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In this video, the instructor calculates how lifting a modest bucket can put over 560lbs of force on your back muscles and over 700lbs of force on your intervertebral discs! Later in the video, see how your body instinctively creates more force by holding your breath. This Valsalva maneuver will cre...

In my last post, I posted a video to Oxford University's approach to a knee examination. In this video, we review Stanford's approach. A school a little closer to home: Brought to you by Dr. Brinda Christopher, a Sports Medicine Physician. Start the examination by looking at tests for ligament injur...

This video shows a systematic approach to a knee examination from start to finish. Brought to you by Oxford Medical Education....

A NASA astronaut said Tuesday that he pulled out of a spacewalk this week because of a pinched nerve in his neck. NASA canceled Tuesday's spacewalk at the International Space Station less than 24 hours in advance, citing "a minor medical issue" with Mark Vande Hei but didn't elaborate. The retired A...

In simile terms, this video explains in cartoons how your immune system works. How it wards off invaders. What kinds of cells are involved. This is a great intro to the lay person to learn how it all works, and it’s helpful for those like me who took physiology, but do not apply these terms [&hell...

They're putting up my sign today! Yesterday, tuesday, my sign maker Amber took down the old Max Muscle "nutrition" sign, and she started putting up the new adjust.clinic chiropractic care sign. I think it looks fantastic: It's still not completely done. They need to attach the fronts of the letters,...

A January 2020 paper published in the European Spine Journal wanted to see if there was an association between symptoms throughout your body and muscle and joint dysfunction. If your neck is bothering you, will it bother your whole body? In many ways, it makes sense. To start, your neck is awfully c...

Neck pain, cerebellum, and the effects of a chiropractic adjustment. Most people know that chiropractic adjustments are helpful with neck pain. This is both in the long term and the short term. Chiropractic care also improves neck range of motion. You get adjusted, and your neck moves better. There'...

What I'm watching this morning: Here are my notes on Gestalt Education’s interview with George DeFranca, a chiropractic physician out of Massachusetts. DeFranca met Len Faye at a seminar in the 1970s or 80s, where he was exposed to a motion palpation seminar. In this he learned a more functional a...

Gestalt Education released a video interview with Thomas Michaud talking about the function of the muscles spindles during locomotion, and the energy storage characteristics of tendons during walking or running. Tendons will stretch 10% during walking or running to help store energy to propel you fo...