Restoring Balance
Spine By Design - Rockland Maine
A mechanical engineer’s approach to structural healthcare and healing.
Our Practice
Spine By Design Chiropractic is the office of Dr. Thomas White. We are a structural healthcare practice dedicated to the restoration, correction, and healing of challenging spinal injuries. The work in this office is based on the principals of Dr. Clarence Gonstead.
Our goal is to find your problem, provide an accurate and complete assessment, and develop a plan to get you back to doing the things you love most.
What is the goal here?
Our objective is straight forward – get you back to work. We see work in this practice not only as a ‘job’ or ‘task’ to be accomplished, but the ability to use your brain, heart, and structure to accomplish whatever life goals are currently on your list.
Our hard working patients have always been heavily engaged in using their bodies for fishing, construction, agricultural, and trade work. We take care of all ages…any health status.
Children, students, athletes, retirees, manual workers and desk job professionals who are on their computer all day can be found in this practice.
Each of our patients shares the same goal: They want to get back to their life’s work. Our work, as your structural healthcare provider, is to help make this happen so that spinal injuries, both old and new, are not holding you back.
How do we do this?
We perform a detailed history, a comprehensive physical exam, take digital xrays, and determine a course of action. Once we get to this point, it is time for your adjustment.
The spinal adjustment in this office is designed to reduce the misalignment, correct the loss of motion, restore the integrity to the injured joint, and allow the body to heal.
End result? Our patients get back to work doing the things they love and need to do through the course of their lives.
Why choose our practice?
By choosing our practice you are making an investment in yourself.
Our promise to you is that we will use all of our clinical experience, diagnostic tools, and specific adjusting techniques to restore your structural health and well being as quickly as we can.
This is a team effort, but in the end, you seek outside help because you are experiencing an issue that you cannot resolve on your own. By working together, we can frequently address in a handful of appointments issues that our patients have been dealing with for years.
- December 16, 2025I have decades of dealing with skeletal issues, and a very serious traumatic spinal injury from a piece of falling equipment landing on me 5 years ago. If not for the dedication and support of Dr White I would undoubtably be disabled. He is much more than a chiropractor. He has provided me with encouragement when I felt like I’d never recover and he has helped me learn to deal with my limitations. It has been said that every good man has a good woman behind him, and I can attest that his wife Anne, although no longer part of the day to day business, is there to support him when he needs it. It was a divinely inspired occurrence the day I walked into his office 11 years ago. If Dr White had been there when Humpty Dumpty fell off the wall I’m confident he could have put Humpty Dumpty back together again.
- October 22, 2025If you’re serious about change and your health, Dr. White is your best choice. Comprehensive, professional, and pleasant. The Gonstead Method of chiropractic is second to none. You will feel the difference. I am very appreciative of the level of care I have received from the start.
- September 29, 2025Dr White is just plain fabulous! I have been to many chiropractors in my life time.. But his professional approach and results are simply amazing!! I am so relieved with pain now that I go there! His office is very clean, and he doesn't overbook so, no waiting..
- July 30, 2025Had a fantastic comprehensive visit. Seth at th front desk is very friendly! I received paperwork by email immediately to submit to my insurance. I left with a lot more information than I imagine I’d have. The X-rays were incredible too. 10/10 recommend.
- December 27, 2024For me Dr White was simply a miracle. I could not get in and out of bed without assistance, and even then would often end up screaming in absolute agony from lower back "pain". Simply getting dressed was "dangerous" where again a blast of pain could be released. Having been to chiropractors before for far less serious situations without real results I was skeptical. But desperate. On Christmas Eve Dr White listened to my voicemail and squeezed me in instead of leaving early as he had planned. With absolute confidence in one session he reduced the debilitating pain by at least 95%. I'm a PhD level physicist. What he did seems "impossible." Almost confusing. "How can that be?" But he did it. I'll be back for follow-up.
- December 23, 2024SBD - Dr. White is the absolute best chiro I've ever been to. 💯!
- July 2, 2024SIMPLY THE BEST! Dr. White is extraordinary and the gem of the midcoast area. His holistic approach to health has served me in unexpected ways. I had a chronic issue with my stomach that I happened to comment upon when I came in for an adjustment. I’d had an emergency appendectomy and the antibiotics severely disrupted my stomach flora and caused severe bloating even when consuming small portions of food. He recommended probiotics to reestablish a healthy “garden” and I could eat again!
- August 16, 2023Hands down the best chiropractor I have ever visited. Dr. White is efficient and compassionate. He was able to get me into his office for treatment fast and he got my body ready for a long flight. There days later I am feeling better and able to make my trip!
- August 16, 2023Hands down the best chiropractor I have ever visited. Dr. White is efficient and compassionate. He was able to get me into his office for treatment fast and he got my body ready for a long flight. There days later I am feeling better and able to make my trip!
Ready to Get Started?
We are here to help. No matter what you bring us in terms of your health and well being, we will do everything we can to get you back on track.
Schedule an appointment today and experience the difference that chiropractic care can make in your life.
