LAKE MILLS, Iowa — One new local chiropractor is employing a new technique that addresses a person’s emotions and past injuries to find the root of a patient’s ailment.

“We’re getting back to the cause of the problem. We’re not just dealing with the effect,” said Dr. John Leegaard, owner of Lake Mills Family Chiropractic.

Leegaard opened Lake Mills Family Chiropractic in 2003, but the business changed about two years ago when he incorporated the Koren Specific Method.

The technique was formed about five years ago by Dr. Tedd Koren of Hatfield, Pa. The method blends four techniques: chiropractics, osteopathy, acupuncture and direction non force technique. Leegaard described it as using binary neurological biofeedback to evaluate a person’s condition.

Since the method is new, Leegaard said there are chiropractors who employ the techniques. He’s been employing the methods for about two years, and is actually paid by Dr. Koren to go to seminars and teach chiropractors to use the method.

Leegaard was introduced to the treatment at a seminar at Iowa State University. He said he’d been skeptical about KST until the treatment was used to correct right shoulder pain he’d experienced for years after an injury.

Unlike more traditional chiropractic work, KST incorporates different postures. For example, Leegaard said he could put a person in the type of posture they’re frequently in at work and then make the corrections in that position because trouble can be specific to a certain posture.

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