Meet Dr. Fujii, D.C.
Dr. Ryota Fujii, D.C.
Born and raised in Japan
Story in Japan:
I've been attracted to a career in chiropractic because it fits my personality; helping others. Even since I was a young child, I was fascinated by our body mechanisms, muscular, nervous, and skeletal systems.
I had played many sports when I was teenager and fortunately didn’t have major injuries, but I had a chronic lower back pain.
I was playing volleyball when I was in middle school and entered a high school by sport referral.
About a year before high school graduation, I found a brochure called “Let's become a chiropractor”.
I didn’t know anything about chiropractic, however I wanted to know what’s going on in human bodies, therefore, I enrolled myself in a chiropractic school in 2004 in Osaka, Japan.
The academic experience at this school was challenging but priceless.
A few months before graduation, I had an opportunity to come to the United States and receive practice and clinical training. I studied at a chiropractic college in Texas and, for the first time in my life, participated in dissection of human cadavers.
Although I had studied human anatomy, seeing it with my eyes and actually touching body parts were an amazing experience.
I was truly amazed by the complexity and detail of the human body.
After return to Japan, I asked to my mentor what should I do next?
His advice was simple. “Go to the United States and studying”
He was so enthusiastic about his profession, and talking to him about chiropractic future strengthened my desire to pursue a career in this field.
My mentor pushed my back.
I decided to go to the United States for re-learning chiropractic, although I could not speak, nor write in English.
Before leave in Japan, I feel ready to take on a challenge of studying at chiropractic school in the United States.
Story in the United States:
In 2006, enrolled English school, community college and took all prerequisites and finally applied Cleveland Chiropractic College in Los Angeles where my mentor graduated.
However, 6 months later, the chiropractic college was closed due to deterioration of business. I didn’t know it will be closed before I apply it.
Therefore, re-enrolled to another Chiropractic College in Whittier.
The school was good and I met many friends and such a fun time. However, felt like it didn’t fit with me, so after 1 year, decided to transfer to Life Chiropractic College West in Hayward, California.
I graduated from Life Chiropractic College West in 2016 and start practicing.
My treatment is simple. Find subluxation, fix it, and leave it.
One of my patient who has frozen shoulder and can’t move above 70 degrees. Honestly, this area is very sensitive and treatment is very painful, but the patient accepted it. After each sessions, increasing range of motions, so the patient said “It's like coming out of a dark tunnel”
I was glad to help this patient.
That is why chiropractic is so interesting!
The clinic was high volume and I was performing treatments for 30-40 patients daily.
Taking advantage of that experience, I opened a clinic in Los Angeles in 2022.
