Dr. George Siegfried
Dr. Siegfried is an International Chiropractor. His mission is to promote health and wellness for his patients. For over 25 years, he has been taking care of patients and teaching them the benefits of a Healthy Back, Neck, Nervous System and Whole Food Nutrition. This combination promotes total health, allowing his patients to function at their optimal level. This is true health as defined by the World Health Organization. Health no longer is considered the absence of disease. Rather, it is what allows us to express our full potential.
Internationally Trained
Dr. Siegfried received his undergraduate degree from Schiller University in Heidelberg, Germany in 1974 with a dual major in Religious Studies and Political Science. He attended pre-med classes at Penn State & Temple University anticipating a career in medicine following his second cousin, an orthopedic surgeon, and great uncle, a general surgeon, both of whom were famous surgeons in Philadelphia. His great uncle founded Nazareth Hospital in Philadelphia. He ultimately opted to study Chiropractic, due to his miraculous success after several major sports injuries. He graduated from Western States Chiropractic College in 1981.
Olympic Athletes
After practicing a short time in San Francisco, he was invited to practice in Italy at the Orthopedic Medical Center for Sports and Physical Therapy in Pisa, Italy. While there, he treated people of all ages. In particular, he took care of many athletes from the Italian Olympic Team Training Center in Tirrenia, on the Italian Riviera. As time went on, and the athletes did so well, he was invited first by the athletes, then the coaches, and then the Directors of the Italian Olympic Committee to be the Chiropractor for the Track and Field Team. He left the Orthopedic Clinic in Pisa in August 1983 and took care of Track & Field athletes, along with other athletes, full time, until the end of the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles, California.
Broadway Show Performers
Prior to working for the Olympic Team, Dr. Siegfried also took care of dancers and performers in many Broadway shows including Dancin, A Chorus Line, Ain’t Misbehavin’ and others, as well as the dancers in the San Francisco Ballet and other companies. He also took care of the Jockeys at the Portland Meadows Racetrack for several years.
Offices
In addition to his Portland office, he practices in McMinnville, Oregon at the Dunn Chiropractic Clinic, a practice founded in 1922. Dr. Siegfried has been practicing at the Dunn Chiropractic Clinic since 1985.
Services
Dr. Siegfried’s mentors have been pioneers in Non-surgical Back and Neck Disc Decompression Treatment, Non-Surgical Balloon Sinuplasty (Bilateral Nasal Specific), Whole Foods Nutrition, along with spinal and extremity adjusting. His own thirst for knowledge and continued education led him to receive his Naturopathic Medical Degree in 1996 from the National College of Naturopathic Medicine in Portland, Oregon. Most recently, he has added the patented, published 3D Active Trac table to his practice. It is a non-surgical, FDA cleared medical disc decompression method for patients with herniated, bulging, degenerative discs in the back and neck. This equipment is the first in Oregon. His concepts of Wellness, Complementary and Inte-grative Health Care are founded on the principles of the body being able to heal itself, if given the opportunity.
For the Community
Dr. Siegfried is a community minded individual. His proudest accomplishment was that he raised $3,000 for the Henderson House in McMinnville, a home for battered and abused women and children. Politically Dr. Siegfried helped found the Oregon Doctors of Chiropractic, Oregon’s oldest Chiropractic State Organization. He has been the president, vice president, treasurer and secretary. He has been awarded the organization’s Doctor of the Year and other numerous awards for serving the doctors and patients. He was the organization’s legislative lobbyist for 2 years. In 2004, as a reward for his work, he was given the prestigious nomination by the Governor of Oregon to serve on the Board of Oregon Chiropractic Examiners, eventually becoming its vice president. He served for 3 years.
Family
Dr. Siegfried has been married for 26 years; he has 4 grown children and 3 grandchildren. He is a competitive athlete, still pitching in the Portland Baseball City Leagues, at age 56.
