A summary of About Us:

• clinic  is located at 3140 Baview Avenue, south of Finch on the west side
• full chiropractic services are offered
• how the doctor became a chiropractor
• the staff who assist you

The Bayview-Finch Chiropractic Clinic is located at 3140 Bayview Avenue in North York. The purpose of our clinic is to support as many people as possible in their quest for health and to educate them about chiropractic so that they may educate others. Most people come seeking pain relief, and chiropractic has the ability to restore functional and pain-free living. However, it can also enable the patient to achieve and maintain an optimally functioning healthy system, allowing each to live their full potential.

Our practice is principally family-based, and includes people with injuries from sports, work, motor vehicle accidents, and chronic aches and pains who also become patients. The vast majority of people who come for chiropractic care do so for nerve, muscle and joint reasons, however, while treating them for these reasons, people can also receive general and over all health benefit to all body systems, including their emotional and mental functioning.

I am pleased to have your interest in chiropractic care, and I would like to share with you how I came to be a chiropractor.
 
When I was 18 years old, I had a summer job in a dairy in my home town of Canora, Saskatchewan, population about 3,000 residents. It was one of the largest businesses in my town and it produced all types of dairy products such as milk, creams, butter and some cheeses, frozen products like ice cream and ice cream bars, popsicles and so on; it was a busy place. One of my jobs at the time was to load and unload semi-trailer trucks that were bringing products to and from the plant. During one work assignment, as I was loading 50- pound boxes of butter over a number of days, my left wrist became increasingly sore to the degree that I thought I would have to give up my job because I could not use my left hand usefully or safely.
 
After a few days of growing pain, I went to my family physician who prescribed a medication that was like an aspirin, only stronger. It didn’t work, and following another day of physical work, my left arm and hand were aching to the point that I could not sleep. I wanted to keep my job, and didn’t know what to do. It was at this point that someone at work suggested I go to the town chiropractor. I had never been to see him before and I didn’t know what he did, so I asked by parents about chiropractic care, and they, never having been to a chiropractor, did not have any information to help me decide whether or not I should go. The pain and my desire to keep my job overcame my questioning, uncertainty and fear and I went.
 
Once with the doctor, I think he ‘adjusted’ every joint in my body, and when I walked out of his clinic I couldn’t believe how amazingly well I felt. I recall feeling as though I was walking on air - about a foot above the ground. My wrist was almost immediately pain-free, and I remember thinking that chiropractic care was the best kept secret that I had yet encountered. I found it difficult to believe that I had not heard more about chiropractic before that moment, or that my parents had never been to a chiropractor. I also recall feeling that it was unfortunate that I had to go through those days of pain and uncertainty about my job and future health of my hand, before someone had suggested seeing the chiropractor.
 
I did not fully understand the health implications of chiropractic care for a number of years, however, I benefited from an occasional adjustment that dealt with the aches and pains of the moment. A number of years after my wrist experience, I was involved in a serious car accident, and had to walk on canes for a year and struggle without the canes for a second year. I had not thought to go to a chiropractor after my accident because none of the medical doctors who ‘put me back together’ suggested I see one, and their advice to me was to get used to the pain for it would be with me the rest of my life. A year after I was able to walk without my canes, and two years after the accident, I developed a neck problem that became increasingly painful so I thought of seeing a chiropractor in Winnipeg where I lived and attended university. The Winnipeg chiropractor that I went to, unlike the first doctor I visited in my home town, explained the health benefits of what chiropractic could do for the human body. The injuries to my back which had kept me incapacitated and walking on canes for the year after the accident, continued to hurt and pain to the degree that I would have to spend a day or two a week at home to let it settle. The chiropractor told me that the neck pain was related to the back injuries, and that he had to treat my whole system, which included my lower back, in order to help my neck and to help settle the back problem that had not healed even two years after the accident. He went on to explain that health can only exist in a body where there is full nerve health, that is, where the nerves are communicating fully between the brain and the body; wherever there is nerve pressure or strain to the tissues around a nerve, it cannot and will not work well, and will result in dysfunction, pain and decreased health and well-being.

I agreed to being treated, and, like my first experience, the injuries and pains that I lived with for the two years following the accident, began to heal and my overall health began to improve.
 
It was through the education provided by that Winnipeg chiropractor that I began to understand that health was the product of a fully communicating nerve system, and that without it, not only would one’s health decline and suffer, but that their emotional, mental and spiritual capabilities would equally be challenged and limited. An individual could not live up to their full potential and life expression if their neurological health was not at its best. I didn’t realize it at the time, but that growing understanding would become a desire to help others, not only to understand the fundamental importance of their structure and resulting function, but to also help them restore their health and then to maintain it. 

I became a chiropractor to help others as I was helped.

Meet the Team

The Bayview-Finch Chiropractic Clinic currently has two people assisting you obtain chiropractic healthcare, Dr. Stan Gorchynski and Louise Paul, chiropractic assistant and office manager.
 
Dr. Gorchynski has been practicing chiropractic in Toronto since 1984, following graduation from the Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College. Following a period of time devoted solely to clinical practice, Dr. Gorchynski became a Director on the Ontario Chiropractic Association’s Board in 1995. In 1997, he joined its Executive Committee, serving over a 6 year period in the successive positions of Secretary-Treasurer, President, Past-President, following which he continued to serve as a Director until the spring of 2005.

Beginning in 2000 and while still a Director on the Board of the Ontario Chiropractic Association, Dr. Gorchynski represented the Ontario Chiropractic Association as a Governor on The Canadian Chiropractic Association Board of Governors. In 2001, Dr. Gorchynski joined the Canadian Chiropractic Association’s Executive Committee, serving as Secretary-Treasurer, Vice-President, and from the fall of 2005 to the fall of 2007, as President. Throughout his service to both the Ontario Chiropractic Association and the Canadian Chiropractic Association, Dr. Gorchynski has continued in private practice.

Prior to becoming a chiropractor, Dr. Gorchynski acquired a background in political science and commerce, as well as in graduate studies in finance and public policy. He worked in various civil services holding positions such as Systems and Management Consultant, Treasury Board Officer, a program Director, and as an Assistant Deputy Minister. At that time, he also served as a Director on 4 industry boards, chaired 2 organizations – one cultural and the other a legislated public commission, and also sat as a director of 4 additional community-based boards.

Ms. Louise Paul has been a chiropractic patient for many years and has worked with Dr. Gorchynski for the past 4 years. She has personally seen the benefits of chiropractic care upon her health, as well as upon her family of five children and their families. As the first and last person that you will see upon arriving and departing from the Clinic, Louise will pleasantly and kindly assist you to obtain the health care you require. She will be able to answer your questions and will facilitate your chiropractic experience.