I’ve been an athlete all my life. I started playing soccer at the age of four, taking dance classes, played softball every summer, basketball clinics, swimming lessons, you name it, I played it. I was lucky enough to be a three-season varsity athlete at a school that had a very good pedigree of winning championships. My plans were to continue to be a student athlete through my college years but all that came to a screeching halt one rainy evening.

I was in a minor car accident, rear-ended at a stoplight. No one was seriously hurt, no ambulance called, just the standard soreness, some mild whiplash after a jarring incident. I thought I was fine until I went to practice a few days after and I started to experience shooting pain from my shoulder to my head, which lead to me experiencing my first migraine ever.

Soon after, I began seeing a chiropractor on a regular basis. As long as I got adjusted, I didn’t get migraines. I also found that any injuries I sustained while training were healing a lot faster than my teammates. We were all seeing the same athletic trainers, getting the same treatments, eating the same foods, doing the same workouts, but I was able to come back quicker than others.