Owner, Wise Chiropractic, LLC · President/CEO, Wise Techniques, LLC · Team Chiropractor, Eugene Emeralds (San Francisco Giants High-A Affiliate) · Developer of Cranial Laser Reflex Technique (CLRT)
Nick Wise is a second-generation chiropractor with 25 years of clinical experience, but his path through the profession runs through some unusual territory: a philosophy degree, an NIH-funded postdoctoral research fellowship, faculty appointments at both a chiropractic college and a medical school, and the invention of a technique now taught to practitioners around the world.
He earned his Doctor of Chiropractic, Magna Cum Laude, from Sherman College of Chiropractic (1996–2000), following a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy from the University of South Carolina. In 2014, he was accepted into the NIH Ruth L. Kirschstein T-32 Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Program on Integrative Medicine — the first chiropractor ever accepted into that program — where he completed a Master of Science in Clinical Research (MSCR) under mentors Susan Gaylord, PhD, Doug Mann, MD, and Flavio Frohlich, PhD.
That research background shaped everything that followed. He spent years as Adjunct Faculty in UNC-Chapel Hill's School of Medicine, Department of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, and later as Assistant Professor at the University of Western States, Department of Chiropractic Sciences. Along the way he developed Cranial Laser Reflex Technique (CLRT) — a photobiomodulation-based approach to musculoskeletal pain that he has researched, published, and taught in live seminars across North America, the UK, and Europe since 2008 through Wise Techniques, LLC.
Early in his career, Nick also helped establish chiropractic as a recognized profession in India — co-founding the country's first full-time chiropractic clinics and presenting on chiropractic science and history to India's Ministry of Health and Members of Parliament in New Delhi.
Today he runs a boutique Pearl District practice, serves as team chiropractor for the Eugene Emeralds (the San Francisco Giants' High-A affiliate), and continues to publish, peer-review, and sit on the editorial board of the journal Laser Therapy. He's also a competitive soccer player, DJ, guitarist, and father of three wise ones. Frequently called a sorcerer. Not offended by it.
Photobiomodulation (laser) therapy, transcranial photobiomodulation, brain mechanisms of spinal manipulation, brain oscillations (EEG), heart rate variability, non-invasive brain stimulation, stress, chronic pain, CAM and all-cause mortality, football (soccer) medicine, the global burden of musculoskeletal disorders, and expanding access to integrative and mind-body medicine.