Posted tagged ‘Kitsap’
May 7, 2010
[originally published in KCN, October 2002]
Okay — so there you are, flat on your back. “The cat food bag really wasn’t that heavy,” you think to yourself, but apparently your back didn’t seem to care as it locked up in spasm with knife-like pain half way through the lift that you now realize lacked proper technique. Perhaps now would be a good time to find the card for that chiropractor your friends have been pestering you to see for the past five years. “Nahh, it will go away on its own,” you reassure yourself. “A little rest and heat and I’ll be fine — or is it ice? No, no, I’m sure it’s heat…maybe.”
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Categories: adjunct therapy, home care
Tags: acute, Anchor Chiropractic, chiropractic, chiropractor, chronic, Dr. Thomas Lamar, health, heat, heating pad, home care, hot pack, ice, ice pack, inflammation, Kingston, Kitsap, self care
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April 30, 2010
[originally published in KCN, April 2010]
On January 12, 2010, the world reached out to the people of Haiti following their catastrophic 7.0 magnitude earthquake that reduced the entire capital city of Port-au-Prince to rubble and ruin. Unfortunately much of the relief aid was slow to arrive due to damaged transportation facilities and chaos. But that didn’t stop chiropractor Rennie Statler of Danbury, CT. Within nine days of the devastating event, he, along with a handful of colleagues, was on a jet plane heading south — leaving his comfortable office and familiar surroundings to hand-deliver supplies of food, water, and of course, chiropractic care to the hurting Haitian country.
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Categories: relief/disaster efforts
Tags: adjustment, Anchor Chiropractic, chiropractic, chiropractic adjustment, chiropractor, disaster efforts, Dr. Thomas Lamar, Earthquake, Haiti, Haitian, health, humanitarian aid, Kingston, Kitsap, Port-au-Prince, relief efforts, Rennie Statler DC, rescue, stress
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April 23, 2010
[originally published in KCN, Febuary 2002]
If the mere mention of “Growing Pains” reminds you of the popular 80’s Alan Thicke and Kirk Cameron sitcom, then you probably weren’t one of the select 10-20% that were tagged with this misleading medical diagnosis when you were a child. Misleading in that, from a physical sense, it doesn’t hurt to grow. But then, why do children experience this reoccurring “vague leg pain”? — with pain so intense at times that it actually causes some to cry themselves to sleep.
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Categories: children, low back pain
Tags: adjustment, Anchor Chiropractic, childhood pains, chiropractic, chiropractor, Dr. Thomas Lamar, growing pains, healing, health, kids and chiropractic, Kingston, Kitsap, leg pain, low back pain, lower back pain, pain at night, pediatric, sacroiiac joint, spinal adjustment, spine, subluxation, vertebral subluxation, vertebral subluxation complex
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April 16, 2010
[originally published in KCN, January 2002]
It may come as a surprise, but after authoring some 46 Spinal Column articles over the past 5 years, I have yet to dedicate one to the condition that we chiropractors most often see — low back pain. Sure, I’ve made reference to it many times, but I’ve never given it the spotlight. Perhaps, that’s exactly what I have been afraid of — giving it the “spotlight.” Much of the media and scientific journals have made lower back pain and chiropractic one and same. And while we are grateful for the validation and coverage, many in our profession, and rightfully so, are afraid that we might get pigeon-holed into becoming known as “low back doctors” when chiropractic really has so much more to offer.
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Categories: adjustment, low back pain
Tags: Agency for Health Care Policy and Research, AHCPR, Anchor Chiropractic, chiropractor, clinical guidelines, Danish Institute for Health Technology Assessment, disability, Dr. Thomas Lamar, Kingston, Kitsap, low back pain, lower back pain, lumbago, Manga Report, medical costs, Ontario Ministry of Health, practice guidelines, RCGP, Royal College of General Practitioners, time loss, treatment guidelines, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
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April 9, 2010
[originally published in KCN, December 2001]
It may come as a surprise to some, but we chiropractors aren’t just for spines — some of us are pretty adept at treating other joints of the body as well.
In chiropractic college, we were taught how to adjust every joint of the human frame — every joint. I remember sitting in an auditorium at the chiropractic college I was about to attend, some ten years ago, watching a clinical demonstration . The chiropractor on stage was treating a patient, and we, as potential students got to observe. Towards the end of her demonstration, she announced that chiropractors were trained to adjust every joint in the body. She then asked if there were any requests for her to show us an adjustment of a particular joint. I sat there in disbelief. “Every joint?” I wondered. I racked my brain for a joint in the body that I was sure would stump her. I raised my hand. “What about the joints inside the ears, between the small ear bones?” I asked with a sense of smugness. Fellow chiropractor-to-be audience members glanced at me with a “I think you got her”-look. Well, within moments we were all greeted with a Auditory Ossicle “J” Maneuver. Yes ladies and gentlemen, I learned a lesson that day — every joint.
