Today is my 25th anniversary in practice. Although I graduated in 1990, I did not practice my first year out. I opened up my practice, Central Chiropractic Group, on March 4, 1991 with my brother and business partner Marshall who is a chiropractic radiologist. At that time we took in an associate to work with, Marshall’s classmate Erica, who had an established practice. Her condition was that she be allowed to bring her receptionist Bibi to work in our office. Erica left after a year. We then took on a new associate, veteran chiro Dr. Robert Bacon. He stayed with us for 19 years and we had some great and memorable times. We have had many chiros, RMTs and x-ray technologists working with us but of note is the late Dr. Ron Gitelman who was an amazing chiropractor, teacher and mentor. I started Welcome Back Spinal Care Centre with my brother and a good friend, Victor Janowski, in order to offer a new name for our spinal decompression therapy practice. In 2011, I decided to ‘leave the nest’. I moved to my current location at Bathurst and Finch and took over Welcome Back as a sole owner. Victor and I are still great friends and Marshall and I are still great brothers. He has subsequently moved to Israel but is still reading x-rays from around the world (visit him at drmarshalldeltoff.com – he’s an amazing radiologist). Today is my 25th anniversary and surprisingly, Bibi is still coming into work.
(Picture with 4 of us: Dr. Marshall Deltoff, Dr. Arnie Deltoff (me), Dr. Erica Lieberman and CHA Bibi Hameed – Central Chiropractic Group – 1991, 2nd pic is Bibi and I today – Welcome Back Spinal Care Centre – March 4, 2016)