Sharell Tracy, D.C.

When you become my patient you get the benefit of my 37 years of experience and my 37 years of continuing education. You also get treated the way I like to be treated when I am a patient.

When I was fresh out of college and broke, I knew the only way I could be ethical and charge for my services was to give my best every time. I made a commitment to myself that I would treat every patient the way I would want to be treated if I were the patient and paying the fee. The skills I offer you are a direct result of that decision, I have trained in the methods that I have found to be most effective for my own health. Applied Kenesiology allows me to ask your body what it needs, neuroemotional technique deals with the pain caused by stress and emotion, and Trigenics and ART are advanced methods to treat tight weak muscles in conjunction with adjustments.

I decided to be a chiropractor when I was 13 years old because I had heard my mother say on numerous occasions that she would never have been able to have raised her children if it hadn’t been for her chiropractor, that she would have been institutionalized. She suffered with severe migraines and when the vertebra at the base of her skull slipped off center, she would get very sick. Dad would help her to bed in a dark room, get her ice and heat and we kids had to be very quiet until she was better. When this happened, it wasn’t long before we were piled into the Model A and drove 500 miles to the chiropractor that took her migraines away. We made that trip from Albany, OR to San Jose, CA at least twice a year so Mom could have good health and I could have a Mom (and my Dad a wife). Needless to say, it made a huge impression on me. I learned early on to appreciate the destruction of a subluxation, and the miracle of an adjustment.

I decided to be a chiropractor, so I could help some little girl’s Mom be able to raise her.
I am not sure how a 13year old could have had the wisdom to choose her life’s career, but chiropractic has been a most gratifying, enjoyable, and enlightening career. I am grateful to be in such an ethical and caring profession.

We really have the best of medicine. It is probably the safest form of healthcare, our license doesn’t allow us to prescribe drugs, therefore we are limited to our hands, our knowledge, our experience, our expertise and a few tools to relieve our patients’ complaints. And if you can judge by the number of times through the years my patients finish their appointment with a comment such as “Ahh, you worked your magic again” or “You are my own personal miracle worker” I would say our patients have appreciated the safe effective care they receive too.

After finishing pre-medicine basics, I went to Palmer Chiropractic College in Davenport, Iowa. Iowa has cold winters, hot humid summers, corn, hogs, and the founders of Chiropractic! The Mississippi River was frozen solid, and temperatures dipped 17° below zero my first day in Davenport. But I received my diploma and returned to Oregon to complete my schooling at Western States Chiropractic College, and my licensure in Oregon. After a year internship with Dr. Richard Scofield, I started my own practice in Eugene where I have enjoyed my patients and their many challenges.

About those little girls’ Moms, I have had the privilege of helping numerous moms with their headaches. Equally gratifying, I have treated many little girls and little boys. To restore a child’s hearing, to fix a neck too weak to hold a tiny head up, to stop the screaming when they are laid on their tummy, or stop the pain that causes them to never be content is one of the most gratifying and yet humbling gifts in my experience. Just last month, a patient whom I had not seen in over twenty two years, came in and reminded me that 23 years ago I had adjusted her infant son who was losing weight and couldn’t keep food down, and we had saved him from exploratory stomach surgery. Who wouldn’t love a job like mine?

My life was hell for a year after an auto accident. Sick headaches made it impossible to care for my children or home. Chiropractic adjustments turned my life and my health around. I am very grateful. There are doctors and there are caring doctors; Dr. Tracy is a very caring doctor. Back when I was still getting my sick headaches, she actually went to her office one Thanksgiving morning to help me out of my pain.
Thane, M., Eugene, OR