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Categories: adjustment, carpal tunnel syndrome, extremities
Tags: AC joint, adjustment, Anchor Chiropractic, ankle, bursistis, C.C.E.P., calcaneus, carpal bones, carpal tunnel, Certified Chiropractic Extremities Practitioner, chiropractic, chiropractic adjustment, chiropractor, clavicle, cuboid, Dr. Thomas Lamar, ear bones, elbow, extremities, femur, fibula, foot, golfers elbow, hand, health, hip, jaw, Kevin Hearon, Kingston, Kitsap, knee, radius, rib cage, rotator cuff, runners knee, shoulder, sprains and strains, talus, tendonitis, tennis elbow, tibia, TMJ, trochanteric bursitis, ulna, wrist
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April 2, 2010
[originally published in KCN, September 2001 / cartoon provided by TomLamarCartoon.com]
Diversified, Gonstead, Cox Flexion Distraction, Activator, Thompson, Sacro Occipital Technique, NIMMO Receptor Tonus, Applied Kinesiology, Logan Basic, Cranial, Pierce-Stillwagon, Pettibon, Directional Non-Force, Toftness, Chiropractic Spinal Biophysics, Toggle Recoil, Neuro Emotional Technique — the list goes on, and on, and on, easily surpassing the 100 mark. To the average chiropractic patient, or non-patient for that matter, these names probably seem like some sort of cryptic chiropractic jargon. But to the chiropractor, these names parallel a walk down the tool aisle at Sears — these names represent chiropractic adjustive techniques.
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Categories: adjustment, chiropractic 101, chiropractic history
Tags: Activator, adjustment, Anchor Chiropractic, Applied Kinesiology, chiropractic, chiropractic adjustment, chiropractic history, Chiropractic Spinal Biophysics, chiropractic technique, chiropractor, Cox Flexion Distraction, Cranial, D.D. Palmer, Directional Non-Force, Diversified, Dr. Thomas Lamar, Drop Table, Gonstead, health, Kingston, Kitsap, Logan Basic, NET, Neuro Emotional Technique, NIMMO Receptor Tonus, Pettibon, Pierce-Stillwagon, Sacral Occipital Technique, Sacro Occipital Technique, SOT, spinal adjustment, Thompson, Toftness, Toggle Recoil
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March 26, 2010
[originally published in KCN, April 2010]
Every chiropractor who has been in practice for some time has had a population of patients that did not respond as he would have expected. Oh sure, many of them got relief from the chiropractic care provided, but it only lasted for a few hours — a day, tops. And mind you, we’re not talking about the first few visits, but, rather, a well-established pattern. Or the patient did well with the adjustments, only to have the back misalign again from a trivial event. It’s been my experience that not every patient 
falls into the typical “restore-motion-to-stuck-spinal-joint-and-watch-patient-get-better” category. Sometimes we chiropractors need to acknowledge that not every case of mechanical back pain is due to spinal joints being” stuck” or “locked” — instead, sometimes it’s just the opposite: the joints are too loose.
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Categories: adjustment, chronic
Tags: adjusting wedges, adjustment, Anchor Chiropractic, ankle problems, bed wetting, CAT II, category two, childbirth, chiropractic, chiropractic adjustment, chiropractor, chronic low back pain, chronic pain, Cranial, cranial bones, cranial sacral pump, Dr. Thomas Lamar, ear pain, Elvis Pelvis, emotional upset, foot problems, groin pain, headaches, healing, health, hypermobile joints, ilium, jaw pain, Kingston, Kitsap, knee problems, lateral chest pain, loose joints, loose pelvis, low back pain, lower back pain, mechanical back pain, neck pain, pelvic blocking, pregnancy, sacral, sacral blocks, Sacro Occipital Technique, sacroiliac belt, sacroiliac instability, sacroiliac joint, sacroiliac sprain, sacrum, SI joint, SI sprain, slip and fall, SOT, SOT blocks, subluxation, thigh pain, tight muscles, unstable pelvis, vertebral subluxation, vertebral subluxation complex
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March 19, 2010
[originally published in KCN, August 2001 / cartoon provided by TomLamarCartoon.com]
Do you believe in chiropractic?
I don’t.
Oftentimes I’ll encounter a new patient who will cut me short of my explanation on chiropractic by interjecting, “Don’t worry Doc. No need to explain. I believe in chiropractic.”
Believe in chiropractic? The idea of having to believe in chiropractic just doesn’t sit right with me. Nobody ever talks about believing in medicine. Chiropractic is not a belief system that you have to subscribe to or take stock in for it to work, nor is it akin to the rank and file of the Tooth Fairy, Easter Bunny, or Leprechaun. No, chiropractic works just fine on its own, ruby slippers or not. I don’t believe in chiropractic, I know in it.
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Categories: chiropractic 101, germs, healthy living
Tags: Anchor Chiropractic, believe, childbed fever, chiropractic, chiropractor, Dr. Thomas Lamar, germ theory, germs, hand washing, Healing Words, health, healthy living, Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis, immune system, Jules Eisenbud, Kingston, Kitsap, Larry Dossey, Louis Pasteur, puerperal fever, TomLamarCartoon
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[originally published in KCN, October 2002]
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