Dr. Dusty Fuller

I was adopted as a baby and grew up in rural Oklahoma on a small ranch. It was a wonderful life experience growing up with dogs, cats, horses, and cattle. There were pastures and woods to explore and of course, chores. My dad taught me to drive a standard-shift pickup truck when I was nine. At that time, I only knew first gear, but I could drive while Dad tossed hay from the back of the truck when feeding the cows. I was also exposed to rodeo and team roping events. When I was 4 or 5 years old, I rode one of the sheep that I had bottle fed. I loved it. I continued to pester my dad until he roped a calf. He brought it in from the pasture to the arena for my first calf ride. I dreamed about becoming a bull rider and I practiced on a “bucking barrel” suspended between two trees behind the house. I could identify by name the best bull riders, my heroes, because I studied their bull riding photographs, read every bull riding article in Rodeo News and Rodeo Sports News, and consistently monitored the standings for the NFR & IFR. When I was eleven, my dad allowed me to enter the steer riding at the 4-H Rodeo in Tahlequah, Oklahoma. I came off that steer at about 6 seconds, landed on the ground and knew that this was my event. I could hardly wait to ride again—that desire never left my heart. God allowed my childhood dream to be fulfilled as I went on to compete in youth, high school, college & even professional levels of bull riding.
I believe my Heavenly Dad used bull riding to get me into college through a rodeo scholarship. He sees the end of one’s life from the beginning, for one cannot be a Chiropractor without attending and having a successful college career. I earned an Associate of Arts degree while competing on the rodeo team of what is now Rogers State University. Next, I attended Oklahoma State University then moved and graduated from what is now University of Central Oklahoma with a bachelor’s degree in biology. I continued collegiate learning at St. Anthony Hospital in their Medical Technology program and worked as a Medical Technologist in hospitals & clinics. I then changed careers and taught middle school science & high school biology for nineteen years. During that time, I earned a master’s degree in College Teaching with emphasis in Biology at Northeastern State University. For about the last five years of my teaching career I knew there was something else for me in life and I believe God called me to become a Chiropractor. I committed to attend Chiropractic college at age 47 and graduated from Texas Chiropractic College in 2014.
Chiropractic has taken me to many destinations in the United States as well as Central America on two different occasions. I have completed post-doctoral chiropractic training in spinal correction and worked at three of the largest clinics in the United States. Through Chiropractic, I have had the honor to help the underserved, served in a crisis clinic, provided care outside of the U.S., gave Chiropractic care to high school, college, professional athletes, and professional rodeo athletes.
Recently, I completed animal chiropractic training through Animal Chiropractic Education Source (A.C.E.S) in Meridian Texas. Currently, I am practicing animal chiropractic with my wife, Dr. Tecla Fuller who is also a human and animal chiropractor.
When I am not providing human and animal chiropractic care, I enjoy living life with my wife, our cats and horses whether traveling, watching wildlife, horseback riding, mountain biking, or attending rodeos. I always treasure time with my daughter, son-in-law and grand babes.

I was working a lot of hours at a busy chiropractic clinic, although I was treated very well by the owners and generously paid, my body kept communicating to me that I needed to make a change. In January of 2023 I completed Animal Chiropractic 101 Light online through A.C.E.S. and continued to hear Dr. O. say “work less and make more” and Dr. Amy’s encouraging words “you can do this.”

After much prayer, I was confident that by helping animals through animal chiropractic I was helping the owners/families of my community.

Roxy, a female Dachshund, came in for a back injury and not using her back legs—she was observed to have an ataxic gait rear extremities and delayed proprioception both hind limbs, observations were the same on the second visit, there was a decrease in hind limb ataxia by the third visit and walked in with a normal gait on the fourth visit. Just before Roxy’s fourth visit, the owners brought Rooster, a male Dachshund, in for a sore back and dragging his back legs. Rooster has a stiff gait and bilateral rear extremity ataxia and absent proprioception in both hind limbs. On the second visit he was still sore and dragging both hind feet, proprioception was normal in left rear but absent in left rear extremity. The owners reported Rooster had been running and jumping on the third visit, no rear foot dragging was observed and he had normal gait on visit four. Now both Roxy and Rooster are on maintenance care and come in to the office walking together each with happy normal gaits.

What are your favorite animals to adjust? Cats.

Pet owners tell me over and over, that they didn’t know animal chiropractic was a thing. Everyone should know that animal chiropractic is a real, accessible and an effective model of care for their animal(s).