One of our members brought a guest today who spoke to us about his journey through life and becoming a chiropractor and then a practitioner of applied kinesiology. Dr. Drew McMillen told us how he found his way to his present line of work. He found himself in a meeting of the class in chiropractic school where students were all describing epiphany moments when they decided to become a chiropractor. They had a personal history of musculoskeletal injury or disease and were helped by a chiropractor they saw and formed a dream of becoming one themselves. Dr. McMillen felt left out and wondered if this were a profession for him because he hadn't had such an epiphany at all. He had wondered through life thinking that if he had no so-called "calling" then he would just be a person with no devotion to his work, but he would do his work to the best of his ability. He was working in a grocery store when one day when he was still fighting within himself about his life direction, and fully 11 chiropractors came through the line. He decided that was an omen, and went to school for the chiropractic. School was hard, but he finished and started to practice. But he found that patients are not modeled to what he had learned in school. He felt that trying to mold people's problems into his learning was somehow phony and he was not sure he could continue this work. By chance at this time his mother who was taking the Course in Miracles, met another member of the class whose grandson was just finishing his internship in chiropracty. They met through these women, and from this young intern, Dr. McMillen absorbed his enthusiasm and became impressed when the young intern used methods unknown to Dr. McMillen from his training to diagnose a strained knee that the intern didn't even know Dr. McMillen had suffered. The young intern was practicing applied kinesiology. Therefore, Dr. McMillen found a 150 hour course in applied kinesiology and began to add all this knowledge to his practice. Now his practice is only about 2-3% chiropractic.
Dr. McMillen feels that he can help people beyond just making them symptom free. He feels he can help his clients to get to their highest level of an expression of normal. He now feels that the diagnostic method he uses is no longer fraudalent and he has great confidence in what he does. He found that people come to his office with all sorts of problems: stress, the fight or flight reaction, psychosomatic problems, relationship problems, in addition to physical ailments. Formerly he had to put these issues in the form of an abnormal bone or musculoskeletal source, but now he felt that the body was able through his diagnostic methods to tell him what was wrong and lead him to the correct treatment path. He has used courses in biochemistry, herbology, toxacology, and various other modalities to broaden his knowledge to help people. He practices in Boulder Colorado, but has opened an office in Elm Grove. On the evening of Feb 24, this evening he is holding a lecture and demonstration of some of his techniques.
Dr. Drew McMillen D.C.
925 Elm Grove Rd.
Elm Grove, WI 53122
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