by DrAra | Feb 22, 2022 | Blog, Chiropractic, Company News, Health & Wellness |
When talking about functional performance, it can have multiple outlooks. 1. Physical performance 2. Mental/ emotional performance 3. Internal body performance As the common perception of chiropractic revolves around getting out of pain, the first two aspects of functional performance can be overlooked by the grand majority of people. That’s the area I want to focus on in this blog. Sometimes it’s not so much about pushing harder to break through boundaries and limitations, sometimes it might be a factors that you may not even think that can come into play that will determine the overall victories of your pursuit. It is so challenging because we are talking about factors that you may have not even known that you didn’t know. So consideration was never in the realm of possibilities. Driven individuals do not want to limit their mindset of what can be achieved. As much as this is a fantastic trait to break through barriers and enter into uncharted territories, at times it could lead to problems. Problems like overexerting, overextending or taking on more than you can chew will lead to a downward spiral in health and wellness which can easily wind up in mistakes being made .. whether it is in the job, at the gym, with the family, with friends or so on. Working with very diverse people – from executives to entrepreneurs, from competitive athletes to the guy trying to get back in shape, from mothers to business owners – I see how transformative the chiropractic adjustment can be in their pursuit. I had a business owner who came in for a regular chiropractic check...
by DrAra | Dec 17, 2019 | Company News |
Have you ever wondered what makes an amazing chiropractor different from a good chiropractor? It’s asking the right questions to get the right information from the body to make an accurate correction or adjustment so it can function better as well as become more synchronized within its interplay. Blended with intuition, the better the chiropractor can read the body, the better he can assist it to heal. Certain components become key elements on the results such as: knowing what to adjust, when to adjust, how to adjust (not all body’s welcome the adjustment the same way, some methods work better on some while others work better on others) when not to adjust where to adjust and what order to adjust in. And when there is a system that allows the chiropractor to have those components all implemented, then you get results that are miraculous. It’s really all about communication. Is it a complete cycle of giving and receiving information or is it similar to being talked at or enforced? The subtleties of this makes all the difference. So how is this done? Well we are talking about a method where the chiropractor can communicate with the body in such a way that the body provides different signals based on the information introduced. This process is called a Binary Bio-feedback Loop. Binary meaning working in pairs of opposites (like yes/no, on/off, plus/minus, or in computers – zeros/ones). Bio-feedback is the process of the body giving back information after information was initially presented to it and the loop is what occurs when the cycle of communication of sending information to the...
by DrAra | Nov 18, 2019 | Blog, Chiropractic, Company News, Health & Wellness |
How many times have you heard about that “healthy man” who went for a check up because he was having some unusual pain? Doctors’ examination lead to the clean bill of health (everything fine), only for him to peel over dead within a short time thereafter. So why am I using this example? Well, let me ask you this … is pain a good indicator to determine if you are healthy or not? Lets explore this a little bit. Let’s look at the anatomy of the nerve. Nerves are composed of two branches that have very specific purposes. Now depending on how your body is distorted, twisted, deviated or contorted will determine how the nerves are affected. Also depending on the intensity of the distortions, the problem could be dealing with one, two or all three branches of the nerve. The Two branches include: Motor Branch Sensory Branch A combination of these branches are used by the Autonomic Nervous System which I will briefly describe below. The Motor Branch (Nerves) carry signals from the brain (and spinal cord) into the muscles, glands and skin of your body The Sensory Branch (Nerves) carries signals from the body’s internal and external environment into the Central Nervous System (CNS) to interpret and process for necessary responses to keep the body as healthy and vibrant as possible based on the conditions it’s presented. The Autonomic Nervous System Control and Regulate all the internal organs without you having to think about it. It consists of both sensory and motor nerves sending and receiving information to and from the body and the environment. It further compartmentalizes...
by DrAra | Oct 16, 2019 | Blog, Health & Wellness |
People all over the world struggle with back pains, hip pain, knee pain and so on. They go through all lengths to find solutions. Going from one therapist to the next provides some benefits but the symptoms keep coming back. Well sometimes there is a constant irritant that might be the culprit and often times overlooked. It might be right under your feet! Believe it or not, a lot of times the shoes you wear may be a strong contributing factor to aches and pains that build up during a long duration in your body. Your entire body can be compromised by the type of shoe you wear! As a matter of fact, your entire posture and breathing capacity can be altered by the shoes you wear. Therefore knowing how to test your shoe so you know what it’s doing to your body becomes an important tool in determining how fast your body will reach optimum levels of health. Imagine by simply making small adjustments to the inside of your shoe, you would feel a sense of: breathing easier and fuller. Being more upright having a better posture, moving easier and swifter having more endurance Is Orthotics The Solution? Actually not, but why? Orthotics, as far as I have seen, causes the feet to be fixed in a very specific way while walking and prevents the dynamic nature of the foot to move about and use all the muscles and joints to their fullest capability. And if worn for a period longer than the body needs, they can actually be detrimental. That’s because the body is very dynamic and always...
by DrAra | May 1, 2015 | Chiropractic, Health & Wellness |
What Is Chiropractic Chiropractic is a trinity comprised of a philosophy, science and art based on the principles of tone. ” Tone: is the standard from which we note the variations of structure, temperature, tonicity, elasticity, renitency (resistance), and tension; it is the standard of health; any deviation therefrom is disease. Tone is the BASIC PRINCIPLE, the one from which all other principles, which compose the science, have sprung.” — pg. 8, The Chiropractor, 1914 ” Tone is the tension and firmness, the renitency (resistance) and elasticity of tissue in a state of health, normal existence; The mental and physical condition known as disease is a disordered state because of an unusual amount of tension above or below that of tone; … normal and abnormal amount of strain or laxity are due to the position of the osseous (skeletal) framework, the neuroskeleton, which not only serves as a protector to the neural system, but, also, as a regulator of tension. The present and future make-up of individualized spirits depend upon the cumulative mental function which, like all functions, is modified by the structural condition of the impulsive, transmitting, neural system” – pg. 10, The Chiropractor, 1914 So what does all that mean? That there is an infinite wisdom in your body that knows exactly what it is doing and expresses itself perfectly. This wisdom provides the body with a perfect tone that gives way to optimal function. Many times through physical, emotional, mental or chemical stress this tone is interrupted or distorted. The purpose of chiropractic is to free the body from these interference’s/distortions such that the tonicity can...
