Vertical Chiropractic® Named Sarasota Small Business of the Year Finalist
After relocating from California, rebuilding from zero, and committing fully to this community — Sarasota has recognized Vertical Chiropractic as one of its best.
I want to share something with you — not to boast, but because I think it matters and because you are part of how it happened. Vertical Chiropractic® of Florida – Sarasota has been named a finalist for the Sarasota Chamber of Commerce Small Business of the Year award. For a practice that did not exist in this market just a few years ago, this recognition carries a weight I am still processing.
Small Business of the Year — Finalist
Sarasota Chamber of Commerce recognition for impact, excellence, and community contribution
Best Chiropractor — Platinum
SRQ Best of SRQ 2025 — voted by the Sarasota community
Best of Florida Regional Award
Statewide recognition for chiropractic excellence and patient outcomes
Starting Over After 17 Years
Before Sarasota, I spent 17 years building a chiropractic practice in California. I had deep roots, an established reputation, and a patient community I deeply valued. Then my family and I made the decision to relocate to Sarasota.
The market was different. The community dynamics, the referral patterns, the pace of digital change — all of it required me to adapt rather than rely on what had worked before. I made a deliberate choice: instead of coasting on past success, I would become a student again. I reinvested in my clinical skills, rebuilt my systems from scratch, deepened my understanding of local demographics, and committed to earning trust the right way — one patient, one family, one relationship at a time.
"Mastery in one environment does not guarantee results in another. I chose to evolve rather than rely on history."
What Rebuilding Looks Like in Numbers
The shift from reputation-based growth to systems-based growth produced results that speak for themselves.
$5,983Revenue — 2022
$200KRevenue — 2024
$431KRevenue — 2025
$155K+Net income growth '24–'25
That trajectory — from a startup phase to over $430,000 in revenue and $209,000 in net income in 2025 — is not just a financial story. It reflects what happens when clinical excellence, operational systems, and genuine community investment align. The practice did not just survive the rebuild. It scaled.
Why Gonstead — and Why It Matters for Sarasota
Vertical Chiropractic® is not a general chiropractic clinic. We specialize exclusively in the Gonstead technique — a rigorous, biomechanically precise system that uses digital imaging, full-spine analysis, and hands-on assessment to identify and correct structural subluxations at their source. The goal is never just symptom relief. The goal is measurable structural correction that gives patients a strong foundation for lifelong health.
We serve health-conscious families, entrepreneurs, athletes, active adults, pediatric patients, and retirees across Sarasota and the Gulf Coast — anyone who wants a specific, science-based answer to what is interfering with their body's function. Services range from corrective spinal care and pediatric and perinatal care (including Webster technique) to extremity adjusting, sports performance optimization, and long-term structural health programs.
That specificity — the commitment to knowing exactly what is wrong and exactly how to fix it — is what distinguishes this practice. It is also what this finalist recognition confirms: that Vertical Chiropractic® is the premier Gonstead clinic in Sarasota, Florida.
Giving Back Is Built Into How We Operate
This award is, in large part, a community award. And this community has received our investment, not just our services. We host free educational wellness workshops and deliver talks at local businesses including HealthFit and Suncoast Porsche. We partner with the Downtown Sarasota Alliance and actively promote fellow local businesses. We provide internship opportunities to students from USF Sarasota-Manatee — and this year, we proudly watched one of those interns take her next step and matriculate into chiropractic school.
We support nonprofits including Feeding America, the Tanzania Life Project, Nathan Benderson Park, and Marie Selby Botanical Gardens. And we invest in the future of the Gonstead profession itself through the Gonstead Clinical Studies Society. Giving back is not a line item — it is part of how we define what a successful practice looks like.
Sarasota as a Wellness Destination — and What We're Building Toward
We are expanding. Multiple locations are on the horizon, and we are training associate doctors in our specific biomechanical model to ensure that clinical mastery — not just patient volume — scales with us. We are building strategic partnerships with complementary healthcare providers, fitness professionals, and wellness leaders to create an integrated referral network that benefits the entire community.
Our long-term vision is to help position Sarasota as one of Florida's top health and wellness destinations. This finalist recognition is not a destination. It is confirmation that we are on the right path — and motivation to keep raising the standard.
"What I focus on grows. The clinic is not separate from the pursuit of a well-lived life — it refines it."
To every patient who trusted us, referred a friend, or simply showed up consistently — thank you. This recognition belongs to you as much as it does to us. We will keep earning it.
Vertical Chiropractic® of Florida – Sarasota is accepting new patients. Experience the precision of Gonstead corrective care and discover why Sarasota has recognized us as its premier chiropractic clinic.
