Dr. Isaac Masters

Growing up, I was the kid who competed at everything. I played every sport I could, and all my free time was consumed with playing sports, practicing sports, and watching sports. As I went through junior high and high school, I became fascinated with how athletes train and how they recover from injuries.  As a junior in high school, I suffered a torn labrum in my shoulder while playing football, which ultimately guided me down the path of physical and sports medicine. 

I continued playing basketball at the collegiate level at Ripon College in Wisconsin, while also studying Chemistry-Biology on a Pre-Med track. The medical field excited me, but sports medicine and athletics were my passion. Throughout my time as an undergraduate student athlete, I was exposed to numerous different aspects of strength training, performance training, injury rehabilitation, and other disciplines within healthcare.  Despite my fascination with medicine, I realized that I could never fully remove myself from the thing that made me the happiest: the gym.  I love working out, and I love setting and reaching new goals in the gym. 

However, as I navigated through my education, I realized that my profession, and those that are like mine, do not adequately prepare students to treat patients like the way I had envisioned. To take matters into my own hands, I decided to pursue certifications in the strength and conditioning field to bolster my knowledge of exercise, strength training, and performance training. However, I still felt lost as a chiropractic student on how to treat my future patients most ethically and effectively. Through a lot of time spent challenging my preconceived thoughts and biases about chiropractic care and rehabilitation, talking with other practitioners, and reading copious amounts of research, my perspective on how to treat individuals as a “Chiropractor” began to change:

• I learned that “asymmetries” are actually quite prevalent and not necessarily an indication of current or future musculoskeletal problems.
• I learned that there is often a poor correlation between pain and pathoanatomical models.
• I learned that most healthcare providers do not know how to properly prescribe, dose, or modify exercises as a treatment for pain.
• And I learned how impactful my words as a healthcare provider can have on a patient’s outcome.

These realizations ultimately led me to open my own clinic post-graduation.  I had a distinct vision about how I felt individuals deserved to be treated, and it didn’t coincide with the “typical way of doing things.” I wanted to build a chiropractic clinic around movement, exercise, strength and conditioning, and patient empowerment.

Why Resilient?

I want people to feel more confident, stronger, and more resilient than ever before.  Our clinic is built on promoting self-efficacy and promoting the importance of an active lifestyle. Too often, people search for the most minuet fixes for their pain, when the easiest change is right in front of them. 

Roughly 46% of adults do not meet the recommended physical activity guidelines, which are at least 150 minutes per week of aerobic activity of moderate intensity and 2 days of lifting weights or other muscular strengthening activities. Often times people are told that they should avoid these activities altogether due to pain or injuries, or they have been told they are too fragile, or they do not have the confidence or the right environment to do so. The traditional healthcare model fails to address these issues. 

As a clinician and a strength and conditioning coach, I aim to do more than just treat your musculoskeletal pain. I aim to empower you. My only goal is to get you back to doing the things you love to do, then help you perform even better at them.