by DrAra | Oct 5, 2022 | Blog, Company News |
One of the most interesting things I have experienced in my many years of practice as a holistic based chiropractor is the unique phenomenons that go far beyond any aches and pains patients come in with. And the best is when it is being exhibited while the patient is mid-adjustments. If you have been a patient at Sol-Center Chiropractic, you may have noticed some of your own subtle shifts. And you may have gotten a sense of the adjustment influencing aspects beyond the physical aliment that might have found you seeking help. Well every once in a while there is a unique pattern that gets released from the patient and becomes quite infections. I had a patient whom normally talks about the happenings of his life as he gets adjusted. In this particular session it started out in his traditional way of sharing his stores. As various patterns started releasing, he starts shifting his conversation and expressing gratitude towards all the people and things he was grateful for. I looked around the room and noticed the room filling up and being permeated with the state he was beaming. It filled the space like a thick mist. It was quite infectious indeed! I started feeling it all in my body and mind as well. And like him, started feeling grateful for all the people and things in my life (including him). It was a sacred and special moment; ever expansive. All one had to do was come in and tune in. It was that easy to feel. Experiences like these are the reasons I never get tired of what I...
by DrAra | Sep 27, 2022 | Blog, Company News |
The past couple of years has brought on more stress to every individual on the planet than we have seen in decades! While a certain amount of stress is normal, too much of it can overwhelm you, your mind and your body. So how do you handle Stress? If you feel stuck in a fight-or-flight state then likely there is something you need to do in order to return to homeostasis – a stable balance point between you, your mind and your body. Whether it’s the state of the world, heartbreak, or your own healing journey, there are things you can do in order to help yourself through it. The goal is for you to get back to living your life to it’s fullest potential. Here are some helpful tips: Listen to what you are thinking. Remember, thoughts backed up by emotions are powerful things. If you find yourself in a negative internal dialogue, you do have the choice and power to flip the script! You can take a step back and recalibrate yourself with a few deep breathes and rephrase that dialogue to something that can be motivating, inspiring or promising. Follow that by actions and you got yourself a beautiful receipt towards solidifying those beneficial thought patterns. Think of it like you are giving advice to your most dearest friend whom you really want to do and be well in life. That’s the type of caring conversation you would benefit from internally. Make self-care a priority. The body is an organic instrument that you control. Just like a cell phone, it needs to recharge. From this perspective...
by DrAra | Sep 23, 2022 | Company News |
More and more patients are reporting how overwhelmed they are with all the things they have to juggle in life. Seems like more and more piles on, less and less can get handled and there is no end in sight. In some cases, by the end of the day it is a dragging of the body to the bed and collapsing for a few hours only to start all over the next day. Would you believe me if I said getting an adjustment may help change things around? I am not saying there will be less things piling on but what if getting adjusted would help you be in a state where you can face the tasks at hand a little bit better, maybe even a little bit saner? I know what you are thinking. Well, I don’t have the time! I already have too much to do, too much to handle. I can’t afford it now! I am just trying to make it through the day! I can barely get by as it is! I can’t even think of adding one more thing on top of my impossible schedule! Well imagine this: You get an adjustment and release these patterns of Overwhelm – in other words, interrupting the vicious cycles of thoughts and feelings you have found yourself in which has now put you in a state of effect to your environment, your duties, chores or what have you. Imagine those patterns leaving. Now take a look. Would your effectivness in handling your day(s) increase? How much would you get done? How efficient would you be while getting...
by DrAra | Sep 19, 2022 | Blog |
Here is one of my patients in my Queens location who is an amazing athlete and a frequent centrum biker (meaning he would bike 100 miles in a day). Needless to say, he took his physical state and athleticism very seriously and incorporated a healthy diet filled with organic foods and any supplements needed to support his overall well being. He had gotten into a very bad bicycle accident and sold his favorite bike. After the second accident a short time later, he came to me to help him with his left shoulder. He had significant limitations in the range of motion. Also his strength on that left side was seriously reduced to a minimum. I would adjust him twice a week and he would report nice gradual changes in mobility and strength. week by week he reported being able to do more with his arm. Left shoulder was getting stronger and he was able to do incline push ups – something he would not consider a few weeks prior. One day he comes in and slightly down, he states, “You know, I think I am going to sell my bike”. He was on the verge of quitting something he absolutely loved to do due and give into the fear of getting into another bike accident! I told him “You can always sell your bike, but do me one favor. Bring the bike here one time and let me adjust you on it.” He agreed … What you don’t see in this video is his ride to my office. He said he was quite nervous and filled with anxiety during...
by DrAra | Sep 14, 2022 | Company News |
If you were wondering what I do in my office, it is called KST. My dear friend and mentor, Dr Tedd Koren, came up with this method of analyzing and correcting the body out of desperation to get himself out of a dire health situation. He traveled around the nation from practitioner to practitioner seeking relief from the top of various fields and although some did help, no relief sustained. After many years of effort, time and money, he decided to figure it out himself. He started adjusting himself and for the first time in over a decade, he felt lasting relief, He tried it on his wife who was suffering from chronic headaches and within one or two adjustments the headaches were gone. As interest grew and more patients reported remarkable changes in their state, other doctors requested Dr. Koren to teach this system of analysis and correction. This was the birth of Koren Specific Technique (KST). The unique difference with this system is that there is a constant communication between the practitioner and the body as to what needs to be adjusted, in what way and in what order. That being said, the unique slogan often used in KST is, “You are only as good as the questions you ask”. With KST there is a funneling of hundreds of questions that leads the practitioner to the exact point needed to be adjusted in that moment. It deals with unlocking patterns created by the body in a way that is most conducive to it’s healing process. Throughout the years many practitioners started learning the technique and getting fascinating...
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...
