Armstrong Chiropractic

Dr. Dan was as nice as everyone says and, best of all for me, very respectful of my skepticism regarding chiropractic (which I see as not very evidence based.) I actually went to see Matt, the massage therapist who was recommended for de-​kinking my neck and shoulder. And Matt was fantastic! Surprisingly spa-​like amenities (soft music and lighting etc.) but a very healing, injury-​focused massage that gently stretched out my painful bits and made my grateful neck/​shoulder very happy.

After 3 occasions of landing in the ER with buttock and hip pain so bad I could not walk and was carried in by EMTs on stretcher only to be given painkillers and sent home, I finally started seeing Dr. Dan, my first chiropractor. He felt my buttock and noticed there was a lot of scar tissue there and gave me the best mini massage I ever had. He then had his in house masseuse give me an hour massage for free. He is so compassionate and really listens to you. After one adjustment I was out of pain that had been so bad I had to use a walker on bad days or a cane on not so bad days. He worked with my regular doctors and helped pinpoint my problem SI Joint dysfunction. My orthopedic surgeon wanted to pin that joint to prevent it from slipping. When Dr. Dan heard that he recommended that I see his friend Dr. Wolfer (yes the one in that Tim Ferris Book) She was booked solid but when she heard I was Dr. Dan’s patient she worked me in right away. She did some injections on me and I went from not being able to hold an adjustment for more than a day or two to holding an adjustment for weeks to a month. No surgery! While I was seeing Dr. Dan almost 3 times a week and had no insurance he gave a discounted rate. He would not leave me in pain for lack of money. Flash forward 10 years and he has been integral in keeping me out of pain during my two pregnancies. Many chiropractors do not do prenatal but he does. During a time when relaxin causes extra loose ligaments, which means mean extra slipping, and I am not allowed to take Motrin or Aleve, Dr. Dan keeps me up and running. He even has adjusted my 3 year old daughter. I cannot say enough about how this man has changed my quality of life. He always warms me up and gives me a mini massage. Then I get stim (not while pregnant) and/​or ultrasound and an adjustment, all for one low price. Kyle at the front desk is amazing. He has an old wurlitzer in the waiting room with wonderful 45s. They are never late. He usually can squeeze me in for a same day appointment if I am badly in pain.
PS Ladies! If you have foot pain make sure you let him adjust your feet!

I am a new patient of Dr. Armstrong. 3 sessions later and I already feel much better than when I walked in. He’s super nice, does a careful and good job with your adjustments. Kyle is great at the front desk. Go for the adjustments, hang around for the jukebox!

Dr Dan is the Man. Warms you up, soft tissue work, adjusts if necessary and ya back in business. I refer people often and will always be a fan.

I have been seeing Dr. Dan for over 20 years. I only go when I need to and would trust nobody else with my bad back… just do it!

I just wanted to add a quick update that I continue to see Dr Dan and he continues to be super awesome. Thanks for setting me straight, Dr Dan. I don’t know what I’d do without you!

Dr. Dan is the man — he knows it all and explains it in laymen’s terms. He really cares about his patients and it is easy to tell why everyone on here gives him 5 stars!

Dr. Dan is just plain fantastic. He took incredible care of me — I’m a father of three little kids and my lower back was killing me — a combination of dead-​lifting three little rug-​rats all the time, and not working out/​stretching enough. It got so bad that I was having trouble getting my shoes on in the morning. Dr. Dan fixed me up right, getting me back on track. Not only did he fix that issue for me, but I had a nagging shoulder injury from overdoing it at yoga a couple of years ago. He attacked that and made a dramatic improvement in a nagging injury that I thought I’d have to live with for the rest of my life. Dr. Dan has my highest recommendation. Plus … how many chiropractors have a working jukebox in their waiting room?

Dr. Dan I few is one of the best chiropractors around. He is very helpful in explaining what is happening when I am in discomfort. The office is very warm and friendly and Kyle who runs the office is so efficient with insurance and he really cares your taken care of.
I have been Dr. Dan’s patient for over 5 years and I never could imagine seeing anyone else.

