chiropractor experience?

[yagagriswold.livejournal.com]

I'm trying to find a chiropractor. Has anyone had any experience with any of these doctors?

Ronald Pellicani
William Girouard
Megan Tabor
Candace Maddalo
Maureen Gormley
Herbert Bernstein
Donald Tate
Rebecca Caplan
Wayne Zev London
Jonathan Moy

Thanks!

Comments

[veek.livejournal.com]

I've gone to Ronald Pellicani, and wouldn't recommend him. He's a quick-in-and-out kind of guy, and that alone might be fine, but he's also physically rough around the edges. He isn't *rough* per se, but is more of a mechanic than a craftsman, didn't seem to adjust to my body's particulars at all.

I ditched him for Khalsa Chiropractic (http://www.khalsachiropractic.com/) on Mass Ave near Porter, and like them a lot. The person I used to see there isn't there anymore, but just this morning I saw Thomas Hagan there, and liked him a lot. He talked me through everything efficiently but without hurry, and seems to be a whole-body-plus-lifestyle kind of practitioner.

[yagagriswold.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[surrealestate.livejournal.com]

I also saw him years ago, but he isn't at the Davis Square Practice anymore, fyi, which someone else took over. I haven't seen the new guy yet, but I did stop in last month to chat with him and he seemed nice. A lot of insurers haven't completely updated their data, but I was told he takes all the same stuff that Pellicani did.

[yagagriswold.livejournal.com]

I have an appointment! Thanks so much!

[veek.livejournal.com]

Yay! Let me know how it goes!

[on-reserve.livejournal.com]

I, too, was tired of crack 'n go chiropractors and that fed up'ed'ness led me to Dr. John Simon at Hands on Health in Porter Square. Definitely a "whole person" kind of chiropractor and the best I've ever seen.

[yagagriswold.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[chanaleh.livejournal.com]

Seconded! Jon is great and fixed my TMJ pain permanently (http://chanaleh.livejournal.com/19873.html) (presumptively, anyway, but this was over 10 years ago and I haven't had a recurrence).

[weegoddess.livejournal.com]

None of those, but I can highly recommend Scott Diamond (http://www.diamondchiropractic.com/). I met him while he was giving free screenings at Pride. I went to him for over 2 years and paid out of pocket; that's how much good he did me. He takes all kinds of insurance, but MIT medical didn't pay for chiro at the time I went to him (2004-2006). Hence my paying out of pocket. The guy knows his stuff. Ping me if you want more info.

Sadly, he's not in Davis Square. His office is in Copley, but it's quite walkable from the T.

::waves to the Yaga::

[yagagriswold.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[rising-moon.livejournal.com]

Pellicani is no longer Davis Square Chiropractic. He was my chiropractor for 4 years, for maintenance-level readjustments while I was going to Barry-wan for the difficult stuff. Pellicani sold his practice to a new guy, David Shadrick, who is a completely different practitioner. Young, interested, remembered my full first name and lots of my work- and posture-style in the month between my first and second visits.

I've been a few times, and I'm happy so far.

[yagagriswold.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[hammercock.livejournal.com]

Yeah, he's a really nice guy and his style is a lot gentler than Pellicani's was.

[kmac912.livejournal.com]

FYI: Dr. Pellicani moved to South Carolina and there's a new guy that's taken over his practice. He's a little less wham-bam-adjust-you-ma'am. I have been to him twice now and he seems good.

On this note though- does anyone know of a good chiropractic massage place? I used to go to one in VA that was awesome and I haven't found anything like it up here yet. To clarify, all that means was they had a massage therapist on staff, who gave me a 20-30 minute massage to loosed up my back and neck before an adjustment. Lovely.

[veek.livejournal.com]

Khalsa in Porter, which I mentioned above, has both.

[read-w.livejournal.com]

Amethyst Center (http://amethystcenter.com/) in Davis Square has (very good, whole-person) chiropractors and a massage therapist; you could certainly book with both, and after the first visit I'm sure the chiros could make specific recommendations for the massage.

[smammy]

I don't want to start a huge debate or cause butthurt, but I'm going to leave this link here in case anyone's interested in the origins of and issues with chiropractic. http://www.skepdic.com/chiro.html

[leko.livejournal.com]

Yeah, for a long time I thought chiropractors were just someone you went to when you felt like your back needed a good cracking and you couldn't do it yourself. I didn't realize all the crazy involved.

[kmac912.livejournal.com]

I was clearly late to the "Dr. Pellicani is gone" party. Sorry for the redundancy. :)

[farwing.livejournal.com]

If anywone wants the name of another wonderful Chiropractor, mine is Jonathan Melman and he's located in Copley, directly across the street from the BPL. He's wonderful. He doesn't just crack your back, he does some massage work as well and helps you stretch etc.

[ceo]

gosling goes to Tim Knight in Arlington Heights and really likes him. Not very T-accessible, though, unless the 77 bus counts.

[lillibet.livejournal.com]

I have gone to Candace Maddalo for years and highly recommend her, with caveats. She is very much in the "bone-cracker" school (as opposed, in my mind, to the "spine-tapper" school, which tends to feel ineffective in the short term and messes me up in the medium term, so I don't stay with them long term). For me, she's a great fit and the one person who can usually take me from in-spasm to relief. She also has a massage therapist who works with her, so you can get both approaches in one visit (and for one co-pay) which is very convenient.

Many of the people I've recommended her to have loved her. She has clients who come regularly from Worcester, Maine and New York to see her (she didn't tell me this, but her receptionist loves to brag about her). But more than one person who has tried her finds her approach too painful for them.

Overall, I think that finding the right chiropractor is very much a personal-fit thing.

[miss-chance.livejournal.com]

I've seen Pellicani and I don't think I'll go back to him, but he might be the right person for someone else's issues.

I have a chronic low-back and hip issue. I generally go to Dr.LaGana at the St. Mary's T stop in Brookline. Dr. Lagana does a low-pressure, subtle re-adjustment, that if I go in regularly, say once a month, or once every 6 weeks, seems to do me a world of good. But he's in Brookline, so I don't go as often as I should (even though he also takes my insurance), and I thought going to Pellicani in Davis would make me more likely to go.

In contrast to Lagana's style, Pelicani does a dramatic, very forceful, "crack" or "twist." I felt everything 'thunk' into place and thought wow! that's great! It still ached right afterward, but I figured it woudl get better soon. It did, for about a day things felt good, but then I think the alignment slipped again, and it was as bad as ever.

So I've come to believe that the subtle manipulations hold longer, and the bug 'whack everything back into place' allows the muscles to pull everything back out of alignment again too soon.

So that's my thinking, anyway.
Dr. Lagana is Brookline Chiropractic (I'd provide the link, but my internet on this bus is shaky--but if you google his name and Brookline, you should find it).

[theodosia.livejournal.com]

Let me put in a good word for Dr. Michael Santipadri, who did quite a lot for my back pain and posture, and passed me on to medical orthopedists when I got frozen shoulder -- IOW, a chiropractor who knows his appropriate limits.

[dahdahdahdancer.livejournal.com]

Khalsa fixed me up good and proper. On Mass Ave between Porter and Davis.