Tina M. Roach-Gagnon, BS, DC, QME

Dr. Tina's Chiropractic Story:

I am Tina M. Roach‐Gagnon, BS, DC, QME. I am a doctor of chiropractic and wellness practitioner who, along with my partner and husband, Michel Gagnon, BS, DC, QME, owns and runs State of the Heart Wellness. Because beliefs, attitudes, and motivations all play major roles in overall wellness, I examine and include the physical, chemical, and emotional aspects of my patients in order to make accurate holistic diagnoses. I then use this information to prescribe and treat patients with one or more methodologies, such as nutrition, CAM (complementary and alternative medicine), chiropractic, herbal medicine, homeopathy, mind body medicine and massage.

Prior to co‐founding State of the Heart Wellness, I was an executive secretary to Jimmie Heuga at the Jimmie Heuga Center, a nonprofit organization in Edwards, Colo. Heuga was the silver medalist in the slalom at the 1968 Olympics and was later diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS), and his center helps people with MS learn how to live healthier, happier, more active lives based on the philosophy that you can have a chronic condition and have your health, a philosophy I now bring to my own practice. While at the Jimmie Heuga Center, I worked to support MS patients develop their physical and spiritual well being. Before that, I was a chiropractic assistant at the Chiropractic Office, which is where I fell in love with chiropractic.

I earned a Bachelor of Science degree in liberal arts from the University of the State of New York in Albany and my Doctorate of Chiropractic from Parker College of Chiropractic in Dallas, Texas. I also hold Diplomats of Nutrition from the Chiropractic Board of Clinical Nutrition of Oak Point, Texas, and the Clinical Nutrition Certification Board of Addison, Texas.

What inspired Dr. Tina to become a chiropractor?



By the time that I was 19 years old, I had already suffered five years with terrible migraine headaches. My parents were worried, so they took me from MD to MD trying to find the cause of my torment. I saw many specialists including a neurologist who ordered a brain scan, which revealed nothing. According to the doctors, the only relief available would be in the drugs they prescribed. However, none worked. As freshman at San Jose State University I enrolled in the Health Sciences program but had to drop my classes due to the migraines.

Finally, my father said, “That’s enough. It’s time for you to go see the chiropractor!”

My reply was, “What’s a chiropractor?”

To this day, I am thankful for my father’s realization. It turned out that my headaches were caused while attending physical education classes at Martin Murphy Middle School (Yes, I am a local.). While trying to do a head stand, I fell over, and I heard a big CRACK in my neck. Later that week, I became ill with my first ear infection and thus began the migraines.

Dr. Munson, the first chiropractor I ever went to, explained that my head stand incident was the likely cause of my headaches and proceeded to adjust my neck. After only two weeks of treatment, my migraines were gone, and I have never had one since.

I was so amazed. I went through five years of suffering and not once did the medical doctors mention chiropractic. That was when I decided to become a doctor of chiropractic—to help others with natural and alternative medicine methods.