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Dr. Lydia Heather Knutson received her Doctor of Chiropractic degree summa cum laude from the University of Bridgeport College of Chiropractic. After graduating she trained with David Newton, D.C. in Wellesley, Massachusetts. His groundbreaking work is her greatest influence. She continues to expand this remarkably effective chiropractic technique with the work of Paul Dennison, Ph.D., founder and developer of Educational Kinesiology, and a pioneer in applied brain research. She is licensed in the states of Massachusetts and California, is a member of the American Chiropractic Association, the Massachusetts Chiropractic Society, the International College of Applied Kinesiology, the Educational Kinesiology Foundation, and the New England Kinesiology Network. She has attended many postgraduate seminars in Sacro-Occipital Technique, Activator Methods, Nutritional Response Technique, Educational Kinesiology, and the infant reflex work of Dr. Svetalana Masgutova. For nearly two years she participated in a project at the Center for the Study of World Religions at Harvard Divinity School exploring the relationship of women's health and spirituality.
Her personal interest in alternative medical intervention to assist with learning delays and disabilities began very early. Though a bright child, she didn't learn to read until the age of 10. As she struggled in the public educational system of the 1960s, a fortuitous visit to a forward thinking behavioral optometrist saved her life. He recommended eye exercises and a complete cessation of all near work. His hope was that given a rest the eyes would eventually develop binocular vision. This was radical advice, and for a lower-middle class family, the options for implementing it very limited. After flunking out of 3rd grade, her parents gathered the courage to take the very unusual step (in 1969) of taking her out of school entirely. Two years later she began to read and hasn't stopped since.
Dr. Knutson brings to her practice a wide array of skills and interests. In addition to her work as a chiropractor, she is a professional classical singer. She holds a Bachelor of Music from the Longy School of Music/Emerson College and a Masters in Voice from the Royal Conservatory, The Hague, The Netherlands. She is a founding member of the medieval music ensemble Fortune's Wheel, and a member of Boston based Blue Heron Renaissance Choir. She has recorded and toured internationally with many other early music groups, most notably Sequentia Cologne. She has a special interest in treating performers and assisting them with the physical and psychological stresses involved in the high stress, high stakes, high rate of injury, performer's lifestyle.
When she isn't singing or treating patients she enjoys playing with her nieces and nephews, gardening and cooking, and has plans to begin making educational videos. She lives with her husband in Arlington.
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