GRAND RAPIDS -- A very different portrait was painted in court Wednesday of a Wyoming chiropractor accused of misusing his position to gain the trust of female patients before fondling their breasts under the guise of treatment.

Current and former patients of Gregory Freeman took the stand in the Wayland resident's defense. He's on trial in Kent County Circuit Court, charged with three counts of fourth-degree criminal sexual conduct, which could put him behind bars for two years.

"He was always polite and almost apologetic," said Jennifer Krebs, a Grand Rapids high school physics teacher who has been a patient of Freeman for 11 years, receiving "applied kinesiology" treatments designed to help her lymphatic system drain properly.

Krebs said Freeman's techniques involved contact between his hands and her breasts that was sometimes painful but she said he explained what he was doing and she consented to the treatments, which she says has improved her health.

She was one of four women called to testify by defense attorney Charles Rominger Jr. that they were satisfied customers of Freeman, 49, who they all said acted appropriately and whose use of "applied kinesiology" helped them.

Laura Sly, a breast cancer survivor, said she has been seeing Freeman for four years and his techniques of manipulating her lymphatic areas has improved her life. She said following a mastectomy, she would get infections that required hospitalization from injuries as minor as being scraped by a rose bush -- condition that have disappeared since being treated by Freeman.

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