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Thomas Forest, D.C. Forest Chiropractic,
P.C. A Member of Upper Cervical Health Centers of America 4224 Stanley Blvd. Pleasanton, CA 94566 Phone
925-846-3357 We are located in downtown Pleasanton. HOURS:
Monday, Tuesday and Thursday from 9AM-12PM and 1:30PM-6PM Fridays from 9AM-1PM
Learn more about Upper Cervical Chiropractic @UpperCervicalCare.com
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Dr.
Thomas Forest graduated from Palmer College of Chiropractic in Davenport, Iowa in 1974. He has been practicing Chiropractic
in Pleasanton since 1975. He uses a unique adjusting method
that is very precise, gentle and effective called the Blair Upper Cervical technique. He is a certified
instructor that teaches doctors and Chiropractic students
this x-ray analysis and adjusting technique in clinics and colleges across the
United States. Dr.
Forest has been teaching this x-ray analysis and adjusting technique at Palmer College in Davenport, Iowa for many years.
For the past year he has been teaching two ten week seminar series at Life College in Hayward. He also has spoken at Life
College in Atlanta, Georgia, Life College here in the Bay Area, Sherman College in Spartenburg, South Carolina, a series of
Blair clinics in Seattle, Washington, and a group of Chiropractors in Los Angeles at Dr. Drew Hall's clinic. His motivation
for this continued teaching is to provide early training to Chiropractic students and further training for practicing Chiropractors
as well. During his
time in practice, he has seen a vast number of people of all ages, and conditions that respond to Chiropractic care. Dr. Forest
is from a family of Chiropractors. His father was a Chiropractor in Iowa until his death. His brother, Dr. Gary Forest is
retired. His brother, Dr. Steve Forest practices in California. He and his family had the advantage of being raised with Chiropractic
care and a natural approach to health. Experiencing this, while seeing other families with health problems and bad health
habits, made him decide to be a Chiropractor like his father. Dr. Forest is married, has two daughters and lives in Pleasanton.
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What Makes the Blair Technique One
of the Most Effective Methods of Chiropractic? The top two vertebrae of the spine, the atlas and the axis,
are the only vertebrae in the body that do not have a means to
be self-correcting. This is because the muscles which control the position of these two vertebrae receive their
nerve supply from nerves which pass down through the atlas and axis and then to the muscles providing them with movement and
support. Vertebrae below this level have the means of self-correction in that they receive nerve supply to the muscles surrounding
and supporting them from above as well as below. This provides the means for the rest of the spine to be self-correcting if
the atlas and axis are not causing nerve pressure. It also means that if the atlas or axis are causing pressure,
the muscles surrounding and supporting the rest of the spine cannot function normally. In other words, changes that
take place in other sections of the body merely represent how the body has been forced to adapt to a
neck injury. Rather than repeatedly manipulate a misaligned hip only to have it slip out days later, the Upper Cervical adjustment
allows the body to reposition the hip to its natural position and the proper sequence and speed, thus the hip stays corrected
more permanently.
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"The doctor of the future will give
no medicine, but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame and in the cause and prevention of disease."
Thomas A. Edison
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Thank you to Daniel O. Clark, D.C. for use of this image. www.uppercervicalillustration
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Thomas Forest, D.C. Forest Chiropractic, P.C. 4224 Stanley Blvd. Pleasanton, CA 94566 Phone 925-846-3357 We are located in downtown Pleasanton.
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