About Dr. Justin Wilcox

Dr. Wilcox came to this work as a patient first. His father dealt with debilitating back pain and was dependent on opioids until a chiropractor helped him get out of it. Dr. Wilcox, a competitive athlete from a young age, started going too. It changed how he thought about what healthy actually means.

He went on to play Division I football at the University of South Florida, then spent two years as a bobsledder on Team USA’s development team. Years of high-level sport teach you a lot about injuries: how they happen, how they get misdiagnosed, and how much difference it makes when someone finally explains what is actually going on.

Before chiropractic school he worked as a strength and conditioning coach and physical therapy tech, including at B3 Medical, the official chiropractic provider for the Tampa Bay Lightning. As a student he served on the medical support staff for the 2015 USA Track and Field Championships. He graduated from chiropractic school in 2017 and has practiced since.

Today, most of his week is spent as a chiropractor in a human performance setting, treating athletes in the military special operations community: active-duty, retired, and separated. The rest of it belongs to Bayside Spine & Sport, the practice he built, where he sees private-pay and VA patients.

The approach at Bayside is simple to state and hard to shortcut: figure out what is actually causing the problem, treat it with your hands, and teach the patient to manage it. A visit can include spine and extremity adjusting, soft tissue and fascial work, movement assessment, rehab exercises, and breathing work. The mix depends on your exam, not on a package you were sold.

Dr. Wilcox believes patients should be educated and independent, not dependent. If you understand your problem and have the tools to manage it, he has done his job. That means clear explanations, honest answers about what chiropractic can and cannot help with, and no open-ended treatment plans.

Off the clock, Dr. Wilcox lives in San Diego with his family. He still trains six days a week: lifting, running.