Lev Kalika

Dr. Lev Kalika has been working to revolutionize physical medicine, rehabilitation, sports medicine and athletic performance since 1998. Sports medicine and injury rehabilitation became a calling when playing sports in his teenage years. While qualifying to play for a professional soccer team in his hometown of Odessa, Dr.Kalika sustained a devastating injury to his ankle which ended his soccer career. He then moved on to bodybuilding, a passion of his brother who opened the first bodybuilding gym in Odessa, Ukraine.

Pain from the ankle injury persisted later in the US while Dr. Kalika was in medical school. When he was unable to get help from the medical community to resolve his ankle pain, he decided to switch career paths, from allopathic medicine to chiropractic. Dr. Kalika’s experience with his ankle injury became a key driver for his dedication to improving patient care.

Dr. Kalika graduated from chiropractic school, but at the time the discipline had a limited mindset, and Kalika intuitively knew that there was more to alternative medicine than what chiropractic had to offer. He consulted his uncle, a famous Soviet neurologist, who introduced him to the work of Lewit and Janda, and secured him a preceptorship at the Motol hospital with Dr. Karl Lewit.