Chiropractor opens new center in Moses Lake
Chiropractor opens new center in Moses Lake
Ribellia puts emphasis on overall health
MOSES LAKE — Dr. Saul Ribellia is stepping to the tune of his DNA.
Like his father, also a Moses Lake chiropractor, Ribellia has opened an office in Moses Lake.
Life Wellness Chiropractic, located at 821 E. Broadway Ave., Suite 18, opened in December. A grand opening ceremony will take place Saturday, beginning at 11 a.m.
But Ribellia didn't originally intend to follow his father into the chiropractic practice. As an undergraduate, he was considering homeopathic medicine, but in conversations with his father and a brother in chiropractic school, Ribellia found himself amazed by the body's healing potential.
"It just does it itself, to some regard," he said. "If you cut your hand, it heals right? And you'd expect it to. But on a much, much bigger scale, there's no cure for anything. The cure lies within each person."
As Ribellia was exploring the natural healing arts as a profession, he still found homeopathic medicine to be finding a cure by eating or drinking or applying something, and not giving the natural healing process proper credit.
"With chiropractic, just the thought process that, 'Wow, they just put their hands on someone or their instrument or however they may take care of someone, and then they let it go and they let that person heal," Ribellia said. "That was awesome to me, that I would actually be able to walk out of chiropractic school with just what's in my head, what's in my heart and my ability in my hands and be able to help people."
The Ribellias originally moved to Moses Lake in 1991, when Saul was about 12 years old.
Ribellia left town to attend school, and he and wife of four years Jennifer and their two children, Simon, 3, and Anna, 1, intended to move to Bend, Ore., but found the prospect of making the long commute to visit family and friends unappealing, so they elected to return.
Ribellia practiced with his father for several months, and then moved forward with his goals to open his own practice.
Life Wellness Chiropractic's main focus is health care, Ribellia said, at a time when health is diminishing across the U.S. and the three leading causes of death in the nation are heart disease, cancer and treatment of disease processes.
"There's a need for something different, and so on top of traditional chiropractic care, where we in this office literally measure the nervous system and regulate that because the nervous system controls everything in the body, we also measure the overall health and wellness through a state-of-the-art system called the Creating Wellness System," Ribellia said.
That system measures more than 52 components of someone's health and creates a system customized to a patient's health needs and goals. How someone thinks, eats and moves or exercises determines more than 90 percent of their longevity and quality of life, Ribellia said.
"Our mission statement here is to help as many people as possible reach their God-given potential," he said.
Before making the move, Ribellia called many of the chiropractors in town to get a feel for the atmosphere chiropractic-wise and health care-wise. The people Ribellia spoke to told him about 15 percent of the general population was being served. Ribellia said he doesn't look at the situation as though he is competing with those chiropractors already in practice, including his father, he's looking at the 85 percent of the population that still needs care, and several of the chiropractors he spoke to invited him to come to the area, even into their own offices.
"Chiropractic is often looked at as a feel-good sort of situation," he said, explaining that people often think of it in terms of a massage or something wealthy people get. "It's not the case. The case in point is that we're measuring someone's nervous system and we're making sure that the body is functioning properly."
If someone's nervous system isn't functioning properly, they do have health issues that need to be adjusted and corrected, Ribellia said. He hopes more people will get their nervous systems checked in order to reverse the declining health trends across the country.
"People need to start looking at it in a whole different way," he said. "This is not a feel-good sort of situation. Sometimes feeling bad is a good thing. If you eat bad food, feeling bad is a good thing. You're supposed to throw it up. If you put your hand on a hot burner, if you didn't feel bad for a second, would that be a good thing? Pain and discomfort is a good thing at certain times in your life."
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