As a small child, Dr. Amanda always dreamed of becoming a doctor.  Years of dedication and hard work resulted in her graduating Ovid-Elsie high school as valedictorian and being accepted to Michigan State University’s pre-medical program (Bachelors of human biology).  Thriving on the educational process she graduated Magna Cum Laude with plans to enter the college’s school of osteopathic medicine.  A final step to the application required a tour of the medical center where she would be developing her knowledge and eventually realize her dream to be a “doctor”.

During this tour, she quickly began to realize that her perceptions did not reflect reality.  The reason she has chosen this specific school was the fact that this program focused on the osteopathic medical approach which most believe is more natural and vitalistic than the MD programs other institutions offer.  What she saw was something that was indistinguishable from any other medical approach that still focused primarily on masking symptoms through the drug/ surgical approach.

So with much heartache, she abandoned her lifelong dream and began to explore other options for her future career path.  During this time of exploration, her husband began to suffer horrifically with unrelenting low back pain.  He had sought out the help of numerous medical professionals and was told that anti-inflammatories and narcotics were his only feasible options.  Seeing this suffering led her eventually to convince him to seek out the care of a chiropractor against his doctor’s recommendations. 

To make a long story short, her husband found relief and healing very quickly through this approach and Dr. Amanda witnessed the vitalistic and root cause approach she had been looking for. 

Shortly after, Dr. Amanda began her chiropractic education at the fountainhead of chiropractic, Palmer College of Chiropractic in Davenport, Iowa.  It was here that she finally began to learn a system that was not focused on the treatment of symptoms but rather a systematic approach to wellness through root causes.

Nearly a year before graduation from Palmer she was exposed to a specialized approach called Upper Cervical Chiropractic and began the extensive training program to become an Upper Cervical Chiropractor. After nearly 10 years of schooling, work experience in both, and six cross country moves she and her husband decided they had finally learned enough to move home and open the Shiawassee Spinal Center in Owosso, MI. Dr. Amanda has been serving her community ever since.

Although Dr. Amanda is a seasoned clinician and adjuster who can care for whoever comes her way, she enjoys a thriving pregnancy and pediatric subset to practice and has cared for countless moms and babies from day one birth traumas to all of the childhood traumas that go mostly untreated until other secondary problems arise from them.

Anyone who meets Dr. Amanda would agree that her commitment, confidence, and caring are unparalleled and she will not stop until she gets the patient the answers they are searching for.  Dr. Amanda Cushman strives daily to live out the clinic motto which she coined over a decade ago…“This is where YOUR healing begins!”.