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Pappas Chiropractic Center
299 Main Street, West Haven

Owner/Operator: Dr. R. Mark Pappas

With finals here, student health may fall to the bottom of the to-do list. Yet if students do get sick, finals may be the least of their problems. Staying well is the best medicine, says Dr. R. Mark Pappas, who approaches his downtown West Haven chiropractice practice with a belief that prevention is the true solution to illness.

“It’s cheaper to stay healthy than it is to manage sickness,” Pappas says.

A UNH alumnus, Pappas is offering a discount in his office fee to currently enrolled UNH students. Pappas offers numerous services including spinal manipulation, flexion, physical therapy, therapeutic touch and massage, weight loss and Life Coach counseling.

Pappas says college students are part of a noticeable decrease in wellness in the United States He often speaks on the topic of wellness to the community. “Wellness pertains to everything in life,” he says. “Health is maintaining a balance among the lifestyle choices we make and how they affect us on a short-term and long-term view.”

He resides in North Haven with his wife and three children, and evidently practices what he preaches, golfing, skiing, working out at the gym, performing Bikram yoga and taking long bike rides with his wife. He has been a successful chiropractor in the city of West Have for 22 years, and he says he is pretty sure he knows why. “The success at Pappas Chiropractic Center,” he says, “has been based solely on the quality of care that we have provided our community over the last two decades plus.”