Chiropractic

Stiffness and pain from your low back to the legs can be caused by sitting in a consistent position all day. To help reduce discomfort, vary your position as much as you can, walk around, sit up straight, and do stretching or squats throughout the day.
 
Transcript: "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 are you in at work? If you're sitting all day, the answer's pretty easy and clear. The 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 in the low back and the legs. The second thing may be if your work, if your job is actually standing or weight-bearing all the time, lifting, walking, that's going to create a lot of ache 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 working position as much as you can. Try to walk around if you're a sitter. Try to sit a little more if you're standing a lot. And just try to vary that as much as you can. Ideally, that should help move the blood flow around, which will move inflammation out and bring nutrients and oxygen in. 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 throwing in some squats during the day would be helpful too."

It is not advised to attempt any sort of Health Care procedure, such as psychotherapy or IVs, without the help of a fully trained healthcare provider. Not only is it usually ineffective, it can lead to serious injuries. So if you need help with any medical treatment, always seek the advice of a professional.
 
Transcript: "So, people who attempt to treat themselves with any sort of healthcare procedure where it requires or should require a fully trained healthcare provider, it's just not wise. It's oftentimes risky. I've seen plenty of patients who come in because they're hoping I can fix what they've done to themselves or maybe what a family member or a friend has done. You wouldn't try to do your own IV, right? Why would you try to do that? Would you try to do psychotherapy on yourself? It just doesn't make any sense to me why somebody would do that to themselves. Now, I teach patients how to stretch and how to mobilize. If their joints make a cracking sound, it's no big deal. But when people are literally trying to forcefully manipulate themselves and honestly have no idea about what the anatomy is like in there and they just, most of the time, they do it wrong. So, not advised, not trying to create business for myself. I don't need it. Please don't hurt yourself."

Shin splints are common in many types of exercise, and the main approach to managing them is pain management, rehabilitation, and a slow and graded reentry back into activity.
 
Transcript: "So shin splints is a really super common problem in people who do many different types of exercise. Many people, they kind of relate it to just running but it's in many many other types of sport. It's also in people who do a lot of walking, marching. I've personally had it even with cycling. Typically the issue is acute overload. The person has overloaded the body system over a short period of time and the body has not had a chance to adapt and they start having shin splints or any other sort of tenonopathy or other overuse. So my approach is pain management first, rehabilitation second, and probably the most important thing is to just over and over and over educate that when the person is going back to activity it is a graded slow progression. If they're having a health care concern they should have that graded slow progression managed by the health care provider. And it should be, I use what's called a run progression. I usually start with a walk run where we'll let them jog for five minutes, walk for five minutes, jog for five minutes, etc. And that's well mapped out for the patient. So my big approach is slow reentry."

I would love to have dinner with my grandpa, who was a chiropractor for 45 years, and Phil Liggett, an expert on any question and commentator for professional cycling.
 
Transcript: "Picking a single person that I would like to have dinner with and just have a great conversation, learn, that is a tough answer. I just don't know if I could pick one. So I'll make a couple. Knowing now as an older person what I know, I would love to be able to go back in time and have dinner with my grandpa who was a chiropractor for 45 years. I was just getting started on my educational journey to become a chiropractor when he passed away. So it would have been and would be an amazing thing to be able to do that. I also would love to go to dinner with Phil Liggett who also is an expert on any question. I've been watching him as a commentator for professional cycling since I was in my early 20s. He's just such an interesting man and has done so much philanthropically that I would love it and just find it a really good time and a very, very interesting learning experience."

Chiropractors specialize in treating the neck, middle back, lower back, wrists, fingers, elbows, shoulders, clavicles, jaw, cranial bones, hips, knees, ankles, feet, and toes.
 
Transcript: "So what areas of the body do I specialize in treating with chiropractic care? So we're going to be talking about the neck, the middle back, the lower back. So cervical, thoracic, pelvis, lumbar. That's sort of the obvious stuff that chiropractors treat. One of the reasons we all have a spine in our office. But secondary to that, I also have some extremities and a head up there, a skull. We also treat pretty much any joint that moves, which means any joint. So wrists, fingers, elbows, shoulders, clavicles, jaw, cranial bones, hips, knees, ankles, feet, toes. Most chiropractors treat all those joints. Most definitely sports chiropractors treat all those joints. And most pediatric chiropractors treat all those joints. So that hopefully answers your question."