Our Approach · The Hall of Fame
The Legends
The figures who built a profession, from the first adjustment in 1895 to the founding of Luxury Chiropractic.
↑ Above
The Brain
command center, just above the atlas
C1
The Atlas
the top vertebra; it holds up your skull
C2
The Axis
the pivot your head turns on
↓ Below
The Spine & Body
everything else, down the cord
The Founder
D.D. Palmer
Gave the first adjustment in 1895 and founded the profession.
The Rival
Solon Langworthy
Opened the first school after Palmer and taught the spine as one mechanical column.
First Lady
Mabel Heath Palmer
Taught the anatomy and ran the business that built the school.
The Developer
B.J. Palmer
Turned his father’s discovery into a movement and an empire.
The Constructor
Willard Carver
Built a rival college and the structural school of thought.
The Dissenter
Joy Loban
Led the first great walkout and founded a competing college.
College Builder
C.S. Cleveland
Founded the college dynasty that still bears his name.
The Engineer
Clarence Gonstead
Built the most rigorous full-spine analysis in the profession.
The Inventor
Dossa Evins
Engineered the Neurocalometer at the center of Black Friday.
Low-Force Pioneer
Richard Van Rumpt
Pioneered low-force adjusting with Directional Non-Force Technique.
The Synthesist
Bertrand DeJarnette
Bridged osteopathy and chiropractic into Sacro Occipital Technique.
The Codifier
Ralph W. Stephenson
Wrote the textbook that codified chiropractics 33 principles.
The Visionary
Thurman Fleet
Founded the Zone Technique and the Concept-Therapy movement.
The Discoverer
Hugh B. Logan
Found the basin-support contact behind Logan Basic.
Research Director
Lyle Sherman
Directed the Palmer Research Clinic and refined the upper-cervical toggle.
The Defendant
Herbert Reaver
The most jailed chiropractor in history; he chose prison over silence.
The Humanitarian
Leo Spears
Built a free hospital to bring chiropractic to the poor.
The Scholar
Joseph Janse
Made National a center of science and systematized Diversified.
The Mechanic
J. Clay Thompson
Invented the drop table that changed how the world adjusts.
The Diagnostician
Henri Gillet
Turned fixation analysis into the science of Motion Palpation.
The Cartographer
William Blair
Mapped the asymmetry of the upper cervical spine.
The Innovator
George Goodheart
Discovered muscle testing and founded Applied Kinesiology.
The Maverick
Irving N. Toftness
Built a low-force, instrument-guided method that fought the FDA.
The Precisionists
Gregory & Grostic
Refined Grostics work into the precision of NUCCA.
The Toolmaker
Arlan Fuhr
Co-created the instrument that became Activator Methods.
The Orthogonist
Roy Sweat
Engineered the percussion instrument behind Atlas Orthogonal.
The Philosopher
Reggie Gold
The voice of objective-straight philosophy for a generation.
The Technicians
Pierce & Stillwagon
Married instrumentation and x-ray into Pierce-Stillwagon.
The Builder
Sid E. Williams
Founded Life University and the Dynamic Essentials movement.
The Plaintiff
Chester Wilk
The lead plaintiff who took the AMA to court and won.
The Advocate
George McAndrews
The attorney who broke the AMAs Committee on Quackery.
The Mathematician
Donald Harrison
Brought mathematics and posture science to Chiropractic BioPhysics.
The Itinerant
Jim Sigafoose
The traveling philosopher who packed seminars for decades.
The Conscience
Fred Barge
The conscience and prolific author of the straight movement.
The Reframer
Donald Epstein
Founded Network and reframed care around the nervous system.
The Pediatrician
Larry Webster
Created the pregnancy technique and the pediatric academy.
The Integrators
Scott & Deb Walker
Merged emotion and physiology into Neuro-Emotional Technique.
The Neurologist
Ted Carrick
Built the field of chiropractic Functional Neurology.
The Artist
Arno Burnier
Taught masterful adjusting and the Cafe of Life philosophy.
The Theorist
Jay Holder
Developed Torque Release and its tonal, instrument-based model.
The Tonalist
Sue Brown
Advanced self-organizing care through Bio-Geometric Integration.
The Systematizer
Tedd Koren
Created the handheld, protocol-driven Koren Specific Technique.
The doctors below are not historical figures and make no claim to be. They are the chiropractors practicing this lineage now at Luxury Chiropractic. As the practice grows, each new doctor joins them here.
Founder of Luxury Chiropractic. Has cared for patients at one North Miami Beach address since 1999.
Founder of Tonal Chiropractic Technique, author of the Unified Model of Tone, teaches a seminar series.
The through-line continues into Luxury Chiropractic and the Unified Model of Tone.