SARATOGA SPRINGS — Dr. Adam Favro’s Turning Point Clinic at 125 High Rock Avenue recently hired a new chiropractor, Dr. Patrick Campbell. Campbell’s first day was June 10.
Campbell said that Favro knew him through his father, a third generation farrier, which is a craftsperson that deals specifically with horseshoes and horses’ hooves.
“I believe Dr. Favro was working with some of the trainers at the track and they just ran into each other.” Campbell said. “Every summer my dad was like “hey, I ran into Dr. Favro, he said to give him a call!’ so that was how I met him.”
After chiropractic school, Campbell moved to San Antonio for nine months, then to El Paso, where he worked for “a large healthcare provider group, mainly chiropractors and physical therapists,” before moving to Saratoga for his current position.
Campbell said that a previous co-worker had given him some wisdom about their job, that treating patients is like a collective story. Sometimes when a person comes into the office, they are in serious pain or cannot do things that they would like to, so they are not as friendly or kind as they would normally be, and it is the chiropractor’s job to finish the story and make them better.
“It’s great to meet people and be able to help them get back to the activities that they love to do, and see that personality change,” Campbell said. “Where at first maybe they’re not as forthcoming with information, then all of a sudden once they start feeling better you start to see that personality come through.”
He continued, “like when you first meet a patient and you’re like ‘well, I don’t know quite how that vibed with them,’ but then when they come in, they’re smiling, they’re laughing, those are always great cases, because you’re helping them get back to something that they want to do, whether it’s an activity like picking up their kid or a sport, being able to go up and down the stairs, sleeping through the night, those are all things that we take for granted.”
Campbell referred to himself as an East Coast guy, saying how he grew up on Long Island in Belrose near the Belmont race track and went to school in Maryland and Connecticut.
As for the rest of his family, “my one brother, he’s on Long Beach, he’s a tattoo artist; my other brother and his wife and my two nieces, they’re in Bay Side; my Mom’s in Bay Side; my Dad’s in Floral Park. I was away from everybody,IwaslivinginTexas,so it’s really nice to be close to home.”
He continued by saying how now that he was back in New York, if his nieces had a birthday party, he could make the commute to Long Island in about three hours, and how as hectic as the holidays can be, you tend to take your loved ones for granted until you are by yourself for the likes of Christmas and Thanksgiving.
“I’m lucky enough my significant other,” he said. “We aren’t married but she and I have been together... we’ve always been together with our two dogs so we have our own little family.”
For his childhood, Campbell said his fondest memory was “I just remember that we would rent a condo in Lake George, and it was always great because it was our full family,myDadwasworkingatthe track, and then we would have my Mom’s parents come, my Dad’s mom would come, and we would just all be there, we’d take day trips to Cooperstown, we’d come down to Saratoga, it was just fun.”
More recently, he said that his overall favorite story from his times in Saratoga came from about 10 years ago,in August 2008, when he and a friend were visiting his father.
“If I remember right it was the end of the race day, we had been betting a little bit and weren’t winning,” he said. “There’s a horse and its name was ‘Slambino,’ and my friend and I were both college baseball players, so Slambino had kind of a baseball ring to it. So we just did like a $2 bet to win, place, show, which was like $6 and the horse, when we made the bet, was like 99-1, by the time the race went off it was 88-1, and the horse won.”
Ten years later, Campbell is now an Associate Chiropractor working with Favro.
“My job is essentially to continue to deliver the quality of care that this office has the reputation for,” he said. “I’m lucky to walk into an office that has a lot of high expectations in the community from all the work that Dr. Favro’s done and his office manager Rachel, so I think my job’s just to keep that ball rolling forward.”
For more information, contact Turning Point Chiropractic at 518- 584-9500, or by email at into@ tpcwellness.com.
