Your body does the healing.
I'm Dr. Horia Joitescu, and my job is to get out of its way. One doctor, one pair of hands, every visit — trained in Davenport, Iowa, where chiropractic began in 1895.
Down
From an idea, to the man you'd be trusting with it.
There's a hundred-year-old idea behind the name.
It isn't complicated. It's that the body is built to heal itself, and that healing runs one direction — from above, down, inside, out. A doctor doesn't supply it. A doctor removes what's interrupting it.
That's the big idea. It's printed on our logo in letters most people never read, and almost nobody has ever asked me what it means.
And here is the man who'd be doing it.
Chiropractic began in Davenport, Iowa, in 1895. I went to Palmer — the school they built on the spot, the one the profession calls the fountainhead. Roughly a third of every chiropractor practising today came through it.
I mention it because you have no other way of knowing. You're about to let a stranger put his hands on your neck, and the internet has told you to be careful. It's right to tell you that.
- Palmer College of ChiropracticDavenport, Iowa
- Alberta College of ChiropractorsRegistered member
- Canadian Chiropractic AssociationMember
- Canadian Chiropractic Protective AssociationMember
- 24 hours of continuing education, annuallyRequired by the College of Chiropractors of Alberta
- Special interest: mobility & movement disordersSpinal and extremity biomechanics
Inside
What actually happens once the door is closed.
What an adjustment actually is.
A joint that isn't moving through its full range gets stiff, and the tissue around it gets unhappy. An adjustment is a small, quick, measured push that restores that movement. The sound — when there is one — is gas releasing from the fluid inside the joint. It isn't bone. Nothing is being put back in place, because nothing slipped out of place.
I spend most of a first visit on the unglamorous part: watching you move, finding which joint has stopped, and working out whether I'm the right person for it. Some days the honest answer is no.
Three things, before you book.
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You'll see me. Every visit.
This is a one-doctor clinic. You won't be handed to whoever's free, and you won't re-explain your back to a stranger. The hands are the same hands.
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I'll tell you when you don't need me.
Some people come once a month. Some come for six weeks and then stop, which is the goal. If what you have belongs to a physician or a physiotherapist, I'll say so and tell you where to go.
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Nothing gets cracked without a conversation.
I'll explain what I'm about to do and why, before I do it. If you don't want your neck adjusted, we don't adjust your neck — there is more than one way to do this work.
Out
Back into your week, which is the entire point of the exercise.
What I treat.
Musculoskeletal complaints — the spine, the joints, and the things that hang off them. If it isn't on this list, ask me and I'll tell you honestly.
The rest of it.
Registered massage, direct-billed, in the same building.
Traction-based care for disc-related back and leg pain.
For stubborn tendon problems that haven't answered to rest.
Cast and fitted here when your feet are part of the problem.
Shoulders, knees, ankles, wrists — not just the spine.
Care through the changes a body goes through. Ask me what's appropriate.