Meet the Doctor

History and Education

Dr. Skolnikoff, a San Francisco native, lives and practices in San Rafael, California in close proximity to his family. Dr. Ilya Skolnikoff is a licensed chiropractor and a certified Professional Applied Kinesiologist. Dr. Skolnikoff became interested in chiropractic, acupuncture and healing in 1994 after having worked for an environmental and health company for many years and suffering from burn out, toxicity, and poor dietary habits. Through his work with environmental and health concerns Dr. Skolnikoff was able to meet numerous chiropractors and other health care professionals. Dr. Skolnikoff received chiropractic care that was so effective that his health and energy were completely restored. With the dramatic improvement that Dr. Skolnikoff experienced in his health came a fascination with chiropractic. Dr. Skolnikoff was also impressed with the level of happiness that had been attained by many of the chiropractors from whom he received treatment. Dr. Skolnikoff did his undergraduate training at UCLA where he received a Bachelor of Fine Art degree. This degree would later be able to help him to learn of the little talked about "Art and Science of Chiropractic." In order to prepare for chiropractic school he then fulfilled the courses in prerequisite basic sciences at The Cleveland College of Chiropractic, New College of California and Santa Monica Community College. After learning a strong "medical science" perspective of chiropractic at Southern California University of Health Sciences in Southern California for 2 years, he then transferred to Life Chiropractic College West in Hayward, California where he was able to learn more of the "art" of chiropractic. Dr. Skolnikoff has always taken his chiropractic education very seriously not only by focusing on his graduate school studies but also by taking post graduate education courses one or two weekends a month for the last 6 years. He realized early in his career that the only way that he could repay the chiropractors that had helped him with his return to health was if he could one day do the same for others.

Associations

• Member of the American Chiropractic Association (ACA)
• Member of the International College of Applied Kinesiology (ICAK)
• Member of SORSI (Sacral Occipital Research Society International)
• Member of SOTO-USA
• Continuing member of Gonstead Seminars
• Member of Motion Palpation Institute

Certifications

• Applied Kinesiology 100-hour certification
• Certified in the dynamics of Total Body Modification
• CPR/BLS Health Care Provider Certified
• BEST (Bio Energetic Synchronization Technique) certified
• Certified in A Touch For Health

Philosophy

Dr. Skolnikoff’s professional interests lie in helping people to get the very most out of life. With a father who is a psychiatrist and a brother who is a marriage and family therapist, the health field had a strong appeal to Dr. Skolnikoff early on. In addition to his graduate school training, Dr. Skolnikoff spent thousands of hours studying cutting edge diagnostic systems of health care such as Professional Applied Kinesiology and Total Body Modification as well as emotional techniques such as Neuro Emotional Technique, Emotional Recall Technique and Encoded Memmory Technique. Additionally, Dr. Skolnikoff has been studying nutrition and herbs extensively since 1991 and has had formal training in herbs and acupuncture at the College of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine in Southern California for over a year and a half as well. Unlike other doctors of chiropractic who believe that the patient must get adjusted several times per week to remain healthy, Dr. Skolnikoff believes that by balancing the function of the 650 muscles in the body, that the 210 bones have a much better chance of staying aligned and therefore need less frequent adjustments. Dr. Skolnikoff believes that he is succeeding when the majority of his patients need to come into the office at most only once or twice a month after their first 4 or 5 office visits.

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