Hey everybody it's Doctor Blake Kalkstein from Doctors Adolph and Kalkstein Chiropractic,
your at Baltimore area and neck and back pain specialist.
And we got Pat in the office.
Pat is ex-military right?
Yes sir.
Can you tell them what you told me?
I was five years in the United States Marine Corps with three combat deployments in the
infantry, and then I went back over and worked as a diplomatic security for the State Department
for about two years.
We got a genuine hero in our office right now.
And he's coming in, he came in yesterday, hurt his back wrapping presents.
He's always gonna tight back but we've seen it come in all week, people wrapping presents
on the floor irritating their back.
So if you're listening and you've hurt your back wrapping presents know that you're not
the only one.
So he's got a lot of pressure in his posterior hip back here and his piriformis, his hip
rotators.
He came in yesterday, it was about seven out of ten, could not move at all.
Really restricted range of motion.
He's in today again.
He's down to about a five out of ten but he's moving a lot better, so we're going to show
you how we treat this posterior hip.
So let's do a little couple passes Active Release here.
Go ahead.
So I'm working on is glute med, this is active release technique.
It's what we do in the office, it helps us complement our adjustments.
And Pat can tell you it's very tender where I'm working on this.
But when he gets up he's going to have significant relief.
And Pat's been in our office in the past a couple times, and he'll come in you know,
he travels all over the world for his job, and he would always come in stiff or achy.
We'd adjust him, we do a couple active releases on his psoas which we'll show you again today.
Go ahead.
And I'm getting right into that.
I can tell you he's doing some nice yoga breathing.
Oh ya.
But if camera wasn't on he'd probably be yelling at me.
And it's sore when I'm working on it but it provides measurable relief and lasting relief.
Okay, now we're gonna do the psoas on this side.
So we just worked posterior hip.
We did glute med, we did a glute max, we got a little bit into as piriformis, now we're
not release his psoas.
Take a breath in for me, and out.
That’s better than yesterday.
Go ahead.
So yesterday I felt like I working on rebar on his psoas.
Put an arm overhead.
And it's a lot better today.
I mean it's still tight in there but it's better.
Arm overhead.
So the psoas is kind of like the quad of the muscle, of the spine.
It runs down the front of your spine.
It attaches up at L2, L3, L4, and it runs down into your hip flexor.
So you can have psoas spasms due to back pain which is what's going on here.
You could have psoas pain if you're a runner, you get a psoas tendinopathy which could cause
pain in the front of the hip.
Good, back down.
So probably putting about eight to ten pounds worth of pressure onto the psoas to get it
to let go.
Go ahead.
Feels like fifty.
It feels like fifty.
I'm not that strong.
Arm overhead.
Great, thanks Antoine.
Hang on for a second now I'm gonna adjust your back [...] (0:03:30) I'm going to pull
your legs.
Roll down, there ya go.
Other side.
So not a huge pop.
Yesterday when we adjusted him there was a big crack in there but we're on his second
back to back treatment here.
There's not gonna be a lot of popping, there might be more here on this side.
Ya not a lot there.
Let's do your hips, on your back.
But you know, the objective of the treatment is not to crack his back.
It's a good movement in the spinal joints, so the crack's just a benefit for you guys
out there like audio.
There you go, there's a nice hip.
There's a great hip adjustment right there, okay.
So that's the treatment we're doing for Pat.
We worked on his piriformis, his glute med, his posterior capsule, and his hip, we got
it psoas and we adjusted his spine and pulled his hips.
You can stand up and tell me how it feels, alright?
Ya it's like a night and day difference.
Ya.
Literally just like I couldn't bend back this far yesterday.
You couldn't move it all yesterday, you had very limited in all your ranges of motion.
Ya and today I can just move...
He's probably about seventy five percent better in his range of motion in just two visits.
I'll probably see him another time, maybe two more times and we'll probably get you
two back to that one hundred percent range where you're in no pain or your what your
baseline is.
So if you guys have questions about treatment for back pain or hip pain leave a comment
to this video and we'll see everybody on Friday.
Pat thanks for your service.
Yep, thank you very much, appreciate it.