Blum Charles L, DC

Specialties

Dr. Charles Blum is in practice since 1981 as chiropractor specializing in whole body analysis utilizing up to date research and multiple modes of care. Dr. Blum specializes in TMJ disorders, chronic or acute low back, neck pain and complex patient presentations. Dr. Blum has studied many methods of treating patients through chiropractic procedures and tailors the care to the patient’s preference and desires, as much as possible.

He is an adjunct research faculty at Cleveland Chiropractic College and teaches the sacro occipital technique (SOT) elective class at Palmer College of Chiropractic West and Southern California University of Health Sciences.

He has lectured nationally and internationally and has written various SOT related texts, compiled SOT and cranial related research, and extensively publishes in multiple peer reviewed indexed journals and at research conferences from 1984 to the present.

History

Established in 1981.

Dr. Blum has had an eclectic background studying meditative techniques using biofeedback devises as outcome assessment tools with Jack Garris in the 1970s, as well as teaching structural therapeutics at the California Acupuncture College in West Los Angeles in the early 1980s.

Dr. Blum is an avid athlete and has had experience with running, gymnastics, Pilates, yoga, rock-​climbing, basketball, swimming, martial arts (Shotokan Karate) and many other exercise adventures. These wonderful adventures (or injuries he personally sustained) have taught him personally how to treat many athletic injuries and develop novel individualized rehabilitative programs for patients.

Dr. Blum is the the SOTO-​USA representative to the Alliance of TMD Organizations and actively co-​treating TMJ patients with dentists. He is a Senior Clinical Instructor in the Cranial Facial/​TMJ Clinic with in the ENT Department at the White Memorial Medical Center in Los Angeles, California.