Basketball Shooting Star
Basketball Shooting Star
I was the team chiropractor for the Trenton, New Jersey Shooting Stars basketball team from 1999-2000. The Shooting Stars team was a professional minor league basketball team. Just because they were playing in Trenton didn’t mean they were not good basketball players. Most of the players on the team were college all-stars looking for a break to make it to the NBA or past NBA players trying to make it back to the NBA.
At the beginning of one of their practices, I met with the team and the coaches to explain what chiropractic was about and how it could help them increase their athletic potential. I told the players that the difference between them and the NBA players was so little that anything that could help with their basketball playing could quite possibly put them on a NBA team. Instead of making $20,000 a year in Trenton they could be making the league minimum in the NBA of (more…)
Which is the most important profession to your health?
Which is the most important profession to your health?
The majority of people would say that your medical doctor is the most important person to keeping us healthy. That would be wrong. Here is some history behind what happened when medical doctors went on strike in different areas of the world. In Israel in 1973, the doctors went (more…)
Healthcare Supermarket
There are many times when people will want my opinion on their personal healthcare issues. Just about all of the times it is concerning a certain drug or having some sort of surgery procedure. I always have to remind them that drugs and surgery are out (more…)
The Pendulum of Health
We can learn about health through Newton’s third law of motion that states: For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. When you exert a certain force on a pendulum it will swing the exact (more…)
The Hidden Truth of the Common Cold
The Hidden Truth of the Common Cold
Everybody has had a cold before. Do you know what is really happening in your body when you have a cold? The cold is actually caused by different viruses grouped together called the rhino viruses. The reason why it is called a cold (more…)
The Most Important Bone in The Body?
You are born with 206 bones in your body give or take a few because of anomalies. There are so many bones to choose from that are important to the human body functioning properly, but this bone when misaligned or out of place can affect almost every bone in the body. Unless you are a healthcare practitioner you probably haven’t even heard of it before.
The bone that I am referring to is the (more…)
Mechanistic View Of Life vs. Vitalistic View Of Life
| MECHANISTIC VIEW OF LIFE
1-Based on 300 years old scientific principles that emerged out of the physic of Newton & the scientific method of Descartes. Reductionist.
2-View the universe as a giant clock
3-view the body as a machine 4-Whole=sum of parts 5-Study all the parts=understanding of the whole *Specialist 6-Water=H20 7-Closed system *separateness *predictable.Dx; therapist; prognosis
1-Deals w/crisis care through the treatment of effects by suppressing symptoms, sickness & disease
2-Doctor is authoritarian, patriarchal, intervenes on submissive patient who is dependent
3-Disease seen as an entity & event. Symptoms, sickness & disease is wholly; judged as abnormal=>at war w/body & environment
4-Believe in the germ theory of disease 5-Based on inductive reasoning 1-State of health, consciousness & belief of doctor is inconsequential to patient.
2-Fear in every interaction
3- Normalization
4- Technology, science, art & philosophy
5-Sterile, cold, impersonal, uniform & ritual, expensive |
VITALISTIC VIEW OF LIFE
1-Based on contemporary scientific principle that emerged out of quantum physic. The science of Chaos, Change & Complexity. Wholeistic. 2-View the universe as a living system
3-body as bioenergetic information whirlpool 4-Whole>sum of parts 5-Study the whole=>respect for unknown O/o
*Wholistic practitioner 6-Water= H20+Energy 7-Open system *interconnectiveness *Unpredictable
1-Deals w/wellness care, address primary cause (life force/innate). Expression of symptoms essential for restoration of integrity 2-Doctor is teacher educator, partner, facilitates healing in participant of the tango of healing
3-Disease seen as a process, a manifestation of underlying disharmony. Message to change, challenge to body, adaptation=>at peace with body & environment 4-Believe in the breakdown theory
5-Based on deductive reasoning 1-State of health, consciousness & belief of doctor is paramount for person’s transformation
2-Trust in every interaction
3-Individualaization
4- Philosophy, science, art, technology
5-Alive, warm, personal, casual, practical, inexpensive
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Size Does Matter
Size Does Matter
Did you ever wonder why there are ideal height to weight averages for men and women? The amount of weight you should be carrying around also depends on your skeletal structure or frame size. Our bodies are only meant to carry around so much weight on it. Why is that? Is it because the government wants us to stop eating so much food, so that everybody in this country has enough to eat? Is it because everybody should look the same? No, to the above questions, it’s because our frames are only supposed to carry so much weight or we will start having chronic health problems in the future. Our bodies can carry excess weight for an extended period of time because they are highly adaptable to all the stresses we put upon them. The only problem with this scenario is that the body can only adapt for so long before something bad happens to your health. (more…)
What Does O.K. Mean?
What Does O.K. Mean?
I know this has happened to you when you have been watching a sporting event on television and an athlete gets hurt. Then the announcer says that he will be o.k. What does o.k. mean? That there are no more signs of any health problems, or does OK mean (more…)
Disintegration
Disintegration
Have you ever noticed how some words just have a negative or bad sound to them? “Disintegration” is one. Even though it means, simply, to break into small bits, we rarely see it used in a (more…)