Moments of Joy, punctuate your life on a daily basis. So number one, my family and my kids are really joyful people and really fun people and I love hanging out with them all the time. But number two, even luckier. Is that my work life? My work family is amazing and funny and everybody is light. We sort of have like a Work, Hard, Play Hard atmosphere here, and I just love it. I enjoy it so much. Much. I enjoy every single person that I work with and it's just all day long, just hilarity, between moments of seriousness. So I wish that for everybody else.

When you come home from work, you're very stiff, everything hurts from low back to the legs. Why might that be happening? Well, the first thing I think about is what sort of position you're sitting all day. The answers pretty easy and clear hip flexors get really tight in the front, the glutes sort of turn off, and get really weak in the back and that can cause a lot of discomfort second thinking, maybe if your work if your job is actually standing or weight bearing on the time, lifting walking that's going to create a lot of ink in the legs as well. So my thought is that there's some sort of position happening at work. That's very consistent, my suggestion. If that's the case, would be to try to vary your position as much as you can try to walk around if you're a sitter, try to sit a little more up your standard and just try to vary that as much as you can. Ideally that she helped move the blood flow around which will Inflammation out and bring nutrients and oxygen, and every time we can squeeze and stretch the muscles throughout the day, we're going to reduce the chance of low back and leg pain. So stretching and doing throwing in some squats during the day would be helpful too.

So when should you stretch, you know what time of day it depends on what the issue is. So if you are having back pain especially when you get up in the morning and it's consistent in it, it's not just an injury, just happens all the time. First of all, you need to look at your mattress and see if it's worn out and you need a new one. But one of the stretches were necessary stretch. But mobilization, you can do to yourself. It's really helpful is just a cat. Cat and cow where you're just moving your back up and down over, and over, without pushing it to a full range of motion, that's uncomfortable. But, in general, for stretching, like if you're doing dynamic or static stretching, it's not time of day, it's more about how much you've already been moving. In my opinion, you need to get active warm up and, you know, two or three minutes in my book doesn't cut it. I want my people to be fully. Wow, they've been up and moving around for a while. I'll be honest with you personally. I will exercise before I actually stretch because I want to I want to have that tissue nice and warmed up. So when I am mobilizing it, that I'm getting the most out of it. Don't stretch for now you're stretching for tomorrow.

Is there a limit to the number of treatments a person can receive in one year? Well the answer to that is it really depends upon that person and what they're doing to instigator aggravate their condition. So some people for example, people with ehlers-danlos, they already have high permeability, so we try not to adjust them to frequently. However, we may incorporate other forms of care to try to encourage stability, and, or will do General types of manipulation. So, these are people People who have extremely lacks ligaments. Now if you go to someone on The Other Extreme there extremely rigid then we might need they might tolerate adjusting a little bit more frequently in terms of athletes. It also kind of lends itself on terms of the the event or sport, they're doing for example, a high hurdler, or a decathlete. I've treated as much as six times in a day. However, we're just doing that during their competition phase and then we drop way down Elite athletes. We might see we're from a couple times a week to once a week, so I hope that gives you a gauge but there's no true ceiling or to how many visits you can have for Chiropractic Care.

How does manual spinal manipulation differ from other forms of treatment for back pain manual. Spinal manipulation is really special. It takes a joint in the spine, from its normal physiological range and actually pushes it past that range. So, what that means is Normally joints, facet joints in, the spine are supposed to slide and glide and so we can do stretches on those things. We can do needles, acupuncture, massage, yoga hot ice, Advil, what have you? But what the manual spinal manipulation does? Is it takes this facet joint? And it pushes it to what we call end range. So we slide that join as far as it wants to go. Before it getting stuck in stopping. And we impart a high velocity low amplitude thrust, that pops, it just that much further, which frees The Joint up from its lack of Glide, or it's Point fixation position and then it is imbibes synovial fluid into the joint and we've got our sliding and gliding back. There is Nothing that replaces the high velocity, low amplitude, thrust, or spinal manipulation, or adjustment? When it's needed for a patient. It's really special. It's my favorite treatment.

What do you think is the most important factor in a successful chiropractic session? Well for me, that is patient engagement. Getting the patient to take on responsibility for their care. And part of that responsibility is getting good sleep. Good nutrition. And doing the home exercises stretching programs that will Aid in making each session that I do with them, that much more effective. And I always look at treatment that I can provide like a smorgasbord So I can provide all these different types of services and having availability to be able to provide enough services to move the needle and creating a symptomatic or functional change is going to be very important as well. So biggest factor is just patient engagement, getting them as in on part of the treatment process themselves.