August 2025 Newsletter
When I first came to town in June 1998, there was a yearly event called the “Meta Physical Health Fair” (thank-you, Roxanne Roberts). Its aim was to expose people to other ways to pursue optimal health. It was held at the Ute Pass Cultural Center and was well attended. You had an assortment of alternative health practitioners like: reflexologists, aura readers, essential oils experts, herbologists, homeopaths, naturopaths, acupuncturists and one newly arrived chiropractor (me). We were often trying to explain what we did and why it worked. It culminated with the creation of a small booklet that had a directory of the various local people who did what is called alternative healthcare. A very nice part of the booklet gave an explanation for the therapies. It was a good resource. I hope to use this final newsletter as a similar resource for you.
Dr. David Contreras tells me he was born to immigrant parents. His father was Filipino, his mother, Canadian. His dad was in the US Navy so he says, “I lived all over the world.” He joined the US Air Force and served our country for thirteen years. He graduated from Life University with a doctorate in chiropractic. During 2008-2023, he practiced in three states: Florida, Tennessee and Arkansas. We met last June, through the recommendation of one of my satisfied patient’s, Ms. Gentry. He was looking for a chiropractor that did Activator “with all the tests” because to him that meant I was “doing it right.” I have a similar opinion. He adjusts exclusively using the Activator and the Impulse (electric version). He follows the protocol they taught me. He is passionate about chiropractic and has a heart for helping people with their health. He wants to continue his studies at Charis and plans to live in Woodland Park a long time.
Dr. Tessa Lowenstein along with her dad, Dr. Mark Lowenstein are also recommended. Mark has been my main chiropractor for many years now. Dr. Tessa Lowensteing graduated
from the same college I went to, Cleveland Chiropractic in Kansas City. Mark has been a chiropractor for over forty years. They run a nicely organized clinic with an X-ray machine, but don’t use the physical therapy gadgets like I do. They use both the electric activator, called the Neuromechanical Impulse, and the more original activator tool. They also use a drop table similar to the one I sometimes use. Their clinic is 1310 So. 21st St., Colorado Springs. I can drive there from my office in just under 25 minutes. Phone (719) 630-7032.
Dr. Cindy Reason is also an activator doctor. She has been in Woodland Park longer than I have. She works with her chiropractor husband Dr. Rick Reason. Rick will use the instrument to adjust you if you ask. He is more inclined to do what I call more traditional chiropractic. Dr. Cindy sticks to using the tool. She had a rollover accident a few years ago and had to recover from a concussion. Since then, I hear some wonderful testimonies of people who say they recovered better from their concussion because of her personal insights. Phone number is (719) 687-5440.
Dr. Scott Little has been in Woodland Park since 2016. When he was a young teen, he was a ranch hand at a place near Turkey Creek and loved it here in the mountains. He told me when we met that Woodland Park was where he wanted to live as soon as he graduated. Then he fell in love and married someone who wasn’t ready to move that far from home to the mountains. He had two different practices in Indiana before she said she was ready to move to the mountains. He advertises that he adjusts animals, but he adjusts people too. I have met three of his patients and they praise him highly. He is trained in a method called Tophnes. He told me his adjustments are even gentler than mine. “The most force I ever use is a thump from an activator and I don’t use it that much.” He has an interesting video to watch on his website. It’s about twenty minutes long, and he explains his reason for not using insurance
and setting up payment strategies to make more frequent adjusting more affordable. If you watch his video all the way to the end he will give you the answer to two questions. At your first visit if you tell him the answers, he gives a fifty-dollar credit towards that initial visit (these are not hard questions). I found him a very people-oriented doctor that wants his patients to get well and live in optimal health. His phone number is 719-330-2501. Located at 321 W. Henrietta Avenue, Woodland Park.
Here are some other resources that are not chiropractic. Dr. Simone Gold has set up an option for health insurance. Go to the website of Americas Frontline Doctors, http://Americasfrontlinedoctors.org, which is the nation’s leading medical and civil liberties organization. She started a system called “Goldcare”, which people can join for a small amount of money and have access to a doctor via zoom for when they really need to talk to a doctor. It also includes access to a huge library of videos and lectures on health, and discounts for vitamins and Ivermectin or Hydroxychloroquine.
