Chiropractor Care in Singapore

Did you know it is quite hard to find a good chiropractor in Singapore? I guess it is probably not easy to find one in any country, especially someone whom you can be comfortable with. As with any physician, you do want to go to someone whom you feel you can trust with your health and life and whom you could respect and have an affinity with.

So since I came back from Canada in December 2007, I have been looking for a chiropractor. I looked at the various websites and also at the list of registered chiropractors in Singapore but I did not feel assured of them at all.

I met one chiropractor at the atrium of Forum Shopping Mall when there was a roadshow. I spoke to him and I did not feel he genuinely wants to heal people. His philosophy was different from mine. What I got from that few minutes was that he was more monetary focused and was more interested in getting me to sign for a consultation in the office, plus x-rays which would cost me close to $500 just for that? Even after I told him I already had x-rays done before and I was undergoing chiropractic care in Vancouver previously and so already knew my problem areas.

So I striked that company out (it is part of a chain in Singapore and I never really trust that). Then I met 2 other chiropractors at the Holistic Living Fair (now known as Body Mind Spirit Festival) in April 2009 at Fort Canning Park. One seemed not too bad but he was too busy to want to talk to me, so he missed out on a potential customer. The other chiropractor, he seemed ok but also did not resonate with me. I KIV him and would have gone to see him for a consultation soon if something did not happen.

That something was - I finally found a chiropractor to treat me - yay!

It was quite a fluke. I was at Spa Infinity last November and I saw that there would be a chiropractor in the premises to provide chiropractic care. Somehow I never make it for the free consultation until Tuesday. I was trying to fill my time and managed to book a massage at Spa Infinity and so decided to get an appointment with the chiropractor over there.

The posters in the treatment room reminded me the chiropractor in Vancouver, and after talking to him, I felt that we were on the same page. We shared the same thoughts and philosophy on chiropractic care.

It turned out that Dr Dylan Altfeld of Infinity Chiropractic graduated from the same school as Dr Trevor Kilian of Kilian Chiropractic whom I was seeing for treatment in Vancouver. Immediately I felt a sense of relief as I realized they more or less had the same methods of treatments.

Dylan had a practice in California for over 12 years before he sold it and moved to Singapore to practice. He will be here for another 2 years so that is good news. I told him about my treatments in Vancouver and that I had x-rays taken before and what Trevor told me about my condition (Stage 2 of Spinal Degeneration). I asked if I would need more x-ray (since the guy from Forum said I need new x-ray), and Dylan said it was not necessary since mine was taken within 2 years.

He immediately googled for Trevor's practice and found it. So we checked out his website Kilian Chiropractic and Dylan got a sense of Trevor's method of treating patients and felt it was similar to his setup in California. Dylan said he would email Trevor for my x-ray details as well as what had been done for my treatments. And he did that right after my session with him. That was what Trevor mentioned previously. Once I find a chiropractor in Singapore, he would be more than happy to let the doctor know about my info.

What a difference a good chiropractor can be. I get the sense that Dylan is also interested in healing people, like Trevor is. There is no hardselling at all. It is all very straight forward and simple. It probably helps that I already know what chiropractic care is, so Dylan did not have to explain much to me. He treats you like a person, and it so reminds me of home in Canada, of the people there and how there is always interaction and chatting.

In any case, he recommended me to take up the 50 sessions package as that is more cost savings. I figure I will probably need more as I needed at least 91 sessions for a 1 year program under Trevor. Anyway, I signed up for the package as health is so important.

Dylan found out that now my C-6 is affected. So that needs to be corrected first before he can try to correct the C-4 and C-5 which were previously highlighted by Trevor. Dylan is also very interested to know more about my lower back as he feels something there, so he will also communicate with Trevor on that.

So far I have had 2 sessions with Dylan and I am extremely happy about that. Dylan actually did more adjustments than Trevor did with me.

1st session: adjusted the neck, and back.
2nd session: adjusted the neck, back and lower back.

That felt sooooo good. My body definitely misses that. Now I am going for the thrice weekly treatments for July. I hope it will really help in aligning my spine and reduce my headaches/migraines and subsequently weight loss.