Chiropractic Family Care Centre / Mission, Calgary

The chiropractor the Flames sent their players to.

Referral chiropractor — Calgary Flames Hockey Club, 1997–2002

Thirty-three years of postural mechanics, pain relief and functional range of motion — the same measured care that kept professionals on the ice, practiced quietly from Mission.

Book an appointment (403) 299-0170
Est. 1986 Palmer College of Chiropractic — West
Mission District 320 23 Ave SW #100, Calgary
5/5 — 722 patient ratings Lumino Health, by Sun Life
Chart 02 — The record

Most clinics list services. This one has a record.

Four decades in the mechanics of the human frame — from Olympic ice to NHL referrals to the practice in Mission.

1981University of Calgary

Honours degree, Physical Education

Before the clinic came the science of human movement — an honours degree earned a few kilometres from where he practices today.

1986Palmer College — West

Doctor of Chiropractic

Graduated from Palmer West and came straight home to open a Calgary practice. He never left.

1988Olympic Winter Games

Chiropractic Services team, Calgary Olympics

When the Games came to Calgary, he was on the chiropractic services roster — treating the fittest athletes on earth, in his own city.

1997— 2002 · NHL

Referral chiropractor, Calgary Flames Hockey Club

Five seasons as the chiropractor professional hockey trusted with professional spines.

2015ACAC

Award of Excellence — Alberta College & Association of Chiropractors

Recognition from the profession itself — the same body that trusted him to chair its examination and discipline committees.

TodayMission, Calgary

Still practicing. Still measuring.

Thirty-three years and counting at the Chiropractic Family Care Centre — appointments by phone, (403) 299-0170.

Chart 03 — The ratings

Calgary already wrote the review.

722

patient ratings on Lumino Health — Sun Life’s provider network. Average score: a flat five out of five.

Source — Lumino Health provider profile, verified 2026

5.0 / 5 Lumino Health, by Sun Life
722 patient ratings
5.0 / 5 Sun Life provider search
64 patient ratings
Excellence ACAC Award
of Excellence, 2015

Not testimonials we wrote — public ratings on Sun Life’s own directories, left by patients over years of practice.

Chart 04 — The care

Measured care, three disciplines.

Every course of care starts the same way: understand the structure, then correct it — never the other way around.

Chiropractic care

Drug-free relief for spinal and joint pain, built on postural mechanics — where the structure is off, and precisely how to restore it. Care that ends in function, not just fewer symptoms.

He practices Chiropractic Biophysics — structural care where the correction is chosen from measurement, and the re-measurement decides whether it held. It’s the difference between an adjustment and an outcome.

Spinal pain Joint pain Postural mechanics Range of motion

Sports & performance

From the ’88 Games to Flames referrals to weekend athletes — restoring the range that lets you keep playing. He still skates all winter and golfs all summer.

Personalized Lifestyle Medicine

Detox, weight management and an anti-inflammatory food model, tailored to your circumstances — he co-founded the Healthy Transformations Program, with Metagenics supplements dispensed from the office.

Chart 05 — The method

Measured, not guessed.

Dr. Breen practices structural care the way an engineer reads a load path — assess the frame, correct it, then verify the correction held.

STEP 01 STEP 02 STEP 03 MEASURE CORRECT MAINTAIN Posture, alignment and functional range — assessed before any care. Structural correction and pain relief, mapped to the assessment. Preserve the range you regained — care that holds outside the clinic. RE-ASSESS — THE MEASUREMENT DECIDES, NOT THE CALENDAR
Dr. Michael Breen presenting to a seminar room
Presenting on lifestyle medicine — 2019

“Remarkable health is possible with the application of remarkable science.”

— Dr. Michael Breen, DC

His mission is plain: stop managing the consequences of poor health and start reversing its causes. After thirty-three years of practice, the profession trusts him with more than patients — it has trusted him to examine and discipline its own.

Chair, ACAC Examination Committee Chair, ACAC Discipline Committee Member, ACAC Sports Committee Canadian Chiropractic Examining Board, selection committee
Chart 06 — The visit

Mission, Calgary. Since 1986.

Chiropractic Family Care Centre
320 23 Ave SW #100, Calgary, AB T2S 0J2
Between 4th St & the Elbow — appointments by phone
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Booking

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No portal, no forms — the office answers, finds you a time, and you’re on the schedule.

Call (403) 299-0170

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