Richard Keim, D.C.
I am Dr. Richard Keim, it may sound funny, but I often say I was born to be a chiropractor. I knew when I was three years old that I wanted to be a doctor so I could help my grandmother live forever. Our family chiropractor was the only doctor I knew, and that was the only kind of doctor I knew to be. That changed while I was in college, as a couple of my friends who were studying to be psychiatrists tried to convince me that I should be a medical doctor. I wavered, yet there was always in the back of my mind the belief that it was the allopathic medical system that resulted in the death of my grandpa while I was in high school. He had been rushed to the hospital for what was later diagnosed as a gall bladder attack, unfortunately however, he was misdiagnosed and treated for the wrong thing and he never left the hospital alive. I didn’t want to be that kind of doctor, and I’m glad I’m not. Prescription drugs have become the leading cause of death in America, I didn’t want to participate in the chance of causing any of the grief I experienced when I lost my grandpa.

My schooling took me from Canada to Portland, Oregon where, I received my Doctor of Chiropractic degree from Western States Chiropractic College in 1994. I was enjoying some down time after finishing years of schooling when my cousin in Eugene, OR began to press me to interview with her chiropractor, Dr. Sharell Tracy. Being a peacemaker, I agreed to an interview and really hadn’t decided where I wanted to practice when I got a call from Dr. Tracy. There was an emergency in her family, and would I help her out while she was out of the office? I had a taste of practicing and when she came back, I stayed.
My Grandma didn’t live forever, but I did get to treat her and she lived to a ripe old age of 98. I still believe I was born to be a chiropractor, and my profession allows me to be in the forefront of medical care. Years before it was popular, we were instructing patients in nutrition, healthy life style, positive mental attitude, and treating with energy medicine, as well as adjusting the spine and extremities. I like hearing my patients say “I always come here first because you will fix me and not give me pain pills to mask the symptoms, and I know you will send me to my M.D. if I need to go.”
I love the instant results of a good adjustment, seeing patients walk in with pain and walk out without it. It’s difficult to say what I like to treat best, headaches, low back pain, allergies, neck pain. Or who I like to treat best; babies, kids, moms, dads, or grandmas. But I love what I do and one of my most gratifying experiences was when I had the pleasure of giving my baby son his first adjustment. He was fussing and crying, and within minutes of the adjustment, fell into a peaceful sleep. There are so many gratifying experiences that they are too numerous to recount.

Tony Bennett, D.C.

I have traveled the United States for several years now and have found my home here in Eugene.  I have 13 years of chiropractic and rehabilitation experience, during which my focus was motor vehicle injuries.

When you become a patient of mine you will be treated with respect, empathy, 13 years of continuing education classes, and most of all, the knowledge of how to get you functioning and pain free.

I grew up in a small town in New Hampshire where it was miles to the nearest medical facilities. I personally never went to the doctor for aliments like the flu or earaches. My mother’s care and her home remedies did the trick.

I did not know what a chiropractor was until my late twenties when I was in my last year of my under-graduate studies for exercise physiology.  I began searching for alternative health care givers who believed the body could heal without drugs. After months of searching I decided on chiropractic and started taking the entry level courses needed to enroll.

I can remember my first adjustment from a chiropractor in Georgia. I was suffering from severe allergies from the pine trees, my face was swollen, I could not breathe, my eyes closed up, and I called in sick to work due to pain.  I called the Chiropractic office and he told me to get in immediately.  My sister drove me because I couldn’t see.  He had me lay down on his table and he began adjusting my neck.  After the first vertebral realignment I could breath and talk. When he finished realigning my whole spine I was feeling 100% better and said to myself “This is what I want to do for others”.  I graduated in 1996 from Life Chiropractic College West.

Over the past 13 years I’ve discovered utilizing rehabilitative exercises and chiropractic realignments addresses the whole body as one.  Throughout that time I used motivational coaching techniques but found people needed something more.   I am now discovering that addressing the emotional components also accelerates the healing process; therefore I use neuromodulation technique, which incorporates the mind and body as one.

