Christina M Dumbadse, DC

There’s a reason Dr. Dumbadse was voted best Chiropractor for 2015 in the Press Democrat, because she is the best. I’ve gone to two others and there’s no comparison. Great staff, wonderful professional services. A really great health care provider.

Kind of a meat market. Get em in, move em out. Adjustment was «OK», but the girls that prep you want to rush through so they can chat. They overbill you and you have to fight it through to get it right. I don’t feel I’m given quality time. It’s like a factory so the money can be made. Don’t get me wrong. Everyone is nice. I wish I could find a good chiropractor in the county.

Dr Dumbadse is awesome. She listens and does a well versed assessment of any issues. She also explains things to you and gives you exercises to do so you don’t have to visit her every week.

I have been going to Dr. Dumbadse for years along with my husband. She is wonderful! She is the only one who can get my neck to move and she doesn’t make me keep coming back for return visits. I would recommend her to anyone.

I’ve been seeing Dr. Dumbadse for 15 years, ever since a repetitive back injury resulted in an on-​going case of sciatica. I think she does phenomenal work — I would highly recommend her to anyone who is a serious athlete, dancer, ice skater, etc. She has always been helpful in her explanations and is gentle but effective with her adjustments. I find that Dr. Dumbadse has also really helped me be mindful about some my exercise habits, in order to focus on things that will work with my body and not against it.
The one thing I would say to people going into an initial appointment — with any of the chiropractors in that practice — is to make sure you allow for extra waiting time. They do great work but are not always stellar about keeping time! Otherwise, huge thumbs up.

I had an okay experience at first. It was my first chiropractic visit ever and I thought it was pretty interesting. Not sure if any of it worked, but I enjoyed getting stretched and cracked :)
What I didn’t enjoy was getting charged way more than I was supposed to and then having to deal with a very annoying back and forth battle with them trying to get them to charge me appropriately. It turned into an all around crappy experience and safe to say, I wouldn’t go back.

Before I start, I need to preface this review by saying that a couple of months ago I would have told you that I would never go to a chiropractor. I didn’t trust them one bit. Then I got the muscle spasm. I slept on a slanted weird summer camp bunk for a couple of nights while on a vacation (It’s a long story). It was the most uncomfortable bed in the world and the floor would have been a better choice. However, I slept on it and because of the very steep slant on it, I ended up with a spasm in my back. As I continued on with my vacation (including a cross– country flight), not only did the spasm not improve, it kept getting worse. In fact, by walking funny and compensating for the spasm, I ended up with a second one on the other side of my back.
When I got home I immediately went to my usual Thai massage place and it helped, but it just didn’t do the trick. In the ensuing weeks I tried other types of massages, and flexeril. Nothing helped. By this time, I was sitting hunched over because of the pain so my lower back was also beginning to hurt and and I was taking prescription pain killers to dull the pain enough to sleep at night. Working out was becoming difficult and weight lifting pretty much stopped. I was ready to try just about anything.
I went to my boss because I knew that she had been going to an acupuncturist for some neck injury issues and was an avid mountain biker. I asked her if it had worked at all and she said no. However, she then recommended Dr. Dumbadse and I found out that several of my coworkers see her too.
Dr. Dumbadse was amazing. She assessed my injury and did the STEM electrode thing. She also helped me work on my posture. Since this was the sort of thing that I had used in physical therapy previously on an injured shoulder, I was so glad that she wasn’t doing anything weird to me since I still wasn’t sure whether to trust chiropractors. Within 1 session I had significant improvement and withing 3 sessions I felt 100% better. I was so happy to not be in pain anymore and was able to run a cross-​county race on Thanksgiving.
During that race I pulled a muscle in my calf and kept running on it, so that my knee ended up tweaked. I was limping at work and couldn’t wear high heels and still walk. I went back to her with that injury since I had another race coming up in a week. She got me right in and did ultrasound and STEM on my knee and active release massage on my calf. I saw her on Tuesday, then Thursday and then she opened up early for me on Saturday. On Sunday I was perfect for my 7 mile leg of a relay.
Dr. Dumbadse is really nice and friendly. She also seems to really know physiology and works with a lot of athletes.