Dr. Deborah Renee Adams-Anderson

Dr. Deborah Renee Adams-Anderson is founder, owner and managing doctor of Kirkland Life Chiropractic. Dr. Deborah’s focus on proactive and state-of-the-art chiropractic techniques has allowed her to build one of the leading chiropractic clinics in the country. She and her colleagues are sought out by professional athletes, leading business people and families throughout the region. For nearly two decades Dr. Deborah and her team’s primary focus has been on chiropractic care as a foundation for long-term health.

Dr. Deborah was first introduced to chiropractic after a severe car accident. Chiropractic treatment was successful in repairing the damage from the accident. This personal experience inspired Dr. Deborah to pursue chiropractic as a career so she could educate others about this medical treatment. Originally from Southern California, Dr. Deborah received and undergraduate degree in Biology and a Doctorate of Chiropractic from Los Angeles College of Chiropractic in 1993.

Dr. Deborah is a significant contributor to many local causes and charities. She is passionate about supporting and partnering with organizations that help the community and provide hope.

Dr. Jeremy Heisler

Dr. Jeremy Heisler is a native of Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, Canada and fell in love with the city of Kirkland in 1992 when he came here to continue his education. His love for chiropractic began after he received his first adjustment and experienced immediate relief from his on-going headaches. With continuing care, his headaches never returned and he no longer suffered from acid reflux, which had plagued him for years. Dr. Jeremy decided to become a chiropractor to help others experience how chiropractic can change your life and overall wellness. Graduating from Life Chiropractic College West in Hayward, Calif., he’s been practicing in the Seattle area for more than 17 years. Dr. Jeremy specializes in manual adjusting focusing on biomechanics. He treats professional golfers, Seahawks, soccer, basketball and baseball players and triathletes, helping them reach optimal performance. Having a knee injury and surgery himself, has helped him understand both sides of what is needed to recover from an injury and to get back to daily life and what you love. Recently, he began working closely with companies to improve ergonomics in the workplace by giving personalized evaluations to employees, their posture and workstations. Dr. Jeremy enjoys hockey, travel, camping and spending time with his wife and two children.

Dr. Stephanie Benz

Growing up in Bellevue, Dr. Stephanie Benz knew since she was little that she wanted to help people. While attending the University of Northern Iowa on a swimming scholarship, she was injured and decided to turn to chiropractic care. She was able to heal and completely recover from her injury. She knew then that chiropractic was the field for her because not only did it change her life, she knew that she could bring hope and natural healing to people around her.

Stephanie then attended Palmer College of Chiropractic Florida where she was named valedictorian with a 4.0 GPA and an academic excellence award. she was compelled by her love of science and the human body. She trained heavily with the International Chiropractic Pediatric Association in the field of pediatrics and pregnancy. She is certified in Webster technique and has ample experience working with women, babies,and children. Stephanie is also trained in one of the most researched techniques in chiropractic today, Torque Release Technique.

She met her husband, Ross Benz at Palmer and is happy to be back in the Northwest where she and Ross can serve the greater Eastside to bring principled chiropractic care to you and your family!

Dr. Ross Benz

Dr. Ross Benz wants to help others achieve their health goals. Growing up in Port Orange, FL, he helped his community in whatever way possible. He studied sports management at Flagler College in St. Augustine. He helped develop 130 elite level athletes at the University of Florida. This is the spark that drew Ross even closer to helping people achieve their health goals not only from the outside-in but now from inside-out. At Palmer College of Chiropractic, he focused on neurologically based chiropractic care but will always stick to his roots of sports performance rehab that he utilized while working as a strength coach. Chiropractic has changed his life by keeping him on the soccer field for 14 years. He loves that chiropractic is the largest, drugless ,healing profession in the world and allows the body to heal from within.

Ross studied many techniques while in chiropractic school but loves Torque Release Technique (TRT).. His expertise in TRT, which proven through research is the most specific, scientific technique in the world ,allows him to provide gentle and effective adjustments that allow the body to heal itself.

