Looking for a back pain specialist? I have done the research for you. I conducted extensive research into the leading science, research & practitioners for back pain. My research led me to Dr. Gonzalez. Only a few specialists offer the kind of rehabilitation program he does. Only a few percent of back pain sufferers engage in this type of program, and yet it has the highest success rate of all attempts to recover. (If you're curious, read the book "Crooked" or Stuart McGill's books on back pain).

I did this extensive research because I thought my life was over. I had seen dozens of specialists, had many different medications, interventions, diagnoses, and spent thousands of dollars. A week before I visited Dr. Gonzalez I couldn't walk further than a few meters without pain and had intermittent excruciating pain for 18 months. (...)

A week before I visited Dr. Gonzalez I couldn't walk further than a few meters without pain and had intermittent excruciating pain for 18 months.

He spent 2 hours diagnosing me comprehensively. Then, predicting (correctly) what would make me feel more and less pain. Finally, I know that I have nerve compression on the left-hand side of my body.

Within one week, I am off all drugs and know-how to switch the nerve pain off in a few minutes, I am squatting, and power walking at least a mile every day. This is the best gift I have ever received. I have my life back.

I am writing this review for others. Anyone with back pain who lives anywhere near this facility, GO! Dr. Gonzalez's knowledge is honestly unparalleled. I recommend him to everyone I know.

Highly recommend visiting Performance Place if you're experiencing any body ailments or injury related pain. Sebastian does a tremendous job at understanding the full picture and then designing either a program, exercises, or rehab care specific to you. In my experience, most places could only "treat" my issue whereas Sebastian seemed to "fix" it, or at least allow me to move forward.

For example, he taught and tweaked my form so I could get back to performing modified deadlifts with zero pain, something I wasn't able to fix elsewhere, for well over a year. I have some more obstacles to work through and I'm looking forward to continuing my progression with Sebastian.

Dr. Sebastian,
I must report that I'm amazed at how I've been feeling since starting your treatment.

I couldn't start it until Sunday but I've been religiously doing what you taught me. With only a few days of the exercises and treatment, I was able to sit in my office chair almost the entirety of the day today in zero pain! This doesn't typically happen unless I take aleve. I didn't even notice how comfortable I was all day.

I still feel the pain when I bend over and I'm definitely still doing the choreography when putting on shoes or pants, but I'm very excited about being able to sit in a chair without pain. I'm typically in pain after about 20 minutes of sitting so this is huge to go all day.

I'm excited to continue the healing process. Thanks so much!!

Dr. Sebastian has literally changed my life this past year. I feel so lucky to have found him while training in LA this past winter. He treated any injury I had and prevented countless more from ever happening. I’m training 25+ hours a week for track and field (my event is heptathlon) and I was constantly having something nagging at me in my knee and hip areas. I first went to him after suffering an injury to my hip flexor. I thought I was going to be off training for weeks yet four days after seeing him I was running full out again and competing in meets two weeks later.

Sebastian did an assessment of me and then used his skill and coaching to treat me with exercises which balanced out my muscles and stabilized my motions. Besides the injury I went to him to treat, other almost chronic pain I’d had for months disappeared. I got much stronger and faster under his care and this was basically a by-product of him getting my body to utilize muscle groups better and adapt to certain movements better. Unfortunately, my career in track has me pushing the limits of performance and when you do this, injuries can still happen. I suffered a leg injury late in the track season this year.

By this time I had moved back to Vancouver and I visited four different doctors and experts here to try to figure out what the issue was. No one could solve it and six weeks later I was still not able to run. I called Sebastian and he gave me some exercises to try as an alternative to the treatment I was getting here and ten days later I was back on the track training again. Next time I get hurt I’m getting on a plane immediately to fly back and see him. There is no one more capable and no one who is a finer person than Dr. Sebastian Gonzales. Many Thanks!