Treatment Goals

My goals with patient treatment are two fold. The first goal is to most efficiently and effectively treat my patient’s back, neck, and other structural joint problems. The second is to restore my patient‘s overall health. You will soon realize that the two goals are directly interrelated.

Chiropractic adjustments are well known to restore function to the spine, the musculoskeletal system and the nervous system. With the Applied Kinesiology techniques we are able to go a step further by finding and fixing the underlying causes of the structural misalignments of the body. Many factors are examined to find what is causing muscle weakness and imbalance in the body that underlies mechanical misalignment of the joints.

Chiropractors utilizing Applied Kinesiology techniques are seeing that a missing link with long term correction of back, neck and other joint problems are muscle weakness and imbalance. Muscles move bones and stabilize joints. Muscles are the be-all and end-all of joint stability. When we normalize muscle strength and function through specialized Applied Kinesiology soft tissue techniques, we are able to make the most effective and efficient improvements with our patient’s musculoskeletal symptoms.

The field of Applied Kinesiology has taught us many things. There is a very well known and understood relationship between muscles and organs where the loss of health and function of organs can be seen and demonstrated through related muscle weakness. The health of the internal organs is literally a mirror image to the strength of the muscles on the outside of the body. Every organ has a muscle that best relates to it. If the organ has lost its perfect health and function, its related muscle loses its ability to ‘lock up’ with muscle testing. We are using the knowledge of this muscle-organ correlation to not only find organ weakness, but we are also able to find what nutritional formulations will return those organs to full health and function.

This model of health care identifies specific nutritional substances an individual body needs to fully improve organ function even decades before disease has time to develop. In this way, we are able to improve simple loss of organ function, and also make the most improvements when dysfunction has been clinically diagnosed as “disease”. We truly need to get people healthy and strong “from the inside-out” like Eastern Medicine had known for over 2000 years. When we restore the highest levels of health and function to all the organ systems in the body, we optimize health, vitality and years of disease free living.

My extensive training in Applied Kinesiology, Clinical Nutrition and Functional Medicine gives me a tremendous amount of insight into body function. Current Research is bringing together new knowledge from the leading medical laboratories and universities in the world. This research is unraveling how the body works together in a web-like interaction of function through health and disease. There is a new model of health care that has been named Functional Medicine. It has also been termed right molecules medicine. In this model, it is necessary to supply the right molecules of the right substances for the right condition at the right time; meeting exactly the specific needs of the body as the body returns towards optimal function and health.

This research is showing that certain specific vitamins, minerals and herbal formulas can revitalize organ function and bring back true health. The Applied Kinesiology techniques are an exceptionally effective tool to “see” the same relationships. New laboratory tests have also been developed to access the body’s functions. These lab tests stress function, not disease, and can add tremendous clarity to our other testing procedures. As our patients progress through treatment, they see significant changes with their symptoms that show improved health.

There are two primary things that rob us of our health; that which we need that is not there, and that which is there that is harmful to us. Government studies have shown that 98% of Americans do not get the proper nutrition necessary to prevent disease. Our soils are depleted of the nutrients they had 100 years ago and we do not eat properly. We are challenged with a horrendous amount of toxic chemicals we ingest daily in the foods we eat, the water we drink and the air we breathe.

Think about this:

v We do not get the proper nutrition necessary in our diets to sustain our health.

v We consume a horrible amount of toxins from chemical pesticides, herbicides, and other toxic chemicals from the foods we eat, the water we drink, and the air we breathe. (Many of our personal health care products are even toxic to us. )

v We are also affected by food allergies and endotoxins produced within our bodies from bacterial, yeast, or parasitic overgrowths in the gut.

Is it then any wonder why we have so many health concerns?

Food and environmental allergies have been implicated in a wide array of medical conditions affecting virtually every part of the body, from mildly uncomfortable symptoms such as ear infections, indigestion and gastritis, to severe illnesses such as migraine headaches, celiac disease, arthritis, chronic infection, depression, anxiety, and chronic fatigue.

Studies are showing that food allergies to dairy, nuts, barley and wheat products (gluten), corn and others can significantly negatively affect our health. Dairy seems to be the most commonly involved allergy with up to 30% of the entire population effected. If a person has a food allergy, it can significantly affect many body functions, and it is therefore crucial to recognize and then eliminate those foods. We can still treat the body without limiting the exposure to food allergies, but the response is much less desirable, or complete.

Chiropractors have been using Applied Kinesiology for over 40 years. During that time, thousands of AK docs have contributed to the continuing body of empirical knowledge of how the whole human body works together in a web-like interaction through health and disease. Cutting edge research from the leading medical labs and universities of the world are supporting this knowledge, are showing how and why these things work, and are developing additional nutritional formulas to improve our health.

The World Health organization determined over 10 years ago that the medical model of health care has overall failed to improve people’s health. We are spending more on medical care than ever, and still, people are sicker than they have ever been. Pharmaceutical drugs do not, generally speaking, improve someone’s health. There is a change in organ function as long as you continue the drug. Most drugs do give us sometimes life-saving changes to organ function, but they also usually cost us health and function of other organ systems, that subsequently also need to be medicated. And, what about the harmful side effects of these drugs?

We are on the bubble of seeing a major paradigm shift in the way health care is given. It will take time for this model to be adequately tested before it will be included in insurance benefit coverage. In the meantime, everyone needs to know that they are ultimately responsible for the level of their health. This means that we should become as knowledgeable as possible in how the body actually functions, and provide it with what it needs for optimal function, and to limit our exposure to toxic substances, and foods that are harmful to us.

Health and loss of health is a continuum. When organ systems are stressed, they first lose their energy reserve. Then they lose the ability to optimally function, and are no longer working up to the needs of the body. Laboratory tests can measure these levels of function and health. When the organ systems lose a certain amount of function, they can be classified as being in a “DISEASE STATE”.

Drugs change organ function but generally do not improve health. Natural protocols of vitamins, minerals, herbal formulas and glandular remedies have shown thru cutting edge research to literally improve health and function. Organ systems often need therapeutic levels of specific nutrients to restore function. When we do provide to the body the nutrients it needs, we can actually improve health. When we improve health, we can reduce health care costs.

My highest goal for my patients is accomplished by addressing the body’s health as a whole. Having ultimate health will literally give you the highest assurance of increased years of vitality and disease free living to your life. The model of health through primary Chiropractic health care along with the tool of Applied Kinesiology to aid in the diagnostic process and the understanding of Functional Medicine we are currently utilizing is boldly achieving that high ideal.