About SpinalCare
An independent directory that helps people find the right spine-care specialist in the US — built on public data, with cited reference and curated expert video around it.
Finding a spine-care provider is harder than it should be. The big directories are comprehensive but generic; the specialty directories each cover only one kind of provider; and the strongest spine brands, oddly, never built a real directory at all.
SpinalCare is an attempt to close that gap: a single, searchable place that spans the specialties people actually need for spine and back problems, city by city, wrapped in plain-English condition reference and video from named clinicians.
The launch directory covers chiropractic and physical therapy across 15 Tier-1 US metros. More specialties and cities are added the same way, once the data clears the same bar.
How the directory is built
The listings are only as trustworthy as their sourcing, so the method is deliberately conservative.
Seed from an authoritative federal source
Every listing starts from the US National Provider Identifier (NPI) registry (NPPES) — the public federal dataset of licensed healthcare providers. We filter on each provider's primary taxonomy so a chiropractor is listed as a chiropractor, not by a secondary code they also hold.
Use the real practice address, then map it
We use the provider's practice location — never a mailing or PO-box address — and geocode it with the free US Census geocoder. 95.5% of listings resolve to a precise point; the rest show no map pin rather than an approximate one.
Never show a thin page
A city-and-specialty page is only published when it has at least three real providers. Below that, it rolls up to the state level. There are no empty “no results” pages by design.
Label provenance, and let providers correct it
Every listing is marked as registry-seeded and unclaimed until the provider claims it. Unknown fields read “Not provided” — we never fill a gap with a guess, a fabricated review, or an invented credential.
Who runs SpinalCare, and what it is not
SpinalCare is an independent project. It is not a hospital, a clinic, an insurer, or a booking business, and a listing is never bought — no provider can pay to rank above another. That independence is the point: the directory is meant to be a neutral map of who is out there, not a storefront for whoever pays.
It also means we are careful about what we claim to be. SpinalCare organises publicly available information — it does not give medical advice. Our condition pages explain what authoritative sources such as the NHS and the AAOS say, with every claim attributed and dated. Until a named, credentialed clinician is attached as a reviewer, we stay in that aggregation register rather than writing first-person medical guidance. Always consult a qualified clinician about your own care.
The detail behind all of this
How we source data, cite evidence, handle corrections, and stay YMYL-safe is written up in full in our editorial standards. If you are a listed provider and something is wrong, you can claim or correct your listing. For anything else, email hello@spinalcare.org.