Meet the Doctors

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Dr. Jeff Hand

Dr. Jeff Hand was born in Thunder Bay, Ontario where he obtained his undergraduate degree from Lakehead University in 1999 with first class standing. He graduated from Northwestern College of Chiropractic in 2002 and practiced in the Twin Cities before moving to the Brainerd Lakes Area and joining Family Chiropractic Clinic in 2004. He is married and has a two children. His hobbies and interests include hockey, golf, exercise, and fishing.

Dr. Jeff first discovered chiropractic in high school. He played minor hockey and developed low back pain after hockey games. He was aware of chiropractic and decided to give it a try. Regular chiropractic care helped him continue playing to the end of his minor hockey career. He always wanted his career choice to be in health care, and after researching the profession, he knew that chiropractic was right for him. This belief was further cemented when a chiropractor successfully treated him for headaches he developed during college.

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Dr. Jennifer Person

Dr. Jennifer Person was born and raised in Brainerd. She enjoyed community volunteer work and taught piano during her high school and college years. Her volunteer work included building homes for Habitat for Humanity, renovating homeless shelters, working in the neonatal intensive care unit at Minneapolis Children’s Hospital, and facilitating leadership and esteem-building workshops for schoolchildren. Between her sophomore and junior years in college, Jennifer spent a year traveling worldwide with the international performance and volunteer group, Up With People, and another six months in Denver, Colorado, as the organization’s vocal instructor.

Dr. Person’s post-secondary education began with an Associate of Arts degree from Central Lakes College in Brainerd (with high honors). This was followed by a Bachelor of Arts (Biology) from Hamline University in St. Paul, and a Bachelor of Science (Human Biology) and Doctor of Chiropractic (with honors) from Northwestern Health Sciences University in Bloomington. She returned to NWHSU for her Acupuncture Certification, which she completed in 2009. Dr. Person was the recipient of a National Board Examiners scholarship, a National Science Achievement Award, and was involved in an honors chemistry research program at Hamline University. She was also a member of the International Social Science Honor Society.

More recently, Jennifer was featured in CLC's alumni magazine, "The Ripple Effect," and named one of CLC's 75 Outstanding Alumni. She was also recognized in Minnesota Monthly magazine as one of the state’s Top 100 Chiropractors in 2015, 2016, 2018-2020 and was featured in the Fall 2015 Issue of Her Voice, a quarterly publication of the Brainerd Dispatch newspaper.

Today, Dr. Person contributes to the community as a member of the Brainerd Rotary, sings with and coordinates the annual silent auction for The Legacy Chorale of Greater Minnesota, and is the pianist/choir accompanist/worship team leader at Lord of Life Lutheran Church in Baxter. Her continuing interest in travel has taken her to Alaska, Paris, Italy, Belgium, Luxembourg, Wales, Spain, and the Dominican Republic. After an initial six years of practice in rural Manitoba, Canada, Dr. Person returned to the Brainerd Lakes Area and joined Family Chiropractic in September 2007. She has been practicing acupuncture since 2009, and continues professional development in Traditional Chinese Acupuncture techniques. In addition to caring for people through chiropractic, Jennifer’s abiding passions are piano, singing, golf, friends, family, cooking, travel and her Dachshund, Bitsy!

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Dr. Josh Holbrook

Dr. Josh Holbrook grew up in the Brainerd area and attended Brainerd High School, graduating in the top of his class. After high school, he attended Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin for undergraduate studies before going on to Northwestern Health Sciences University in Bloomington, Minnesota to study chiropractic. He returned to the Brainerd Lakes Area and joined Family Chiropractic in 2012. Dr. Josh is certified in acupuncture and enjoys using acupuncture to treat a wide range of conditions, especially headache, TMJ, and chronic back pain.

Dr. Josh received his chiropractic degree with top honors and has been recognized as a Top Chiropractor for several years straight by Minnesota Monthly. As the son of Dr. Tom Holbrook, Dr. Josh grew up with chiropractic care as an important part of his life. He learned about chiropractic’s role in helping people live healthy, active lives. Dr. Josh's goal is to provide compassionate, intelligent, and effective care to the people of the Brainerd Lakes Area.

Dr. Josh is a member and officer in several church and hobbyist associations and loves helping organizations achieve their goals and better their communities. In his free time, Dr. Josh enjoys spending time with his wife Erin and their three girls. He is also a hunter, fisherman, beekeeper, and nationally award-winning homebrewer and mead (honey wine) maker. Dr. Josh was awarded the 2020 National Mead Maker of the Year award and also travels as a mead educator and speaker.

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Dr. Alysia Eschenbacher

Dr. Alysia Eschenbacher was born and raised in Pierz, MN on her family’s dairy farm. She attended Central Lakes College in Brainerd, MN where she obtained her associates of arts degree in 2015 before attending Minnesota State University, Mankato to finish her bachelor’s degree in biomedical sciences. During her undergraduate career, Dr. Alysia was an honors student and was heavily involved in leadership opportunities across campus, including the Residence Hall Association. In 2018, Dr. Alysia enrolled in the Doctor of Chiropractic program offered by Northwestern Health Sciences University and fell in love with the profession. She furthered her leadership experience at NWHSU through being involved with the student senate and being a diversity scholar, in which she started a research book club to help students understand and bridge the gap in health care disparities. Dr. Alysia graduated from NWHSU in November of 2021 and began her career at Woodlands Chiropractic in St. Cloud, MN where she had been interning for the previous six months. Dr. Alysia has always grown up with chiropractic, being adjusted as early as a week old herself and throughout her teenage years with sports injuries and working on the farm.

Whenever asked what she wanted to specialize in when she left chiropractic school, Dr. Alysia has always been passionate about occupational health, making sure patients can continue to perform their job and activities of daily life without pain. Dr. Alysia is excited to advance her career at Family Chiropractic and is certified to also perform DOT physicals for patients as well.

In her free time, Dr. Alysia can still be found helping out on the farm, but she also enjoys hunting and ice fishing or being curled up with a good book. She and her husband Justin recently bought their first home and moved back to Pierz along with their three dogs, Leo, Lou and Lizzy. They are expecting their first child in April 2023.