“By the time many patients reach me, they have spent years navigating conflicting diagnoses and unsuccessful treatment plans. They have invested time, money, and hope. My first goal is to help their story make sense again—and help them regain hope.”
For many years, Geoff Dakin was best known as a low back pain specialist. Today, much of his work lies at the intersection of biomechanics, dentistry, and multidisciplinary healthcare.
For more than eleven years, Geoff has collaborated with dentists, orthodontists, upper cervical chiropractors, and other healthcare professionals on complex temporomandibular disorder (TMD) cases from across North America and around the world.
That evolution draws on nearly 37 years of practice, including serving as a therapist for the NHL’s Vancouver Canucks, becoming a published researcher, developing the Alignment First Protocol, and writing the Amazon bestseller The Body Mechanic’s Handbook. Elite sport also taught him what he calls The Athlete’s Paradox: the strongest-looking bodies are often compensating the hardest.
In his newest book, The Biomechanical Brain, Geoff tells the story of Kim, who spent years using dental appliances and undergoing bite adjustments with little lasting success. The dentistry was not necessarily wrong. The timing was.
Her pelvis remained twisted, continually altering the mechanics above it. Only after her base stabilized did the true bite problem become visible—and treatable.
Not every bite problem begins in the pelvis. But treatment becomes more predictable when clinicians, regardless of profession, adopt a true Teeth-to-Toes perspective.
“My practice didn’t move from low backs to jaws. It evolved from treating body parts to understanding systems,” says Geoff Dakin.
That philosophy guides the Alignment First Protocol whether Geoff is working with chronic pain sufferers, office workers, athletes, or patients with complex TMD.
His writing appears regularly in IMPACT Magazine and on Substack, where he explores biomechanics, chronic pain, dentistry, and multidisciplinary care.
Geoff also mentors therapists, helping them move beyond technique-centred care, strengthen their clinical reasoning, build referral networks, and become more valuable members of collaborative healthcare teams.
After nearly four decades in practice, his work is guided by a simple belief: healthcare works best when its expertslearn to see the same interconnected human system.
Photography by Graham Mckerrell
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