This is a long overdue review for Dr. Dan. I’ve been a patient for over 10 years. Anytime I have a kink in my neck, I call Dr. Dan and he squeezes me in — same day appointments. He is super flexible.
Also, he is a master at chiropractic. I am very hard to adjust but he can always do it and I walk out of his office feeling a million times better.
Highly recommend Dr. Dan — he is really the best!
And, Kyle is super sweet and great to work with too!

Dr. Armstrong is awesome. I was referred to him by Whitney Moses, with whom I’ve had a couple massages. He and his office manager, Kyle, are all sorts of awesomeness:
1) Dr. Armstrong is skilled and great at educating you about what your body is doing to cause the pain/​issue at hand (if you’re interested).
2) He and Kyle are also super kind and compassionate. I started to see Dr. Armstrong when I was just starting a new job and not yet financially stable. He wanted me to come in for a series of treatments within a short period of time to help rehabilitate my shoulder and I told him I couldn’t afford to afford pay out of pocket (I was not yet covered by my employer’s health insurance, and it didn’t matter anyways because he doesn’t work with that particular insurance company) for so many treatments. He gave me a discount.
3) And I’ve heard that he never turns away a person in pain – squeezes them in, etc. This may seem obvious, but I’ve been turned away by a chiropractor before when I was in severe, debilitating, and desperate pain because he didn’t have time. That’s an awful feeling when you are new to a city and it’s the weekend and options are limited. (Not that Dr. Armstrong is open on the weekends, but just to illustrate my point.)
4) You can sometimes hear his cockatiel, Peach, whom he brings in on occasion. I used to breed and hand-​raise cockatiels, so that automatically gives Dr. Armstrong a bonus star.
5) Kyle has his jukebox in the office and you can play any song you like for free. It’s actually not as loud as you would think once you’re in the inner rooms, so doesn’t disturb your session. It’s fun too.

About a week ago I threw out my back making my bed like an old lady. After some recovery, I hit a plateau where the pain stopped subsiding. That’s when a friend urged me to see a chiropractor and recommended Dr. Dan.
I’d been wary about chiropractors in the past because I didn’t really understand what they did, but now I’m a total convert. Dan did an amazing job of not just relieving my pain but explaining how an old injury probably caused me to pinch a disk in my spine. He’s gentle, attentive and obviously skilled. He gave me several targeted treatments and I saw an almost immediate change in both my level of pain and my range of motion. He gives each client a lot of his time, attention and expertise. I highly recommend him.

Unilocalers, I had to update my review because Dr. Dan Armstrong helped me in a way I never anticipated. I had the misfortune of snapping a hamstring while sprinting. I went down like my leg was broken. I have never had a serious sports injury before, and this was terrifying and depressing. This is the kind of injury that makes one wonder if life will every be normal again.
Thanks to Dr. Dan, after three treatment sessions and following his instructions to the letter, I am off crutches and I can see normal on the horizon.
Had I gone to the emergency room, what would they have done? Pumped me full of drugs, given me no physical therapy, and charged me a few thousand dollars — and I would not have recovered completely because that is impossible with the «treatment» they would have prescribed.
I am so glad that my family reminded me that Dr. Dan is an injury specialist. I had seen him in the past for spinal adjustments and airplane neck and have always gotten great results and trust him completely.

I want to start this review by saying that up until seeing Dr. Dan, I was skeptical, and leaning toward not believing in this practice. I was raised by 2 doctors, so I usually go to them for medical issues.
I was referred to Dr. Dan when I was experiencing tingling and numbness in my right arm, probably due to a repetitive stress injury. I had an appointment with my regular doc, who I knew was going to prescribe steroids for the inflammation. I hate taking medication, but i was desperate to resolve the problem. I had never considered chiropractic as an answer because my Dad always told me not to.
I n that same desperation, I called Dr. Dan and went to see him. I am now a believer! He has absolutely fixed the problem, and he has made progress on a host of other problems that were already present, but I was able to live with. He takes his time, listens to all of my concerns, and I he uses more than just bone cracking adjustments to fix my temperamental nerves.
I now can whole heartedly recommend Armstrong Chiropractic. (With some hesitation because I am afraid I will have trouble getting in with him). This is the ONLY Chiropractic doctor i would ever see!