Ross is excited to be serve the Eastside with his beautiful wife Stephanie.

Chiropractic

A chiropractic adjustment is one of the most powerful tools to allow your body to heal from the inside out, naturally. A healthy, properly aligned spine has a direct influence on the brain and the nervous system so that you can function optimally and live life the way you were intended to, without signs of disease, illness and other preventable ailments.

Conditions That Benefit from Chiropractic Care

• Low Back Pain
• Whiplash
• Neck Pain
• Headaches + Migraines
• Herniated Disc
• Spinal Stenosis
• Lumbar Radiculopathy (Sciatica)
• Numbness + Tingling
• Mood + Stress
• Sports Injuries
• Work Injuries
• Shoulder/Hip/Knee Problems
• Asthma + Allergies
• Myofascial/Muscle Pain
• Arthritis
• Post-Surgical Pain
• Fibromyalgia
• Carpal Tunnel
• Postural Abnormalities
• Fatigue

Pregnancy & Pediatrics

Chiropractic care in pregnancy is an essential ingredient to your prenatal care choices. Preexisting but unnoticed imbalances in your spine and pelvis can become stressed during pregnancy. A significant percentage of all pregnant women experience back discomfort or some sort of pain during pregnancy. This is due to the rapid growth of the baby and interferences to your body’s normal structural adaptation to that growth. Some, but not all the benefits include:

• Reduces interference to the mother’s nervous system, which coordinates all the systems and functions in her body
• Helps to create a state of balance in the pelvic muscles, ligaments, and bony structures, which prepares the pelvis for an easier pregnancy and birth
• Reduces torsion to the woman’s uterus by removing tension on the ligaments that support the uterus
• Allows for a safer and easier birth for the mother, decreasing the potential for intervention such as inducement or C-section
• Detection, prevention, and possible correction of fetal malposition
• Reduction in pelvic and back pain as mom’s body grows with her growing baby

Dr. Stephanie Benz is specifically trained in the Webster Technique through the International Chiropractic Pediatric Association which analysis and corrects the bony structures, muscles, and ligaments of the pelvis using gentle chiropractic adjustments.

Along with having a safe and healthy pregnancy, most parents have one goal in mind and that is to have a healthy child. Chiropractic care for babies, infants, toddlers and all children is very safe and effective. Having their nervous system checked is crucial for your child’s development. A healthy child means they can grow up to be healthy adults.

1. To encourage adequate neural plasticity (brain and nerve development)
2. To help strengthen their child’s immunity – encouraging fewer colds, ear-aches, and general illnesses
3. To promote better nerve communication throughout their entire body
4. To help resolve breastfeeding issues, colic, and reflux
5. To reduce the impact the modern world has on our children’s health
6. Supports digestive strength so it allows them to thrive
7. To aid in better concentration and capacity to learn
8. Promotion of better balance – helping to resolve poor posture, asthma, allergies, irritability, colic, and bedwetting
9. To help kids stay fun, lighthearted, and in tip-top shape
10. To allow a better functioning Nervous-System so all other systems and organs in their body can function at a greater level

For more information, please visit the International Chiropractic Pediatric Association or give us a call today.

Performance Therapy

Performance therapy is a term used to generalize the effective recovery treatments we offer our patients. With years of experience under their belts in conjunction with the chiropractic adjustment, the Kirkland Life doctors utilize vibration plates, muscle flossing, muscle stimulation (PTLMS), body tempering and banded exercises to keep their wonderful patients moving freely to optimize recovery. These therapies are very non-invasive but continue to be effective in a time efficient manner.

