About Dr. Julie Quan

Las Vegas born. Las Vegas built.

Dr. Julie Quan grew up on the southwest side of the valley and built her practice in the same neighborhood she was raised in. Her parents came to America as refugees from Vietnam in 1979 — her father is Chinese, her mother is Vietnamese — and built their life here in Las Vegas.

Roots

Growing up, Julie watched her mom and dad work hard to provide for the family. When she was about ten or eleven, her mom found out her dad had gotten into gambling and started a part-time second job to pay off the debt. Watching that — what her mother had to do to hold the family together — became the engine for everything that came next. Julie was driven to work hard with the goal of giving her mom the life she deserved.

Her mom is 72 now. She lives not too far from the office. She loves the office.

How chiropractic entered the picture

Julie was eleven when her dad got into a minor fender bender with her mom and her in the car. They ended up in Dr. Michael Lin's office — at the time, he was known as the youngest, most successful doctor in the Chinese community. His parents worked there with him: his mom as the office manager, his dad helping with therapeutic devices. He'd taken care of his family in a visible way, and Julie wanted that for hers.

After high school she went to UNLV for a Bachelor of Science in Kinesiology. She was deciding between optometry and chiropractic. As she approached graduation she went back and asked Dr. Lin which chiropractic school he had attended. He told her CCCLA — Cleveland Chiropractic College in Los Angeles. She applied, got in, and started her chiropractic career there.

Going deep on Gonstead

Julie's first introduction to Gonstead happened during her first semester at CCCLA. She was invited to visit the Gonstead Club, and the meeting she sat in on changed how she understood the profession. Until then, she'd thought chiropractic was about back pain and car accidents. That meeting reframed it for her: chiropractic is about the nervous system, and the nervous system runs everything else.

From her very first trimester of school, she dedicated herself to studying the Gonstead Method. Before graduating she had attended more than twenty Gonstead seminars and workshops and had become President of the Gonstead Club, mentoring other students. In 2009 she earned her Gonstead Extremity Certification — qualifying her to care for patients with TMJ and patients with shoulder, elbow, wrist, hand, knee, or ankle issues.

The practice

Julie opened her first practice in a Chinatown location in 2010 and ran it there until December 2014. In January 2015 she moved into the current space at Durango and the 215 — before IKEA, before the Uncommons, before the Durango resort. The area was developed but quiet, mostly residential with a few office buildings. She picked the building because her fiancé at the time owned it, and he still does.

Today Q Wellness operates as a wellness hub rather than a solo chiropractic office. Including Julie, the building houses another Gonstead doctor, two medical massage therapists (one specializing in cupping, one in Tuina), a pelvic floor PT who works with moms pre-, during, and post-pregnancy, a fascial stretch therapist, and an esthetician who does body wax and facials with clean products. The massage therapists are Q Wellness employees; the rest are independent practitioners with their own businesses.

The vibe of the space

When patients walk in, Julie wants the space to feel family-oriented. Kids are welcome — patients are encouraged to bring them rather than scramble for a sitter. Warm and welcoming, neutral tones, clean and organized but not clinical at all. There's a wall of pediatric patients on display and toys for the kids.

Philosophy

Julie doesn't claim to heal, cure, or treat any condition. She works with the nerve pathways coming out of the spine, which give life to every part of the body. The nervous system is made up of the brain, the spinal cord, and the nerves that supply every organ. When there's interference in those pathways, symptoms can show up almost anywhere.

That's why newborns come to Q Wellness — not for back pain, but for acid reflux, latching issues, chronic ear infections, torticollis, and colic. Most parents don't realize chiropractic has anything to do with newborns until they sit through that first conversation about how the nervous system actually works.

Community

Because Julie was born and raised in Las Vegas, she's invested in the people around her — and because she's a small business owner herself, she puts work into connecting other small businesses to one another. She refers to holistic dentists, functional medicine practitioners, holistic medical doctors, physical therapists, pediatricians, local bakeries, restaurants, hairstylists, attorneys, realtors, loan officers, other Gonstead doctors, and young or kid entrepreneurs.

Q Wellness is a member of the 702 Alliance, a vetted local business network in the valley. Julie's reason for joining is simple: "If they win, I win."