About

A clinic built around assessment, not guesswork

We opened in Sơn Trà to give Đà Nẵng a musculoskeletal clinic that works the way clinics work in Europe: measure first, explain in plain language, treat conservatively, and hand the patient a plan they can run themselves.

Our story

How the clinic started

It began with a simple gap: patients in Đà Nẵng could find massage easily, and hospitals for serious problems — but very little in between for the ordinary mechanical pain that stops people working, training and sleeping.

Danang Chiropractic Clinic was set up to fill that middle ground. We started with one chiropractic room and a movement screen. As patients kept needing more than one discipline, the clinic grew into six departments, a rehabilitation floor and the Pilat'Nest Pilates studio upstairs, all working from a single shared patient file.

Today the clinic serves Vietnamese families, expatriate residents and visitors, in several languages. What has not changed is the sequence: assess, explain, treat, re-test. If we cannot show you a measurable change, we change the plan rather than repeating it.

The team

Clinicians

Every clinician here works to the same rule: explain what you found, say what you do not know, and never oversell a treatment.

Doctor of Chiropractic

Dr Edouard Sabourdy, DC

Founder · Chiropractic, movement screening and integrative musculoskeletal care

French-trained Doctor of Chiropractic practising in Đà Nẵng. His work centres on musculoskeletal screening and assessment — orthopaedic testing, functional movement screening in the FMS/SFMA tradition, and digital posture analysis — combined with manual therapy and progressive loading.

Manual therapy: joint mobilisation and manipulation, Mulligan and Maitland-informed technique
Movement screening and return-to-sport progression
Scoliosis assessment and monitoring, insole prescription
Speaks French, English and working Vietnamese

Traditional Chinese Medicine

Dr Thuy

Traditional Chinese Medicine · Acupuncture, cupping and herbal consultation

Dr Thuy leads the TCM department, bringing Vietnamese traditional medicine (Đông y) and Chinese medicine practice into the clinic's musculoskeletal work. She treats pain patterns with acupuncture and dry needling, and advises on herbal and lifestyle support.

Acupuncture and dry needling for musculoskeletal pain
Cupping, gua sha and moxibustion
Herbal consultation with written guidance
Speaks Vietnamese and English

Placeholder — to complete

Rehabilitation therapist

Profile to be added: qualifications, areas of focus, languages spoken. This role runs the rehab floor, supervises exercise progressions and operates DTS, laser and shockwave therapy.

Placeholder — to complete

Pilates instructor · Pilat'Nest

Profile to be added: certification, teaching style, class types. Works with clinic patients on the movement half of their rehabilitation plan.

Placeholder — to complete

Massage therapists

Profiles to be added. The massage team covers therapeutic, sports, deep tissue and relaxation work, and coordinates with the clinical departments.

Placeholder — to complete

Reception & patient care

Profiles to be added. Reception handles booking, packages, translation support and follow-up reminders in Vietnamese and English.

Philosophy

Five things we hold to

Assess before you treat

No treatment starts before a history, a red-flag screen and objective testing. If we cannot name what we are treating, we do not treat it.

Explain it plainly

You should be able to repeat your diagnosis to your family in one sentence. If our explanation needs jargon, it is not a good explanation.

Load beats rest

Most musculoskeletal tissue recovers better with graded loading than with rest. Manual therapy and modalities exist to make that loading possible.

Fewer visits, done properly

We would rather see you eight times with a clear endpoint than indefinitely. Every plan has a re-test date and an exit.

Know the limits

Chiropractic and rehabilitation do not treat disease. We screen for what needs a doctor, and refer without hesitating.

Respect traditional medicine

Đông y is part of how Vietnam looks after itself. We integrate it honestly — as symptom management inside a plan, never as a promised cure.

Technology

What we measure, and how

Technology in this clinic is there to produce numbers we can compare over time — not to impress anyone.

Digital posture & gait analysis — photographic and video analysis producing a written report you keep
Scoliometer & Cobb angle tracking — trunk rotation readings and X-ray review logged at each re-measurement
Foot pressure & footprint scanning — used for insole decisions and footwear advice
DTS spinal decompression, HILT laser, shockwave — parameters recorded per session so a course can be reviewed
Digital patient records — one shared file across all six departments, with online booking through Jane
Written home programs — every patient leaves with their exercises documented, not remembered

Languages

You can be treated in your own language

Clinical care depends on understanding each other. Our team consults in English, Vietnamese and French, and we arrange translation support for Russian, Korean and Italian patients. This website is being translated into all six languages — sections still in English are marked while that work is completed.

English Tiếng Việt Français Русский 한국어 Italiano

Careers

Work with us

We are usually looking for clinicians who like measuring things and explaining them. Roles below are indicative — write to us even if nothing matches.

Open

Rehabilitation therapist

Physiotherapy or sports rehabilitation background, comfortable running exercise progressions and modality courses. Vietnamese and English preferred.

Open

Massage therapist

Trained in therapeutic or sports massage, working in a clinical rather than spa setting, comfortable taking direction from a treatment plan.

Speculative

Pilates instructor

Certified mat and reformer instructor for Pilat'Nest, interested in rehabilitation-informed programming for patients with pain.

Speculative

Patient care coordinator

Front-of-house role covering booking, packages, follow-up and translation support. Fluent Vietnamese and confident English.

Speculative

Chiropractor / osteopath

Licensed clinician wanting to practise in Đà Nẵng, either employed or renting a room. Registration support can be discussed.

Not on the list?

Send a CV and one paragraph on how you assess a new patient. That paragraph tells us more than the CV does.

Contact

Not sure which department you need?

Book a first assessment. We will screen, explain what we find, and tell you honestly if we are not the right clinic for your problem.

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