Forest Chiropractic Office

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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.

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.

"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