Everybody has a spine. Almost nobodylistens to it.
For a decade, Dr. Alex VanDerschelden has helped 10,000+ people across Orange County stand taller, move freely, and feel like themselves again, one honest adjustment at a time.
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IIThe Turning Point
It started with his own body.
From a tennis scholarship to a calling in alignment, his path to becoming The OC Chiropractor started on his own spine.
Before he was “The OC Chiropractor,” Alex was a scholarship tennis player at Portland State, and a young athlete full of the aches you learn to ignore. The first adjustment that gave him his game back also gave him his calling.
In 2016 he earned his Doctorate of Chiropractic from Southern California University of Health Sciences and made a quiet promise: no one should have to accept pain as normal. Ten years later, people travel from across the world to keep that promise with him.
“My purpose is to touch lives, to give people back physical and emotional healing.”
The why behind the work
IIIThe Team
More hands. One method.
Hand-picked by Dr. Alex and united by one method, so every adjustment, with anyone on the team, feels like his.
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Dr. Ryan Dawson D.C.
Sports & Recovery
Dr. Ryan Dawson
D.C. · Sports & Recovery
A lifelong athlete and former personal trainer, Ryan came to chiropractic after it healed his own back injury at nineteen. He takes a comprehensive, movement-first approach, no drugs and no surgery, listening closely to map each patient's way back to their peak.
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Dr. Rick Belling D.C.
Whole-Body Wellness
Dr. Rick Belling
D.C. · Whole-Body Wellness
Practicing for more than thirty years, Rick found chiropractic after it healed him from a serious accident when medicine could not. He is driven by one thing: how good an adjustment makes people feel, and the quality of life it gives back.
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Dr. Monica Meir D.C.
Holistic & Preventive
Dr. Monica Meir
D.C. · Holistic & Preventive
Raised by a chiropractor mother she was adjusting by age seven, Monica fell for holistic care early. Her mission is simple: help you feel better and thrive, without leaning on drugs or surgery.
Dr. Ryan DawsonSports & Recovery
Dr. Rick BellingWhole-Body Wellness
Dr. Monica MeirHolistic & Preventive
Dr. Ryan DawsonSports & Recovery
Dr. Rick BellingWhole-Body Wellness
Dr. Monica MeirHolistic & Preventive
Even champions need a champion.
World-title fighters, pro athletes, and the faces you follow all sit in this chair. When the people who could see anyone choose Dr. Alex, Floyd Mayweather among them, the work speaks for itself.
Undefeated bodies still need to stay in alignment.
In the room with Floyd Mayweather
The team that has your back.
He shows you the why before he touches your spine.
IIIThe Method
He shows you the why before he touches your spine.
No guessing. No upselling. Every first visit starts with a real conversation, digital X-rays, and a plan you actually understand, then the precise, gentle work that follows, including the adjustment patients have nicknamed the famous “magic hug.”
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ListenConsult
Your history, your pain, your goals, heard in full.
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See it clearlyDiagnose
Digital X-rays reveal the root cause, not just the symptom.
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Understand the planEducate
He explains exactly what’s happening and how you’ll fix it.
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RealignAdjust
Advanced, safe, gentle adjustments tailored to your body.
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Stay strongMaintain
Decompression, traction & massage keep the relief lasting.
What people remember
“What people love most is my confidence in my practice.”
Dr. Alex
Ten years in, hundreds of patients a day across the practice, every spine X-rayed first. That certainty, and a genuine love for the work, is what turns a first visit into a family.
The Initial Scan
Your alignment, revealed.
Before the first adjustment, a full-body scan maps your posture from head to spine, so nothing’s left to guess.
Check in, and exhale. Ocean light, a complimentary drink, and care that’s never rushed between doors. Here, “better” isn’t hurried, it’s designed to feel inevitable.
Open, airy, never rushedComplimentary massage chairs
Complimentary comfort
Beverages, full-body massage chairs, and a space made to slow you down.
Decompression therapy
The DRX9000 relieves disc and nerve pressure in the neck and lower back.
Leander traction table
State-of-the-art motion therapy that gently mobilizes the lower back.
Massage therapy
Soft-tissue work that helps every adjustment hold longer.
“You leave feeling like you could train to be an athlete.”
VThe Relief
The part people cross the world for.
VIWho It’s For
Athletes. Newborns. Grandparents. You.
“My practice includes anybody with a spine.” From the pros to the post-partum, Dr. Alex builds care around each individual body, never a template.
Dr. Alex didn’t just want you aligned in the chair, he wanted you aligned all night. Dozy Boy is his own cervical-support pillow, shaped to cradle your neck and keep your spine comfortable until morning.