Why Choose Us?

1. Dr. Porman Has a Track Record That Speaks for Itself

Most chiropractors treat local patients. Dr. Porman treats the world. Over his 27+ year career, he has worked with over 2,300 professional and Olympic athletes from more than eight countries. He has consulted with 2 Olympic track teams (China and South Korea), 3 NHL teams, and more than 20 university sports programs. His patients have included professional competitors in baseball, football, basketball, hockey, track and field, swimming, and dozens of other sports — at the highest levels of competition on the planet.

That level of clinical exposure does not just build a resume. It builds a depth of pattern recognition, diagnostic precision, and treatment efficacy that 27+ years of treating elite athletes produces and nothing else can replicate. When you come to Sports Docs Family Chiro, you are receiving care informed by thousands of complex, high-stakes cases — every one of which has refined Dr. Porman’s ability to find and fix what is actually wrong with you.

Explore more on our Meet Dr. P page and the Dr. P Difference page.

2. We Actually Find the Root Cause — Every Time

The single most common thing new patients say when they first come to see Dr. Porman is some version of: “You are the first person who has actually explained to me why this is happening.” That is not a coincidence. It is the result of a clinical philosophy that refuses to settle for treating wherever it hurts and calling it a day.

Dr. Porman’s whole-body evaluation examines every system that could be contributing to your condition — skeletal alignment, muscle firing patterns, nerve-muscle communication, joint mechanics, gait, internal organ function, nutrition, sleep, and stress load. Because pain rarely originates exactly where you feel it. A knee injury is often a hip problem in disguise. Chronic lower back pain is frequently driven by core dysfunction and lumbar mechanics that no one ever addressed. Neck pain that has persisted for years is often perpetuated by a combination of postural habits, cervical joint restriction, and stress-related muscle tension that all need to be addressed together.

At Sports Docs Family Chiro, we do not guess. We evaluate. We identify. And then we treat the actual problem — which is why our patients get better when other approaches have failed. Learn more about how we approach each condition on our Conditions Treated page.

3. We Offer Treatments That No Other Clinic in the Valley Has

Most chiropractic clinics offer spinal adjustments, electrical stimulation, and maybe some ultrasound. At Sports Docs Family Chiro, the treatment toolkit goes far beyond what you will find anywhere else in the Phoenix metro. Our advanced therapies include:

• Targeted Frequency Therapy (TFT) — a cellular-level healing modality developed and pioneered by Dr. Porman himself, available at no other clinic in Arizona. TFT uses precisely programmed electrical, sound, and light frequencies to reduce inflammation, accelerate tissue repair, and improve neurological function at the biological source of your pain. It is non-invasive, painless, drug-free, and often produces relief in the first session that patients have not experienced after months of conventional care.
• High-Powered Class 4 Laser Therapy — delivers concentrated photonic energy deep into injured tissues to reduce inflammation, stimulate cellular repair, and accelerate healing in joints, discs, tendons, and ligaments.
• SoundWave Therapy — uses focused acoustic energy to stimulate the body’s regenerative processes, directing stem cells and growth factors to damaged tissue for structural repair at the cellular level.
• Dry Needling — releases deep trigger points in muscles and fascia, restoring proper muscle activation, improving circulation, and reducing pain referral patterns throughout the body.
• Microcurrent Therapy — delivers sub-sensory electrical current at tissue-specific frequencies to restore cellular energy production and accelerate healing in acutely or chronically injured tissue.

These therapies are used in combination with precise chiropractic adjustments, soft tissue mobilization, and individually designed rehabilitation programming — creating treatment plans that are genuinely comprehensive rather than limited to a single modality.

4. We Treat the Whole Person — Not Just the Injury

Pain is not just a physical event. It is shaped by stress, sleep, nutrition, nervous system function, movement habits, psychological state, and the accumulated history of everything your body has been through. At Sports Docs Family Chiro, we take all of it seriously.

Dr. Porman’s evaluation includes assessment of nutritional status and food-based inflammation triggers (through Immuno Labs testing when indicated), sleep patterns that affect recovery and inflammatory load, stress and anxiety as contributors to physical pain and impaired healing, and the interplay between organ function and musculoskeletal symptoms. For patients dealing with depression alongside their physical condition, Dr. Porman’s integrative approach addresses both dimensions simultaneously — because treating one without the other produces incomplete results.

