Stretch Your Hamstrings the Right Way: The PIR Technique That Can Help Relieve Low Back Pain Tight hamstrings are one of the most overlooked causes of low back pain, reduced mobility, poor posture, and limited flexibility. While most people stretch by simply pulling on the muscle, research and advanced manual therapy techniques suggest there’s […]
Why the Neck, Muscles, Posture, or a Pinched Nerve May Be the Real Cause of Your Pain Shoulder pain is one of the most common reasons people seek chiropractic care, orthopedic evaluations, or physical therapy. But here’s something many people don’t realize: The pain you feel in your shoulder may not actually be coming from […]
A UNIQUE TREATMENT FOR TENNIS ELBOW HOW TO TREAT TENNIS ELBOW PAIN Are you looking for the best treatment of tennis elbow? Check out how Applied Kinesiology (AK), a system of manual muscle testing can highlight the underlying causes of many injuries and syndromes in the body. Rather than just treating the symptoms Dr. Best […]
HEALING SPORTS INJURIES Dr. Best, D.C. has spent many years training as an athlete in college and a member of the Crew (rowing) Team. In certain cases Dr. Best, D.C. will work with clients to recondition atrophied muscles do to injury and facilitate ‘weak’ muscles with AK and cold laser therapy. Dr. Best Chiropractor works with […]
Knee Pain in Sports Injury How do I treat a knee pain? Typically I find knee pain pretty easy to work with because the limited planes that the knee works in. There are also several muscles that have to support the function of the knee. Any dysfunction of these muscles can result in knee pain. […]
Hi, I wanted to talk to you about some exercises for back pain that I give my patients on a regular basis, to improve their spinal flexibility. They are good especially for the lumbar spine and thoracic spine, as well as the cervical spine. There are 2 basic exercises that I have found particularly useful: […]
Short Term Fast Weight Gain in Leaky Gut In reality you can’t lose 2lbs of body fat per day, nor can the average sized person gain 2lbs of fat in one day. So where is that short term weight gain coming from? Unless you consistently are binge eating it’s difficult to gain weight quickly. Yet […]
When testing for any sports injury there are many complex relationships in the muscles surrounding the knee and the hip area in addition we cannot forget and there may be some imbalance through the hips that can create more stress at the knee. Also if we are carrying extra weight – 5 extra pounds of […]
I have recently been asked what the deal is with that “red light” “cool laser” or “cold laser” therapy after it was seen being used on Dancing with the Stars. While that is one show I haven’t worked on I find that cold laser therapy is very effective when I work on television shows for […]