Hello, I am Dr Mayfield, welcome to my practice.
My journey began in Napa Ca. where I was born the eldest of five children. All of us were powerful and competitive, hard workers and athletes. We enjoyed water skiing (now snow skiing), competitive swimming, and mountain biking. My father was a renowned master welder and he believed in keeping his children busy working hard and playing hard.
My chiropractic dream began early in life when my younger brother
nearly broke his neck landing on his head on our trampoline. He was paralyzed and could not move his hands or feet. My father took him to a chiropractor and with a lot of prodding the Doctor was able to return his neck to normal and he walked out of the chiropractors office on his own two feet. I was more than slightly impressed. After having lunch with that chiropractor I realized that this is what I want to do for the rest of my life.
I put myself through school doing various odd jobs, many of them were hard labor, so I do know what my hard working patients are all about in a days work. I still enjoy building rock walls and taking on big projects at my home.
My undergraduate work was at American River College in Sacramento. Two weeks into my senior year at Palmer Uncle Sam decided he needed me in the military more than I needed to complete my doctorate so I had a side journey of two years as a medic before I was able to complete my degree. I earned my doctorate from Palmer College of Chiropractic in Davenport Iowa in l972.
In chiropractic school I was seeing about 15 to 20 patients in an hour or so doing traditional hard force adjusting techniques. I was very good at technique but I noticed that just adjusting a patient was not addressing their complete issue.
I began to spend more time with patients, using gentler adjusting procedures, rubbing out their soft-tissue traumas and really addressing the depth of their problems. Consequently the adjustments on their spine seemed to hold and they became healthier and more stable.
I still consider realigning and stabilizing the spine as my primary role as a chiropractor and I have also devoted my life to learning countless new disciplines and expanding my wealth of knowledge. In my work I integrate Alexanders posture techniques, The Chinese five element theory, deep breathing techniques, applied kinesiology, organ adjustments, deep tissue massage and many other techniques of moving energy in the body.
In my spare time I recently completed a book on my work Awakening the Body Mind , it will come out this fall.
My wife Judy is my office manager and my best friend. I refer to her as the Boss . Judy is the person who will greet you, schedule you and help you with your paperwork and your financials. We met in 1988 in Palo Alto where she was living.
The night we met she had just assisted her dear friend Wenda as a Doula. She helped her in giving birth to one of our God Daughters Mariele. Mary is now twenty years old, we have eight god-daughters and one god son. They are all beautiful. Wenda and Judy co-directed a natural childbirth center in Palo Alto.One of the highlights of my life was when Judy and I visited our dear friends in Chamonix France and skied the Valley Blanc together, more specifically Mt. Blanc. Switzerland, France and Italy all come together at the top and we could see all three countries at one time. It was magnificent!
Judys background is in holistic health, psychology and nursing. Her latest love is Ceramics. She has turned one of our treatment rooms just off of the waiting room into a small gallery where she displays and sells her beautiful pottery.
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