Meet Our Chiropractor

Dr. Ian Boonstra DC, ART, CSCS
Chiropractor, Clinic Director
Dr. Ian Boonstra completed his undergraduate studies at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario before achieving his Doctorate in Chiropractic from the Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College in Toronto. He was licensed in Australia and Ontario, prior to establishing his practice in British Columbia. He has been providing services in Vancouver at Thrive Chiropractic Sport and Spine (formerly Thrive Wellness Integrated Health Centre) since 2005.

Dr. Boonstra believes in a holistic multi-modal approach to therapy, whereby the use of manual therapy (including soft tissue therapy, spinal manipulations, and joint mobilization) is used in conjunction with pain education, rehab exercises, and movement patterns to improve a patient’s function and performance, in order for them to return to a pain free state and enjoy the things they love to do. He assesses the body as a whole with any injury and firmly believes in the quote: “Pain only tells you that the body believes there is a problem. It does not tell you where it is or if it really is a problem.”

We’ve all heard the saying “push through the pain”, and for some of us this is a way of life. It doesn’t have to be this way. Many times, patients with chronic pain can learn new strategies which can help them to better manage their pain. Whether from a specific injury, or simply a by-product of aging, pain shouldn’t be a permanent way of life.