The Joint Chiropractic - Fort Wayne North

Dr. Teena Rowe became part of The Joint Chiropractic’s team of local healthcare providers in 2020.

“The best thing about being in the chiropractic field is being able to give people a better quality of life,” she says. I love putting a smile on people’s faces. I also love promoting health in a holistic way because it can eliminate the amount of toxins we put in our body.”

Dr. Teena, as her patients know her, grew up in Elkhorn City, Ky., and got her doctorate from Sherman College of Chiropractic in Boiling Springs, S.C. She previously earned a bachelor’s degree in psychology at the University of Pikeville in Kentucky.

“My first-ever adjustment was when I started chiropractic school,” she says. “Chiropractic was just something that felt right to me once I started studying it. Through chiropractic, I have helped two-day-old babies with colic, ear infections, constipation, et cetera. I have helped mothers get their babies to turn in the womb to avoid being breached. I have helped people experiencing urinary incontinence. The options are endless with chiropractic. Each and every day, we get to help people with their quality of life no matter the situation.”

When she’s not working, Dr. Teena spends time with her Chihuahuas, Theodore and Eleanor. She also likes being outside and wants to travel the world.

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If she could bring together any four people from history for her ideal dinner party, she would include Freddie Mercury, Brian May, Roger Taylor, and John Deacon. “I’m a Queen fan,” she says.

Her most amazing experience is skydiving. “As crazy as it sounds, it gave me a completely different outlook on life -- in a good way,” she says.

Dr. Tyler Nygren became part of The Joint Chiropractic’s team of local healthcare providers in 2023 when he began serving residents in the Fort Wayne area, where he continues doing the work he finds so rewarding.

“The best part about being a chiropractor is helping people feel great,” he says. “Chiropractors are in a position to provide uniquely thorough and thoughtful assessments. It is very rewarding to hear ‘no doctor has ever cared to ask me that’ from a patient.”

Dr. Nygren -- you can call him Tyler if you’d like -- was raised in Van Wert, Ohio, where he previously worked. He and his wife met in Georgia while in college and they have a fish named Anthony.

“I enjoy developing for the web,” he says. “I am currently working on some, hopefully, helpful cloud-based tools for chiropractors.”

Tyler received his doctorate of chiropractic from Life University in Atlanta, where he also got a bachelor’s degree in biology.

It is not surprising that he followed a chiropractic path. “I am the fourth chiropractor in my family,” he says. “Chiropractic has always been part of my life, and when it came time to choose my career, I couldn’t imagine anything else.”

Among the most gratifying moments on the job, he says, occurs “when I’ve had the fortune to see patients get better even at times when I had little hope.”

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If he could bring any characters from history together for his ideal dinner party, Tyler says he would love to sit down with the Wright brothers to talk about flight. He would also appreciate the company of Bill LeMessurier, the structural architect for Citigroup Center, a 59-story, 915-foot tall skyscraper in New York City, and Kelly Johnson, the founder of Skunk Works, the Lockheed Martin program that built such aviation icons as the U2, SR-71 Blackbird, and F-22 Raptor.

Tyler proposed to his wife on Nov. 13, 2022, “the day of my final chiropractic board exam,” he says. “That was certainly the most stressful day of my life, and by far the most important.”

The doctor has a weakness for coffee. It’s the one thing he can’t do without. “It’s delicious, and I am a much better person with it -- or so I’ve been told,” he says. “I prefer Ethiopian and Kenyan coffees, and usually brew with a Hario V60.”