- Hey guys, so we have a very special guest over here.
So, let everyone know what's been going on.
- I came in to see Dr. Suh
for some right back pain, upper back pain,
but we discussed how I have TMJ.
I grind my teeth at night
and I also have a really painful bunion
on my left foot, so I'm looking forward
to being treated.
- The first thing we do is
we start with instrumentation
and we look for any differences
in temperature.
Okay.
Right there.
Because of scoliosis, okay, we have to trace
along the spine.
Right there.
The next component is to set up a patient
and what we're gonna do is,
we're gonna check for, is there any presence
of swelling or muscle tightness,
and this is what I wanna see.
I wanna see this nice, smooth indentation, okay?
And you see a lot of swelling
all on this region right over here.
This all puffiness right over here, okay?
I also see that immediately around the back,
there's some swelling over here as well, okay?
And quite a bit of swelling
in this region right over here,
which correlates with finding heat differences.
So now, next component is what we do
with most of our patients,
we see what's moving and what's not moving, okay?
So, I'm gonna check the sacrum.
So over here, the right side moves
pretty well.
You feel that right there?
The left side is pretty stuck, right?
So now let's check the left hip.
Moves backwards, no problems.
Moves forward, no problems.
Move backwards on the right side, no problems.
Forward and backwards, forwards, no problem.
Backwards, no problems.
So we're identifying the sacrum over here
that's problematic on her.
Right there.
To the right, no problems.
Correction, to the right, stuck.
Left, moves much more easier.
Okay.
So, number, this looks like number seven over here.
Down, to the left, much more easier.
Stuck right there is the problem.
In this x-ray structural analysis,
as we can see, this particular patient
has scoliosis and the reason why is because
over here, normal, her sacrum should be
at this angle and yet as we see,
it's knocked backwards by a considerable amount.
In addition to the forward picture over here,
her sacrum should be in this normal position,
and yet rotated significantly towards the right
and sunk and tilted in forwards as such.
As a result, all the structures above it
compensated as such.
In addition to there's two more additional areas
that did not compensate correctly.
Therefore, her third dorsal and the seventh dorsal
in addition to her sacrum, these are the three
structures we need to correct on her.
So as we see, easily tilt all the way to the left.
See how much it tilts to the right?
Stuck right in that spot.
Do you feel that one?
- Mm-hmm.
- Right, so.
Again to the right.
See how much we can turn to the left?
- Mm-hmm.
- Feel that?
It's kinda stuck. - Mm-hmm.
- On the right at that particular spot.
Okay.
Gonna check the atlas.
See how much you could tilt your head
to the left, how much you could tilt over
to the right with this atlas?
That tells me there's a lot
of compensation going on over here.
- Mm-hmm.
- So that's the reason why, most likely,
we will not be correcting this over here.
Up.
The reason why we're correcting
the foundation first, just like
the Leaning Tower of Pisa, okay?
If we don't do anything and address the foundation,
everything from the ground upwards
is affected as well.
So let's see, even though you have
some major scoliosis going on,
let's see what it does for your neck.
- Okay.
- Okay?
So we demonstrated early, okay?
How much you could turn over to the left, okay?
Once again, over to the left.
How about that?
Feel that difference now?
- Yes.
- How much you can turn to the right?
- It's less tight.
- Tilt to the left.
I don't know, you're still a little bit
stuck on the right side.
- Mm-hmm.
- Do you feel that difference right there?
- Yes.
- Yeah, we don't correct anything in the back yet.
So that's why what we're talking about
is so important.
That's addressed all your foundations first
and let your body unravel all those
straight to the top, okay?
- Okay.
- So I want you to keep me apprised.
Let me know in the following visits
how you are with the bruxism,
meaning grinding your teeth during the night,
and your right TMJ.
- Okay.
- I don't feel the shoulder pain.
Really.
- How do you like that?
- It feels really good, actually.
It's been hurting for a while now.
