Dr. Joshua D. Barousse, D.C.

Dr. Joshua Barousse, D.C. (Dr. B.) has been practicing since 2010 and joined Columbus Functional Health in July 2017. He was born in New Orleans, Louisiana but spent his childhood in Picayune, Mississippi where he attended grade, middle, and high school. He obtained his undergraduate degree in chemistry at the University of Southern Mississippi. He received his Chiropractic Doctorate from National University of Health Sciences (NUHS) in Lombard, Illinois, a western suburb of Chicago. While there he took elective classes in orthopedics, spinal adjusting, and X-ray diagnosis. He chose NUHS because of their diagnostic curriculum and evidence based treatment.

Dr. B. uses a variety of different chiropractic techniques—he is qualified to perform Diversified, Activator, and Thomson Drop techniques. He believes that spinal, as well asextremity adjustments, can help with all types of ailments. Dr. B feels strongly about the neurologic reflex associated with a spinal misalignment, and how an adjustment can help break that reflex. This, in turn, will help to correct any dysfunction associated with that specific misalignment. He also feels that most patients do not seek the appropriate care when dealing with soft tissue damage. Since this can set up for dysfunction and pain he feels that the proper treatment should be started as soon as possible.

Dr. B will tell you that there are two types of treatment or care:

• Passive - the doctor is the only one involved in your treatment.
• Active - both the doctor and patient are involved in the treatment.

He believes in having the patient play an active role in their healing by giving them rehabilitation stretches and exercises along with physiological therapeutics to help heal the body as quickly as possible. He treats the body as a whole and will explain that even though you have pain in one area that doesn’t mean that other areas do not need to be treated to help heal the whole body.

Dr. B believes in adjusting people of all ages;from infants to geriatric patients. Having five children of his own, he has adjusted all of his kids since birth. This is because he knows how adjustments can help them overcome their sickness quicker and improve their immune system. More importantly his kids have noticed how the adjustments have helped them feel better. He and his family enjoy being outside as much as possible so in their free time this is where you will find them.

Kate Kennedy works as Dr. Barousse’s office assistant. Kate has worked in the health industry since 2010, starting out as a chiropractor’s assistant in Eastern Kentucky. Upon returning to her hometown of Columbus in 2011, she began a career in geriatrics and worked as a private in-home caregiver. An employee of Columbus Functional Health since June of 2017, Kate can be found bouncing between the front desk greeting patients and in the back assisting the doctor with therapies.

Her roles include maintaining patient paperwork, billing and correspondence, as well as supporting patients and the doctor with some of their therapy treatments. Kate is a certified state-tested nurse’s aide and has been certified by the American Red Cross in Basic Life Support CPR/AED for healthcare providers. She is currently a full-time student at a local college, and ultimately dreams of becoming a nurse.