This holistic perspective is not a marketing phrase at Sports Docs Family Chiro. It is reflected in every evaluation, every treatment plan, and every patient interaction. It is why patients who come to us with pain often leave with improvements in energy, sleep, mood, and overall vitality that go well beyond what they came in hoping for.

5. Our Results Are Consistently Extraordinary

The most honest measure of any healthcare provider is the outcomes their patients achieve — and by that measure, Dr. Porman’s results are extraordinary. The D1 volleyball player who avoided labrum surgery and returned to play. The patient who had lived with migraines for ten years and felt relief after a single session. The professional athlete who had tried every conventional treatment available before flying to Tempe because Dr. P was the only one who could figure out what was wrong. The parent who had been told their chronic lower back pain was untreatable — until it was not.

These are not exceptional cases at Sports Docs Family Chiro. They are typical of what happens when a root-cause approach, advanced treatment technologies, and 27+ years of elite-level clinical expertise are all brought to bear on a patient’s condition. Our 5-star reviews from over 200 verified Google patients reflect the same consistency — patients who arrived frustrated and in pain, and left with something they had stopped believing was possible: real, lasting relief.

Read what our patients say on the Testimonials page.

6. You Are Not a Number Here

High-volume chiropractic practices see patient after patient in 10-minute slots, performing the same adjustment to every spine that comes through the door. That is not what happens at Sports Docs Family Chiro. Dr. Porman invests genuine time and attention in every patient — learning your history, understanding your goals, explaining what he finds, and building a treatment plan that is specific to you, not to your diagnosis code.

Patients frequently comment on the experience of feeling truly heard — sometimes for the first time after years of frustrating healthcare interactions where they felt dismissed or reduced to a symptom. That quality of attention is not incidental to Dr. Porman’s practice. It is foundational to it. You cannot deliver exceptional clinical outcomes without genuinely understanding the person in front of you, and that understanding is something Dr. P consistently delivers.

7. We Serve Athletes, Individuals, Teams, and Healthcare Providers

The breadth of Dr. Porman’s expertise means that Sports Docs Family Chiro is genuinely able to serve an exceptionally wide range of patients well:

• Athletes at every level — from youth and high school competitors to D1 college athletes, professionals, and Olympians — receive sports-specific evaluation, advanced injury treatment, and performance optimization that gives them a genuine competitive edge.
• Individuals who are not athletes but are dealing with chronic pain, fatigue, migraines, fibromyalgia, auto accident injuries, or any of dozens of conditions that erode quality of life receive the same quality of individualized, whole-body care as elite competitors.
• Teams benefit from Dr. Porman’s injury evaluation, performance coaching, and motivational speaking to keep more athletes healthy, performing at their best, and inspired to pursue their legendary purpose.
• Healthcare providers from across the country and around the world have sought out Dr. Porman’s training to learn how to integrate Targeted Frequency Therapy into their own practices — a testament to the esteem in which his clinical methodology is held by peers.

8. We Are Invested in Your Long-Term Health — Not Just Your Next Visit

Dr. Porman’s goal is not to keep you coming to the clinic indefinitely. His goal is to get you better, give you the tools and knowledge to maintain that improvement, and send you back into your life with a body that is more capable and resilient than it was before you came to him. That means education is built into every care plan — explaining what caused your condition, how the treatments are addressing it, and what you need to do on your own time to support your recovery and prevent recurrence.

Our injury prevention and recovery program exists precisely for this purpose — giving patients who want ongoing support a structured, proactive framework for maintaining their results and building long-term physical resilience. Because the best outcome is not just getting you better. It is keeping you that way.

Ready to Experience the Difference?

If you have been settling for average care and getting average results, it is time to experience what truly exceptional chiropractic and sports medicine care feels like. Sports Docs Family Chiro is accepting new patients in Tempe, AZ and throughout the greater Phoenix area, including Mesa, Chandler, Scottsdale, Gilbert, and Phoenix. Call (480) 812-9000 or request an appointment online. New patients can get started at our New Patients page.

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