Riverstone Chiropractic

Came to Dr. Baird after 2 months of severe pain with diagnosis of carpal tunnel and in a desperate mood.
After not having any actual help from my primary physician and other specialists, I got a diagnosis consistent with my symptoms, and real help right away! When I walked out of my first session, I felt improvement and my condition is improving with each session.
Dr. Baird is uniquely positioned to treat traumas and injuries, since she possesses skills in different areas, from chiropractic to yoga and uses those to the best benefit of the patient.
I highly recommend Dr. Baird!

Sandy is a great chiropractor. I started seeing Dr. Baird for long standing hip pain, tingling in my left thigh, and chronic shoulder pain. After working with her for about three months, I feel better than I have felt in many years. My hip pain is almost totally gone, the tingling has disappeared, and my shoulder has not felt this good in about 15 years.
I am a chiropractor myself, and I am very picky about who I see… I can tell when someone really knows what they are doing, and Sandy definitely does. She has studied a number of modalities that are above and beyond what they teach in chiropractic college and she uses them wisely and effectively. She has crafted a nice blend of soft tissue techniques and adjusting techniques that has been very successful in treating my body. Her presence is strong but soft and tender, and you feel that you are truly cared for when you are under her care.
I highly recommend her.

I love Sandy Baird’s chiropractic and ART work. She is unlike any other chiropractor I’ve seen in that she addresses my issues first through soft-​tissue work. The first 10 minutes of our appointment feels like a bodywork session… she palpates through the tissue, then effectively finds and softens areas of tension before adjusting the skeletal structure. Not only is she really good at this and has a super nice touch, but I absolutely love how thorough this process of hers is. As a massage therapist myself, I can fully appreciate and recognize Sandy’s ability to listen to the body.
I always walk away from Sandy’s office feeling tuned-​up and refreshed. I’ve already recommended Sandy to friends and clients and will proudly continue to do so!

When I was 7 months pregnant I was having hip stiffness and a strange, intense pain near my pubic bone so bad that I could barely walk or even lift my right leg. I had been seeing another chiropractor who specializes in pregnancy, and even she hadn’t been able to address this disabling pain, so I had low expectations. I was looking for another Oakland chiropractor who might be able to help, and Dr. Sandy came highly recommended. She was an awesome listener — she has a really calm, compassionate demeanor that made me feel really comfortable, too — as I told her about what was going on, and she was able to locate the exact muscles that were causing the problem right away. She applied her magical skilled touch, and after just one ART session I was able to walk and lift my leg without pain! I couldn’t believe it! The pain didn’t come back for the rest of my pregnancy (or since). I highly recommend Dr. Sandy for helping you get rid of pain/​restoring mobility. She’s the BEST!

Came to see Dr. Sandy last Wednesday to fix my troublesome foot. You see I injured something; twisting it running for a BART one morning 3 months ago and it just hasn’t felt right ever since.
The online booking was very convenient — requires no credit card or other annoying registration; just pick a time and show up! Easy! That’s what I like!
Location is easy to get to (near Lake Merritt) and I had no trouble finding metered parking ($ 2/​hr).
Sandy was very friendly, professional, and concerned about my foot. She had water for me and assisted me with all the forms. Then went on to take a good look at the foot and A.R.T. it.
I liked that Dr. Sandy was humble and listened very well and that the space was inviting and warm. She was also one of the first Chiropractors I’ve met that didn’t try and up sell me. Not sure if you know the type but I find a lot of Chiropractors try and push treatments on you and justify why you need whatever package. If you see a bowling ball in a Chiro’s office don’t ask! Gosh I hate to be up sold when it comes to health.
Sandy didn’t do any of that. She simply promised to take good care of me and gave me exercises to take home with me and try.
She did this active release technology to it and she seems pretty confident she can fix it all up. So far the next day the foot has been good. I will update this review when she is all tickety-​boo. Gaa never running to get a train like that in crappy flat bottomed hipster shoes again. I learned my lesson!

I’ve been seeing Sandy at her practice for over a month now. I work fulltime on a computer so I’m always facing issues with my neck, shoulders and wrists giving me grief. By the time I came to Sandy, I was in a LOT of pain!
Sandy took the time to hear out all of my concerns from Head-​to-​Toe (quite literally) and was very confident that she would be able to help. I’ve been seeing her every week for the last 4 or 5 weeks and I have had such great improvement in my day-​to-​day life with work and personal life.
Sandy is super friendly, very professional and enjoys helping people! I even plan on bringing my husband here for a foot injury he sustained. I’m very confident that Sandy will be able to help him too!
If you have any neck & wrist pains or weird injuries, I highly recommend you check out Riverstone!

Sandy is seriously top-​notch. I went to her for the same sports injury for which I had previously seen another sports medicine doc, and I could really tell the difference. Athletes (or anyone), I highly recommend going to see her.