I come from a family of chiropractors. My father practiced for forty-plus years. My earliest memories are of his office — the smell of the table, the soft thump of an adjustment, and the way patients would walk out lighter than they'd walked in. That image never left me.
The first time I watched him help someone walk out of his office pain-free who'd been in agony when they arrived, I knew this was what I'd do.
That was twenty years ago. Since then, I've practiced in San Diego, Los Angeles, Seattle, and for several formative years overseas — in Abu Dhabi and Dubai. While I was there I had the privilege of working on elite martial artists and senior members of the UAE government. Working at that level taught me something important: people who depend on their bodies for a living can't accept "kind of better." Adjustments have to hold. Pain has to actually resolve. There's no margin for vague.
Why Gonstead
In chiropractic school we learned a half-dozen techniques. Diversified, activator, Thompson drop, Cox flexion-distraction, and others. They all have their place. But the more I practiced, the more I kept coming back to one method that consistently produced better outcomes: Gonstead.
Gonstead is the most thoroughly diagnostic technique in chiropractic. It refuses to guess. Before any adjustment is made, the doctor has worked through a five-pillar examination: visualization, instrumentation, static palpation, motion palpation, and X-ray analysis. By the time you actually adjust, you're not adjusting "around" the problem. You're adjusting the segment that's actually causing it.
That precision is what high-performance athletes need. It's also what a 70-year-old grandmother needs. The technique doesn't change based on the patient. The diagnosis does.
"I'd rather see a patient five times and fix the problem than see them fifty times and manage it."
What brought me to Lake Travis
My wife and I moved to the Hill Country in 2016 looking for the right place to plant roots, raise a family, and build the practice I'd always wanted to build. Lake Travis was it. The community is active, the people care about their health, and there's a real appetite for the kind of chiropractic care I was trained to provide.
We opened 620 Chiropractic that year. We added the Marble Falls location to serve patients further west. We've been here nine years now, and most of our patients come from word of mouth — which, in this business, is the only metric I really trust.
Outside the office
I'm a lifelong martial artist. I train, I lift, and I understand from the inside what it feels like when your body isn't working right. That informs how I treat athletes — and frankly, how I treat everyone, because all of us are athletes in some form. We're all asking our spines to do hard things every day.
If you'd like to come in, the easiest way is to book a $49 new patient exam online. I'll do the full Gonstead workup, walk through what I find, and tell you honestly whether we can help you. If we can't, I'll point you toward who can.
— Dr. Micah Pittman, DC