Peak Wellness Lounge is operated by Linda Cecere DNP and is located at 400 W. Midland Ave, Suite 201, Woodland Park. Phone number is (719) 669-1735. Using a holistic approach with individual assessment, this is a place to get vitamin injections, IV infusions, the Myer’s cocktail. Bioidentical hormone therapy both for men and women, GLP-1 peptides, and body contouring. Just to clarify, about a Myer’s cocktail. It’s an IV, not an alcoholic beverage. It has B-12, magnesium, calcium and twelve essential amino acids. It is recommended to help a person recover from exhausting activities (like a marathon). It’s also said to help migraines, arthritis, fibromyalgia, acute viral infections, mood disorders, muscle spasms and pain, asthma/allergies, nutritional deficiencies, nervous system imbalances and other things. Call or check their website for more information.
Tree of Life Wellness Center, opened by Nancy Coen is like a one-stop shop for massage, including sports, prenatal, medical, geriatric, raindrop therapy, cupping. They also they offer infrared sauna, Pulsed Electro Magnetic Therapy, iconic foot de-tox baths, oxygen bar, vibrational sound wave therapy. Located at 250 N. Center St., Woodland Park. Phone number is (719) 374-6420. My massage therapist there is Marisabel Blue (781) 640-3359.
Personally speaking, I’ve not been secretive about my misgivings to leave and move to Berthoud, CO. I don’t like the heat and Berthoud is always warmer than here. (by about 15 deg.) It’s windy, like where we lived in Kansas, but at least it sort of cools off at night. Living close to family as you age is a very helpful thing. There’s no guarantee they won’t move away themselves, but usually, they don’t. I’ve missed many of my bi-monthly visits with my daughter in Berthoud over the last sixteen years, simply due to weather. That makes me think that Norm might be right about living closer to our children and grandchildren. The older you get, the more difficult it can be to move. He moved to the mountains twenty-seven years ago because that’s what I wanted. It wasn’t his preference and was challenging for him in many aspects of both his business and his position in the Kansas National Guard. I’ve been grateful for this one last summer to spend three days each week where it is cool and the air smells so wonderful. I’m working on my attitude. My last day of seeing patients in the office will be August 21st. I close on selling the building Sept. 2nd. Dr. Dave Contreras has agreed to take over my practice, but might relocate to a place that is a smaller, more affordable space. He’ll have afternoon office hours, maybe Saturdays. We’ll put a sign on the door if he relocates. We both know you’ll choose as you like, but he has the training and experience to do a “real activator” adjustment and I recommend that. I’ll be saying goodbye all month – come by if you want – I may even serve cookies!
When I first came to town in June 1998, there was a yearly event called the “Meta Physical Health Fair” (thank-you, Roxanne Roberts). Its aim was to expose people to other ways to pursue optimal health. It was held at the Ute Pass Cultural Center and was well attended. You had an assortment of alternative health practitioners like: reflexologists, aura readers, essential oils experts, herbologists, homeopaths, naturopaths, acupuncturists and one newly arrived chiropractor (me). We were often trying to explain what we did and why it worked. It culminated with the creation of a small booklet that had a directory of the various local people who did what is called alternative healthcare. A very nice part of the booklet gave an explanation for the therapies. It was a good resource. I hope to use this final newsletter as a similar resource for you.
Dr. David Contreras tells me he was born to immigrant parents. His father was Filipino, his mother, Canadian. His dad was in the US Navy so he says, “I lived all over the world.” He joined the US Air Force and served our country for thirteen years. He graduated from Life University with a doctorate in chiropractic. During 2008-2023, he practiced in three states: Florida, Tennessee and Arkansas. We met last June, through the recommendation of one of my satisfied patient’s, Ms. Gentry. He was looking for a chiropractor that did Activator “with all the tests” because to him that meant I was “doing it right.” I have a similar opinion. He adjusts exclusively using the Activator and the Impulse (electric version). He follows the protocol they taught me. He is passionate about chiropractic and has a heart for helping people with their health. He wants to continue his studies at Charis and plans to live in Woodland Park a long time.
Dr. Tessa Lowenstein along with her dad, Dr. Mark Lowenstein are also recommended. Mark has been my main chiropractor for many years now. Dr. Tessa Lowensteing graduated
from the same college I went to, Cleveland Chiropractic in Kansas City. Mark has been a chiropractor for over forty years. They run a nicely organized clinic with an X-ray machine, but don’t use the physical therapy gadgets like I do. They use both the electric activator, called the Neuromechanical Impulse, and the more original activator tool. They also use a drop table similar to the one I sometimes use. Their clinic is 1310 So. 21st St., Colorado Springs. I can drive there from my office in just under 25 minutes. Phone (719) 630-7032.
