Areas of Expertise
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Lower Back or Neck Pain

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Jaw Problems (TMJ)

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Headaches & Migraines

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Pinched Nerves & Sciatica

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Muscle Aches & Spasms

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Shoulder, Arm & Leg Pain

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Knee Pain & Injuries

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​Plantar Fascitis & Ankle Sprains

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Tingling and Numbness
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Pregnancy-Related Back Pain

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Preventative Health & Wellness Lifestyles
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Functional Medicine
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Evaluation of Blood Chemistry
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Nutritional Evaluation and Recommendations
Chiropractic
What Is Chiropractic?
Chiropractic is the Science, Philosophy, and Art of healing that deals with the body in a natural way without using drugs or surgery. It is a method of restoring the bony segments (vertebrae) of the spine to their correct position to reduce or eliminate nerve irritation caused by misaligned spinal bones.
Your spine – made up of 24 bony segments – is the main support of your body. A healthy spine keeps the body erect and protects one of your body’s most vital parts: your spinal cord. Billions of nerves leave the spinal cord through small openings between the vertebrae. These nerves carry electrical nerve impulses to part of your body.
The nervous system controls the functions of every tissue, organ, and system in the body.
Chiropractic concerns itself with the relationship between the human body's structure (primarily the spine) and function (primarily coordinated by the nervous system) and how that relationship affects the restoration and preservation of health.
When a spinal bone interfering with the nervous system (a vertebral subluxation) compromises that relationship, your Chiropractor will apply a spinal adjustment (a specific, precise, corrective force to the offending spinal segment). This correction permits normal nerve transmission, enabling the body's innate recuperative power to begin the healing process.
Day-by-day physical, mental, and chemical stresses may lead to spinal misalignments. Therefore, periodic chiropractic checkups are as important to your health as regular medical and dental checkups. How often you have chiropractic checkups depends on your lifestyle. Check with your doctor of chiropractic for a sensible program tailored to your individual needs.
Craniopathy
Definition: A method whose purported goal is to remove impediments to a patient's "energy." It involves manually aligning skull bones.
Dr. William Garner Sutherland, a student and the founder of osteopathy, developed cranial osteopathy in the early 1900s.
Cranial work performed by experienced doctors can help with a number of musculoskeletal conditions, such as TMJ disorders, neck pain, back pain, and headaches.
Let me explain the mechanisms: The spinal cord is covered by a touch layer of tissue called the ‘Dura Mater’, or ‘Tough Mother’ in Latin. The Dura starts at the sacrum and connects with every nerve root in the entire spine. It continues all the way up to the skull, surrounds the brain, and exits through the sutures, which are the joints where your cranial bones attach to one another.
When we experience stress, whether physical, emotional, or chemical, our body naturally torsion or twists in response to our fight-or-flight response. This is a normal function of our sympathetic nervous system.
We are stronger and faster in this position of torsion. Picture the stance of a sprinter or a boxer; they don’t stand square but twisted because this is a temporary position of power and speed.
Normally we can go into and out of this torsion without issue. But in periods of prolonged or intense stress, our bodies have trouble getting our of this position of stress state, and that’s when problems start.
Muscles pull asymmetrically, joints get restricted, and pain and symptoms start to present.
How Craniopathy Can Help:
If you can picture a belt that is getting twisted from both ends, you can imagine that there is a twist that runs the entire length of the belt. In normal chiropractic therapy, the goal is to try to untwist the spine by taking the torsion out of the spine in the middle. But just like the twist that runs the entire length of the belt, taking the twist out only in the middle without untwisting the ends will only result in the twist quickly returning in the middle.
This is why most forms of chiropractic, while powerful tools, require frequent treatment sessions to maintain the results: the spine will quickly rebound back into torsion.
With the addition of cranial work, we can untwist the dura at both ends, balancing the cranium at one end and the sacrum and pelvis at the other, alleviating many musculoskeletal conditions in the process.
We untwist the dura by contacting points on the sutures or points on the skull that correspond to different spine areas.
The main focus is stabilizing the pelvis, which is the body's foundation, and balancing the cranial bones.
This will take the twist out of the spine so your nervous system can function optimally.
Functional Medicine
What is Functional Medicine?
Functional medicine addresses the underlying causes of disease, using a systems-oriented approach and engaging both patient and practitioner in a therapeutic partnership. It is an evolution in the practice of medicine that better addresses the healthcare needs of the 21st century. By shifting the traditional disease-centered focus of medical practice to a more patient-centered approach, functional medicine addresses the whole person, not just an isolated set of symptoms. Functional medicine practitioners spend time with their patients, listening to their histories and examining the interactions among genetic, environmental, and lifestyle factors that can influence long-term health and complex chronic diseases. In this way, functional medicine supports each individual's unique expression of health and vitality.
Do you have a Headache because you have an Aspirin deficiency?
NO!
Holistic Healthcare looks for the Cause. We don't just treat Symptoms.
Our society is experiencing a sharp increase in the number of people who suffer from complex, chronic diseases such as diabetes, heart disease, cancer, mental illness, and autoimmune disorders like rheumatoid arthritis.
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Most physicians practice a system of medicine oriented toward acute care, the diagnosis and treatment of short-duration trauma or illness that requires urgent care, such as appendicitis or a broken leg. Physicians apply specific, prescribed treatments, such as drugs or surgery, that aim to treat the immediate problem or symptom.
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Unfortunately, the acute-care approach to medicine lacks the proper methodology and tools for preventing and treating complex, chronic diseases. In most cases, it does not consider the unique genetic makeup of each individual or factors such as environmental exposures to toxins and the aspects of today’s lifestyle that directly influence the rise in chronic disease in modern Western society.
There’s a huge gap between research and the way doctors practice. The gap between emerging research in basic sciences and integration into medical practice is enormous—as long as 50 years—particularly in the area of complex, chronic illness.
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Most physicians are not adequately trained to assess the underlying causes of complex, chronic diseases and to apply strategies such as nutrition, diet, and exercise to both treat and prevent these illnesses in their patients.
How is Functional Medicine Different?
Functional medicine involves understanding the origins, prevention, and treatment of complex, chronic diseases. Hallmarks of a functional medicine approach include:
Patient-centered care. Functional medicine focuses on patient-centered care, promoting health as a positive vitality beyond just the absence of disease. By listening to the patient and learning his or her story, the practitioner brings the patient into the discovery process and tailors treatments that address the individual’s unique needs.
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An integrative, science-based healthcare approach. Functional medicine practitioners look “upstream” to consider the complex web of interactions in the patient’s history, physiology, and lifestyle that can lead to illness. The unique genetic makeup of each patient is considered, along with both internal (mind, body, and spirit) and external (physical and social environment) factors that affect total functioning.
Integrating best medical practices. Functional medicine integrates traditional Western medical practices with what is sometimes considered “alternative” or “integrative” medicine, creating a focus on prevention through nutrition, diet, and exercise; use of the latest laboratory testing and other diagnostic techniques; and prescribed combinations of drugs and/or botanical medicines, supplements, therapeutic diets, detoxification programs, or stress-management techniques.