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- Hello Baltimore, it's Dr. Jeff Kalkstein
with Doctors Adolph & Kalkstein Chiropractic
here at Baltimore area chiropractic,
and I have Deb with me and I'll let Deb tell your story.
First of all, how did you get referred to us?
- Well, my goddaughter, Pam, gave your name to us,
and my husband came to see you, he was really happy
with the results, and then I started having some hip pain
and it was radiating down to my knee
and right up here near the groin,
so I've had two treatments,
and I've already improved about 70%.
- In two visits. How long were you having your pain
before you came in to see us?
- Probably about two weeks.
It was strong enough it was waking me up
in the evening, and--
- Were you having difficulty sleeping,
lying on your hips? - Yes, yes.
- Both hips? - Absolutely. Both hips.
And then I've had knee problems as well,
and you surprised me--
- But you didn't come for the knee though, did you?
- No I did not, and I was really gun shy
to let you touch it and you said something
about adjusting, and I was like, "Okay,"
and it really helped. It really helped.
- And so the hip pain was daily?
- Yes.
- Constant? - Yes.
Not only when I was sleeping and laying on my hips,
the burning down here on the leg was constant.
- So you even had some burning pain
down the front of the leg.
- Yes, yes.
- So on a scale of 0-10, what was your pain level like?
- I think it was as high as a seven, an eight.
- Well, enough to wake you up at night, right?
- Yes, it was waking me up.
- And then she also had some knee pain, right?
So after the first visit she felt really better, didn't you?
- I did.
- Yeah and then she came back in again and
she wouldn't let me touch her knee the first time
and so what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna show you
how I set her knee, and it's really a basic adjustment
that not everybody does. It's a pretty sweet technique.
- It was.
- I think what we're gonna do after this
since she's feeling so much better,
with her permission we're gonna show her
some core stabilization to strengthen her core,
'cause we need that as a foundation,
and then we're gonna show her how to
strengthen her glute muscles in order to protect her knee,
and we're gonna strengthen her quad,
and I think if she does those types of activities
she'll have some really great results.
So show us where your knee pain is, right?
- Usually what happens is like this, and what'll happen is
I'll be walking and it'll sort of give and then pop back in,
and it's painful when it gives.
- When it gives, yes.
So the analogy I use, it's really simple,
and actually this is not a chiropractic manipulation,
this is more of a bone setting technique,
when the knee is in the proper position,
it's really locked in there very nice like that.
But sometimes it just shifts out
and gets just that sloppiness to it
that laxity to it, right?
And when it gets like that sometimes,
you irritate the nerves that are around the knee, right?
And so this technique is designed to take
that little bit of a joint play
that's not as snug as it should be,
and we just set it back into place.
It'll stay that way, and if we can strengthen
the muscles around that it'll be a really nice fix for you,
and it's relatively noninvasive,
very inexpensive to do.
- And I was surprised it was not painful. Very surprised.
- So you were really gun shy even though your husband
had great results, right?
- Oh I was gun shy, absolutely, especially with my knee.
- A doubting Thomas, maybe. Right?
So the only thing I want the crowd to see is,
well we'll do another video,
but let's have you go on your tummy, face down,
we're gonna set the knee, right? Right there.
Lean right in there for me.
And then all I want you to do is
once you get down there,
I just want you to lift that bad knee side foot
up in the air a little bit. Now set it back down again.
I'm just gonna make you a little bit more comfortable.
- Yeah, I need something under that.
- So we're just gonna support that a little bit
because if she puts it into extension,
what I do is I go through what I call a
"dog and pony show," I have the patient
hyperextend their knee
before I set their knee,
and then what we do is we set the knee
and we go through that same show
and the improvement is pretty remarkable, right?
So I'll just lightly set this, right?
(leg pops)
There you go.
And it's really a very straightforward technique,
so if you're having knee pain, I tell ya,
it beats a cortisone shot, right?
Okay go ahead and stand up for me. Alright.
So is there anything else you wanna say
to those folks in Baltimore at all before we finish up here?
- Yes. If you're having hip or knee problems,
this is the guy to come see, absolutely.
- [Voice Outside Room] What about me?
- Just him.
- This is actually the office to come to, right?
Because Dr. Blake is with us, and Jonathan,
and Ashley, and Heather, they do a marvelous job.
It's a great experience, right?
- It is. It is. I've been really happy.
- Thank you Baltimore. We'll see you soon.