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5.0 (23 reviews)
Closed 9:30 am - 5:30 pm

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Jade L.

Through the La Jolla Wellness Bingo game, I won a session with Dr. Jools Candelaria. I've had many acupuncture treatments and am actually trained in energy healing and Thai massage so was very open to experiencing whatever was offered. I was pleasantly surprised at the amount of attention paid to my mind, body, and spirit, including going over a very thorough health history. I didn't have any major health challenges but felt the priorities we discussed were addressed and I felt so relaxed and better afterwards. (The twenty minutes with the needles inserted felt like a five-hour nap.) Treatments included acupuncture, Chi Nei Tsang (Womb + GI Massage), and massage. During this two hour treatment, I felt powerful energy from the acupuncture needles, more than from past acupuncture treatments elsewhere. Afterwards, I spent an hour in the lovely infrared sauna, including relaxing music, a ceramic water jug, and shower. I am grateful for the focus and attention given to me, especially for a free session. Thank you for a much-needed relaxing and rejuvenating body reboot. I would recommend Dr. Jools. as well as the infrared sauna.

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Dr. Jools is awesome! Very knowledgeable and personable. I get acupuncture and cupping here and I love it.

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Chris asked if I felt comfortable with some acupuncture before cupping, of course I said yes, and I am SO glad I did.

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San Diego Hyperbaric - Samuel first day, he is very scared .

San Diego Hyperbaric

4.7(15 reviews)
6.9 miKearny Mesa

If one must receive hyperbaric treatment my own experience would say that San Diego Hyperbaric is…read morean excellent choice. Caring staff, and clean facilities. The chamber itself is room shaped and not cylindrical. This feels less claustrophobic and that bit more relaxed.

There is no other place in San Diego like San Diego Hyperbaric. This is our second round of…read moretreatments for our 3 year old daughter and we honestly can't say enough good things about this place and the staff. They are truly the most knowledgeable and safe people in the hyperbaric business in San Diego. All of the staff members are extremely competent and skilled at what they do and how they explain the treatment and what to expect. Not only is the care impeccable, but the staff members themselves are all so kind and compassionate and easy to talk to. The owner Jen puts her whole heart into this business and truly cares about her patients and them getting better. Reagan and Dominic are extremely professional and kind, they remember every detail about each patient and go above and beyond to make sure you are comfortable during your treatment. We come here over 40 times each round, 5 days a week and honestly look forward to walking in every day because of the staff. The office is clean, everything is brand new and they have anything you can think of-clean bathrooms, TVs for every chamber, snacks, water, blankets. It is truly the place you want to go if you need hyperbaric therapy in San Diego.

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UC San Diego Health - El Camino Real

UC San Diego Health - El Camino Real

5.0(2 reviews)
15.1 mi

Excellent. Efficient, and thorough patient care. As a new patient, I appreciated them checking me…read morein with their new patient profile packet, to give them a better idea of who I was as a patient. I also appreciated that as soon as I walked in the door the front desk person greeted me right away. Dr. Anderson and his assistant Brandon were super great with their bedside manner. I appreciate when practitioners are receptive to what patience needs are. If you ever have to go to get treated here please know that it's a great experience. They are experts at what they do.

