Meet the Doctors

Dr. Christopher Vincent, D.C. 

• Former World Class 800m runner

• Co-Founder and Chairman of the charity Turning the Tides on MS

• Chiropractor and sports physician for many elite athletes, and celebrities.

• Team doctor at the past 5 world Championships and 2004 Olympics in Athens

• Motivational speaker

He is the co-founder and chairmen of ‘Turning The Tides On MS’, a nonprofit foundation to raise funds and awareness for Multiple Sclerosis. He also conducts seminars and public speeches worldwide. Dr. Vincent is a former World Class athlete, in Track & Field having competed for UCLA, The Santa Monica Track Club (SMTC), and the Portuguese National Team.

Dr. Vincent has been the National team doctor for 5 World Track and Field Championships, and was the team doctor for the 2004 Olympics in Athens. He is also the team doctor for famous Santa Monica Track Club, and the Saudi Arabian Olympic team. His patients include 9 time gold medalist, world record holders; super bowl Champions, Pro Hockey and Basketball players. Dr Vincent has been Team doctor for 5 countries, and treats Olympic athletes from 18 different Nations.

He now extends his knowledge into sports science, treating all sports injuries, Dr. Vincent will focus on correcting the cause of the problem biomechanically and functionally not just the symptoms. He is a specialist in injury prevention, and trains many elite athletes in these methods. Dr. Vincent uses techniques such as muscle balancing, myofascial release, Chiropractic manipulative therapy, posture and gait analysis, custom orthotics, proprioceptive training, rehabilitation and Injury prevention training.

Dr. Manol Manolov, D.C.

Dr. Manolov was born and raised in Sofia, Bulgaria. He moved to California for his sixteenth birthday, where he perused his education at California State Northridge with BS in Biology and later ultimately attended and graduated from Cleveland Chiropractic College – Los Angeles, where he achieved standing in the top three percent of his class.

After graduation and licensing, he became an associate at the International Sports Science Institute where he first met Dr. Vincent. They soon found out that they share a passion for treating sports injuries as well as rehabilitate and enhance performance. After Dr. Vincent opened his new office in Santa Monica, Dr. Manolov joined the practice and now he applies his knowledge and expertise in treating world class athletes as well as an army of weekend warriors.

Following the same treatment model as Dr. Vincent, Dr. Manolov specializes into treating all sports injuries by correcting all biomechanical and functional impairment that cause the problem and not just focusing on the symptoms and the pain. The preferred methods of treatment are Myofascial release, Chiropractic Manipulation, Posture Analysis and Gait Analysis. Dr. Manolov also provides rehabilitation, proprioceptive training, body conditioning and injury prevention training.