Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sportsman, Actor and now Governor of California

Arnold Schwarzenegger: Chiropractic's candidate for governor of California Dynamic Chiropractic, Sep 13, 2003.

California chiropractors have a rare opportunity to elect a longtime chiropractic patient and supporter as the next governor of California. Faced with a recall election on Oct. 7, California's current governor, Gray Davis, is not expected to retain his position. Emerging from a long list of replacement candidates is Arnold Schwarzenegger, a chiropractic advocate and patient for more than 30 years.

Arnold has been the featured celebrity at the International Chiropractors Association's (ICA's) "Arnold Classic and Symposium" since it began in 1993.

Through the years, Arnold has had much to say about chiropractic:

"I am very fortunate to have, so to speak, my in-house chiropractor, Dr. Franco Colombu, as my own personal chiropractor. He adjusts my wife, my kids, me, everybody gets an adjustment. And we feel always great when Franco leaves. Even when I have athletic injuries, he's always there for me and helps me. That's why I always will be traveling ... all over the world, talking highly about the profession of chiropractic. You chiropractic doctors are really miracle workers.1

"(Back in the 1970s) Franco would go very intensely to chiropractic college every day. He worked on me all the time. During the course of his education he got incredibly good with both the theoretical and the practical (aspects of adjusting) ... every time I had an injury, I could call Franco ... I would get an adjustment, three or four, and the problem would be gone. So you know, when you see that happening in your own body, that with chiropractic you will be 100 percent, it's just fantastic.