Linda S. Squires, DC
Chiropractic
617-591-9200

My journey to becoming a chiropractor started with my mother's grandmother. My great-grandmother traveled to Colorado in a covered wagon as a baby. Not long after my grandmother's birth, my great-grandfather became sick and my great-grandmother took him to medical doctors for help. He died. My great-grandmother believed that the medical doctors had killed him. She decided to never have anything to do with the medical establishment again. She went on to marry twice more and raise all her children without medicine. She went to many different healers. Back then she was known as a "health nut." This meant she fasted for days and tried different diets to remain healthy. She died at the ripe old age of 93. I met my great-grandmother when I was young and even then she was a formidable woman in her later years.

    As a result of all this, my grandmother raised my mother without consulting modern medicine. The first time my mother actually saw a medical doctor was when she entered Nursing School. My mother decided she was not cut out for nursing and so married my father at the age of 20. I was raised in the Midwest going to a medical doctor and did not know other possibilities. It wasn't until my mother was told by her doctor to have her uterus removed because it was no longer necessary and to have surgery on her feet for her discomfort that she sought out the help of a chiropractor. In her youth she had often seen a chiropractor. I received my first chiropractic adjustment after I hurt my back from sitting up all night typing a paper in college. This was the time of the Our Bodies, Ourselves revolution. This one book had an impact on me that was truly amazing. I realized that sharing information was empowering. At the same time I was experiencing relief from chiropractic adjustments and was in awe that something like that could help people in pain not suffer. When I suffered from hypoglycemia, it was my chiropractor who told me what it was and what diet I should be on to help it. I found myself reading health and nutrition books to know more.

    At the age of 28 I went to Logan College of Chiropractic in St. Louis, Missouri. Since I am not inclined towards science, it was not easy. However once I started to be able to work on patients, I knew I was in the right place. I came to Boston because I had visited the city before starting Chiropractic College and fell in love with the area. It felt like home. I was trained in non-force chiropractic techniques at school and by Vivian Perge, D.C., who I worked with for over six years. Then I started Amethyst Chiropractic, P.C., in 1993.

    I am now trained in dynamic non-force technique, sacro-occipital technique, myofascial therapy, zero balancing, physical atomic cellular evolution technique, and flow alignment and connection energy technique. I love my work, I love sharing information with my patients, and am proud of what I have accomplished. The people I work with and work upon are amazing. I am thrilled and honored to be sharing life's experiences with them.