GILROY
– A local chiropractor will join a goodwill trip to Mexico to
provide treatment – free of charge – to families in need.
By Lori Stuenkel
GILROY – A local chiropractor will join a goodwill trip to Mexico to provide treatment – free of charge – to families in need. Arman Daryaie and 14 other Bay Area chiropractors will travel to Acapulco, Mexico, next week on a “mission trip,” offering their services to people with no health insurance.
“I’m very excited,” Daryaie said. “This is going to be my first time (making the goodwill trip). But at the same time, I don’t think it’s going to be my last time.”
Chiropractor Anthony Wilson, who organized the mission trip, said it is truly a humanitarian effort on the part of participants.
“It’s coming straight out of the pockets of the doctors,” Wilson said.
The chiropractors will each pay their way and bring along their own equipment, such as a collapsible examining table. Several chiropractors, including Daryaie, will also donate small toys to the children visiting the clinic. Daryaie is accepting toy donations at the Ultimate Health Chiropractic of Gilroy, at 1207 First St., today and Friday.
Daryaie and his colleagues will be stationed in groups of three to five at several churches in Acapulco, treating between 800 and 1,000 patients each during the five-day clinic, for a total of close to 15,000 patients.
Some patients are seen multiple times during the chiropractors’ stay, Wilson said.
“I’ve seen some pretty dramatic results in the week that I’ve been there,” said Wilson, who has made similar trips the past four or five years with various chiropractic groups.
The chiropractors will examine each patient and perform services such as spinal cord and extremity adjustment. Adjustments can ease back pain, headaches, pain in the arms or legs, quiet colicky children and help those who have trouble sleeping, Wilson said.
If a patient comes in with obvious medical problems, the chiropractors will also try to connect the patients with local doctors who work on a goodwill basis.
Donations can be dropped off Friday from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 3 to 6 p.m.
