The Neighborhood Chiropractic Team

Besides the soul-satisfying experience we get from helping people like you, one of the great things about Neighborhood Chiropractic is we get to work beside a wonderful group of staff. Please meet Sachiko, Michelle, Melvina, Fidelis, and Annabella:

Sachiko is the afternoon receptionist for the office and assists our patients with their paperwork to get their Insurance benefits.

She is fluent in English and Japanese. And has been a customer service agent and interpreter at the San Francisco Airport for United Airlines for over 17 years.

She attended Fresno City College and worked as a chiropractic receptionist for many years.

She was born and raised in Southern Japan and came to America in 1970 after getting married to Dr. Dan. They have one daughter Michelle and enjoy traveling around the world.

Michelle has worked for us for 12 years; help running the office in the front desk, back office, insurance billing, and management. She decided to take a year off and went to massage school at Mc Kinnon Instiute in Oakland. Since the summer of 2006 she has decided to come back to our office to help with the insurance billing and to do massage therapy for our auto accident patients as well as well as our Rub Club. She also has her own private client base from around the bay area.

She attends California State University in the east bay pursing her degrees in Interior Design and Psychology. On her off time she creates websites and makes beautiful jewelry. She loves to travel, been around the world at least twice. She also bartends at Crossway Cafe in Hayward in the evenings during the week.

She graduated from Union College of Laguna the Philippines. She worked in chiropractic providing massage and therapy for their clients.

She was born and raised in Manila. In getting married to Reynaldo Parada they moved to Boston for several years before relocating to San Leandro.

She joined the Neighborhood Wellness team in February of 2009.

Her style of massage includes Deep Tissue, Swedish, Sports and she also uses joint mobilization techniques.

Fidelis decided to become a massage therapist after much needed stress relief from working in the corporate world of Chevron. She graduated from McKinnon College of Massage in Oakland and has worked for a number of chiropractors and physical therapist since 1992. She also has a very busy private client base as well.

Her style of massage includes Swedish, Deep Tissue, Sports and Prenatal and also uses joint mobilization especially beneficial for athletes. She joined the Neighborhood Chiropractic office in May of 1996 and focuses on clients who need deep tissue work and cares for our auto accident patients. When she isn’t massaging, she enjoys teaching piano and getting massages herself, especially on her annual trips to Hawaii and Palm Springs.