Davison Chiropractic

Moving Toward Health!

New Location April 1, 2025

After 23 years practicing in Belmont and Cambridge, I am relocating a few miles down the road to Burlington. I appreciate my patients for being so understanding during this transition and for their support and willingness to follow me. As healthcare is becoming more and more corporate, and giant hospital systems have made the multidisciplinary practice more costly to operate, I decided the best way for me to help you with your health is to move back to a private chiropractic clinic setting. I will continue to work with your primary care physicians and specialists to find the solution to your problem and to help improve your health and daily function.

I am excited to be joining the office of Dr. David Marini. He has been providing care in the same location since 1991. He and his staff are loved and respected throughout the community. You will find our office to be friendly and focused on helping you achieve your goals.

Prior to moving to Burlington I practiced for 23 years in a multidisciplinay setting, initially with Belmont Medical Associates, then as part of Mount Auburn Hospital, Beth Israel Lahey Health, and most recently with the doctors at New England Spine Associates. I built my practice and my professional reputation helping primary care physicians care for their patients with musculoskeletal pain. 

 About Me:

My legal name, and therefore the name on my chiropractic license, is Robert Douglas Davison. I've always gone by Doug. This causes occasional confusion because I am listed in insurance provider directories as Robert Davison. I grew up in Texas. I started my undergraduate training at Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas.  After three years I transferred into a dual degree program at Texas Chiropractic College, receiving my baccalaureate degree in Human Biology and my Doctor of Chiropractic Degree program in 1991.  Following graduation I completed a post-graduate program in sports medicine.

My chiropractic training was unique in that it included significant clinical training through the Department of Orthopedic Surgery at the University of Texas Health Science Center in the Texas Medical Center.  My time with the residents and attending physicians fostered my desire to practice in a multi-disciplinary setting. Prior to moving to Massachusetts I practiced at the Houston Sports Medicine Clinic where I treated athletes of all levels of accomplishment, including collegiate baseball and football players, elite gymnasts, Olympic athletes, runners and cyclists from around the world, and professional body builders.  I served as a chiropractor on the Wrangler Pro Rodeo Sports Medicine Team where I treated amateur and professional rodeo cowboys. I worked the sidelines at high school football games and the finish line at the Houston Marathon. I have held faculty appointments at two different chiropractic colleges. I was an Assistant Professor as well as Dean of the Clinical Sciences Division at Texas Chiropractic College. I then served as Associate Professor and Executive Dean for a new chiropractic program in Denver, Colorado.

I am married with three adult children. I live in Burlington and am very excited to have the opportunity to practice in the town I love.

About my Practice:

• The practice of chiropractic is as broad in scope as the practice of medicine.  My practice focuses on the alleviation of pain and the restoration of function through movement. I work primarily with musculoskeletal pain, that is, pain that originates in muscles, tendons, ligaments, and joints.  I also treat many people suffering with headaches and various forms of nerve pain, as it relates to musculoskeletal conditions such as disc herniations and nerve entrapment syndromes.

• It is my goal to help my patients return to their best possible level of activity with as little discomfort as possible.

• I am happy to treat people for "maintenance care" because it makes them feel better and helps them be more active. A recent study shows significant benefit from chiropractic care for chronic back pain patients. My patients will not receive high pressure sales pitches and will not be pressured to return to the office repeatedly after they are feeling better, but they will never be discouraged from returning for treatment that helps them stay active.

• Getting to know my patients is the highlight of my practice.  I feel fortunate that I have the opportunity to spend time with them during treatment.  Without this interaction my practice would be much less fulfilling than it is.

• I am proud of the fact that I have built a practice based on referrals from other health care professionals and from my patients, as opposed to heavy advertising.  I believe that referrals are the highest form of praise and I respect that my patients trust me with their family and friends and that my colleagues trust me with their patients.