New York Magazine November 2002
Meet New York’s Super Chiropractors
“Patients want to be ore proactive,” says chiropractor Steven Margolin, founder of the lower fifth avenue “wellness center” that bears his name and treats the aches and pains of, among others, actresses Kristen Johnson ("Third Rock from the Sun") and Cynthia Nixon ("Sex and the City") with massage, acupuncture and nutritional counseling along with chiropractic. "They want to know what they can do to decrease their symptoms and help reduce the changes of their returning. They've gone through the usual medical route, and they're either tired of being on medication or haven't got the results they wanted."
Cilda Shaur, former dancer, came to Margolin after the second of two auto accidents put her on her back for eight weeks with severe whiplash and nerve damage down her right arm. “I had seen chiropractors before, some good, some bad, but I just didn’t want to go through all that sifting again. I finally went and could have kicked myself: Why did I wait so long? The way he put’s his hands on your back, he’s just one of those guys who’s a healer.”
Pain, as Cilda learned, tends to make you more open minded. “I was just 23 when I was first injured and I thought I would never dance again because I was so messed up. The idea of someone cracking my back—that was not the thing to do. But I wanted my life back. And then I went and I was fine within a month. Now, I’m moving to Boston and all I can think is Oh, God, I’ve got to find another chiropractor.”