Dr. Michael Graybar
Founder + Chiropractor

Dr. Michael Graybar has officially been a North Carolina resident for twenty years now after traveling coast to coast. He is originally from East Brunswick, New Jersey where he was raised. Dr. Graybar attended St. Joseph’s High School in Metuchen, New Jersey before his studies led him to The University of Scranton in Scranton, Pennsylvania. He graduated in May, 1991 with a B.S. in Biology. While attending the University of Scranton, Dr. Graybar led the Scranton Royals to a #12 National Ranking in Men’s Soccer, Division III his senior year. He lettered three of the four years while at Scranton, with All-Conference and All-Regional Honors his junior and senior year. Traveling from coast to coast, Dr. Graybar began his chiropractic studies at the Los Angeles College of Chiropractic (L.A.C.C.), graduating with Dean’s List Honors in December, 1994. His Chiropractic practice began in Wilmington, North Carolina in 1995 and he maintains an active membership and standing with the North Carolina Chiropractic State Association.

These are Dr. Graybar’s comments on his chiropractic graduate work: “My chiropractic education in Los Angeles was fantastic! It was an amazing experience spending four years of my life in L.A. but I am glad to be back on the East Coast. I always get asked about my education and the truth is the chiropractic curriculum is almost a mirror image to a Medical University during the first two years of schooling. The major difference occurs in the third year when the focus shifts to “chiropractic holistic philosophy and spinal manipulation” instead of pharmaceuticals-drug therapy. This was the favorite part of my entire education. I got to understand the cause and effect of “health and wellness” rather than to numbing or masking the symptoms with medications. L.A.C.C. prepared me to be the “complete doctor” and this is the concept I try to bring into the clinical setting everyday.

And now onto his current personal life: Dr. Graybar and his wife, Tracey, a nurse, have been happily married for 21 years and have 7 wonderful children, Tyler, Sarah, Kenny, Ryan, Madison, Jack and Christian James. Tracey is a California native, born and raised in Orange County. They met on a blind-date during his chiropractic studies and, within 16 months from that first meeting, were married and had moved their lives to North Carolina. Their family maintains an extremely active lifestyle with an emphasis on time spent with sports and the outdoors. The girls enjoy dance and cheerleading while the boys maintain an active soccer and basketball lifestyle. Sorry Carolina fans, this is a DUKE basketball family. Additionally, Dr. Graybar is the head-coach for Wallace-Rose Hill Men’s Varsity Soccer and the Charity Middle School soccer programs. He is also the director of a club travel soccer team, Wallace United. He enjoys coaching and any given weekend, you will see him on the soccer field coaching dozens of players. He also maintains a five handicap on the golf links and enjoys golfing with his sons when soccer is not in season.

Dr. Maryann Luxeder
Chiropractor

Dr. Maryann Luxeder has been the clinic director of the Clinton – Graybar Chiropractic office since 2008. Dr. Luxeder was born and raised in Akron, Ohio, and moved to Clinton, North Carolina from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in the spring of 2007. A career in health care began by being accepted to a Physical Therapy Assisting program after high school. After she began experiencing complications from a car accident the field of chiropractic became relevant to her. Her new career journey had her returned to Kent State University taking night classes while still working 40 hours a week. Dr. Luxeder obtained the required courses needed to become admitted to Palmer College of Chiropractic in Davenport, Iowa.

Her heart always told her that Palmer was the place for her to begin again. Palmer College is where the entire profession of Chiropractic began and so to return to her passions birth place was the only place for her to go. On June 17, 2005, she graduated with her Doctor of Chiropractic degree. While attending Palmer she was on the Presidents List and an ambassador of the president’s office by being a campus guide. She had acquired enough credits to finish her education early however she chose to remain on campus and work in a nearby chiropractic office to gain even more experience taking care of patients. By doing so she was offered the unique opportunity to participate in the Clinic Abroad program. This program provided her with chiropractic care experience of travel and providing care to the wonderful people in the most impoverished areas of India. This ten day trip changed her life by showing her just how important chiropractic is to the health and wellbeing of all those around the world.

Since the first day she opened the doors to the clinic, the people of Clinton have opened their arms making her feel at home. “Clinton and Sampson county has taught me the wonder of an extended family”. “Even though mine is miles away, this wonderful community feels like home”.

Outside of her work in the clinic, Dr. Luxeder also volunteers in her church as well as the community. Her passion to help and coach others is deeply rooted in a belief that if I “Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime.” By teaching the foundation of health and wellbeing to all I can empower others to in turn take care of themselves.

Dr. Mary King
Chiropractor

Dr. Mary King is a chiropractic physician who is proud to serve her community as a family chiropractor. Dr. King has been practicing chiropractic since 2006 and graduated from Logan University. She has two active licenses in the states of North Carolina and Arizona. Dr. King served as an Assistant Professor at Southwest College of Naturopathic Medicine and Health Sciences for over 7 years where she taught first year medical students’ anatomy and neuroanatomy. She served Phoenix, Scottsdale, Paradise Valley and the surrounding communities in Arizona for over 10 years with chiropractic and acupuncture care.

Dr. King uses chiropractic care and acupuncture treatments to improve the health and wellness in all areas of patient’s lives. Whether patients are having problems with back or neck pain, or have a goal to start improving their longevity, organ system function and overall health. Dr. King takes a “whole person” approach in chiropractic care, which means looking for the underlying causes of disease, discomfort, and pain, as opposed to just treating the symptoms. Many seemingly unrelated symptoms often arise from imbalances in the spinal column.

Dr. King will be able to determine and diagnose the root cause of pain and create a personalized care plan to suit each patient’s individual needs. Under the supervision and care of Dr. King patients report higher functioning in all areas of their lives. Dr. King is a member of the NHRMC “Reframe Pain Campaign”, an initiative to end the opioid epidemic in Wilmington, NC and surrounding areas.