Today we’d like to introduce you to Jenny Le.
Hi Jenny, it’s an honor to have you on the platform. Thanks for taking the time to share your story with us – to start maybe you can share some of your backstory with our readers?
I grew up in a small city, Port Arthur, Texas, about two hours from Houston. Like any newly fresh high school graduate, I did not know what I wanted to do or pursue, I just knew I wanted to be in the health field. I started off taking classes in the pre-pharmacy route and later landed a job in a private psychiatric office. In 2010, my dad was diagnosed with cancer and I saw the effects of medicine not only on him, but on the patients I’ve encountered while working at the psychiatrist’s office. Since then, I knew I wanted to practice more holistically. I honestly, never heard of chiropractic care until several of my friends experienced neck and low back pain due to being involved in an automobile accident, and expressed how their chiropractors were able to decrease their pain and restore their mobility with just being hands-on with their patients, and that is what made me look into chiropractic care.
After months of researching about chiropractic care and about the programs available in the state of Texas, I decided to finally apply and got accepted to Texas Chiropractic College shortly after. With my clinical portion of my curriculum occurring during the start of the pandemic, the struggle of learning and not engaging in experimental learning was quite difficult. I was worried about 1. not fulfilling my requirements for graduation and 2. not being able to be the best I can be without being face-to-face and without the ability of hands-on learning, since that is majority of what we, as chiropractors use. And because of that, my last year of chiropractic school caused great stress and lack of sleep.
In my last two trimesters of school and once we slowly started transitioning back into the clinic, I was blessed to able to undergo neurology, radiology, and phlebotomy rotation and was also able to help assist with school physicals around the Houston area through our school clinic. In addition, I was able to intern both in the inpatient and outpatient clinics at the Moody Health Center, as well as complete several preceptorships specializing in personal injury and wellness care across Houston.
I graduated in April 2021 and later became board and state-certified. I am currently an associate chiropractor in the Houston Heights area, working with Dr. Nataly Perez, where we see patients ranging from prenatal, postnatal, pediatrics, sports-related injuries, to normal maintenance and wellness care.
Would you say it’s been a smooth road, and if not what are some of the biggest challenges you’ve faced along the way?
Quoted from Napoleon Hill, “strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle,” and there were plenty of struggles along the way.
Like any other student, stress took a major toll on my journey to becoming who I am today. My husband supported me mentally, emotionally, and physically by helping to ease the financial burden while I was pursuing my degree. And due to the stress from both the pandemic and from the program itself, it slowly started to affect my health.
Growing up, I have always struggled with sleep, but during my last year, I noticed that my usual 5-6 hours a night, dropped to 0-3 most nights. And due to the lack of sleep, I relied heavily on caffeine to help me be productive for the day. With the combination of the two, my right eye slowly started to twitch, and weeks later the left side of my face started twitching as well. Normally, with any twitching, I blew it off thinking it would slowly go away. But progressively gotten worse, that the left side of my face started to droop for months.
A lot of visits to the chiropractor, ophthalmologists, and neurologists helped to rule out hemorrhages, brain and nerve disorders, strokes, and Bell’s Palsy and helped me to maintain and control what was going on.
This taught me that no matter what I may be going through, I always have to put my health first. And that helped to make me a better chiropractor, by helping patients put their health first and prioritizing their needs.
Alright, so let’s switch gears a bit and talk business. What should we know about your work?
Currently, I am an associate chiropractor at a small clinic in the Greater Heights area, working alongside with Dr. Nataly Perez.
Our patients range in age, and we specialize in prenatal, postnatal, sports-related, and both acute and chronic injuries. We both utilize IASTM (instrument-assisted soft tissue mobilization), kinesiology taping, muscle stimulation, as well as practice both Activator and manual adjusting. We also love to teach stretches and strengthening exercises to help a patient decrease in pain, improve posture and mobility, as well as keep the patient performing at their optimal every day. Since the pandemic, we have been seeing a lot of work-from-home and pregnant patients, so work has not slowed down for us at all!
What I am most proud of is, is being able to see close to 100+ new patients since the start of my career in June and that I am able to work every day alongside someone with similar goals and the mentally as I do, and not many newly graduated practitioners can say that. Another proud moment for me, is that The Leaders newspaper recently released their Readers’ Choice results, where the Greater Heights community votes the best in the area, and I just found out I was voted #1 Womens Health Provider, #3 Wellness Center, and #3 Chiropractor in the area!!
What sets our office apart from others, is that we are very patient-based. We cater to the needs of our patients and prioritize their health and wellness. Each treatment and visit is tailored to the patient and what they are coming in for, and we prioritize getting to know each patient individually, understanding what brought them in, and how their pain came about. We are also very accommodating, whether a patient has an emergency and needs to be seen as early as 7 or 8 am or due to their work and personal schedule and needs to be seen later, we try to help each patient in every way possible.
We’d be interested to hear your thoughts on luck and what role, if any, you feel it’s played for you?
I have been very lucky and grateful to have the best supporting friends and family, because without them, I wouldn’t become the person I am today.
As for business, luck, both good and bad, as well as hard work and determination is what has brought me here. It has given me the confidence to pursue what I want and the ability and skill to achieve any goals that I may have set for myself and for the future.
Many may think luck has nothing to do with how successful you are, but I believe it plays a major role on timing, who we may or may not meet, and how we view things in life. Hard work does not always guarantee success, but hard work, luck, talent, drive and determination can make anyone successful.
Contact Info:
- Email: dr.jennyle.dc@gmail.com
- Website: https://www.chiropractornataly.com/about.html
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jennyle_dc/
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Penny Nguyen
