Ronald Lavine, D.C.

My Four Commitments to You

I’ve committed my professional career to helping people improve their health and self-awareness.

It’s a big job with a lot of separate parts. I’ve approached this responsibility on four fronts.

1. Science Knowledge

2. Self-Knowledge

To be useful in the area of health also requires internal, self-knowledge.

My commitment to understanding my own health includes in-depth personal experience with body movement, alignment, posture, and therapeutic exercise. I’ve danced, played tennis and squash, done yoga and Pilates, swum, hiked, and run 5K’s. I’ve paid attention to the foods that I consume and the way they make my body feel. And I’ve tried to develop a spiritual practice and notice how that supports my health.

Though I’m far from perfect in any of these internal health-building areas, these experiences have helped me do a much better job for my patients.

Nonetheless, this internal knowledge, however deep it would be, even when combined with a strong scientific background, is still not enough to make one an effective doctor.

3. Healing Methods

I’ve gained knowledge and experience in specific healing techniques.

The assumption in chiropractic school was that adjusting the spinal joints (also called “manipulation”) was the core method used by chiropractors.

I’ve never been good at believing what I’m told without questioning it. So I never fully bought into that core chiropractic assumption. For me, a variety of methods all have the potential to make a valuable health impact.

That’s why I’ve always worked to perfect a range of methods:

• therapeutic exercise
• connective tissue treatment
• alignment and posture exercises
• trigger point and friction massage
• breathing and stress-relief exercises
• craniosacral therapy
• diet and food supplements
• lumbar decompression
• custom foot orthotics & other braces and supports
• myofascial release, and more.
  

• I’ve learned to listen to what my patients are telling me and the way they’re telling it.
  
  
• I’ve honed my manual therapy skills with the aim that my treatment techniques not only are technically appropriate, but “feel right” to each patient.
  
  
• I try to organize complex information about health and recovery so that I can communicate it clearly to patients who are in pain and are experiencing fear, stress, or depression.

Patients benefit from these extra dimensions of care. Recovery is quicker and more complete when I project positive healing energy and an optimistic, yet realistic, mental outlook.

For me, this is an ongoing process of listening and growing.

My Commitment to Your Health

These four areas comprise my prior background and infuse my current commitment to helping you improve your health.

If this approach sounds appealing to you, and if you’re ready to take your share of responsibility for your health, I’m confident I can support your efforts.

Welcome to my practice.