I've been seeing Dr. Therkelsen whenever I have a new problem and for maintenance for 30 years! Anyone would recognize, then, that I, with the worst back he and other doctors have seen, am a "satisfied customer." Neuroscience research of the past few years has put greater focus on people's emotional states, and how anxiety, depression, "white coat syndrome" (fear of visiting a physician), increases blood pressure, and pain.
When you're a patient of Dr. Therkelsen, you have a "doctor friend" who will listen to you and respect your insight into your own body. He is compassionate and experienced, a combination that makes a patient feel like s/he can trust this doctor to do his very best to get you well. I have been to orthopedists, neurologists, rheumatologists, and surgeons at the major hospitals on the East Coast in my 75 years, and always, I learned more about whatever condition I was treating from Dr. Therkelsen than I did from those specialists! And, his knowledge about nutrition, the mind-body connection and treating the whole person is at a level that one will NOT find visiting mainstream medical doctors.