Dr. Beau Fishel joined The Joint Chiropractic in 2019 as a member of the Sunset Hills staff. A graduate of Millikin University in Decatur, Ill., he earned a bachelor of science degree in chemistry with minors in biology and nutrition. He received his doctorate of chiropractic from Logan College.
“The best thing about being in this field is the fact that we can have an impact on every single organ system in the body through means of spinal correction,” he says. “It is amazing what the body can do once you start treating it like it should be treated.”
Dr. Fishel -- actually, he prefers that you call him Beau -- says the other thing he loves about being a chiropractor is “the look on people’s faces after a great adjustment when they’ve gone a few weeks without one -- it’s great.”
Beau grew up in central Illinois, and previously worked in Arcola, Ill., and Chesterfield, Mo.
In his spare time, he enjoys hunting, fishing, and spending time with his family, which includes daughter Riley and wife Danielle, who is also a chiropractor that he met while at Logan College.
Beau was influenced greatly by his family, and that’s why he pursued the chiropractic path. “Thinking my dad was Superman and the smartest man alive, he is also a doctor of chiropractic,” he says. “He also graduated from Logan.”
He really likes working at the Sunset Hills clinic for The Joint Chiropractic. “I had the pleasure of working with the last full-time doctor before he left, and he was a great doc,” Beau says. “I really like that I was able to be accepted to a position with an already existing, strong, patient base. Also, my wife works in the area too, so she can stop in and get me coffee -- totally worth it.”
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Beau says he always keeps almond milk in his refrigerator. “It’s a crutch, and the cravings come on strong,” he says.
If he could pick any four figures from history to talk to over dinner, Beau says he would like to sit down with presidents George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, British prime minister Winston Churchill, and Scottish knight William Wallace, who was immortalized in the Mel Gibson movie Braveheart.
“All of these men were great leaders at their time, and they had to have a determination of steel,” Beau says. “They knew what was needed to be done, not only for their time, but for their future respective ‘people,’ or country. It would be the best dinner table out there because of the amount that I could learn from these men of men.”
Some of the best experiences of his life included his family. “Being the middle child and having two years apart from either brother meant that in high school, I always had a brother in school with me,” Beau says. “We were all into sports, so that meant that I always had a brother on the team with me. Being able to have and share those memories has to be the coolest thing I have ever been able to do.”
