Here is a link to an article published on the USA SUP website written by Dr. Tony
If you are here then you are pretty savy. Good work! The pic above is of our van (#TheDonoVan). She takes us to on-site events away from our home-office. She has been really good to us.
Heidi and I can personally relate to the aches and pains associated with travel and work. Long hours sitting, no solid scheduled self care routine, different beds, couches and chairs, irregular diet - all these things can chip away at your freedom.
We are here to help if you are in or near the Charlotte North Carolina area. I would be bery happy to help and do my best to get you all tuned up. By this I mean, performing my style of chiropractic bodywork which includes manual work to release stiffness, ease pain, and get you where you need to be. We don’t sell plans, have mandatory x-rays, and I will work on you the same day that you come in.
The best thing to do to get in soon is to text 704-610-7223 and text “talk with Heidi”. She will then contact you with the information and details you need. Or, you can even go and just book your own New Client First Visit at http://bit.ly/2veeEfA (MindBody App). Super easy!
We hope you have safe travels and hope to meet you soon!
Dr Tony
Your body is the vehicle given to you when you became spirit + mind + body (i.e. human). As you develop, things can go wrong and things can go right. Most of us have the gift of a pretty good functioning body with all its limbs and organs intact and working. Some of us don’t. What would a person without hearing or vision do to hear a bird sing or see a colorful bird fly? Would a person born without working legs want to feel what its like to hike a mountain trail or walk along a sandy beach?
The point is - How we relate to the immediate world around us (reality) has a lot to do with how we move around in it. Some would argue that technology like augmented/virtual reality can give us experiences that can reproduce a reality like hiking Mount Everest or fighting monsters, but doubtedly the physical demands on the body do not even come close.
Treasure your body. Treat it kindly. Take care of it. The rewards may be worth it!
I made a list (See below) of people and techniques that have had some type of influence on me over the course of my 20 plus years of my Chiropractic career. It’s by no means an exhaustive list (I might have forgotten some and I am sure there will be more). Exposing my self (mind and/or body) to be open to another person’s ideas has been a gift for me. Each person on my list is just that - a person. A person with their own unique viewpoint and application to healing and/or improving function of the body Yes, there may be some motivated to expand and grow their viewpoints into a methodology and into an enterprise. But, who am I to judge them? I learn and use what makes sense to me. Besides, if it helps someone reduce their suffering and promote health, then good for them! What if these folks never thought (aka “thot”) outside the box?
When it comes to “health and wellness” we all have our unique perceptions, ideas, and experiences. What helps one might not help another, and even what might help someone at a particular time, might not help them at another time. The key is to be open. Regardless of what we think, the body strives for healing and better function when given a chance. One way I think about all of these techniques and applications is summed up in this word - Catalyst.
AUDE SAPERE! (Dare to taste, to experience, to understand)
- Samuel Hahneman, Father Of Homeopathy
I stepped back and contemplated all the knowledege and experiences that each person on my list must have gone through to share there unique perspectives with the world. Pretty amazing that the human body will take what it can and use it to heal and function better! In my opinion, the body doesn’t care what we call our techniques or our products, it just does what it wants to do naturally - function better and heal. Because the human body is matter and subject to external physical forces (Gravity for example and how it can influence negative forces on posture and instances of micro/macro trauma) and internal emotional stresses (like worry, fear and anxiety), it needs our own free will, choices and actions to resist and recover from these negative forces.
The Power that made the body heals the body.
- D.D. Palmer, Father of Chiropractic
My List
No particular order.
CHIROPRACTIC NAMES
Palmer
Smith
Gonstead
Fuhr
Harrison
Hoffman
Grostic
Anrig
Souza
Plaugher
Miller
Thompson
Koren
Goodman
Charrette
Cox
Nimmo
Logan
Pierce
Stillwagon
Pettibon
DeJarnett
Goodheart
Sweat
Webster
Spitler
MANUAL THERAPY TECHNIQUE AND NAMES
Barral
Smith
Still
Stecco
Rolf
Hammer
Lewitt
Lowen
Myers
Mitchell
Graston
Rossiter
Janda
Napravit
Tui Na
Tok Sen
Lomi Lomi
Strain-Counter Strain
Fascial Manipulation
Muscle Energy
Contractile Field Model
Direct/Indirect Fascial Creeping
Mobilization
Manual Mechanotherapy
Facilitated Positional Release
Visceral Manipulation
Dermoneuromodulationing
Balanced Ligamentous Tension Technique
OTHER NAMES/TECHNIQUES ASSOCIATED WITH POSTURE, RESEARCH, FITNESS AND THE LIKE.
McKenzie
McGill
Herzog
Beach
Egoscue
Chaitow
Pilates
Huff
Dvorak
Brady
Hightower
GOATA
Weck
Foundation Training
Functional Patterns
Dynamic Spinal Stabilization
Wim Hof
Naprapathy
Oakley Smith
Five Elements Chinese Acupuncture
S.O.T.
DNFT
Motion Palpation
Network Spinal Analysis
Catalyst System
CranioSacral
Reiki
Shanahan
Guyton
Hoppenfeld
Who is James Allen?
I’m a big fan of James Allen, a British philosophical writer that lived 1864 to 1912.
Here he starts an exerpt in a work called Bodily Conditions (From Man: king of mind, body, and circumstance.) It resonated with me.
“There are today scores of distinct schools devoted to the healing of the body; a fact which shows the great prevalence of physical suffering, as the hundreds of religions, devoted to the comforting of men’s minds prove the universality of mental suffering. Each of these schools has its place in so far as it is able to relieve suffering, even where it does not eradicate the evil; for with all these schools of healing, the facts of disease and pain remain with us, just as sin and sorrow remain despite of the many religions.”
