Today's note to self: 5% of the people in your life will cause 95% of the problems. Stick with the other 95% of people.
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Monday, July 13, 2009
Monday, June 22, 2009
An Intern will be starting with us in August
Announcement: A chiropractic intern is scheduled to start at our office in August. She will be completing her final trimester of school at Northwestern Health Sciences University (Northwestern College of Chiropractic).
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Sunday, April 26, 2009
If only the spine could be mended with super glue
My 3 year-old just inherited some of my old Star Wars toys. I was fixing a few up with some superglue when I thought that even with that superglue, they're never quite as good as if I had taken better care of them from the start. I have been showing my kid how to play with them, but how to take care of them at the same time.
The same is true of the human body. You have to take care of it. That means maintaining things like your SPINE for life with chiropractic maintenance. Superglue never quite makes things quite right when you go to the surgeon ;)
The same is true of the human body. You have to take care of it. That means maintaining things like your SPINE for life with chiropractic maintenance. Superglue never quite makes things quite right when you go to the surgeon ;)
Sunday, April 19, 2009
Big Pharma doesn't have your health in mind
Here's a great video commentary on how we're being /taken/ by the drug companies:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHXXTCc-IVg
The point of this of course is to remember to see your chiropractor and stay healthy without the drugs.
Jay Hafner, DC
Lakewood, CO
Hafner Chiropractic
www.HafnerChiropractic.com
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHXXTCc-IVg
The point of this of course is to remember to see your chiropractor and stay healthy without the drugs.
Jay Hafner, DC
Lakewood, CO
Hafner Chiropractic
www.HafnerChiropractic.com
Monday, April 13, 2009
The body is designed to compensate
The body is designed to compensate for injury, weakness and subluxation.
For example, if you suffer an ankle sprain, your body will naturally limp with the other side. You will get sore on the opposite hip stabilizers and the spinal muscles will contract to stabilize the opposite.
If your body has a chance to properly recover, you will heal optimally. If your body is consistently subjected to ongoing stresses, your body will not heal optimally and will suffer repetitive stress to an area.
An example I've been monitoring recently is lateral hamstring tenderness in repetitive postural spinal stress. Normally the hamstring is not a constant-contraction posture muscle, however when the body is under abnormal loads, we will see the lateral hamstring become tender under the abnormal loading pattern (whichever side is attempting to compensate, but failing). The lateral hamstring tenderness/trigger point is often mistaken for an IT-BAND SYNDROME and many of my gym patients spend countless hours rolling around on foam rollers, while not getting to the root of the problem (which may be the lateral hamstring shortness/TP's and the originating subluxation pattern that arose as a result of the acute or repetitive stress).
The lateral hamstring doesn't fully activate under that stressful state, and instead becomes tender typically only at the lower femoral attachment (called the short head of the biceps femoris). It is innervated by the L5, S1, S2 nerve roots so any subluxation pattern irritation to those roots can also make it dysfunctional.
Typically my treatment consists of specific adjustments to the spine, pelvis, hip, and lower extremity to correct the subluxation complex and neuromuscular dysfunction patterns. I also do nimmo to the lateral hamstring and recheck its strength and range of motion post-care.
Just a daily thought ;)
Jay Hafner, DC
www.hafnerchiropractic.com
For example, if you suffer an ankle sprain, your body will naturally limp with the other side. You will get sore on the opposite hip stabilizers and the spinal muscles will contract to stabilize the opposite.
If your body has a chance to properly recover, you will heal optimally. If your body is consistently subjected to ongoing stresses, your body will not heal optimally and will suffer repetitive stress to an area.
An example I've been monitoring recently is lateral hamstring tenderness in repetitive postural spinal stress. Normally the hamstring is not a constant-contraction posture muscle, however when the body is under abnormal loads, we will see the lateral hamstring become tender under the abnormal loading pattern (whichever side is attempting to compensate, but failing). The lateral hamstring tenderness/trigger point is often mistaken for an IT-BAND SYNDROME and many of my gym patients spend countless hours rolling around on foam rollers, while not getting to the root of the problem (which may be the lateral hamstring shortness/TP's and the originating subluxation pattern that arose as a result of the acute or repetitive stress).
The lateral hamstring doesn't fully activate under that stressful state, and instead becomes tender typically only at the lower femoral attachment (called the short head of the biceps femoris). It is innervated by the L5, S1, S2 nerve roots so any subluxation pattern irritation to those roots can also make it dysfunctional.
