Dr. Sandy graduated from the Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College with Honours as a Doctor of Chiropractic. She is trained to assess and treat all areas of the spine and extremities, including: jaw, neck, back, ribs, shoulders, elbows, wrists, hands/fingers, pelvis, hips, knees, ankles, and feet/toes. Her training and techniques include: Diversified Chiropractic Technique, Myofascial Release Therapy, Nerve Release Therapy, Graston Technique, Pre-habilitation, Rehabilitation, Exercise Therapy, and Kinesiotaping.

Dr. Sandy has a special interest in nerve injuries, pre & post-surgical rehabilitation, as well as headaches, dizziness, concussions and dysfunctions of the jaw, sinuses, ears, and extremities. She enjoys trouble shooting difficult injuries and treating the whole body. She also believes in advancing the Chiropractic profession through mentoring young chiropractors.

Dr. Sandy believes in comprehensive Chiropractic care for patients of all ages. It restores proper function to the joints, optimizes the nervous system, and helps the body function at its best, from Head 2 Toe!

At Head 2 Toe, Dr. Sandy has brought together a caring and compassionate team of highly skilled practitioners, with the goal of providing patients with multiple treatment options and the highest level of care in a warm and welcoming space.

Dr. Sandy feels blessed to call Castlegar home. She fell in love with the beautiful community of Castlegar in 2013 when she moved here to start practicing. She is excited to be offering Chiropractic services in her practice in the heart of downtown Castlegar. She looks forward to sharing with the whole family, everything that compassion and Chiropractic care can do!

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Jessica’s journey as a Registered Massage Therapist originally began with a summer course that focused on palliative and wheelchair massage. She later joined the first class of students attending the Registered Massage Therapy program at Kootenay Columbia College in Nelson in 2016. Upon graduation, she opened her office in Winlaw to serve the Slocan Valley.

Jessica is excited to join the team at Head 2 Toe and do what she loves best, providing professional hands-on care to patients in the Kootenays. Her techniques include Swedish, deep tissue, relaxation, and injury recovery massage.

Offering restorative, recovery, and relaxation treatments with integrity and connection is Jessica’s dream job. She is inspired to provide a welcoming opportunity for the body/mind/spirit to open/wake up/realign. Her focus is to set a safe space, show up with the best intentions, and dance the body back to life. She invites the body to remember what it is capable of being and doing. At the same time, Jessica provides client centered therapy, targeting specific areas of concern using manual massage techniques that follow individual treatment plans. She recently upgraded her tool kit to include Corestones, a hot stone therapy modality. (https://corestonemassage.com/why-corestones)

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Dr. Marco is a graduate of the Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College. His clinical practice is focused on patient-centered care and includes Diversified Chiropractic Technique, Myofascial Release Therapy, Graston Technique, and Active Rehabilitation.

Dr. Marco has cultivated years of experience in collaborative patient care, physical rehabilitation, clinical education, public/community health initiatives and team building, doing so in Canada and in East Africa, through owning/operating his own multidisciplinary clinics in Toronto and with internationally operating, Bridge to Health and Global Peace Network, humanitarian groups, respectively.

Dr. Marco is dedicated to using whatever skills and tools necessary, to deliver his patients the best possible experience, care, and active rehabilitation programs. He is very pleased to be a part of the team at Head 2 Toe, working collaboratively, to ensure patient centred care and he looks forward to exploring all that Castlegar and the West Kootenays have to offer.

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Thomas Heikes is a Chinese medicine practitioner and acupuncturist offering grounded, holistic care through his clinic, Heart Radiance. He helps people shift from stress and overwhelm into alignment, resilience, and deep embodied vitality in today’s intense and stimulating world.

Thomas creates a truly supportive healing experience by harmonizing acupuncture with somatic modalities such as sound therapy using singing bowls and tuning forks, hot stones, cupping, bodywork, body mechanics guidance, and handcrafted herbal medicines.

His approach is personalized, exploring unique patterns of imbalance and guiding a return toward greater regulation, resilience, and vitality through nutrition and seasonally attuned lifestyle guidance.

Thomas shines brightest when supporting sensitive and neurodivergent individuals, as well as anyone seeking to feel more regulated, connected, and balanced.

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Amy is dedicated to helping her patients achieve pain-free movement. Since finishing her schooling at Kootenay Columbia College in Nelson, her focus has been injury rehabilitation and proper posture. She loves helping people do what they want to with less pain and more confidence in their bodies. Breath work and postural assessments are often part of her treatments and she enjoys using myofascial release combined with traditional massage techniques to find gentle release of tension and stress held in the body’s tissues. Using a full body approach, Amy loves to problem solve and investigate chronic pain to help you feel your best.

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