Dr. Michael Anthony Golkiewicz

Dr. Michael Anthony Golkiewicz was born in Barberton Ohio and lived in Toledo Ohio until moving to Marietta Georgia to attend Life University College of Chiropractic. After graduation, he moved to Akron Ohio to be closer to his dad and to begin practice at the Besso clinic of Chiropractic in Stow Ohio.

In his early childhood and teen years Dr. Mike suffered with severe back pain due to scoliosis, spinal malformations and sports injuries. At age 16 an intense episode of back pain and sciatic radiculopathy caused him to miss several days of school and work, leaving him “bed ridden” and unable to move. After “crawling in” to a local chiropractor, he felt like he was “able to walk out”. He later had a few minor bouts with the sciatic radiculopathy which resolved after he began regular chiropractic care. Dr. Mike says that “Chiropractic has kept me going, I’ve been able to work, play sports, live without pain, sleep well and think well because of it”.

After 12 years as an Auto Collision repair technician he found his former career unfulfilling and chose a career in Chiropractic so he could help others with similar conditions. During his 4 years at Life University chiropractic college Dr. Mike found gaps in the traditional chiropractic techniques being taught so he created a unique blend of chiropractic techniques after focusing his extra time studying: Orthospinology, Atlas Orthogonal and Advanced Orthogonal Upper cervical adjusting techniques. 

He also devoted much study to the Pierce and Gonstead Spinal analysis and adjusting methods, Clinical Biophysics of Posture methods and also extremity adjusting taking a special interest in correction of foot and ankle misalignments. Due to the frequency and nature of spinal disc injuries he also offers the Cox flexion distraction technique to help those with low back and cervical disc injuries.

Dr. Mike believes that most patients only have 1 or 2 true subluxations with many compensations, and that by finding and correcting the subluxation the body will be able to correct the compensations on its own. He believes the most consequential subluxation occurs when misalignment is found at the Atlas or first cervical vertebrae due to its proximity with the brainstem and that correction of the Atlas misalignment can take pressure off the brainstem and spinal cord allowing the nervous system to function optimally. Dr. Mike takes a systematic approach to chiropractic care for his patients to help identify each patient’s problem, correct the problem and then maintain the correction!