 
Hello, I am Dr Mayfield, welcome to my practice.
I was born in Napa California, 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.
I was introduced to chiropractic when my younger brother nearly broke his neck landing on his head on our trampoline. He was paralyzed. He could not move his hands or feet. My father took him to a chiropractor. The chiropractor had to work on his totally spasmed neck, take another x-ray and repeat working on him five more times before my brother walked out of the chiropractor's office that evening on his own two feet. I was quite 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 working full time jobs, many of them 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. I served two years as a medic in the army. 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 about an hour doing traditional hard force adjusting techniques. I was very good at technique but I soon realized that just adjusting the vertebrae was not addressing the patient's underlying issues.
I began to spend more time with patients, using gentler adjusting procedures, rubbing out soft-tissue traumas and really addressing the depth of patient's problems. I learned, and developed procedures on my own that effectively realigned the primary spinal curves, bringing them back to stability and normal flexibility. The new procedures allowed my patients to evolve physically, emotionally, mentally and ultimately spiritually from visit to visit. I began to feel more fulfilled in my work.
With all that I have learned about how the body's energy systems operate, my core focus is realigning and stabilizing the spine. That's job one. I have devoted my life to learning countless new disciplines and expanding my wealth of knowledge for my 38-year career.
I recently completed "Body Intelligence": how to think outside your brain. It was published May of 2009. This is a book about the 7 simple habits that not only heal you, but help you get out of old habits of thinking only with your rational-analytical brain. These simple habits let you tap into your multi-dimensional mind. You can learn more about my book by going to my website http://body-intelligence.net
My wife Judy is my office manager and my best friend. 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 The Birth Place, a natural childbirth center connected with Stanford Hospital in Palo Alto.
Judy's background is in holistic health, psychology and nursing. She creates beautiful Ceramics. She has turned one of our treatment rooms just off of the waiting room into a small gallery where she displays her pottery and greeting cards.
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