His experience with receiving chiropractic care encouraged him to want to help others. “I am so excited to be able to help others improve their daily lives by building healthy habits and restoring movement.”
![Black Ackerman, Palmer West student, smiling in a Campus Guides sweater.](https://www.palmer.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/blake-ackerman-thumbnail.jpg)
Emilia has been involved in many of the student clubs and activities at Palmer West including Sports Council, the Student American Chiropractic Association, and a Campus Guide. She also played for the Volleyball and Soccer clubs.
![Emelia Bracken (West, '20)](https://www.palmer.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/emelia-bracken-thumbnail.jpg)
As a sports fan and former Palmer West Sports Council member, Dr. Luengas loves working with athletes and has provided care for Olympic athletes. He has served as director of chiropractic services during the International Sports events, including the 2011 Pan American Games, where he led 50 doctors of chiropractic from around the world, and the 2014 Central American and Caribbean Games in Veracruz, Mexico.
![Saul Luengas, D.C., (West, ’94)](https://www.palmer.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/dr-saul-luengas-thumbnail.jpg)
For the 17th year in a row, members of the Sports Council team at the Palmer College of Chiropractic West campus in San Jose, California, provided sports-chiropractic care at the Sea Otter Classic, April 11-14, 2019 at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca in Monterey.
![Palmer West's Sports Council team group photo.](https://www.palmer.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Sea-Otter-2019-recap-Feature-2iwlcra.jpg)
Interns from the Palmer Chiropractic Clinics in San Jose, under the direction of clinicians Andrew Cohen, D.C., CCSP® (West ’04) and Zach Brantner, D.C. (West ’07), provided care for several dozen of the more than 100 athletes who competed.
![](https://www.palmer.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Valor-Games-2018-Feature-photo2-tmobt9.jpg)