It feels good.
- Okay, so what's left over when you turn yourself?
What's different on that right shoulder?
- It doesn't feel like a cracking.
- Mm-hmm.
- It feels good, like relief.
- Next what we're doing, we're checking the shoulder
itself.
Okay.
Checking the scapula, see how it moves.
So it's a little bit stuck
over in this direction over here.
- It's sore, yeah.
- Mm-hmm.
So we're dealing with the superior medial.
Just pump it up a little bit.
Okay, now let's check.
Okay, how's it now?
Is it still sore?
- No, it's less sore.
- [Dr. Suh] In essence, what happened is,
these two bones over here, they start rotating
outwards and that's what's causing
a bunion over here is that significant rotation, okay?
So how do we address this?
Well, that's gonna be a lot more complicated
thing to address because there's so many
systematic things that failed on this foot
over here.
So we have to restore the nerve function
all the way from the foundation.
Take a look, what's going on,
the keystone, okay, the talus over here.
Take a look at the navicular, the cuneiformes,
first metatarsal, and even the great hallux,
all the transverse and the lateral arches,
all those structures, the cuboids,
everything, basically what we have to do
is basically rebuild the whole, entire foot
just to address this bunion over here.
Now just relax.
I'm just gonna see.
So you're more stuck, okay, on this left foot
compared to the right.
It feels a little stuck.
Calcaneus, you can't evert as well.
See how much you could evert on the left one?
That tells me the calcaneus on this one's fine.
On this one, it's compromised.
Okay, so this one over here, you can feel it, okay?
I could evert your talus this way,
but I cannot invert your talus on this side.
That tells me
this talus over here is misaligned,
so we need to correct this one as well.
Now your first metatarsal, I can rotate it
going upwards.
I cannot rotate it downwards.
You feel that difference?
- [Patient] It's tight.
- [Dr. Suh] Exactly.
So upwards, no problems.
Downwards, not too bad, okay?
So now, we have two little bones
over here called sesamoids, okay?
It provides a fulcrum for the tendon over here.
So now I'm gonna check, feel where they are.
Now normal, okay, these two little bones,
you feel that little bony part I'm feeling?
- [Patient] Mm-hmm.
- [Dr. Suh] Or pressing upon?
Okay, it should be here.
And yet what I'm feeling right now is
you're rotating significantly inwards over here,
so we need to rotate away quite a bit.
And that's part of the reason the bunion
is rotated the way it does.
And that's what happens with the sesamoids, okay?
Now let's check this one over here.
This one's also rotated, it's just not as bad
as this one.
Okay, let's go ahead and check the cuboid.
Feel the difference here?
I can move it upwards.
I can't move it downwards, okay?
So your cuboid is stuck upwards.
There's a little freebie there.
We've got the cuboid moving a little bit.
Still, same story as well.
I can move it upwards, okay?
Can't move it downwards so much,
so the cuboid's stuck up.
So we got a little work to do over here.
So first things first, let's go ahead,
let's rebuild this.
We're gonna pump your talus.
Relax, right there.
Okay, now we can see
your foot is able to evert a little more.
I also want to reiterate once again,
okay, restoring the process or rebuilding
your foundation, okay?
Because that's a very old, chronic injury, okay?
Problem that's been misaligned for so long.
It also blocked all that key, critical
nerve function to both of your feet over here.
So even though we corrected this, okay?
My expectation?
This is not gonna be stable.
It's gonna have a lot of trouble holding in place.
That's why we need to correct right at the source,
rebuild, and restore and stabilize
your foundation, get proper nerve function
into your feet over here
so these arches can stay stable a lot more better.
So go ahead and walk around.
See how you like it.
- Feels good.
It really don't hurt right now.
- [Dr. Suh] What other differences are you
noticing with your feet?
- It feels more flexible.
It feels good.
- So how do you like that, huh?
(patient laughs)
Chiropractic, isn't it a beautiful thing?