The Doctor

Dr. Ethan D. Feldman

Selected in 2004 by San Francisco Magazine as the best practitioner for "aches and pains" in Berkeley, celebrates 20 years in practice in 2008. He graduated cum laude from Life Chiropractic College - West in Hayward, California, and holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Human Performance (Physical Education), with an emphasis on physical rehabilitation, from San Jose State University, and has decades of personal practice in the arts of dance (ballet, modern) and martial arts (fencing and Tai Chi Chuan). He credits this background as a source of kinetic wisdom from which he draws from and applies to the art and skill of chiropractic adjusting.

Dr. Feldman is director of Back in Action Chiropractic Center, a multidisciplinary clinic focusing on repetitive overuse and trauma-related problems including dance/sports injuries.

In addition to a general family, work and sports oriented practice, he regularly treats a number of local, as well as internationally touring dance companies and is the chiropractor of choice for Cal-Performances. He has authored Dear Dance Doctor, letters from dancers and answers to their questions, based on his years as a web site columnist. Publication expected in 2011. He also works with chiropractors to teach ways of effectively administering chiropractic adjustments with comfort to the patient and safety to the chiropractor (www.theinjuryfreedc.com).

He is a member of the California Chiropractic Association, International Association of Dance Medicine.
He is married to Susan, who practices craniosacral therapy at Back in Action and are blessed with two wonderful young adult children who are making their ways in the world.

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Dr. Feldman's personal statement:

The human body is, in my mind, both the greatest mystery and greatest miracle mankind has ever known. It somehow gets far more things right than it does wrong, and allows us to live, love, and experience our existence for upwards of a century, yet nobody knows how we are, in fact, alive. We do not know what Life itself actually is, but we know that the body uses a language to describe the essence that is Life. That language is your nerve impulses. My job is to make sure that your Life Force can communicate intelligently and effectively to all parts of your body. The process is challenging, invigorating, and rewarding. I enjoy the process of unraveling the physical, biochemical, or nutritional blocks, puzzles and tangles that are keeping your body from achieving its full potential. It is a great joy to witness the intelligence of your life force unfold and your health restore as each mystery is solved and each knot untangles. I welcome the opportunity to be a catalyst for positive change for you and your body.