Dr. Tim Schrijver D.C.

My journey with chiropractic began in elementary school after a trampoline hyper extension fracture injury of my lumbar spine. This caused me to go into spasm days later at recess and a teacher found me laying on the ground unable to walk. The school called my mother and she brought me to my first chiropractor who got me upright again. I grew up in Canada physically active on a farm and in the multiple sports that I loved. The initial back injury effected my quality of life from a young age, my ability to participate in sports and daily living activities carefree like I was used to prior was lost to me. This caused me to take an interest in the human body for my own healing, studying and researching movement and rehabilitation at the beginning of high school. This path eventually led to me to studying kinesiology for my undergrad where I found the sport of rowing. I excelled at rowing and despite my injury history using my developing knowledge of the body and multiple chiropractors along the way was able to row for 10 years, including 6 years at the national team level and the Rio 2016 Olympic Games.

I appreciate and love my initial chiropractor but a lack of proper assessment and rehabilitation as a young athlete and growing boy which could have prevented future injuries has become engrained in my mind from the standpoint of proper patient care. Knowing what I know now there were missing pieces in my original assessment and treatment that resulted in improper healing of the nervous system. As I would learn firsthand the injury resulted in compromised movement patterns and further compensatory injuries throughout my athletic career.

I believe that my injury had a purpose in bringing me to chiropractic. Chiropractic to me is a career that allows me to pursue the passion I have about optimizing the human body, whether it be biomechanics, anatomy, physiology, nervous system, rehabilitation or psychology. I am infinitely curious about the best way to heal. When I retired from high performance sport in 2020 I had the opportunity to come down to California to join the LA Chiropractic College, specifically due to my interest in the science and evidence based curriculum and the sports medicine emphasis. I used the opportunity of being in one of the largest saturated areas of chiropractic in the world to explore the many offices and finally found a home in Irvine Chiropractic Office where I could mesh what I knew and loved about chiropractic and sports medicine with functional medicine and principles and philosophy’s that align with my own.