About Dr. Morrow
Trained hands. Clinical expertise. Compassionate approach.
The path to Mend
Oregon
Years of listening through touch
Dr. Morrow spent nearly a decade in Oregon as a full-time clinical massage therapist — thousands of appointments, one patient at a time, year after year. Experience as a physical therapy aide and personal trainer further developed her clinical approach using therapeutic exercise and building upon her foundations as a Kinesiology major at the University of Illinois.
The foundations
What hands learn that books can't teach
That many hours of hands-on work teaches how living tissue actually behaves — where it guards, how it compensates, what it feels like the moment it finally releases. Most practitioners learn anatomy from textbooks and treat from protocols. She learned it through multiple avenues, and developed a much deeper understanding through the use of her hands.
The leap
Why she became a chiropractor
Years of soft tissue practice kept running into the same wall: patterns that needed joint-level care she wasn't licensed to provide, in patients she understood better than anyone they'd be referred to. Chiropractic school was the answer — not a career change, but a completion. Years of experience and the development of her clinical style finally led to becoming the type of doctor she knew she wanted to be.
Kirkwood
Both trainings, one room
Mend Health, in downtown Kirkwood, is what the two trainings look like together: assessment-driven visits where soft tissue and adjustment are one continuous clinical conversation — unhurried, time-based, decided in the room with you.
The vision
What Mend is becoming
The belief underneath it all: your time should be used, not processed, and the person treating you should truly know you. Mend is built as an umbrella for practitioners who work that way — a team growing around one standard of care, with honesty about what will help as its foundation.
Your body's been waiting long enough.