Washington Spine & Disc

I’ve seen both doctors here and they are both terrific and really care about their patients. I’ve even gotten calls at home when I was in severe pain to see how I was doing. The front desk is friendly. This is a full service practice with various machines, not just physical adjustments. They are located conveniently one block from the metro station and have Saturday and evening hours.

I went to see Dr. Banou at Washington Spine & Disc after falling from my horse — I was having trouble walking and was generally really stiff and miserable with lower back pain and ache around my pelvis and tailbone!
I was nervous having never been to a chiropractor before, but Dr. Banou was incredibly reassuring and gentle as she make ‘adjustments’. I felt better immediately and have continued to feel better and better — I’ve seen her five times now and every time she has been extremely kind and gentle, while continuing to ease my back — I’m now walking pretty well and the pain has almost disappeared.
Dr. Banou is a terrific practitioner — she really seems to care about her patients and is a complete professional — I would recommend her to anyone!

Dr. Banou is an excellent chiropractor. She made me feel comfortable from day one. She was attentive and knowledgeable about how best to deal with my injury. She has lovely, compassionate demeanor which made it easy to confine in her. I wish all doctors could be so caring!

I have been seeing chiropractors since about the age of 13 and can honestly say Dr. Mahin Banou is one of the best I’ve seen. She is warm, caring, listens well to your concerns, and makes you feel immediately comfortable.
With her thirty years of practice, Dr. Banou’s adjustments are precise and effective. In addition to the chiropractic manipulations she provides other treatments including ultrasound, electrical stim, and a traction machine. If her initial treatment plan does not help resolve your issues, she looks into alternatives, including x-​rays or other diagnostic tools, but only if needed (luckily, I haven’t required this yet). Beyond the appointments she has given me exercises to do at home to help strengthen my problem areas.
The staff are all very nice and I’ve never had to wait that long (the one time I had to wait to see the doctor, they put me on the traction machine so at least I was getting treatment while I waited!) I’ve always been able to get appointments at the times I request and Dr. Banou is conveniently in the office on Saturday mornings.
Dr. Banou is really a wonderful chiropractor and I highly, highly recommend her!

The first time I saw a chiropractor was here, about 6 weeks ago. I had previously been skeptical of the chiropractic field; for years I’ve relied upon massage, stretching, anti-​inflammatories, and the occasional muscle relaxant to ease my back/​neck woes. After the very first treatment, I felt almost like a new person. After a month and a half, my body feels restored. Not 100%, but much closer to where it should be. As Dr Banou said to me, I am «finally getting the treatment I should have had years ago.»
Dr Banou is extremely warm and caring, almost sisterly. Besides being professional and experienced, she is personable enough to make me feel comfortable almost immediately. She listens intently to how I’m feeling at each visit, and works with me until I feel more balanced. She can pinpoint the exact locations I’m having issues, and explain the underlying reasons/​triggers. She understands the way body systems interact, and makes adjustments based on the «big picture.» Her adjustments are at the same time gentle and firm. She doesn’t throw every technique in the book at me, but rather chooses what to perform at each session based on my body’s needs. (I particularly love the electrical stimulation machine!)
No doctor has helped me as much as both Dr Banou and Dr Gregory here have. I am pretty sure Dr Banou is a miracle worker. My husband now sees her for chiropractic help as well!

The doctors here are great, and the whole staff is wonderful. See y’all next week thanks much

Dr. Gregory is great! My back was all sorts of messed up and he had me feeling like new in less than a week. Trust me, recovery normally takes a lot longer. Dr. Gregory is very professional and he won’t suggest unnecessary tests to make a buck.

This Monday was my first time at a chiropractor, and Dr. Christian Gregory made me feel very comfortable. He’s personable, professional, and is able to talk about the medical issues that are tangential to chiropractic care — muscle care, exercise, diet, etc.
I’ve always been skeptical of chiropractic care, and my second visit to Dr. Gregory is tomorrow, but I believe I found one of the best chiropractors in DC. Highly recommend.

I was in such severe back pain last week that I couldn’t walk. I was sent to Dr. Gregory by a referral from my regular doctor, which meant my doctor sent Dr. Gregory’s office a message asking them to call me and schedule an appointment. I waited for Dr. Gregory’s office to call me and let me know when they had openings and they never called. I finally called them almost in tears and the receptionist said first that she had been waiting for me to call them, and then that she wouldn’t be able to fit me in for another four days.
When I did finally see Dr. Gregory, he talked so much that I was interrupted several times and he didn’t listen to the extent of my history and what I’d been doing to try to treat the pain. He lifted my legs a few times, cracked my back, then told me he had it all figured out. Treatment involved having me lie down on his massaging table for 10 minutes with some form of lasers sending zaps to my muscles, and told me to come back in two days for physical therapy «exercises». On my way out, he told me my pain «wasn’t that bad» and that I’d be fine with stretches and ibuprofen.
No matter how you feel about Dr. Gregory or his office, this is NOT good health care. Telling a patient with such acute pain that they can’t walk to wait four days to be seen is ridiculous, and it’s even worse to tell a patient their pain is insignificant when they are finally seen. I ended up going somewhere else and paying out of pocket and receiving much more thorough treatment (treatment which actually solved my pain) and better all around care… in the same day that I called.
Dr. Gregory seemed like a nice man, but am not impressed with his office nor his practices.

Miracle workers, really. I have all kinds of issues with my lower back, sciatica, etc., and sometimes I can’t even stand up straight and end up walking around like Marty Feldman in ‘Young Frankenstein.’
Dr. Gregory has hooked me up every time, and I can’t say enough about his practice, methods or demeanor.
I was a skeptic at first, mostly b/​c of my parents in the 70s talking down about chiropractic doctors, but it’s not like my general practitioner ever did a single damn thing for my back besides «take advil, rest, call again.» blah blah blah.
This guy gets me back to work, or back to being active with my family.
Give ‘em a shot.