Dr. Alyssa Smith

If you’re reading this, you’ve had chiropractic adjustments. And you know what it’s like the first time the doctor puts their hands on your bare, aching back.

Instantly, you know two things:

The hands of Dr. Alyssa Smith, hailing from the beautiful eastern shore of Maryland, DO!

You owe it to your spine to experience the hands attached to Dr. Smith, a common name associated with an uncommon young lady.

She was never given the chance ‘ta go down da ocean, hon,’ because she was already there; she’s from there. Not only that, but she stayed in the area for college, Salisbury University, a Sea Gull for the uninitiated.

It comes as no surprise that she has been under chiropractic since childhood because her family believed it was the best health care. Not only that, but it’s no surprise that she considered no other occupation other than being a chiropractor. It’s what she always wanted to be.

So, in college she earned a degree in Clinical Exercise Science from Salisbury University where she worked with cardiopulmonary patients. That was the spring of 2005. That fall, she entered the New York College of Chiropractic.

By going three semesters per year, she was able to graduate this past December, and she made the Deans’ List. Maryland is one of the more difficult states to become licensed. There are four parts to the National Board each part is more difficult than the previous. In addition to passing these four parts on the first try (most don’t), she passed with flying colors. You see, you not only have to pass to qualify to sit for the Maryland jurisprudence exam, you need to earn a substantially higher grades. She did.

There are new techniques in chiropractic which are on the cutting edge: active and passive release for treating shoulder and knee problems, and flexion/distraction to decompress the lumbar disc. She mastered these techniques.