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ADJUSTING BACKS AND LIVES IN RIO
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Chiropractor Dr. Rosie Gallegos-Main adjusts rodeo barrel racer LaDawn Bayes of Adrian, Oregon, at Main Health Solutions in Meridian on July 20.
Meridian Chiropractor helps Olympic wrestlers in more ways than one
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pon entering the doors of Main Health Solutions on Everest Lane in Meridian, one will immediately be drawn to a bevy of photos hung on the right wall of the chiropractic office. These photos are not of the spinal cord, but rather, the Olympic athletes that Dr. Rosie Gallegos-Main has touched throughout her years of working with the U.S. National Wrestling team. “She is always smiling, positive and full of great energy,” said 2012 Olympics bronze medalist wrestler Clarissa Chun. “She’s always been around to offer her service and friendship. Rosie is an amazing woman and an inspiration to me.” Gallegos-Main’s journey to be-
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coming an invaluable member of Team USA wrestling began in 2000, under pretty dire circumstances. She was getting ready to go to medical school when she began to feel sick. “I noticed within a month, I lost 30 pounds out of nowhere,” GallegosMain said. “I had severe abdominal pain and diarrhea. I basically lived in a bathroom.” After a hospital visit, GallegosMain learned that she had a rare disease, that if not properly treated could be life threatening. It was Crohn’s disease. The treatment option she was pre-
sented with was a surgery that would require the removal of her entire colon. Not sure if she wanted to go through with the procedure, Gallegos-Main went to a chiropractor in her hometown of Brownsville, Texas, at the behest of her family. That decision would not only save her from getting her colon removed, but change the entire trajectory of her life. “The chiropractor there changed everything for me,” Gallegos-Main said. “He adjusted me and changed my nutrition. I started getting better and better. I decided I wanted to get people well without them having to use medications and all of that.” Instead of enrolling in medi-
cal school like she had previously planned, Gallegos-Main decided instead to go to chiropractic school at Parker University in Dallas, Texas. But shortly after graduating from Parker, Gallegos-Main endured yet another hardship, this time it was the loss of her mother, who passed away at the age of 56, after battling diabetes for many years. “Before she passed, she had lost the function of her eyes and kidneys and was in a wheelchair,” GallegosMain said. “She got to the point where she was depending on all these medications. By the time she died, she was on 18. All of that is just not supposed to happen and was all really hard for me.” Please see Rio, page 11
BLOCK GRANT Public hearing on block grant requests, including downtown Meridian low-income housing project, is Tuesday
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COMMUNITY Police, fire and city officials visit neighborhoods for National Night Out
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ON THE TOWN
CITY BUDGET
Kidsfest Idaho returns to Kleiner Park with fun family events Saturday
Meridian invites the public to comment on the proposed city budget for next fiscal year
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