I am Dr. Michael D Bucknell, owner and treating physician at South Alabama Chiropractic.  I want to share with you my story of how Chiropractic changed my life.  From childhood I suffered with terrible Allergies.  Going through every method of treatment they could come up with including Medications, steroid, antibiotics, and Allergy Shots (11 years total), nothing seemed to help.  When surgery became the last option my mother, who worked as a nurse for an Eyes, Ears, Nose, and Throat Specialist threw in the towel and said NO!  The same routine continued, with recurrent sinus infections almost monthly, until I was old enough to decide it could not be healthy and wanted to stop.

When it became time to look into college I knew I wanted to be a Doctor, but with the "failure" I had gone through I wanted to find a simpler, more logical approach to Health Care.  When Chiropractic was recommended to me, due to the fact there was a Chiropractic college in town, I began to investigate and was amazed I had never heard much about it before.  To sum up the story, I realized a short time after beginning my education and getting regular adjustments that my allergies had all but ceased.  I will always remember the first day of school when the professor asked what brought you to Chiropractic school and I had no inspiring story other than "the school was close", but I see now that God had a calling on my life.

Since I entered private practice on June 26th of 2004 my philosophy has been simple; bring the most effective treatment and the most innovative health information available to as many people as possible.  Understanding that our Service begins with Education is the key to your achievement of outstanding Health.  Innovation through the use of technology assists the education process, that's why we have added a Patient Media Room with a nine foot theatre screen for patient presentations.  We have made our commitment to ensure that the best outcome is achieved and will continue to grow and change as needed until this goal is met, and Mobile is changed from our efforts.

After graduating from Pierre Laclede's Honors College at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, I claimed my Doctorate and a Bachelor's of Science in Human Biology at age 24 at Logan College of Chiropractic in Chesterfield, MO.  Spending countless hours aside from general education I have always strived to find the "keys" to absolute health, and uncover why, though we are the wealthiest and best educated country in the world today, our health continues to decline as a population while our wallets must get deeper and deeper to keep up.  It is my goal to educate as many as possible as I continue to learn, and help lead you to a level of health you previously thought only the wealthy could afford.

Our mission statement best states, and simplifies, our purpose and motivation:

"PROTECT LIFE...MAXIMIZE POTENTIAL"


Achieving A Maximized Life

The first step in attaining "Total Health" is in the understanding of the most fundamental principals of Health.  You must first start with what Health is.  Health by definition is; "Soundness, especially of body or mind; freedom from infirmity or abnormality."  By this definition you can see that you can never achieve "Total Health" without addressing ALL three sectors of the Triune of Health:

Physical or Structural Health
Chemical or Nutritional Health
Mental, Emotional, or Spiritual Health

In the Bible, Paul reminds us that; "know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's (1 Corinthians 6:19-20)."  Realizing the full potential of these statements mean the complete acquisition of Total Health by achieving all three sectors of the Triune.  I will address all three of these critical components to the best of my ability. 

The first sector of Physical or Structural Health is attained with care for the Physical Body.  Through the fundamentals of proper Nervous System Function (Chiropractic), Exercise, and avoidance of physical insult, the physical body can be maximized and is capable of remarkable abilities.  As the Nervous System is the master control system for the entire body from your muscles to your internal organs, it is absolutely critical that the Nervous System be free from interference.  Though Nutrition and Mental status play a factor in nerve impulse interference, Chiropractic is the best method for removing Physical interference from the Nervous System.  It is important to remember that the Physical body occupies anything that takes up space from your muscles and skeleton, to your internal organs and your external features.  Any physical misuse, disturbance, or invasion of the body is a physical insult by conclusion. 

The second sector of Chemical or Nutritional Health is more elusive to the extent that we cannot control this as easily.  With the increase of chemical use in every aspect of our daily lives it becomes difficult to decrease exposure to harmful materials.  Again, our Physical body is a remarkable creation and is quite capable of adapting to circumstances.  With the extraordinary advances in science the wealth of knowledge in proper nutrition and chemical stability becomes more clear each day.  Funny though that it appears the more we learn the more we realize we should not have changed anything.  The key to proper Nutrition is Simplicity.  Utilizing the full potential of what was "given to us", and avoiding that which was made by "feeble minds" is the first stepping stone in nourishing your body for remarkable Health.  If the right things go in and the wrong things stay out, the right things will stay in and the wrong things will be forced out.

The final sector of the Triune is your Mental, Emotional, or Spiritual Health.  This is by far the Most Difficult to attain without the proper foundation.  Life is confusing. Unless you know your purpose, your life will be fraught with Frustration, Depression, Inadequacy, Grief, Disarray, Complication, Anxiety, and Loneliness.  As you well know these are the foundations of every single Psychological disorder known to man.  As our knowledge expands and we continue to "revel in our great wisdom", believing that we can explain anything through science and pin down the underlying natural cause and psychiatric solution for every mental disorder, the number and complexity of cases continues to increase.  Again, the more we learn the more we realize we had the solution to our Mental well-being all along, and the unraveling science overwhelmingly supports it.  As with each sector of the Triune of Health, you must work to attain it through study and contemplation.  These answers can all be found in the ultimate life enhancement owner's manual, the bible.

Your attainment of these Principles is my purpose.  And I will continue to use every resource at my disposal to ensure you have the answers within reach.  All you have to do is get plugged in and stick around!

This is my passion and my pledge.

  Dr. Michael D. Bucknell D.C., B.S.

Dr. Bucknell's Credentials:
          Licensed Doctor of Chiropractic
          Bachelor of Science in Human Biology
          Board Certified in both Chiropractic and Physical Therapeutics
          Member of the Alabama State Chiropractic Association
          Certified Maximized Living Mentor
          40 Day Body By God Extreme Makeover Challenge Instructor 
          Trained in The Pettibon System, Diversified, Activator, etc...