Clarence Gonstead, D.C.
Clarence Gonstead
Dr. Clarence S. Gonstead practiced chiropractic from 1923 until 1978. He decided to become a chiropractor after chiropractic adjustments allowed his body to feel from a painful, crippling episode of juvenile rheumatoid arthritis. Using his background in mechanical engineering and extensive hours spent studying cadaver spines, he developed a unique approach to applying chiropractic care. His application brought him both national and international acclaim, and he was known as a "chiropractor's chiropractor." His practice located in Mt. Horeb, Wisconsin (pop. 4000) drew patients from all over the world, and is still the largest to have existed to date. Dr. Gonstead's brilliant mind and lifelong experience of treating over one million patients enabled him to develop and refine his technique which is now taught and practiced by doctors of chiropractic all over the world.
Dr. C.S. Gonstead graduated from Palmer College of Chiropractic in 1923. Soon after, he started developing the most thorough, comprehensive, and specific form of chiropractic for the analysis and correction of vertebral subluxations (misaligned spinal segments). For over forty years, thousands of patients traveled to his Mt. Horeb, WI clinic to get adjusted for problems associated with a variety of health issues. The sickest of the sick found health through the Gonstead Method of chiropractic care. Having seen the great results achieved by Dr. Gonstead's work, other chiropractors requested that he teach them his unique approach. The Gonstead Method has been shown to be the "gold standard" in chiropractic�a standard by which all other chiropractic techniques measure themselves. It is this superiority and specificity to correcting spinal problems that has drawn myself to the Gonstead Method�bringing the BEST in chiropractic to my patients and family.
The Gonstead Method specifically focuses on the health of the disc. When a spinal bone becomes subluxated, the disc (shock absorber between the bones) can be compressed and bulge, thus irritating surrounding spinal nerves. The bone must be realigned for health to be restored. A specific Gonstead adjustment is the most natural, least invasive approach to correcting subluxations and improving overall health.
