ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT
Carter West , a DC student at the NUHS Florida-site ( third from left ), and his father Dr . Jason West , mother Maxine , and brother Dalton , hold up t-shirts they received during a tour of the Florida-site with Daniel Strauss , DC , Dean of the College of Professional Studies at NUHS Florida-site .
technology has since improved , this happened when the trains were rammed together for coupling mechanisms and the engineers and conductors would experience whiplash-type injuries . The Union Pacific Railroad used to send engineers , conductors and executives from all over the United States to his office .
His son , Henry Sr ., ’ 33 , joined the practice and was also successful . He became a board member of the National Chiropractic Association and was instrumental in the development of Chiropractic National Standards , the forerunner of the National Boards . He expanded the practice with diversified and sacral-occipatal technique ( SOT ), and incorporated a wide variety of physiologic therapeutics such as UV light , diathermy , iontophoresis and longwave ultrasound .
He then passed the practice on to Carter ’ s grandfather , Henry Jr ., a 1960 Western States graduate and American Chiropractic Association president ( 1976-1980 ). Eventually , he passed the practice to Carter ’ s father , Jason , a 2000 Southern California University of Health Sciences graduate , who currently treats a wide variety of arthritis , auto-immune , Lyme disease and peripheral neuropathy conditions .
In his career , Carter plans to continue his family ’ s legacy of work at the West Clinic in Idaho . However , he also plans to pursue a naturopathic medicine ( ND ) degree at NUHS ’ Illinois campus .
“ I was drawn to NUHS because of the dual-doctorate DC / ND pathway ,” he said . “ Both ND and DC degrees will make me that much better of a provider in my home state of Idaho .”
Despite his father encouraging him to pursue other health care fields including dentistry , allopathy or osteopathy , he kept coming back to his roots .
“ I have seen my family help so many people with chronic , complex and unresolved health problems . Once you see someone being helped with adjustments , therapy and nutrition , it ’ s hard to not want to be a part of it . So , when you have the opportunity to help people and support yourself and family , it ’ s like a magnet . You just become attached to chiropractic medicine ,” he said .
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