Dr. Michelle Coleman grew up locally in the San Ramon Valley. She attended California High School where she was the Captain of the Varsity Song Squad. She learned about what it takes to be successful when she helped lead her team to win the USA National Championships. She was under Chiropractic care at the time she was competing learning that keeping her body in optimal shape was necessary in order to perform at her best!
The next step in her academic career was to study Psychology at California State Polytechnic University. Dr. Michelle attended school full time while also maintaining a part time position as a peer academic counselor at the Cal Poly College of Business. In her spare time she volunteered as a California Certified Domestic Violence Counselor and kept a strict workout schedule occasionally doing 5k and 10k runs. She found that Chiropractic care greatly improved her overall sense of well being and helped her body get in optimal shape for her athletic endeavors.
After graduating from Cal Poly Dr. Michelle accepted a job working for Gap Inc. corporate headquarters. While greatly enjoying her time living in San Francisco and working in the fashion industry she decided to take on a fundraising effort for Team In Training. In 2000 Dr. Michelle raised $3500 for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society and ran in the Honolulu Marathon. During her training for the marathon she suffered in a car accident in which she was rear ended. This was when Dr. Michelle realized how truly important Chiropractic care is especially when you have been injured in a car accident. At this time she decided it was time to move on and that fashion would become her new hobby so she applied for Chiropractic school.
Dr. Michelle graduated in 2005 from Life Chiropractic College West and moved to the Seattle area to work as a Pediatric specialist. Dr. Michelle also became Axiom certified while assisting chronic low back pain patients with treatment on the DRX 9000. She spent hours of reading Digital Motion X-Ray or "DMX" studies and MRI's which has thus enabled her to assist patients in avoiding invasive treatments for low back problems. She also assisted in the Rehabilitation and Exercise department of the clinic. She learned how to help patients restore proper structure and function to the body through postural rehabilitative exercises. Dr. Michelle learned many valuable lessons from the practice she worked in as an associate doctor in Washington and was the ready to apply it to her own practice. After missing the California sunshine, her family and the Bay Area, Dr. Michelle decided to move home and is happy to be practicing here doing what she loves everyday, helping people get healthier.
