EP #209: Dr. Maria Lopez Aquino with 100% Chiropractic Davie
Feb 06, 2024Episode 209
Jeremy Wolf
Discover the vibrant world of chiropractic care with Dr. Maria Lopez Aquino, whose journey from a chemistry student in Puerto Rico to a chiropractic expert at 100% Chiropractic Davie is as inspiring as it is educational. Dr. Lopez brings a wealth of knowledge and a personal touch to her practice, focusing on not just the spine but the nervous system as a whole, integrating massage therapies and nutrition advice to enhance patient care holistically.
Join us as we explore the nuances of optimizing health with Dr. Lopez, who shares her belief in the importance of a well-functioning nervous system and its profound impact on our overall well-being. Her bilingual abilities enhance her connection with a diverse community, making her insights invaluable to anyone curious about how spinal health affects every facet of our lives. Her story of transition from chemistry to chiropractic and her commitment to service through a franchise model is both motivating and enlightening for those looking to improve their quality of life.
Discover the vibrant world of chiropractic care with Dr. Maria Lopez Aquino, whose journey from a chemistry student in Puerto Rico to a chiropractic expert at 100% Chiropractic Davie is as inspiring as it is educational. Dr. Lopez brings a wealth of knowledge and a personal touch to her practice, focusing on not just the spine but the nervous system as a whole, integrating massage therapies and nutrition advice to enhance patient care holistically.
Join us as we explore the nuances of optimizing health with Dr. Lopez, who shares her belief in the importance of a well-functioning nervous system and its profound impact on our overall well-being. Her bilingual abilities enhance her connection with a diverse community, making her insights invaluable to anyone curious about how spinal health affects every facet of our lives. Her story of transition from chemistry to chiropractic and her commitment to service through a franchise model is both motivating and enlightening for those looking to improve their quality of life.
This is the Good Neighbor podcast, the place where local businesses and neighbors come together. Here's your host, Jeremy Wolf.
Speaker 2:
Hello, hello everyone, and welcome back to another episode of the Good Neighbor podcast. I'm your host, Jeremy Wolf, and today I'm joined by Dr Maria Lopez Aquino.
Speaker 1:
Yes.
Speaker 2:
With 100% chiropractic. Davey Dr. Should I call you Dr Aquino, dr Maria, dr Lopez, aquino, dr Lopez.
Speaker 3:
My second and last name. I'm from Puerto Rico and that's why you will see my two last name. So over here in the United States we only use one. But if I don't put my mom over there, she's going to be really mad.
Speaker 2:
Very cool. So, dr Lopez, thank you so much for joining us today. It's great to have you on the show.
Speaker 3:
Thanks for the invitation. We really appreciate it.
Speaker 2:
No, it's our pleasure, and thanks to our listeners for tuning in. So let's get into this. Tell everyone a little bit about 100% chiropractic Davey.
Speaker 3:
Yes, so we are. Thank you for first of all, thank you for the invitation. We are a chiropractic office, a corrected office. We specialize in the structure of the spine to optimize the nervous system right. We also offer not only chiropractic adjustment but also massage and also nutrition advice to all our community.
Speaker 2:
Okay, so I've done interviews with several chiropractors before and it seems that everyone has their own I guess their own niche of what they do. Talk a little bit about how you specialize in these different areas as opposed to some of the other main practices out there.
Speaker 3:
Yeah. So now chiropractic it's a huge field, especially in Florida, that we have so many personal injuries, motor vehicle accidents. So over here, obviously we treat people with motor vehicle accidents, but especially we specialize in how to optimize the nervous system Especially. That's why in each visit we take X-rays to see how is the structure, how is the spine, and not only just going like through okay, this is your symptoms. It's to optimize, like if you have headaches, if you have low energy, if your interstate is not working properly, how to improve your digestion. That's why we also implement supplementations and also massage and deep tissue massage, lineage drainage massage, to help each body, dependent in the patient right and what is happening, to optimize at the end of the day, optimize their life and improve their quality of life.
Speaker 2:
How did you get into this business? Tell us a little bit about your journey.
Speaker 3:
Yes, so I'm from Puerto Rico. I studied chemistry in Puerto Rico my bachelor degree and then I suddenly say you know what? I want to do something different and I moved to the state. I started in Georgia studying life university and I graduated like two years ago I start, I start working over there in the same company, 100% chiropractic. I think that it's a beautiful franchise that want to impact the world, impact the state and also the community to it's like to be taking care of ourselves better and to be our work and present of our body right and also that nervous system working how it's supposed to be, because the nervous system who makes us who we are, right, so it's to. At the end of the day, it's to serve right. We are here to educate, but also to give our best and serve each people, because right now we are living in a world that it's a lot is happening right and we want to optimize and also improve the quality of life of each citizen.
