I took great fascination with fixing things. I would take radios and other things apart, only to put them back together and be surprised that they would work. By way of analogy, this was my earliest experience with the conceptual reality of the power of the nervous system, and how the slightest change in the mechanism can cause dysfunction. Moreover, I remember as a kid taking a nail and poking about a 100 holes in the vinyl of the back seat of our brand new Toyota, and I received one spanking per hole! This was my earliest experience with "acupuncture." Now ironically, I am being paid for for my expertise to "poke" people with needles...and seeing awesome results in the process!

My dad was the first person to introduce me to the power of chiropractic. I was, like many, a victim of intractable migraine headaches (like St. Augustine, Simone Weil) and my dad had enough sense to take me to a chiropractor before sending me to the M.D. for medications. I was honestly healed after about 12 treatments, and only occasionally would get them over the years. This event changed my life and inculcated me into a world of natural healing, instead of feeding into the distorted model of sickness care which is so rife in our society.

That early impression never left me, and as a young man, I was determined to experience the diversity of all the gifts I had possessed. I had a penchant for ministry and counseling, and was sure I wanted to be a pastor or psychologist. I was very passionate about theology, philosophy and religion, as those fields were asking the questions that I was most wanting clarity on: "who am I?" "what is a lifetime, and why do I live it?" "what is beyond me?"

After Attending Westmont College, I headed off to Princeton Univ./Theological for an M.Div. with an emphasis in Philosophy of science/psychology/religion. This experience was life changing, as I was cultivating an inner purpose and mission to be able to fulfill my natural gifts in healing and care-giving of others (I was later accepted for a M.A./Ph.D. candidacy program at Harvard University for philosophy of religion).

Late in my Senior year, I slipped on a floor and sought the help of a chiropractor once more. Dr. Hochberg was a very passionate chiropractor, and helped me realize that I had natural abilities in the healing arts, which is to help others achieve their best health without drugs and without surgery. I later applied to Los Angeles Chiropractic College and began my course of study in 1999. In my third term (out of ten), Dr. Wen Shuo Wu began the AOM program, and I jumped on the opportunity (seeing the trends in health care), as I had a keen fascination with Asian philosophy and healing (I was already pretty good with needles since having poked the back seat of my mom's car!). I graduated in December 2002 with both my doctorate in chiropractic as well as a masters in acupuncture and oriental medicine. Since graduating and achieving board certification in both specialties, I have had many diverse experiences. I was involved in industrial-orthopedic medicine for 4 years, but was sickened by all the abuses on both sides, and subsequently left to pursue my own vision of what I had dreamed for an integrated health and wellness practice. Despite this experience, I learned a great deal with respect to severe injuries and became very educated with respect to surgical procedures and how to best treat them--both to prevent surgical intervention , and to treat them post-operatively. I have had much experience and success with orthopedic injuries, headaches, fertility, disc pain, sciatica, drug addictions and smoking cessation (acupuncture and herbs), weight loss treatment, natural hormone replacement (nutritional counseling), demylinating disoders such as ALS, Depression and anxiety, gynecological disoders and Gastrointestinal disoders.

All I can say is that my life is very blessed! My vocation as a chiropractor, acupuncturist and healer is a ministry of God's grace and call upon my life, so that I may use my gifts and abilities to heal, bless and comfort others in whatever season patient's may find themselves in. I am both a doctor with the heart a minister and am so blessed to have amazing patients who allow me to share with them on their journeys.

I am a catalyst for change. I start my patients on a journey of discovery, and I feel that if we look at each dimension of the patient's being, then the cause of the present condition or ailment will become clearer - for both of us.

I was recently featured in the Orange County Register. Check out the site below.
http://www.ocregister.com/ocregister/news/local/alisoviejo/business/article_1943852.php