Curriculum Vitae Guy T. Gunter III

BACKGROUND INFORMATION ON GUY T. GUNTER BS, MS, DC.

A Metro Atlanta Chiropractor with the Healing Experience, Dr. Gunter specializes in alternative types of medicine, applied kinesiology, nutritional supplements and more Dr. Guy T. Gunter was born in Atlanta, GA in February, 1952. He has lived in Atlanta his entire life except for college and his first eight years of professional practice where he was the Chiropractor of Hickory Flat, GA

Dr. Gunter was educated in the Life Sciences at FSU, UGA and Purdue University. He has received his Bachelor of Science in Microbiology from University of Georgia (1973) and a Master of Science from Purdue University in Bacterial Genetics. After a period of working for Emory University as a Research Technician and Life Chiropractic College as an Associate Professor of Clinical Sciences, Dr. Guy Gunter entered private practice in Hickory Flat, GA. For eight years Dr. Gunter treated all manner of ills and injuries that can only occur in a rural environment. The variety of treatments and diagnoses needed prompted Dr. G to develop the unique, treatment protocols that became Gunter Chiropractic Services.

In Hickory Flat, GA, everyone came by Dr. Gunter’s office to see if he could fix their problem rather than going to “town” and the hospital where they would have to spend “real” money. In the eight years the Hickory Flat office was open, Dr. G saw people with farming machinery injuries, sports injuries, muscle and joint damage from some of the most outlandish activities you can imagine. There was the child who drove his bike into a tree and changed the shape of his head, enormous varieties of muscle strain and even a man gored by a bull (could not treat that one, drove him to the hospital). This period proved to be the best education Dr. Gunter ever had. It was the varied necessities of this rural population that presented the challenge of diagnosis and treatment that resulted in Dr. Gunter’s unique approach.

Dr. Guy Gunter returned to metro Atlanta in 1990. In treating an urban population new needs became apparent. Stress was more an issue than injury. And nutrition became an essential component in successful treatment. The ten years of dealing with the needs of the urban Atlantan gave Dr. Gunter the data and the vision that produced The Healing Experience. While cost and insurance coverage was always a concern in Hickory Flat, in Atlanta the focus was on how rapidly they could recover. It was this new demand that prompted the new approach that became the Healing Experience. In Atlanta, time was money and no one had the time to be partially functional for weeks on end. Using the Healing Experience protocol, most patients could be pain free in one or two visits and virtually recovered in five visits or less. It was this speed of recovery that made Dr. Gunter’s practice unique among chiropractors and other alternative healthcare practices.

Over the ensuing seven years, Dr. Gunter has refined the Healing Experience into an alternative medicine family practice. We accept all types of illness and dysfunction from the common cold and allergies to acute back pain and injuries. We do not treat these conditions, we offer the very best alternative health methods available including nutrition, chiropractic and kinesiology to support the body in healing itself. For, after all, there is no form of medicine that actually heals you, your body heals itself (if it receives the support it needs).

After all the years of being a researcher and science professor, Dr. Guy Gunter has found a great satisfaction in becoming a source for healing support. Not only is there the obvious gratification of using his talents and seeing them ease the suffering of person after person, but there lies a satisfaction that only science geeks may understand.

To wit: in Modern Science the researcher identifies a problem, gathers data, constructs a hypothesis, tests the hypothesis, reviews the results, modifies the hypothesis all the while seeking understanding of the problem and constantly fighting with the Dean for more Grant Money to pay for the research.

Presently, Dr.Gunter gets to identify the patient’s problem, gather data and construct a hypothesis, treat the patient (which is actually testing the hypothesis) and the nature of the patient’s recovery confirms or modifies the hypothesis. Once the patient’s problem is fully understood, their recovery is assured. Plus, the patient pays for the service; there is no fighting for grant money! (As my older son says, ”Sweet!”)