Speaker 2:
How did you land on the franchise model as opposed to opening up your own practice? I haven't. I haven't seen or haven't I don't think I've done an interview with a chiropractor that was part of a larger franchise. How did you arrive at the franchise? Let's hear a little bit about 100% chiropractic and their story.
Speaker 3:
Yeah, really, really crazy. When I, before graduating, I already passed all my boards and I was just like in the searching for a good office. That was like willing to my value and my priorities, that I wanted to serve to each patient Definitely crazy story I was supposed to be working in Tampa but and I ended in Tallahassee and then this opening occurred and there were like hey, you speak in Spanish, I speak Spanish. Right, you speak Spanish. It's the perfect life. You speak really good English too.
Speaker 3:
I think that you are amazing for the job. You are a leader, and we wait so many months, jeremy, to open this office. You don't have idea. We have some ups and downs, but finally we open. And it's because it's linked to my value and I think what I want to start like educating and also, at the end of this, it's we are educating, we are changing life here. It's not only just symptoms wise, it's to optimize their life and they can feel more happy if they can enjoy their life Right. So it's very, it's very exciting. I love the company and it's amazing.
Speaker 2:
How long ago do you open up in? Yeah, like your East Cooper City, right, or it's Davy, but it's basically East Cooper City right.
Speaker 3:
Yes, we are in. It's super strange, jeremy, because we are in Cooper City but our address says Hollywood, but the name of the company is Davy. Yeah, it's a trifecta.
Speaker 1:
It's good.
Speaker 2:
You encompass all three cities. That's good for. That's good for business, right? You could draw in clients from a larger area.
Speaker 3:
It's weird. It's weird, we were working with that, but we opened three since November. Yeah, like this is our third month, like like, say, third month right now, so we are, so you're in.
Speaker 2:
Brand spanking new in the community. Well, welcome to our great community. It's so wonderful to have you guys here. You mentioned earlier, before we started, that you have another Franchise location in palm beach right.
Speaker 3:
Yes, well, it's palm beach. We have another location with dr Indira. She also speaks Spanish. She's from Puerto Rico. I didn't know, um, but definitely we are expanding our. Our franchise has like a hundred offices around the united states, um, and that's a good thing, because you cannot I miss your adjustment. If you are going to colorado, for example, you can get adjusted over there because we transfer your x-rays and everything and we have All this community and that that can mean that communication continuously with the whole company, right, um, so that's amazing. And right now, here in this um in south florida, we're going to be open soon in kendall and pompano beach and del rey beach also too.
Speaker 2:
Interesting, interesting. So, oh, I think a lot of people out there have some Misconceptions about chiropractors in general. What would you say to them to kind of, I guess, illuminate what, what it is that you guys do, and to clear up some of those myths and misconceptions that people have?
Speaker 3:
Yeah, for sure. There's so many things right now in the web, in the internet. Then they can get to the misconception about is just a cracking sound, because obviously that feels good and that sounds get that relaxed into our body for sure. But at the end of the day we want to. That's why we take x-rays. There are so many things that Tell us like, hey, not to adjust this region, not to adjust this area, because it's going to affect the well-being, right. That's why, with each patient, we take x-rays. It doesn't matter, obviously, if you're pregnant you will not going to take x-rays. But but we take x-rays to each people and to each patient because we want to see what is happening. And that's the thing we do. We have like a very we, we sit with the patient, we do a very detailed report, finding with them to they get the knowledge.
Speaker 3:
What is chiropractic? Wow, we are just in the region. It's not just the popping, the clicking the thing. It's so much more than that. It's that nervous system, that communication, brain, spina, core, nurse and vice versa, start working properly with any Interferation, because when it's something, it's happened, that, that blocking of the message, that's what we have, those symptoms, that's why our body. It's so intelligent, it's tell us like, hey, something is wrong body, we need, I need to do something right and that's the that's what we do in the office. That's why we see with each patient we Explained the x-ray, because that's very important for me, especially that they know what is happening internally because that is expressed externally right, and did they know that they have like, okay, we can do something about this, right, and that we can correct it. If we can correct it, if not, we're going to take to the patient for sure. That's our responsibility to tell.
Speaker 2:
So do you live in the area here?
Speaker 3:
Yes, I live in Coversity.
Speaker 2:
Good neighbor.
Speaker 3:
Yeah.
Speaker 2:
Love it. Yeah, I know have. Were you here before you opened the practice or did you move here for the practice?
