A team who chose this path
with intention.

Dr. Silver grew up in southern California in the orbit of his mother’s physical therapy practice. That exposure planted a curiosity about the body that followed him through a Bachelor of Science in Kinesiology at Sonoma State University, a massage therapy certification from the National Holistic Institute, and chiropractic school at Life Chiropractic College West, where he graduated as a prominent academic and campus leader.

After school he pursued his DACNB, the Diplomate of the American Chiropractic Neurology Board, through the Carrick Institute of Graduate Studies. His interest in upper cervical work led him to spend five years at the Pierce Clinic of Chiropractic in St. Petersburg, training directly under Dr. Pierce Sr., the founder of the Advanced Orthogonal Technique. He joined the board of the Advanced Orthogonal Institute and served as a technique instructor there. During that period he built several devices for the correction process including a laser positioning system and a more comfortable headpiece.

He then trained at Imagine X Functional Neurology in Santa Barbara alongside Dr. Adam Harcourt, treating patients with migraine, concussion, dizziness, neuropathy, and chronic pain. He developed neurological rehabilitation techniques for the head and neck during that time, and built CBCT analysis procedures and software for the upper cervical spine that practitioners in the field now use in clinical practice.

He returned to St. Petersburg in 2022 and developed software and 3D-printed instruments for the Advanced Orthogonal upper cervical technique, integrating structural correction with neurological rehabilitation. He launched Neuroplasticity St. Pete in 2024 as the clinical and teaching home for that work, and continues to teach, research, and develop it.

Joanne completed massage school and went on to study Human Development at Eckerd College, which gave her an academic foundation in how the body and nervous system develop across a lifetime. She has been in clinical practice for over twenty-five years, and during that time has trained in Craniosacral Therapy, Myofascial Release, Visceral Manipulation, Viscero-Emotional Release, Neural Manipulation, and Somato-Emotional Release.

She works with a wide range of people and conditions. Her sessions are characteristically unhurried, and patients describe feeling fully heard. She works from what the body is communicating in each session rather than from a fixed protocol, which takes both deep clinical knowledge and the particular quality of attention developed over decades of practice.

Her belief is a simple one. Everyone deserves to feel well, and well means a lot more than the absence of symptoms. She brings that into every session.