Timothy M. Kobernik is a Doctor of Osteopathy practicing medicine on Anderson Island, WA.
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Timothy M. Kobernik, DO
A long time Washington resident, Dr. Kobernik received a bachelor’s degree in chemistry from Pacific Lutheran University in 1979, then went on to complete Osteopathic medical school at Western University of the Health Sciences in Pomona, California in 1984. He finished a rotating internship in Detroit, Michigan one year later, and then served in the Navy in Japan for 3 years. Following this, he studied Family Medicine in Charleston, South Carolina, and continued his Navy career of 20 years at such locations as Iceland, Italy, Everett (Washington), and Bahrain. After retirement from the Navy in 2005, he served as Family Physician for 10 years at Madigan Army Medical Center in Tacoma, WA, retiring from there in March, 2017, after 30 years of government service.
Several things make Dr. Kobernik’s medical practice unique:
- With lengthy experience in both Family Medicine and Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine, he considers a wide variety of possible causes of patient symptoms when he establishes a diagnosis.
- He then expertly applies a manipulation treatment with his hands. Patients nearly always leave the office feeling better.
- There is no patient too old or too young to be helped by osteopathic manipulative therapy. Dr. Kobernik has successfully treated patients of all ages with a wide variety of problems.
- Many patients helped by Dr. Kobernik had already been treated without benefit by other physicians and practitioners.
- Problems he has personally helped include headaches, migraines, jaw pain (TMJ), chronic neck sprains, torticollis, low back pain, sciatica, back pain from scoliosis, whiplash injuries, coccidynia, facial pain syndrome, and newborns with feeding difficulties.
- Because Osteopathic Medicine is an approach to health that addresses the interrelationship of the body’s organ systems, multiple treatments are usually required.
- Dr. Kobernik recognizes that problems are frequently multifactorial in origin, so he will often recommend lifestyle changes such as diet, specific exercises, or improved stress management so that each patient may receive the most benefit.
Specialty and other recognition:
- Diplomate, American Board of Family Medicine
- Fellow, American Academy of Family Physicians
Professional Affiliations:
- American Academy of Family Physicians
- Uniformed Services Academy of Family Physicians
- American Osteopathic Association
- American Academy of Osteopathy
- Washington Osteopathic Medical Association
