Dr. Sanio Dizdarevic, DC

His story

Why Dr. Sanio became a chiropractor

Dr. Sanio grew up in Bosnia and Herzegovina during the Balkan Civil War. His family moved to Germany in 1994 and settled permanently in Dallas in 1998, where he started playing tennis at age 7 and competed in tournaments as often as he could.

At 13, he fell hard on his lower back dodging a slide tackle in soccer. What started as a bruise got worse over the next four years, until he could only stand for about 15 minutes before the pain set in, and his posture kept declining. It wasn't until his first adjustment in chiropractic school, at 22, that he realized what he'd been living with wasn't normal.

That experience shaped his mission: help people stop accepting pain as "just how it is" and help parents understand how everyday falls can affect a child's spine long before symptoms show up.

Treatment philosophy

An adjustment-first approach

Dr. Sanio believes subluxations (small misalignments of the spine) interfere with the nervous system that controls how your body moves, heals and functions. So care always starts by adjusting the full spine.

Once the spine is moving well, he adds extremity adjustments and muscle work as secondary treatments. He looks at how the whole spine is working instead of chasing one sore spot. He uses hands-on techniques as well as instrument adjustors for patients who prefer a gentler touch.