• The Chiropractic Adjustment: This is the most important and powerful treatment we deliver in our office. Receiving a chiropractic adjustment allows the communication from your body to your brain and from your brain back out to the body to be restored by way of removing vertebral subluxations.
• Vibration Therapy: Whole body vibration therapy helps reduce recovery time, regain muscle activation, and increase brain stimulation.
• Muscle Flossing: Voodoo muscle flossing helps to restore proper joint mechanics, unglue matted down or previously injured tissue, compress swelling out of tissues or joints, and re-perfuse tissues that have become stiff.
• Muscle Stimulation: We utilize the Pettibon Tendon Ligament Muscle Stimulation machine. This unit helps remove muscle splinting, increase blood flow, enhance metabolic function, and helps settle down spastic acute tissues.
• Body Tempering: A restorative and strengthening therapy that utilizes a heavy load to pump the fluids in the extremities while breaking up spastic or adhered tissues.
• Banded Exercises: The utilizations of bands can help increase functional ranges of motion while activating dormant tissues making for a well functioning joint or unit.

Chiropractic Technology

Here at Kirkland Life Chiropractic we tailor custom-care plans to fit your specific goals and needs. We work with you each step along your journey to reach your goals. Using the latest state-of-the-art, space-certified, NASA-published technology we assess your nervous system to deliver the most specific and scientific care possible. When necessary, we use also our in-house digital x-ray suite. As you begin care with us, we’ll celebrate the victories and milestones together. By being a part of Kirkland Life Chiropractic, you will never be “just another condition” to us. You will be a valued and respected member of our community.

Massage Therapy

The progressive mind-set of my massage therapy program is addressing our clients from their functional, professional and individual arrangements. It’s an exploration of what can be changed when we alter the client’s experience. A logical unfolding of the musculature and fascia tissue within a method that deeply senses and understands immediate, long term and even unexpressed needs. We call it Bodywork and KQ or Kinaesthetic Intelligence. We all know about IQ, but here we focus on body-centred intelligence.

Working closely with our chiropractors, each client’s care plan is part of a unique integrative approach. As a team, we help our client’s progressively move their postural arrangement from wherever they begin, towards a dynamic and more functional state of balance. In the short term, this means less pain and dysfunction and an improved ability for the body to accelerate healing. The end result is we care about our client’s long-term health and wellbeing through integration of both the structure and the musculature.

Brian Kingsford

Brian Kingsford has been a practicing Licensed Massage Practitioner and part of the progressive evolution of complimentary medicine in massage therapy since 1999. He is a graduate from the University of Colorado in Kinesiology and Integrative Physiology and an honors graduate as well as instructor from Boulder College of Massage Therapy. Brian brings with him 17 years of industry experience, knowledge and lifestyle pursuits of functional training, athletics, and body awareness. His passion for his craft is continuously being strengthened and inspired by dedicated work and results from satisfied clients one at a time.

Brian understands that client based relations are the sole of our clinical practice. We are only the medium providing the foundation for client care and wellbeing. Cultivating loyalty and inspiring his clients to return is the primary mission within his professional practice.

As a specialist in therapeutic and clinical based massage, Brian’s style is both corrective and restorative. His client’s develop a deeper understanding, awareness and knowledge of their individual bodies. Discover the difference between accepting pain and discomfort and finding a powerful tool to personal care and achieving your wellness goals.

Kat Santiago

Kat has always had an interest in hands-on healing since her youth. She started her journey as a massage therapist attending Oregon School of Massage in 2008 and received her Oregon Massage License in 2010. She moved to Washington in 2015 and got her Washington Massage License in the same year.

Kat has studied both Western and Eastern style massage modalities. She uses her hands for traditional massage as well as her feet doing Ashiatsu* for deeper work. Kat customizes her massages to each individual clients promoting both healing and relaxation. Her goal is to build a therapeutic relationship with her clients and be part of their healthy lifestyle.

(*Ashiatsu is a modality where the practitioner makes contact with their feet, but uses the strength of their legs, weight of their body, and utilizes gravity to provide a very slow and deep massage.)

