Welcome!

Healthways Chiropractic and Sports Rehab has been serving the La Mirada and the surrounding communities for over 30 years. Our goal is to help you achieve and maintain an active, pain-free lifestyle. We strive to provide quality and affordable healthcare for you and your family.

Whether your goal is immediate pain relief, strengthening and stabilization or wellness care, we are committed to helping you reach your personal health goals.

If you’ve been hurt on the job, been in an automobile accident, sports related injury or just creaky from daily life, we have the expertise and technology to get you moving.

Our clinic director, Dr. Stephen C. Smith, D.C., QME. has nearly 35 years of clinical experience with an extensive background in orthopedics, workers compensation and treatment of auto related injuries. His daughter, Dr. Andrea L. Smith, D.C., joined the practice in 2015 and has an extensive educational background in kinesiology and sports training. As a former high school and collegiate athlete, she has a passion for treating athletes, young and old. With their combined knowledge and experience, you can be assured that you are getting a comprehensive and quality assessment of your injury and specific treatment needs.

Treatment at Healthways Chiropractic may include manual chiropractic adjustments or instrument assisted adjustments by activator or impulse, massage and soft tissue therapies, physiotherapy modalities such as electric muscle stimulation and ultrasound, kinesiology taping, Graston (instrument assisted soft tissue) and prescribed exercises for your specific injuries and symptoms. In addition, we now have integrated a Class IV Lite Force Therapy laser to the help the tissue heal “from the inside out”.

We are preferred providers on most health care plans and our knowledgeable staff will verify and explain your coverage and benefits. We look forward to continued service in our community and to our patients.

Mission

Our mission is to help our patients achieve and maintain an active, pain-free lifestyle by providing quality and affordable healthcare to you and your family. We believe the body possesses the innate ability to heal itself, and that the role of the doctor is to facilitate and support that process.

Purpose

To always keep the patient’s best interest as our highest priority
To be advocates for our patients
To provide our patients with relief and rehabilitative care for injuries of the nerves, muscles and joints.
To provide expert management of auto accident cases and workers compensation cases.
To guide our patients through the maze of health care specialties and insurance issues to find the best solution for your individual health problem.
To provide our patients with sound clinical advice and treatment consistent with current research and best practices as it relates to care of the nerves, muscles and joints.