About Dr. MaryAnne Shiozawa


When I was fourteen I worked as a baby-sitter for a family with five children.  Their father was a chiropractor, and I had no idea what that was.

One night while baby-sitting,  the little boy around 7-years-old came to me and said, "MaryAnne, my head hurts."
"Oh really?" I replied. "Ok.  Let's go into your parents' bathroom to find some headache medicine to make it feel better." 
"Well, we don't have any of that stuff," he confidently stated.

This was very bizarre to me. I had never heard about not having any medicine around at home. It never occurred to me that someone wouldn't take medicine to help their pain. This way of thinking was quite new to me. I asked him, "What does your mommy and daddy do when you or your sisters have a headache?"

He looked at me as if the answer should be obvious and said, "My daddy adjusts us."

Adjusting babies and children is my passion and joy.

This 7-year-old boy's confidence filled me with such curiosity that I had to ask his older sisters to confirm and explain what their brother had told me. For the rest of that evening, those kids completely changed my life. My conversation with them opened my eyes fully. It was the night I knew I would become a chiropractor. Although I was still only in secondary school, my heart had found its passion and the world became crystal clear with purpose in my life.

I was to be a chiropractor.

In 1997, after graduating from Life University Chiropractic school near Atlanta, I moved to New York and worked in an office with another chiropractor. Eventually I started my own practice in the heart of midtown Manhattan in a beautiful office on the 17th floor just off of Fifth Avenue. While practicing chiropractic in New York, I've adjusted over a thousand people: babies, children, pregnant women, Broadway performers, singers, dancers, actors, athletes, firefighters, elders, and people all over the world.  It was a dream come true!


Please take a look at my testimonial page to see what my past clients have said.


The technique I use is NSANetwork Spinal Analysis. Other techniques I incorporate are Chiropractic BioPhysics (CBP), Activator, and Extremity Adjusting. (I know for readers who are not chiropractors, this is techno-babble.) My practice technique that I base all of my analysis is with Network Chiropractic.  I have found during the past 22 years that people respond the most with light and gentle applications, rather than large movements of spinal manipulation. People respond in their own way, and you and I will find the best solution for you.

While living in New York, I pursued other personal goals such as participating in the 2004 Ironman Triathlon in Lake Placid.  In 2005 I married and soon after I was pregnant with my first child. My heart and goals shifted, which had me decide to put aside my career and focus on creating a big healthy and happy family. Now nearly 10 years and 3 children later, my focus is back to practising chiropractic here in London, to help serve as many people as possible. Currently, I am an active member of the International Chiropractic Association (ICA), and the International Chiropractic Paediatric Association (ICPA). I am also Webster Technique Certified by the ICPA. I've also studied with Dr. Karen Gardner who has developed the Gardner-Bagnell Technique which is another chiropractic technique which focuses attention on the spinal and pelvic alignment of the mother-to-be.

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My purpose…

My purpose is to positively connect to as many people as possible, to serve them with chiropractic, helping them reach their full health potential, giving them the ability to become more aware of themselves, to achieve abundant wellness, love, energy, and richness.

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I love to dance.

I highly recommend wiggling and jiggling your body. It’s a lot of fun.

 
You were born to be healthy.
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A momentary break from being a chiropractor in New York.

His first adjustment at only a few days old!

Starting life with full optimal health and function!

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Three children, or four?

My wonderful family.

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Iron Man, Lake Placid, 2004


By choice, I am not registered in the UK as a chiropractor. Because the General Chiropractic Council, the British regulatory body for chiropractic, has not recognised any non-EU qualifications, I may not in the UK describe myself as a “chiropractor” (per Chiropractors Act 1994, s.32).

But in 1997 I graduated from Life University in Georgia with a Doctorate of Chiropractic, and since 1998 have been fully Board Certified as a chiropractor, licensed in both Minnesota and New York.