Typically my treatment consists of specific adjustments to the spine, pelvis, hip, and lower extremity to correct the subluxation complex and neuromuscular dysfunction patterns. I also do nimmo to the lateral hamstring and recheck its strength and range of motion post-care.
Just a daily thought ;)
Jay Hafner, DC
www.hafnerchiropractic.com
Monday, March 23, 2009
Old Doctor Carlson
Dr. H.T. Carlson was an old doctor who practiced to the north of me when I was first in practice. I ended up seeing him after I hurt my back trying to "save" a patient who was slipping off the back of my table while she was flipping over. Dr. Carlson was in his early 70's when I met him. His father had been a chiropractor before him in Colorado and evidently they owned most of what is now the Alameda and Federal area of Denver and had been chiropractors in the area for a lonnnnnnnnnng time. At any rate, his family had been in chiropractic practice since the 1920's and when Doc' retired, he sent all his patients to me. Those couple weeks afterwards were a real eye opener for me. I recieved patients in their 70's and 80's who had been adjusted properly since BIRTH. They had the prettiest spines I'd ever seen in my life! Needless to say, this "amateur" only 2 years in practice continued their spinal hygiene.
Just for historical sake, Dr. Carlson had one of the X-ray machines from Speer Chiropractic Hospital..yes, a chiropractic hospital..in Denver Colorado. I was going tohave it moved to my office, but no xray company would touch it. The transformer weighed about 18 tons and they all said, leave it.
Dr. Carlson (Tom as everyone he knew called him) told me some great stories about what it was like to work in the hospital rehabbing various diseased people as a chiropractor. Everything from M.S.-doomed people to a man with gunshot wounds who had been written off by the MD's to go home and die (welcome to the wild west eh?). He talked about seeing 80 patients a day while his wife, Mona, worked the front desk. I still hear stories from his patients about what it was like when they would get to fighting and working at the same time.
Doc's office was bulldozed into the ground and a Walgreens now stands above it. A not-so-well fitting end to a chiropractors legacy.. but I still see a lot of his old patients and their children and grandchildren.
Yours,
Jay Hafner, DC
www.hafnerchiropractic.com
Lakewood, CO 80226
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Just for historical sake, Dr. Carlson had one of the X-ray machines from Speer Chiropractic Hospital..yes, a chiropractic hospital..in Denver Colorado. I was going tohave it moved to my office, but no xray company would touch it. The transformer weighed about 18 tons and they all said, leave it.
Dr. Carlson (Tom as everyone he knew called him) told me some great stories about what it was like to work in the hospital rehabbing various diseased people as a chiropractor. Everything from M.S.-doomed people to a man with gunshot wounds who had been written off by the MD's to go home and die (welcome to the wild west eh?). He talked about seeing 80 patients a day while his wife, Mona, worked the front desk. I still hear stories from his patients about what it was like when they would get to fighting and working at the same time.
Doc's office was bulldozed into the ground and a Walgreens now stands above it. A not-so-well fitting end to a chiropractors legacy.. but I still see a lot of his old patients and their children and grandchildren.
Yours,
Jay Hafner, DC
www.hafnerchiropractic.com
Lakewood, CO 80226
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Sunday, January 18, 2009
Ten years in practice and I'm finally starting a blog.
Here are some patients presented with conditions of note to general chiropractic practice (conditions listed) this week:
neck pain from looking down complicated by HMSN/charcot-marie-tooth
tmjd complicated by prior hyoid realignment surgery (unsuccessful)
low back pain complicated by obesity, wheelchair confinement for 2 years from poor-outcome bilateral hip replacement surgeries, and dementia
burning leg pain from b12 deficiency
meralgia paresthetica from ASIS-region belt compression from 2000 mile driving trip for work
racing heartbeat from anxiety and thoracic subluxations; sent from E.R.
Regular patient conditions presented this week:
low back pain
neck pain
spasms
pinched nerve pseudoradiculopathy from facet inflammation at C7/T1
bulging/herniated disc presented with interest in non-surgical spinal decompresion
chronic childhood ear infections, colic, etc.
I hope to post more as we go that may be of interest to chiropractic students or doctors and typically I do a case presentation write up on the Colorado Chiropractors Discussion group on yahoogroups.
Jay Hafner, DC
Lakewood, CO chiropractor
(303) 989-0255
Lakewood, CO chiropractor Hafner Chiropractic
Ten years in practice and I'm finally starting a blog!
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