Dr. Jason Dixon began his chiropractic practice in 2009.

In the Chiropractic Professionals office where he and Dr. Robert Johnson work, Dixon offers the standard chiropractic care to human patients. But Dixon is also northern Minnesota’s sole animal chiropractor.

Dixon, a graduate of Minnesota State University-Mankato with a bachelor’s degree in 2001 and Northwestern College of Chiropractic with a Doctor of Chiropractic degree in 2009, studied animal chiropractic through Options for Animals, specialty chiropractic training. He is a member of the International Veterinary Chiropractic Association and Minnesota Animal Chiropractic Care.

Dixon takes care of small animal patients — dogs and cats — at Dr. Tom Rietveld’s Headwaters Veterinary Clinic and large animals — horses and cattle — at the Sparby Ranch near Blackduck, Minn. However, Dixon also makes house and farm calls and said his animal business is mostly mobile.

“I’m the only one in northern Minnesota chiropractic-wise,” Dixon said.

Dixon works on subluxations, sites where vertebrae and other joints are misaligned, causing nerve interference in humans and animals. He said the five signs he looks for before seeking to correct the problems are temperature, inflammation, tenderness, motion restriction and static misalignment.

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