About Us

About 20 years ago when I was a middle schooler back in Corvallis, Oregon, my parents and I were driving in the family car to pick up my sister at tennis camp. I was in the back seat and remember we were going across a bridge with the traffic backed up ahead of us. We were forced to come to a stop in the middle and then suddenly—BAM!—we were hit from the rear by a car that was following too closely.

I recall that my neck snapped back but I was not aware of any problem at that moment. We were able to drive away afterwards after determining that apparently the car was okay and so were we. However, a day or so later things changed dramatically for me. I was at practice with my middle school football team and the coach was having us do a neck stretching exercise. That’s when it hit me—severe pain and stiffness in my neck. I had to leave the field and, for a time, my football team.

My mom took me to our family doctor and he gave me some pain pills and a warning to stay away from the game until the neck healed on its own. But the pain stayed with me and the pills only covered it up for a while. I was a kid who loved football and was depressed about missing it. Then a family friend suggested visiting a Chiropractor he knew.

Well, to make a long story short, I did visit that specialist who gave what I later learned were “adjustments” over a few visits to re-align my spine. He told me some of my vertebrae were kicked out of whack with the impact of the accident and caused all the neck pain. Within a week my neck was back to normal. I felt no pain no matter how much I stretched my neck.

As a kid, I remember being pretty amazed that a little manipulation of my spine could totally cure my neck. I expressed that amazement to the doctor and he said something to me that pretty much changed my life. He said that a lot of people are astonished at how something so gentle and painless could have such miraculous effects. And he also said—and I can hear his words as I write this—“Scott, maybe when you grow up you’d like to help people as I much as I was able to help you.” Kids are pretty impressionable at that age, and I was no different. I remembered that Chiropractor and when it came time to choose a profession, I felt there could be nothing more worthwhile than learning how to help people heal their pain, just like I was helped. That’s how it happened that today I am a doctor of Chiropractic working with people like you to overcome a serious issue that affects the quality of their life. If you’d like me to help you I invite you to call my office at 415-566-7134. I’m conveniently located at 31st and Taraval, in the Sunset District.