Dr. Joel Carmichael

Dr. Joel Carmichael, DC attended Logan College of Chiropractic in St. Louis, graduating valedictorian magna cum laude in 1985. He became the second chiropractor in the United States to complete a one-year hospital residency in chiropractic family practice at Lindell Hospital with an emphasis in orthopedics. He attended grand rounds in orthopedics and rheumatology at Barnes Hospital/Washington University School of Medicine—ranked in 2007 as the 4th leading medical school in the country. Throughout his hospital residency, which was the first of its kind in the modern hospital era, Dr. Carmichael worked alongside medical physicians and surgeons, providing care in both inpatient and outpatient hospital settings.

Dr. Carmichael also trained at Royal University Hospital in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, with one of the leading orthopedic spine surgeons in the world, Dr. W.H. Kirkaldy-Willis. Dr. Carmichael considers Dr. Kirkaldy-Willis to have been his primary mentor for spine specialty practice.

The hospital residency training also afforded Dr. Carmichael the opportunity to participate in a podiatry rotation to obtain an advanced understanding of the complex mechanics of the foot and ankle. He assisted in orthopedic surgeries of the foot and ankle and was the first Doctor of Chiropractic in the country to perform manipulation of the foot under local and general anesthesia. As a result of this experience, Dr. Carmichael has published and lectured extensively on the biomechanics of the lower extremity, and his expertise is widely sought after for treatment of running injuries.

Dr. Carmichael is board-certified in chiropractic sports medicine and treats athletes at all levels of competition, including the NFL, the NBA, the PGA, professional tennis players on the ATP tour, Olympic marathoners and weightlifters, and high school champions of in cross country, soccer, basketball, football, volleyball and swimming. He also was selected by USA Weightlifting to treat the U.S. Olympic Weightlifting Team at World Championships in Athens, Greece (1999), and in Warsaw, Poland (2002), as well as at U.S. Olympic Team Trials (2000) and at several national weightlifting championships.

When he is not with patients in the clinic or at an athletic venue, Dr. Carmichael devotes time to his greatest joy in the world – his wife of over 30 years.  And running a close second on the priority list these days is his new granddaughter Mycah.