I couldn't thank Dr Anderson and the people at this wound center anymore than with words of…read moreworship. I may have bring food one day for extra love you points. Doctor Anderson truly changed my life on a grand scale of life, shaped me to be better at being a diabetic and he made me carr more about myself. This man's eyes for the details ..yes I mean the smalls is AMAZING!! He truly cares about everything and wants to know everything so he can treat you. When he talks you want to listen to every little word, he inspires you, he puts strength in your wounds/soul and makes you better. I came here damaged but not anymore. I came in for a debridement in my heel but it later turned into skin wounds on my legs. Which at the time I thought was a simple thing, that would fix itself and even my homecare nurse at the time said it wasn't serious but Dr. Anderson noticed it was actually serious. He fixed up fast over a couple of months (in a long detailed process), he gave me some inspirational words each week we met, told me to the importance of having my sugar blood sugar low and; under control, reminded me to keep off my leg and he treated my wounds. He also went beyond that with getting a much better home nurse, the right supplies, a wound vac and now I'm doing skin grafts. Seriously I feel like royalty but this is just normal care I'm sure. I feel like a project but like a awesome new tech (million dollar man) project. I can't tell you guys how much faith I lost before coming to him, weeks of crying, being depress and not thinking I'd ever get better but now I look forward to just living again. I spender months in a hospital bed but now I look forward to defeating diabetes and I look forward to my fresh new legs.  I have been battling through so many doctors, surgeons and a different wound center/team that was horrible "tri-city wound center" (seriously they were ready to cut off my leg,throw me away and they didn't know how to treat me. Save yourself and don't even go to them).  Side note: If you training to go into this career. This man is who you NEED to follow and learn from. He is a amazing leader, a great medical mind, his eye for the details is so FOCUSED, he is like a hawk or sniper, it's the fact he cares about every little thing and; the fact he does it so fast/well is just unreal and he is just a overall great individual. I could go on and on about why Dr. Anderson is so GREAT!!  It's rare to come across a doctor that's really cares you the patient. He treats you like family. He wants to see you truly be better and be healed. I don't cry anymore, I don't feel sad anymore and I have true hope now. I love this doctor and everyone there. I don't know if there's doctor's there but I recommend asking for him only. You'd be foolish to go somewhere else.

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Sports Performance Physical Therapy - Hands-on therapy for pain relief

Sports Performance Physical Therapy

5.0(81 reviews)
22.7 mi
Family-owned & operated
Established in 2014

After a year of dealing with back, hip and leg pain and getting nowhere with other PTs, I bit the…read morebullet and made an appointment with this place after seeing the stellar reviews. I had just experienced another flareup and was feeling desperate. They were able to get me in to see Dr. Shane quickly, and when I tell you that I felt like I was with a miracle worker. We went through several motions during the intro session, and he was able to diagnosis my issue (piriformis syndrome and tight hips). He performed cupping and massage, and he was able to loosen up my stubborn hips. He then had me perform some PT exercises, and I IMMEDIATELY felt relief. I honestly couldn't believe it. I thought the relief would go away after a few hours, but it stayed for a few days. I've worked him for about 6 sessions now, and I've felt drastic improvements. He tailors the training session to my problem areas, and he doesn't increase my load too quickly, to make sure I don't reinjure myself (which had been happening before). It's a bit pricy, but it's honestly been a lifesaver for me. Would recommend to anyone!