Speaker 3:
I. I moved here for the office but with so many delays and stuff that happened, I ended moving here since May and we opened the office in november. So I have time to discover, to go around. So yeah, I've been here for for more time than the office has been open.
Speaker 2:
What do you like to do for fun when you're not working?
Speaker 3:
So I have a dog. His name is Enzo Um, he's a golden golden rich gold.
Speaker 2:
A golden doodle.
Speaker 3:
Yeah. A golden doodle, yes, a golden doodle. He is my, my son, and we go all the time to dog parts. There's so much the amazing community of people that go to the dog part day. I feel that I'm getting my kid to the day care and everything, um, and I play peek-a-ball too, so, but I play a picket ball and I think I'm getting good.
Speaker 2:
I have not played yet. I've heard many great things about it.
Speaker 3:
It's easy, Jeremy. You need to try it. It's easier than tennis. For sure, it's more and more easy than tennis, so you should try it.
Speaker 2:
Yeah, it looks like a mix between tennis and ping pong.
Speaker 3:
Yeah, but it's so easy and you I don't know with tennis you need to run so much Over here you run right, but it's like it's more easy. It's more the ball. It's so lightweight that you cannot do the with the hit, with the paddle so hard because it's goal line so far away and that's not the goal. So it's like you are. It's very good. Oh, you should try.
Speaker 2:
I know I'll get out there. I'll get out there one day for sure. Yeah, what dog parks do you like to go to?
Speaker 3:
So right now I'm going more to the beach because he's Puerto Rican too, okay, so we love the beach too. So right now we're going over here especially. I think it's Hollywood, I think it's called the beach. It's in Hollywood. There is a beach only for dogs and you can see all the dogs running over there like crazy in the natural habit. It's amazing.
Speaker 2:
I wanna go to Hollywood dog beach. My little guy doesn't like the water so much though. So, little dogs don't like the water as much as the big ones.
Speaker 3:
Oh he, he's crazy, he, and he's not aware that he's that big. That's the issue over here. He wants to play with everyone and the little dogs are like, hey, you're too big for me, don't go near me. But he's very good. But he loved the beach and he loved like to do like run and, oh my God, he loved to run. He's amazing, but yeah.
Speaker 2:
I absolutely adore dogs, love them to death.
Speaker 3:
Oh my God, me too. Sometimes he comes to us too, he's. We are trying, we are working to get that therapy dog for him, for Ansel, because I want him to be also like, give that extra thing to the office so that he can be over there. But we need to be very careful because not everybody loves dogs.
Speaker 2:
So yeah, it's unfortunate.
Speaker 3:
Yes, it's so sad. It's so sad, but we're working with that, don't worry yeah.
Speaker 2:
So, before we wrap up here, what would be the one thing that you'd like to leave our listeners with? That you'd like them to know about your business?
Speaker 3:
Yeah, so, first of all, thank you for the opportunity.
Speaker 3:
But it's so important to know what is happening inside of us, especially with our structure, with our spine, but, most importantly, in our nervous system.
Speaker 3:
That is who makes us who we are, right, and we need to be very present, we need to hear our body. Sometimes we start taking we just go over the day, right, and we live in a society that is like everything's so much, but we need to slow down, take care of ourselves, because when it's get too late, like it's too late, right, and it's time to take care of ourselves, especially our nervous system, or spine, the who, who's made us who we are, for sure, and that communication, brain, nervous system is working how it's supposed to be and definitely we're going to be more proactive at work, but, most importantly, we're going to be more happy and we're going to have a better quality of life and, at the end of the day, that's what each one of us we should like. That will be our goal, right, to be more healthy, to be more proactive and to be more happy, right, and we're going to be a better society and we're going to be better, better persons at the end of the day.
Speaker 2:
Love the message, Absolutely love it. So for anyone listening out there who wants to learn more, how can we do that? Maybe share your website. Let us know your address and how we get in contact with you guys.
Speaker 3:
For sure. So right now we are located in 8570 Sternley Road. We are Hollywood, florida, if you're going to search for Google Very. We are near the UPS Store and also La Granja Knits to the Wilmore neighborhood and our phone number is 954-743-4133. And you can find us in Instagram and Facebook like 100% Keropetik Davey Florida.
Speaker 2:
Wonderful, and we will, of course, link in the description to all of your contact information. Dr Lopez, thank you so much for joining us today. It was a pleasure.
Speaker 3:
Thank you so much, jeremy. Have a great day, and thanks to everyone listening.
Speaker 2:
Yeah, thanks everyone for tuning in. We will catch you all next time. Everyone, take care and have a wonderful day.
Speaker 1:
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