Chiropractor offers all-around approach to physical health
By: Melissa McClendon - staff writer
There's a new doctor in town.
Dr. Lee Miller, has stepped in for Dr. Jo Lieta Bright. Miller a veteran chiropactor has been practicing since graduating from Cleveland Chiropractic school in Kansas City, Mo., in 1983.
He has been in Dr. Bright's office for three weeks and is excited about building a practice in the Pryor community.
"It's similar to Woodward. I like a small practice I like the rural community type of atmosphere. I like knowing my patients," said Miller. "I appoligize to some of my patients for having to get used to a new chiropractor. I know that's tough. It takes a few visits for me to get used to a patient and for a patient to get used to me. It should work out relatively well."
Miller has taken over for Dr. Bright, who has left her practice due to a medical disability. Miller will manage her office, Absolute Best Chiropractic, located at 2 S. Coo-Y-Yah, Pryor.
"Her technique and her practice management approach is real similar to what I've done in the past, what I like. So, it should be a pretty smooth transistion."
He has an extensive background in the medical field. He got his start as a respiratory therapist and decided to go into chiropractic after spending some time as a cardiovascular prefussionist."As a cardivascular prefussionist I used to run a heart lung machine. In that, you are responsible for taking any of the orders, putting blood on the pump if you needed to, which became an issue with me. I did my training down at Texas Heart and we did a lot of Jehovah's Witnesses. That required no blood on the pump, they don't take blood transfusions. I started studying with Jehovah's Witnesses and became one. I decided I didn't want to put myself in a position where that was going to be an issue so I just got a new job."
He considered becoming an emergency room doctor but after visiting with his father, a osteopathic doctor of 40 years, he decided to go into the chiropractic field.
"Although medicine has a place, I really feel there is a better need for something without drugs. I've always looked at medicine and drugs as being kind of a first aid type of first defense, set the bones, stop the bleeding, get rid of the infection," said Miller. "When it comes to long term health, my personal opinion ... if you get rid of the interference with the nervous system then that lets you see what the body can do."
Miller says he wants to take care of all kinds of people in the community.
"I want to take care of folks who have trouble with sinus headaches, asthma, gastric upset including upset stomachs. I do some electro acupuncture," said Miller.
He uses four different techniques some are hard some are soft. He has nutritional counceling, electroacuptuncture and a weight loss program. His weight loss program is "old school" and consists of using body types like the popular Zone diet. He says he uses a change of life style approach and provides counseling on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
He hopes to expand his practice in another direction. He is associated will Lab One in Lenexa, Kan., which is a federally certified drug testing laboratory, and plans to connect with the industrial park to do drug screenings and Department of Transportation screenings.
Until then he will continue to get acquainted with his new surroundings and new patients while using an approach to medicine that has been successful for him.
"I gave up a long time ago trying to heal folks and trying to change everybody's mind," says Miller. "Pretty much people are going to do what they want to do, and what I'm really trying to do is get rid of the nerve interference."
edited to make text readable ~ Scully