On 9/9/2024 I was injured during a massage at Sports Performance Physical Therapy in Chula Vista…read more The LMT had her elbow in the intercostal space of my left anterior chest when I suddenly felt an incredible amount of sharp, stabbing pain. I cried out and requested that she remove her elbow from my chest. The pain in my left chest was excruciating. I was unable to use my left arm without experiencing an enormous amount of pain. Even breathing was painful. Coughing and sneezing were unbearable. When I woke up the next morning, the pain was severe. Based on my symptoms, I was afraid I had a rib fracture. I contacted Cristianah Comaduran, Operations Manager of Sports Performance to notify her of the injury. She spoke with the LMT, who verified what happened. We stayed in contact over the next several weeks. I informed her that I would be filing a claim with their liability insurance and would contact her once I was completely asymptomatic. For the next two weeks, the pain was severe. I was unable to work, do household chores, and help my 4 year son with the things he needed, like getting dressed, bathing, basic ADLs. I filed a short term disability claim through my employer (I'm an ICU nurse). The stipulation for payment is that the first two weeks are unpaid, and then 60% of earnings are paid. This was a great financial burden for my family. The consequences of this injury were costly with low income for the months of October and November. My pain continued to improve until I caught an upper respiratory infection (URI) that caused continuous coughing. The pain was back and it was severe. Each cough and sneeze was excruciating. Once the URI resolved, my pain improved. For two months, the pain and suffering was debilitating, not allowing me to work, exercise, take care of the household, and most importantly, my son. It caused sleepless nights because the pain medication I was prescribed did little to relieve my symptoms, which lead to chronic exhaustion. The findings of my MRI on 11/14/24, which was two months after the injury, showed asymmetric edema at the level of the left third sternocostal joint. Two months after the injury, I still had abnormal results which were consistent with my symptoms. My thoracic spine MRI from 2022 showed none of these injuries. My PCP's impression was that there was a sprain of costal cartilage subsequent encounter. He determined it was costal-sternal joint strain vs developing costochrondritis. Along with pain and suffering, I experienced anxiety and distress due to financial strain. The injury resulted in thousands of dollars of missed wages. In addition, I was unable to accrue paid time off and contribute to my pension and retirement fund. This set me back two months from being vested at work. When I returned to work, I had very little sick or vacation time due to the inability to accrue paid time off (PTO). In January of 2025, I called out sick for 3 shifts (36 hours) when I was sick with the flu. I did not have enough sick time to cover the hours missed. I also received a double occurrence for my absence, which was not cleared from my record until January of 2026. It was worrisome that despite returning to work, the effects of this injury continued to be a financial burden and was affecting my performance review at work. This incident has also resulted in out of pocket costs, such as co-pays and pharmaceuticals, not to mention I was never reimbursed for the massage that started it all!! Perhaps worse than everything, I had to borrow money from my parents, so there's an element of shame in addition to the pain, suffering, and distress. This injury has been costly in terms of lost wages/PTO accrual and out of pocket expenses, not to mention inability to contribute to retirement and inch closer to being vested at my place of employment. I submitted an incredible amount of documents to Sports Performance in attempt to file a claim against their liability insurance. They were extremely difficult to work with and despite my repeated efforts to present all documents they requested, my claim was denied. Total cost for lost wages and out of pocket costs: $20,224.09. Because of this massage, I experienced pain, suffering, chronic exhaustion due to insomnia, anxiety, distress, and shame...and I didn't even get a fucking apology.

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Enjoy massage in a relaxing, private room to loosen those aches and pains

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Youth performance training to improve strength, speed and agility

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Flourish MD Acupuncture

Flourish MD Acupuncture

4.8(18 reviews)
14.7 mi

Dr. Haas is great! Very professional and very attentive. I have seen great results working with her…read moreand would highly recommend to anyone looking for an alternative to traditional western medicine.

Dr. Haas is well intentioned but practices fringe therapies that have no backing from mainstream…read moremedicine or basis in peer reviewed science, something marketing labels as "functional medicine" but is really just expensive out of pocket poorly proven procedures. This wouldn't be so bad if she was just taking money from patients and prescribing them placebos, but many of the things she does not only have the potential of not helping, but also causing harm. Perhaps worst of all is that she simply doesn't seem to understand the scientific reasoning behind a lot of the therapies she prescribes, only their marketing. I took my mom to Dr. Haas for an ozone injection into her shoulder for an injury, soon after which my mother developed Parkinson's. When I researched ozone, I found about half of sources suggested it was a neurotoxin and not neuroprotective, but the doctor wasn't aware of any of this. I feel a lot of regret that trusting Dr. Haas with my mother's care may have been what lead to Dr. Haas causing her Parkinson's. Similarly, she recommended "exosomes" to my mother, an unproven theoretical stem cell derivative, and my mom ended up developing breast cancer. Exosomes have been linked to the spread of cancer and are a completely unproven alternative therapy that it is currently illegal to administer. Probably the last straw was when she started sending out anti-vaxxer e-mails and trying to treat COVID with some other nonsense alternative therapies (light therapy. I will alwys regret bringing my mother to this doctor as I believe it stared the sequence of events that led to her disability and early death. Dr. Haas is a well intentioned but extremely dangerous doctor and should be avoided at all costs. The first principle of medicine is to do no harm. Dr. Kori Haas has left this behind a long time ago.

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Flourish MD Acupuncture - Dr. Haas

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