ProActive Chiropractic is a sports chiropractic practice in downtown San Francisco. If you work in downtown San Francisco — at a desk in Salesforce Tower, running the Embarcadero at lunch, or commuting in from the East Bay or Peninsula — this is your neighborhood practice. We're one block from Embarcadero BART. We offer same-week appointments. And the diagnostic standard is the one Dr. Cohen built working with Olympic athletes.
Where we are
22 Battery St., Suite 600. The building is one block west of the Embarcadero, two blocks south of the Transamerica Pyramid, and a five-minute walk from the Ferry Building. Embarcadero BART is one block away. Every MUNI Metro line — J, K, L, M, N, and T — passes through Embarcadero Station, and the F-Market streetcar runs along the Embarcadero waterfront. Street parking exists on Battery and nearby streets, but most of our downtown San Francisco patients walk, BART, or MUNI.
The building has a lobby attendant on the ground floor. Take the elevator to the 6th floor. We're easy to find and straightforward to get to — which matters when you're trying to fit an appointment into a downtown San Francisco workday.
One block. Exit on the north side of Market Street at Front Street. Cross Front Street toward Mechanics Plaza — the small park near Philz Coffee, Boichik Bagels, and Flywheel Coffee — then continue up to Battery St. Lyft bikes are docked in the plaza directly below our windows. All MUNI Metro lines (J, K, L, M, N, T) and the F-Market streetcar serve Embarcadero Station, as does BART from the East Bay and Peninsula.
Five-minute walk along the Embarcadero. If you're an Embarcadero runner, you're already warm by the time you arrive.
Eight-minute walk south on Battery St. The tallest building in the city is also one of the closest to us.
Four-minute walk up California St. One of the most densely occupied office towers in downtown San Francisco — Bank of America, Goldman Sachs, and a concentration of finance, legal, and professional services firms that make up the core of the Financial District workforce we see regularly.
Three-minute walk. Four interconnected towers housing some of the most prominent law firms, venture capital, and private equity offices in downtown San Francisco. If your office is in Embarcadero Center, Battery St. is closer than it looks on a map.
Two blocks north. One of the neighborhood's best-known landmarks — and a useful orientation point if you're navigating to us for the first time.
Who comes here
The Financial District — the FiDi, as anyone who works here calls it — runs on people who sit at desks for long hours, train hard when they're not working, and don't have time to manage a recurring injury that nobody has been able to explain. That's most of our patient base.
We see people from Salesforce, Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, Visa, LinkedIn, Gap Inc., Levi Strauss, and the law and venture capital firms throughout Embarcadero Center and 555 California. We see Embarcadero runners logging miles before the commute home. We see East Bay BART commuters from Oakland, Berkeley, and Walnut Creek who make the trip in specifically to see Dr. Cohen. We see AI and tech workers commuting up from the Peninsula — Millbrae, Palo Alto, Redwood City — on the BART line. We see cyclists who ride in from the Marin headlands and can't figure out why their hip flexors won't release.
What they have in common: they've usually tried something else first, it didn't hold, and they want someone who will actually figure out what's driving it — not just manage the symptom until it flares again.
The diagnostic standard
Dr. Andrew Cohen, DC, CCSP® is a Certified Chiropractic Sports Physician with 20+ years of clinical experience. His diagnostic framework was built at three U.S. Olympic Training Centers, at the U.S. Olympic Team Trials in track and field, and at endurance events including Western States 100. That framework — the Body Intelligence Assessment™ — is what every patient gets, whether they're a Salesforce engineer with a recurring shoulder problem or a marathoner trying to get through training without their knee flaring again.
Most musculoskeletal problems that don't resolve have a pattern driving them that hasn't been identified. The site of pain is rarely the source of the problem. That's the whole job: find the mechanism, not just the location.
You will leave your first visit feeling seen, heard, and hopeful. Not a sales line — we back it. If that isn't your experience, we'll refund your first visit in full.