Dr. Cindy Reason is also an activator doctor. She has been in Woodland Park longer than I have. She works with her chiropractor husband Dr. Rick Reason. Rick will use the instrument to adjust you if you ask. He is more inclined to do what I call more traditional chiropractic. Dr. Cindy sticks to using the tool. She had a rollover accident a few years ago and had to recover from a concussion. Since then, I hear some wonderful testimonies of people who say they recovered better from their concussion because of her personal insights. Phone number is (719) 687-5440.
Dr. Scott Little has been in Woodland Park since 2016. When he was a young teen, he was a ranch hand at a place near Turkey Creek and loved it here in the mountains. He told me when we met that Woodland Park was where he wanted to live as soon as he graduated. Then he fell in love and married someone who wasn’t ready to move that far from home to the mountains. He had two different practices in Indiana before she said she was ready to move to the mountains. He advertises that he adjusts animals, but he adjusts people too. I have met three of his patients and they praise him highly. He is trained in a method called Tophnes. He told me his adjustments are even gentler than mine. “The most force I ever use is a thump from an activator and I don’t use it that much.” He has an interesting video to watch on his website. It’s about twenty minutes long, and he explains his reason for not using insurance
and setting up payment strategies to make more frequent adjusting more affordable. If you watch his video all the way to the end he will give you the answer to two questions. At your first visit if you tell him the answers, he gives a fifty-dollar credit towards that initial visit (these are not hard questions). I found him a very people-oriented doctor that wants his patients to get well and live in optimal health. His phone number is 719-330-2501. Located at 321 W. Henrietta Avenue, Woodland Park.
Here are some other resources that are not chiropractic. Dr. Simone Gold has set up an option for health insurance. Go to the website of Americas Frontline Doctors, http://Americasfrontlinedoctors.org, which is the nation’s leading medical and civil liberties organization. She started a system called “Goldcare”, which people can join for a small amount of money and have access to a doctor via zoom for when they really need to talk to a doctor. It also includes access to a huge library of videos and lectures on health, and discounts for vitamins and Ivermectin or Hydroxychloroquine.
Peak Wellness Lounge is operated by Linda Cecere DNP and is located at 400 W. Midland Ave, Suite 201, Woodland Park. Phone number is (719) 669-1735. Using a holistic approach with individual assessment, this is a place to get vitamin injections, IV infusions, the Myer’s cocktail. Bioidentical hormone therapy both for men and women, GLP-1 peptides, and body contouring. Just to clarify, about a Myer’s cocktail. It’s an IV, not an alcoholic beverage. It has B-12, magnesium, calcium and twelve essential amino acids. It is recommended to help a person recover from exhausting activities (like a marathon). It’s also said to help migraines, arthritis, fibromyalgia, acute viral infections, mood disorders, muscle spasms and pain, asthma/allergies, nutritional deficiencies, nervous system imbalances and other things. Call or check their website for more information.
Tree of Life Wellness Center, opened by Nancy Coen is like a one-stop shop for massage, including sports, prenatal, medical, geriatric, raindrop therapy, cupping. They also they offer infrared sauna, Pulsed Electro Magnetic Therapy, iconic foot de-tox baths, oxygen bar, vibrational sound wave therapy. Located at 250 N. Center St., Woodland Park. Phone number is (719) 374-6420. My massage therapist there is Marisabel Blue (781) 640-3359.
Personally speaking, I’ve not been secretive about my misgivings to leave and move to Berthoud, CO. I don’t like the heat and Berthoud is always warmer than here. (by about 15 deg.) It’s windy, like where we lived in Kansas, but at least it sort of cools off at night. Living close to family as you age is a very helpful thing. There’s no guarantee they won’t move away themselves, but usually, they don’t. I’ve missed many of my bi-monthly visits with my daughter in Berthoud over the last sixteen years, simply due to weather. That makes me think that Norm might be right about living closer to our children and grandchildren. The older you get, the more difficult it can be to move. He moved to the mountains twenty-seven years ago because that’s what I wanted. It wasn’t his preference and was challenging for him in many aspects of both his business and his position in the Kansas National Guard. I’ve been grateful for this one last summer to spend three days each week where it is cool and the air smells so wonderful. I’m working on my attitude. My last day of seeing patients in the office will be August 21st. I close on selling the building Sept. 2nd. Dr. Dave Contreras has agreed to take over my practice, but might relocate to a place that is a smaller, more affordable space. He’ll have afternoon office hours, maybe Saturdays. We’ll put a sign on the door if he relocates. We both know you’ll choose as you like, but he has the training and experience to do a “real activator” adjustment and I recommend that. I’ll be saying goodbye all month – come by if you want – I may even serve cookies!