Corrective Care

A popular misconception about chiropractic care is for temporary pain relief only. Many chiropractors choose to limit their practice to pain relief. That is fine, but at Kirkland Life Chiropractic we have chosen to focus on corrective care and wellness care. We emphasize restoring not only the normal function of the spine by removing the subluxation through a specific chiropractic adjustment, but also, we strive to restore the normal shape and biomechanics of the spine to prevent further stress. This is important because this stress drives the spine into subluxation and can cause degeneration over time. When we begin correcting subluxations, pain relief is often one of the first things to be experienced and it is welcomed, but our primary concern is to address the cause of your problem so your symptoms go away and stay away. Chiropractic care for temporary relief might offer you some reprieve from pain, but no real correction will take place and the underlying cause will remain an issue. In essence, pain relief doesn’t return your body back to its natural ability to heal and regulate at 100 percent. Chiropractic corrective care offers true correction by addressing the cause of your body’s dysfunction and allows your body to express optimum health. Because when your body is functioning well you are going to feel great.

Torque Release Technique

Torque Release Technique uses a hand-held instrument called an Integrator. This low-force adjusting method allows the nervous system to better integrate and understand the new corrective information and to process it throughout the spinal cord and brain.

Imagine that your nervous system has a volume control. If the volume is too loud or too low it causes distortion, with internal organ complaints, musculoskeletal stresses and diminished immune response. Torque Release looks to correct these problems by normalizing the function of the nerves, spinal cord and brain.

The primary intent of Torque Release Technique is to reduce blockages and tension of the entire spinal system, to release trapped, unresolved patterns, facilitate reintegration of the nervous system allowing a greater expression of your health.

Body Tempering

Body Tempering was popularized by a world champion powerlifter, Donnie Thompson and was brought to our clinic by Dr. Ross Benz. It can be considered both restorative and strengthening at the same time. Body Tempering creates pumping mechanisms that moves fluids back and forth in the venous and lymph systems. It can help break up tissue adhesions and can help tissues relax by the way of Golgi tendon organ stimulation. This is great for anyone suffering from upper and lower extremity muscle tightness and soreness. This technique is also great for prepping tissue for activity.

Ergonomics

The most significant trauma affecting our bodies on a day-to-day basis is what we call microtraumas. Here at Kirkland life Chiropractic we take many steps within the office to remove and protect you from these stressors – like posture and redundant/repetitive tasks. One of the most effective tools around ergonomics is where we can evaluate your body usage within the most highly impactful elements of your life – work, exercise and hobbies. We do so through analysis which uses YOUR specific spinal considerations and the application of appropriate ergonomic changes to allow you to be more effective, efficient and increase endurance. We do corporate evaluations of varying levels of complexity as well as individual assessments.

Our Partners

Collaborating with our community is important to us. We are proud to partner with these great organizations:

• Crossfire Premier
• Schmetzer’s Toca Northwest
• Fit4Mom Eastside

FIT4MOM Eastside is a fitness program for moms offering prenatal and postnatal fitness classes for every stage of motherhood. FIT4MOM Eastside offers 40+ classes a week in Redmond, Kirkland, Woodinville and Bothell!

We offer prenatal exercise through our Fit4Baby program in Redmond, on the Microsoft Campus and at Evergreen Health Hospital.

We also offer two fitness programs for women after they have given birth: Body Back (a woman-only boot camp) and Stroller Strides (mommy-and-me fitness classes with kiddos in the stroller!)

FIT4MOM Eastside is more than just fitness classes. We are a village of mothers offering friendship, support, and multiple organized playdates each week. You do not have to be a member of FIT4MOM Eastside to attend playdates!

FIT4MOM Eastside is not only the largest FIT4MOM franchise in the country, it is also home to the national Instructor of the Year Erica Spear, and Franchisee of the Year, owner Erin Houg!

Want to try us out? Your first class is always FREE!

Community Outreach

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