One night while in Texas, I somehow managed to land somewhere on the wrong side of my foot. Back in San Francisco two days later, painful foot in tow, I wondered how long it would take to heal.
A friend of mine, seeing my sorry state as I hobbled up and down the street, struggling to keep up with him, suggested I drop by Armstrong Chiropractic for treatment.
Dr. Dan knows a thing or two about torn ligaments. After visiting him once a week over the course of a few weeks, my foot began to feel pretty good. He gave me a few adjustments, used an ultrasound on my foot several times, and now I’m walking almost as well as before.

Excelente servicio.
Highly recommend.
Despues de dos visitas me siento como nuevo. Dr Dan Armstrong mantiene precios accesibles y su servicio es realmente excelente! Se lo recomiendo a todas las personas de habla hispana. No pierdan tiempo y dinero con otro especialista.

After three trips to three different chiropractors who all left me in more pain than what I’d arrived with, I’d given up on chiro.
But then things got so bad, I needed to do something: I have scoliosis, I’d injured myself in an aikido class such that I’d lost a lot of feeling in my right arm, and then the icing was when I broke two elbows in a biking accident. All of this had me asking around for reccomendations for orthopedists.
But then, on Valentine’s Day in 2007 I reached down to pick up my bicycle and heard something go horribly wrong in my back. I cursed, and then tried to ignore it, riding my bike from the Western Addition to SOMA, carrying it up to my office, and sitting in meetings for the next three hours, a pencil clamped between my teeth in an attempt to keep from crying out in pain.
My friend said, «Go see Dr. Dan. Here’s his number.»
I said, «Really? Right now?»
He said, «Yes. He’s amazing.»
So, I called, and when Kyle heard the pain in my voice, he insisted they could see me right away. By the time I left the office, the immense pain in my back and withered to something small and manageable. I went back two days later, and the pain went away completely.
The cherry? I noticed that over that weekend, all the pain and numbness in my right arm was gone – he’d not only taken care of the acute back pain that had brought me in, but had resolved the pinched nerve in my neck and shoulder that had plagued me for months.
He’s great. I highly suggest him.

I changed my healthcare at work to ensure that he was in my network. He is an amazing rate for walk-​ins :)

Dr. Dan is, in me and my sister’s opinion, the best chiropractor in the Bay Area. I wouldn’t trust anyone else, ever. Strong words but it’s true! I first started to to to Dr. Dan when he had an office at my gym and I was a student at the time so they gave me a great deal. Even now, his prices are very reasonable, and I haven’t gone anywhere else for years. I often call at the last minute, and they always get me in (Kyle is great, very friendly). I will arrive in discomfort and leave feeling 100% better. The best thing about Dr. Dan is that there is absolutely no pressure to come back as with some chiropractors where they try and get you on a weekly program, etc. He is very easy going, professional, really knows his stuff, and a truly nice person. I can’t say enough good things!

I’ve been seeing Doc Dan for almost ten years, and would never think of seeing anyone else. I’ve got a list of chronic problems that can throw me for quite the loop (including not exercising enough — my bad), and he’s kept me moving and as close to pain free as I’ve been since childhood. I had an on the job injury some four years ago, and when Workers Comp gave me the run around, Doc Dan helped me to understand my diagnoses — and misdiagnoses — and did everything he could to help heal the injury.
My adjustments are always tuned to what’s bothering me at the moment. If it’s that old injury, he focuses on that. When my hips lock up, he gets me walking again. When I’m just tense and out of whack, he seems to magically find what’s bothering me even when I don’t know myself. His treatment includes what’s needed at the time — heat, ultrasound, tens unit, massage, and super critical — a safe, warm, friendly place where I know that my well being is the most important thing on the agenda.
I’ve never felt pressured to come in for more visits that may or may not be necessary — the focus is on getting me moving comfortably again. When I ask for suggestions for stretching, exercise, and home therapy, he’s always happy to share techniques to keep me out of his office by taking good care of myself, if that makes sense. Since I first walked in the door, I’ve known that he’s not interested in my bank account, he’s interested in my health and comfort.
Kyle, the fantabulous appointment maker and front man extraordinaire, knows me by name (I half think by voice on the phone too), and is always happy to find appointments that work with my schedule — and he was like that from day one.
I cannot recommend Dan enough — he keeps me moving!