I am grateful and compassionate treating patients as a chiropractor at Tracy and Keim Chiropractic.  I am grateful for my experiences as a chiropractor: Helping so many people to a healthier life. I want to express to all people whom have been in a motor vehicle accident, my hands, my experience, and my compassion are yours.

Love,

Tony Bennett D.C.

Dr. Brian Gervais, D.C.
Dr. Brian D. Gervais, a licensed chiropractic physician, is a magna cum laude graduate of Logan College of Chiropractic. During his chiropractic education, he had the opportunity and privilege to be employed in the anatomy laboratory as a dissector. During his meticulous dissections of the human bodies, Dr. Gervais developed his curiosity with the complexity of the muscular system. This ultimately lead to his interest in Active Release Techniques (ART), the gold standard in soft tissue treatment. Dr. Gervais has completed the Spine, Lower and Upper Extremities, Masters and Long Tract Nerve Entrapment courses. He has been credentialed by ART as a Certified Provider to treat more than 300 muscular and fascial injuries and over 100 nerve entrapments. Dr. Gervais, an avid golfer in his spare time, has also been certified by the Titleist Performance Institute (TPI) as a Golf Fitness Instructor. The TPI certification qualifies him to screen a golfer’s swing faults and develop workouts based on their physical limitations. He has had the pleasure of treating PGA tour players during their tour stop here in Oregon. Other methods utilized by Dr. Gervais include Diversified, Logan Basic, Activator Methods and Cox Flexion Distraction. Dr. Gervais and his wife, Joanna, have recently moved to Eugene, Oregon from the Midwest and hope they can take advantage of all the great activities Eugene and area has to offer.

Office Team

Amanda
Our office manager, who also assists with the reception desk, and is a Certified Chiropractic Assistant as well.  Amanda has been with our clinic for 15 years and also was our patient before we asked her to join the staff.  She, as well as Kim and Rhonda, take great pride in treating our patients with a very caring nature, willing to help with any questions or concerns that they can.  One of the reasons that our office staff really likes working at our clinic, is that we all get along so well!   In fact we frequently have patients comment on the general good feeling that the staff generates in our reception room, and that “we all seem to really like each other.”  And we do!

Rhonda
Our billing wizard- if there’s a code for it, she’ll find it!  Rhonda has worked in chiropractic billing for several years and we rely on her expertise a lot for getting claims paid by insurance companies.  And we count on her great sense of humor to add belly laughs to our days!  Rhonda is also a Certified Chiropractic Assistant.

Kim
Kim wears several hats in our clinic.  She run’s the reception desk, takes x-rays, assists with office bookkeeping duties, and is a Certified Chiropractic Assistant. Kim has been with us for nearly 4 years, and worked in another chiropractic office in the past.   She also was Dr. Keim’s patient for 8 years before we asked her to join our staff.  Kim also has a great gift for humor that we all appreciate and enjoy on a daily basis.

Theresa Sloan

I am the latest addition to the Chiropractic Assistance team and from the moment I walked in the door I knew I wanted to work here.  The energy level is extremely rare with its very positive and loving feeling.  I am very happy and proud to be a part of this incredibly talented, caring, spiritual, and loving group.

I am amazed on a daily basis at the abilities that these doctors possess.  When I see someone walk in with intense pain and leave with complete relief it lifts my spirit.  At Tracy and Keim Chiropractic, the doctors not only treat people, but they also truly care, a rarity in my opinion.  I have never been exposed to the kind of energy work that is performed here daily, and I am fascinated by the positive outcomes that I witness.  I have found these doctors to be very talented and very in tune with the ability to heal ones self through the connection with the spine.

Not only are the doctors extremely top notch, but they have carefully hired a supportive staff that I can say are top quality people.  We are all energy and spiritual beings, this energy is vital to our health, both physically and mentally.  Here at Tracy and Keim Chiropractic I have witnessed intense work and change on both the mind and the body.  I continue to be amazed every day, and I am very thankful to be a part of this wonderful, spiritual and talented group.