JEFFERSON TOWNSHIP – Dr. Adam Davis has always felt there was more he could do to help his patients at Davis Family Chiropractic.
What started as a chiropractic practice expanded to include regenerative medicine, massage therapy.
Davis Family Chiropractic is now growing to include the Davis Family Express Clinic.
“I wanted to self-integrate both chiropractic and medicine,” Davis said. “I had to refer patients out for medical care pretty routinely, even if it was something basic, and I just felt that I could provide that care for them if I went and became a family nurse practitioner. I went back to school. I’ve been a chiropractor for 20 years, and so I went back to school five years ago, started and became a registered nurse, and then from there, became a nurse practitioner.”
Beginning on April 1, Davis Family Express Clinic, 440-624-4214, 1484 OH-46, No. 7, Jefferson Township, will be open on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays from 3-6 p.m. with a priority given to those who make appointments.
“It was just a way for me to offer more services, widen my scope of practice, and deliver better health care at a lower cost than what I’ve seen in the area or just nationwide,” Davis said.
“If they contact us and schedule an appointment, they’ll have priority, although walk-ins are welcome,” Davis continued. “We want to make sure we have enough time scheduled for our patients.”
The Davis Family Express Clinic will serve anyone who seeks care.
“(We’ll welcome) anybody that wants to get healthy,” Davis said. “(We’ll welcome) anybody that has an issue that other doctors have not been able to figure out or unexplainable auto immune conditions. Those are the patients that usually come to me with chronic issues. In this area, there’s a lot of Lyme disease and that sort of thing that go unexplained why patients have conditions. We figure that out for them, and figure out how to fix them and then get them better.”
The chiropractic offices are open from 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Monday-Wednesday and Friday.
Davis has spent 35 years in school becoming a chiropractor and earning diplomates in acupuncture, nutrition, neurology, sports medicine and kinesiology. A nursing degree followed and, now, he is a nurse practitioner.
“I opened about 10 years ago (as a chiropractor), and then we added on massage therapy and decompression therapy about five years ago, and now, in our 10th year, we’re adding medical but we’ve always been about natural holistic health, tailoring people’s diets and lifestyles and supplementing their chemistry with vitamins in order to help them achieve optimal health,” Davis said.
All of the education allows Davis to better treat his patients.
“The traditional chiropractor is just spine focused, which is great for musculoskeletal conditions, but we, as a family practice, like to help patients that have non-spinal conditions, like irritable bowel conditions,” Davis said.
“The original practice was chiropractic, nutrition, weight loss, and then we developed into massage and a decompression of joints,” Davis continued.
The practice expanded further to address other problems for patients.
“I wanted to get into the regenerative medicine, and started investigating the use of biologics that you can use to regenerate tissue,” Davis said. “You can do biological injections in the knees and shoulders, and they’ll heal up tears so patients that are not able to either get a joint replacement, don’t want a joint replacement, or have some underlying condition where they’re not a candidate for one, we will have options for them if they want to try. If chiropractic hasn’t helped them enough, if medication hasn’t helped them enough, it’ll just be that next level that we can try to improve their health.”
Medication often treats a patient’s symptoms but the root causes are often left untreated, and Davis wants to change that.
“The nice thing is, the majority of patients are on stomach medication and some sort of antidepressant or mood medication, and I feel that we will be able to help them more by fixing them naturally and getting them off some prescriptions that everybody takes,” Davis said. “There’s a better way to go about that and just try to deliver a better quality of care than relying on a medication to correct something that is probably super easy, if we just figured out why that issue is occurring for you.”
Becoming a nurse practitioner allows Davis to prescribe medication when it is necessary.
“We’ll be able to offer prescription medications, usually for cough, cold, flu, some infection stuff, basic stuff, allergy, skin issues,” Davis said. “The other aspect of it that I want to offer is anti-aging and Regenerative Medicine, which incorporates non-surgical biologic joint injections to help with the healing of joints, knees and shoulders. I want to do hormone replacement therapy to help with menopause and low testosterone. I want to do esthetics to help with facial rejuvenation, peptide therapy and IV therapy to help improve patients’ health on every level.”
The goal for Davis, which is inspired by Jamee Savel, who died of cancer, is to get his patients healthy without having to use medication.
“We’re going to try to help patients to, honestly, get their life back, get their brain healthy, get their body healthy,” Davis said. “It’s a new type of medicine that I was introduced to several years ago, and I just knew that, and Jamee was the inspiration for wanting to do it. This seems the right thing to do for patients.”
Savel’s battle with cancer led Davis down a path of discovery regarding a person’s health.
“I met Jamee about three years ago, and prior to meeting her, I didn’t really know anything about medical health or what you need to do in order to be as healthy as possible,” Davis said. “She just opened up my eyes to what I could possibly offer to patients in healing as far as doing the IV nutrition and peptides and photo therapy and all these things that she would do in order to maintain her health.”
“She was able to outlast her cancer a lot longer than she should have, and it just reinforced what I wanted to do to help patients, because it really was the underlying force of why this clinic exists, and it was just a blessing to meet her, and unfortunately and fortunately go through that with her,” Davis continued. “She was definitely the inspiration behind why I wanted to do all these extra things in order to get people healthy, as opposed to just prescribing antibiotics, because I went through the cancer treatments and all that with her. I understand how all of that works on the proactive side. The reactive side is chemotherapy and radiation, but there’s all these things on the proactive side.”
Jamee’s spirit is felt in the office with the bright colors and paintings.
“It’s all over the office,” Davis said. “I decorated the whole office just how I feel like she would love to walk in the door Monday morning for work. We had talked about how our clinic’s going to be. She was very impactful and inspirational, and a huge part of what the clinic is going to be and how we’re going to treat patients.”
