MALIBU - Diplomate of the American Board of Sport Physicians
Here is a practical application of my own doctor-designed exercises we use in our clinic to restore healthy function of nerve, muscle, joint, and spinal fluid flow. In my experience with managing tens of thousands of treatments with spinal injury and disease cases, I have developed several reliable and reproducable conclusions.
1. First we have to get you out of pain and address any conditions you would like to change or improve about yourself. In my clinic, we identify your causes of injury, and teach you how to become highly resistant to injury considering all of your work, sports, and past existing conditions.
2. We help you restore health and full function to your body tissues. This means bringing your body parts or organ systems up to 95% of their capacity, so they do not atrophy, degenerate, or become diseased, which ends up causing you pain, injury, sickness, and premature death.
3. Every step of the way, we give you the tools to keep the improvements you have made. At the end of your program whether you choose Relief Care (immediately get out of pain and 75%+ of your complaint), Corrective Care (very quickly get up to 95% function and become highly resistant to injury and disease), or eventually Wellness Care (continuing at the highest level of wellness, feeling great, and have a very long life).
Chiropractic Sports Physician, Dr. Tony Hall, uses diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation guidelines from the American College of Sports Medicine to reference your athletic-related problems, as they arise both on the field and when presented in the office.
A wide range of other resources are also implemented to provide you with the highest level of care when you're looking to get back to play quickly and improve your performance.
Go to Dr. Hall's Spartacus Exercises under MORE drop down list for an example of exercises to restore posture of your spine.
Spinal Righting Reflexes - Proper posture of the spine through all ranges of motion and body position is controlled by your nervous system. Gray matter neurons (substantia grisea) of the spinal cord immediately sends messages back to coordinate the spinal column/axial skeleton posture through different movements. Primary locations of 'righting' action are found at the:
Thoracolumbar Transition (T12/L1 vertebrae): Level of the diaphragm muscle functions include respiration, urination and bowel movements, lymph flow and cerebral spinal fluid flow. Upright posture at this level improves the biomechanics and reduces stress on the lower back, neck and shoulders.
Cervicothoracic Transition (C7/T1 vertebrae): At the bottom of the neck the exercises at this level help restore the position of the head (ears back over the shoulders) to a position subconsciously controlled by this righting reflex.
Sub-Occipital Transition (occiput/C1): This reflex's job is to move the skull back over the top of the neck and maintain the correct head tilt position.