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Wednesday, May 17, 2017 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
Local chiropractor celebrating 20 years of service to Sisters
By Bethany Freudenthal
Correspondent
With a focus on wellness
care and planning for the
future, a local Sisters chi-
ropractor is celebrating 20
years of service to residents
of Sisters.
It was a cold, snowy
February 20 years ago when
Sisters resident and chiro-
practor Dr. Inice Gough,
along with her husband and
daughter visited Oregon for
the first time. They came to
Sisters from Georgia through
a work connection Gough’s
husband had, and decided to
stay.
“We wanted to live some-
place where there was more
open space outdoor activities.
I did not want my child hang-
ing out at a mall in the city.
I wanted her to experience
horses and skiing,” Gough
said.
Having already sold their
home, they were in Sisters
permanently by April.
They’ve been here ever since,
with Gough building her chi-
ropractic business around her
daughter’s school schedule
throughout the years.
As a child, Gough said
she had her first chiropractic
experience when she woke
up one day unable to move
her neck, so her mother drove
30 miles to the nearest chiro-
practor and she experienced
her first adjustment.
“I walked out of there
absolutely free of pain and
full movement and I thought
that he was magic. So my
first impression was just
magical. I’m like, ‘This guy’s
a magician,’” Gough said.
As an adult, Gough says
on her business website, that
a bad surgery, she suffered
from two bulging discs and
paralysis in her left leg that
were worse than her initial
injury. Chiropractic care
was the only treatment that
relieved her pain.
“I have severe joint dis-
ease, but I snowboard, I
mountain bike, I ride a bike. I
can do pretty much whatever
I want to do as long as I stay
in an aligned state. If it gets
out of alignment, I’m done,”
Gough said.
Because she has per-
sonal knowledge of these
issues internally, Gough said
it helps her teach patients
through her own experience.
As a flight attendant,
Gough said she would often
see people board the plane
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who were experiencing pain,
so she became an advocate
of chiropractic care, rec-
ommending it to many of
her customers because of
what she had gone through
personally.
It wasn’t until her mid-30s
that Gough decided to pursue
her chiropractic degree. The
airline she had been work-
ing for was in decline, so she
began flying on the week-
ends and taking night classes
during the week. She wasn’t
planning on leaving the air-
line, but wanted to be ready
in case that became neces-
sary. In 1991, the airline
folded and she was almost
done with her pre-med
courses.
“I’d finished pretty much
everything at that point. I had
one more course to finish in
organic chemistry, which I
did at the chiropractic col-
lege. I just never missed a
beat, it was fantastic, the tim-
ing was absolutely perfect,”
Gough said.
Graduating as a non-tradi-
tional student at the age of 41
and moving across the coun-
try to build a new business,
Gough believes her expe-
rience shows that you can
accomplish anything you set
PHOTO BY BETHANY FREUDENTHAL
Dr. Inice Gough contacts a patient Tuesday at her office located at 270 S.
Spruce St. in Sisters.
your mind to.
“You might want to
accomplish something that
might not be at the right time,
but if you don’t try you’ll
never know if you’ll succeed
with it or not and if you fail
then what the heck, you go
on to your next accomplish-
ment,” Gough said.
For Gough, building her
business in Sisters has been a
fantastic experience. She said
her patients are like members
of her family.
“It’s wonderful. The
people here are fantastic.
Everyone that comes in is
like a family member. You
connect with people; this
room out here has been
sometimes like a family gath-
ering,” Gough said.
For more information
about Dr. Inice Gough and
Three Sisters Chiropractic,
v i s i t w w w. t h r e e s i s t e r s
chiropractic.com.