Working 60 hours a week on top of his studies — pulling overnighters as an EMT and waiting tables — provided him an equally valuable education in persistence and hard work. When he graduated in 1977, however, it didn’t take long
for Dr. Hetrick to understand that he wasn’t done learning. Though he embarked on his career with a specific focus on the upper cervical, he soon began to see patients with a wide range of athletic injuries, from the shoulders down to the knees. With his curiosity piqued, he developed an insatiable appetite for continuing education courses, studying with a series of experts across disciplines, including LeRoy Perry, D.C., the first chiropractor to serve as an unofficial Olympic team doctor.
Those learning experiences were just the start. Over the next decade, as Dr. Hetrick built up his own clinic on the banks of the Susquehanna, he found himself dogged by “what if” questions. What if he could get patients upright and moving sooner? What if he could harness the buoyancy and hydrostatic effects of water he experienced as a child to create a physiological, functional support and stabilization system? Eventually, he would be pondering the possibilities of lowering patients to variable depths to challenge multiple neurological mechanisms, getting their feet on the floor to allow for closed- chain kinetics and adding underwater cameras for gait analysis. What if he could recreate every functional movement pattern done on land in the limited space of the pool?
“I want to pay homage to the chiropractors who were not only ostracized by the allopathic community but in many cases served time in jail to allow us the
opportunity to see our profession mature. We all owe those pioneers our most humble thanks for never compromising on the science, art and philosophy of
chiropractic.” —Paul Hetrick, D.C.
Dennis Marchiori, D.C., Ph.D. and Paul Hetrick, D.C.
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