About Dr. Johnson

Dr. Michael L. Johnson is the author of the alternative medicine bestseller, What Do You Do When the Medications Don’t Work?—A Non-Drug Treatment of Dizziness, Migraine Headaches, Fibromyalgia and Other Chronic Conditions.  He is widely recognized as a leading expert in fibromyalgia, dizziness, headaches, and chronic pain after successfully treating thousands of patients suffering from these conditions.

Dr. Johnson is a practicing chiropractic neurologist who has been in private practice in Appleton, WI for the past 23 years.  He has accumulated of 4,200 hours in post-doctorate education.  In addition to his post-doctorate studies, Dr. Johnson opened one of the first clinics in the U.S. that combined medical, chiropractic, and physical therapy in one facility.  His clinics have been on the cutting edge of the health care industry for years.  Currently, Dr. Johnson devotes his practice to researching and treating chronic pain and dizziness. 

Dr. Johnson has published numerous articles and has lectured throughout the United States.  He has been a guest on many radio and TV shows and has been featured in a number of newspaper and magazine articles.  Dr. Johnson lives with his lovely wife Michele and their 5 children near Appleton, WI.  He is currently working in his second book and involved in two controlled, randomized research projects. 

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A MESSAGE FROM DR. JOHNSON

Early in 1989, I developed severe migraine headaches while eating lunch at a restaurant near my office.  All of a sudden, I began to feel a visual change in my eye.  My best description of this change would be the appearance of “squiggly lines.”  After about twenty minutes, I lost the vision in my left eye, and it felt as if someone was pounding a spike into it.  I became nauseous.

Following the restaurant ordeal, I suffered from severe migraine headaches once or twice a week for over 9 years (1989-1998).  I tried treatment after treatment, and nothing worked.  But, finally, after years of suffering, I found the answer.  I began attending seminars taught by Dr. Ted Carrick, the country’s leading chiropractic neurologist and chiropractic’s only neurological fellow.  Thanks to Dr. Carrick’s groundbreaking work, I have not suffered from a migraine headache since August of 1998. 

Today, I am migraine free.  By utilizing these chiropractic techniques, I helped myself, and I am now able to help others lead a pain free life.

You have probably lived for years with pain, dizziness, or numbness.  In fact, you have become so used to it, because it is SO pervasive in your life, that you have accepted it as normal.  Do you know what I think?  You are flat-out wrong!  I hear such statements everyday.  Patients tell me daily that they can’t believe how they suffered in complete misery for years and they wished that they had found out about my office years ago!  They tell me how they had to forgo many life experiences just because they were told that nothing could be done about their symptoms.

I work with a medical doctor in my office, and I receive hundreds of referrals from MDs.  Medicine does a great job when it comes to acute care (broken bones, heart attack, stroke, etc.), but when it comes to chronic pain care, they have a very difficult time.  Patients bring to my office a “laundry list” of all of the medications that they have tried.  It is a “Russian Roulette” with prescription and non-prescription meds.  “If this pill doesn’t work, try this one.  Oh!  That medication didn’t work?  Here’s another!”  Some patients become very frustrated and even jaded because they are unable to find a doctor to help them with their chronic health condition.  Unfortunately, some have become depressed because no one has been able to provide them the slightest form of relief.  As a board certified chiropractic neurologist, I have helped thousands of such patients live a healthy, happy, and pain-free life again.