About Us

Arthur Alfred West was a professional musician and was an excellent violinist.  His wife, the mother of eight children, was in poor health, so Arthur Alfred decided to go to the National College of Chiropractic in Chicago.  After graduating he returned to Pocatello, a Doctor of Chiropractic and started the West Chiropractic Clinic in 1916.  It was the beginning of the flu epidemic of World War I. The Spanish Flu claimed the lives of 60 million people in a year. 
                                                                                                         
His oldest son, Henry G. West, went on a Boy Scout camp out on City Creek.  He got the flu when he got wet during a rain storm.  He was bleeding from the lungs and was so sick he didn’t care whether he lived or died. Dr. West gave his son two chiropractic adjustments a day and saved his life.  As a result of this anecdotal experience Henry G. West also went to the National College of Chiropractic in Chicago. Henry G. West had a pre-med certificate from the University of Utah and was planning to go to medical school.  Since chiropractic care saved his life, he decided to go to Chiropractic College and follow in his father’s foot steps.   He joined his father in practice in 1930.  The office was on the second floor of Cook Drug Store, now Maag Drug on West Center Street. 

In 1941 the younger brother, Arthur D. West, also a Doctor of Chiropractic joined the clinic.  In 1948 the office moved to 241 South Arthur in Pocatello. 

Henry G. West, Jr., was an all-state quarterback with a full ride scholarship to Brigham Young University to play football in Provo, Utah.  He had an accident in which he was thrown from a horse on a full gallop.  After landing on a hard pan road suffering a back injury, he could not walk.  After receiving expert care from his father, Henry Jr. was playing football three days later.  After his football career at BYU and receiving a degree in pre-med chemistry, minoring in microbiology, Henry G. West Jr., decided to follow in the family tradition and went to the Western States Chiropractic College in Portland, Oregon.  He joined the practice in 1961. 

In 1970 the clinic was moved to 1355 East Center in Pocatello.

The West family tradition continues as the next generation, Jason D. West takes the reins of the family practice.  Following his undergraduate education with a degree in microbiology from Utah State University, Jason West went to the Los Angeles College of Chiropractic in Whittier, California.  He is a fourth generation of chiropractic physicians in the West family.

Over the years the clinic has a number of associate doctors of chiropractic.  Grant D. Finn, a Doctor of Chiropractic, a graduate of the Los Angeles, College of Chiropractic has been associated with the West Chiropractic Clinic since 1986. As a result of growth and the need for a larger facility the clinic has expanded to a new 5,000 square foot State of the art medical office which includes smartly designed treatment rooms, digital radiographic imaging, High Resolution Blood Morphology, and a relaxing area designed for IV Nutritional therapy.

The new clinic is located at 1188 Call Creek Place near the I-15 Pocatello Creek Exit. 

Our board certified physicians are prepared to meet your health care concerns.  

Our physicians are Dr. Henry G West and Dr. Jason West