Heather Waldrop
South Georgia Spine and Joint Thomasville born and raised, Heather started her first practice, Harper Chiropractic, 12 years ago now, after graduating from Texas Chiropractic College. Two years later she married Mike Waldrop, a Tifton native, whom she’d met at school. Thus, Waldrop Chiropractic was born, as were their sons Rodge and Roland. In 2008, they purchased the old Social Security office on Madison Street, now South Georgia Spine and Joint. They have two additional offices in Cairo and Bainbridge.
with alternative medicine. I had a coach who popped my back and I thought that was the coolest thing. I knew right away, when I got on campus at Life University, this was it.
To what do you attribute your success? First, Mike. He is very businessoriented and he keeps taking us to the next level. I’m influenced by helping people and seeing people every day—the ones who get the best results make it worthwhile. I’ve treated some of the same patients for 12 years, for maintenance and preventative reasons. Thomasville and the surrounding areas have blessed us, too—we’ve stayed busy. We’re members at First Baptist Church and we try to give back as much as we can. If anyone comes to us, we sponsor. We’re community involved, I was in JSL for 7 years and we give to Landmarks, Young Life and South Georgia Ballet. Our best advertisement is by word of mouth.
What are the principles that you live by? One of my favorites is the saying by John Wesley, “Do all the good you can. By all the means you can. In all the ways you can. In all the places you can. At all the times you can. To all the people you can. As long as ever you can.” With patients, I’ll try every avenue to figure out what we can do to help them. A lot of pain is emotional and you have to get to know the person to break through. Healing is not just physical. I think strong relationships with patients are important as well as spending time to get to know each patient.
What is the most exciting thing about what you do? Helping people feel better and live healthier lives. I also love adjusting kids. I see lots of babies, lots of middle schoolers, lower schoolers; we are the team chiropractor for Thomas University and the local high schools. I enjoy that. Most people think chiropractic is only about arthritis, but that isn’t true. I love leading patients to an alternative, so they know that some things can be treated without prescriptions and are more holistic. TM
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Thomasville Magazine / FALL 2016
How did you get into what you’re doing? I’ve always been fascinated
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