- I have a neurological tick in my neck.
It gets worse when I'm stressed or I'm tired,
just kinda like my head starts shaking.
And I can crack it on one side but not on the other.
I have some wrist pain that's relatively new.
But I also have shoulder pain which is
has been going on for a while longer,
mostly in my right shoulder and I know I have flat feet.
But I also have some in my left arch right now.
And some postural issues. - Alright, got it.
So how long that neurological tick been going on?
- At least since high school so that would
be like eight years or something, nine years.
- Eight to nine years. - Yeah.
- [Dr] Got it, okay and what about the neck pain.
How long has that been going on?
- That's kind of, I think it's connected to the tick
'cause it hurts when I do the tick.
Sometimes it like closes up.
- Got it, okay so here's the deal, okay.
So now we're talking about your neurological ticks.
The neck discomfort, the right wrist that's been an issue,
both flat feet and we're gonna connect the dots.
So there's three structure abnormalities we identified on
here, the major one that set everything all off in the
very beginning is this fifth lumbar right over here.
So why don't we take a look at this down here
even though you have no pain there whatsoever.
It's because this, okay, so if you're foundation's
is so strong and stable, everything else above it is
gonna be strong and stable, unstable foundation,
everything else above it's gonna be unstable.
So if we take a look over here, this is nice.
This is what normal's supposed
to look like, that's straight.
Does that look straight to you?
- No, it tilts a little to the left.
- Right now, what your body, what it's doing is
curving this way, there's another curve this way
and then it curves literally this way and curves that way
again, right, so why is it doing all that?
All response to this structure right over here.
So that bone, what it's doing right now is I wanna see
in the center line, however, what it's doing is
went over to the left and tilted over this way.
So that's where all these bones are following.
They're just following whatever the last bone was doing
as well so that's why we see this arch going on.
However, because our head has to be level and straight,
if that body did the way it does this way and then this way,
we'll be going straight this way but no, our head
has to be here so what happened is everything started
compensating and rotating to keep this Noggin straight.
So that's why we see all these compensating curvatures
going this way, that way, so on and so forth, alright.
So there's three structural abnormalities but the major
one started all off with this fifth lumbar over here.
The sixth one is also we need to correct as well, most.
I'm sorry, more like we have to verify and check,
see if this needs to be corrected
and also this first dorsal vertebrae as well.
And everything else in terms of your neck,
actually it's in very good condition.
You feel neck pain over here, I don't see
any structure abnormalities over in that area.
So these areas, I want to take a really close look at,
see if they need to be corrected.
Right there.
We start up with our patient, check for any swelling
edema and this part over here, there's quite a bit of
swelling, should be nice to see over here, you feel that?
It's very foggy on the left side over here.
Not so much on the right side but over here.
There's a lot of edema going on over here.
Next part we're gonna check is, move the patient,
see what's moving, what's not moving.
It's a little bit stuck in that sacrum over here.
But not too bad but right there, that fifth lumbar.
How's that right there? - Ouch.
- Tender, right?
Tender right there, huh? - A little bit, yeah.
Ouch, yeah, ouch, ouch, ouch. - That's the six.
Tender right there a bit? - A little.
I hear crack a lot. - I understand that.
And you already demonstrate some ticks.
It's not smooth, steady tilting your head to the right.
- Yeah, it feels stuck. - Your neck is stuttering
a bit, okay so all the structures in your neck is fine.
Now because you're flexible, that's why I need
to stretch you a little more, okay.
Come up.
Okay, walk around a bit.
- I feel a little bit dizzy. - That's very common.
Because we changed your center of gravity.
- Yeah, it feels very different.
- Different in what way?
- Like I'm standing more on my feet.
- Good. (laughing)
- Which should happen, obviously, normally.
Yeah, it feels like I don't have to flex my muscles
in order to have a better posture.
This, right there.
- It feels like I'm more straight, straight up and down.
- The reason why, okay, you feel a lot more straighter
is because this sixth dorsal vertebrae.
Notice how everything is aiming towards that way,
towards the left, like this way so what I did was
this sixth dorsal vertebrae, I realigned that sixth
dorsal vertebrae, that's why it's much more upright.
That's why you feel your neck and everything else more
upright, okay, it does so, right?
- Yeah. - Yeah.
So before your head and neck, making a lot of ticks
when I was tilting your head towards the right.
How do you like that, it's much more smoother.
- Yeah.
- Not doing those ticks anymore.
Okay, where the elbow over here, the radius is fine.
But what I'm seeing here is increased joint space over here.
And the reason why is because this omar bone, that's
stuck and it's not moving right, that has been misaligned.
So this is the one, I wanna take a much more closer look at.
This is rotated badly on the lateral side so over here.
We're gonna take a look, now we checked.
I understand you're experiencing pain and discomfort
in this wrist over here, so when I check it, okay.
This should move up and downwards without a problem.
This Omar bone, feel the difference here, it's too wobbly.
It's way too loose compared to the left, you feel this?
It's much more stable, it's not as loose
as compared to the right side, this one over here.
It's is, right, it's like flapping like a piece of paper
in the wind, there's way too much movement in here.
So the reason why there's too much movement over here.
This is your body's way of compensating meaning if
something's stuck on the elbow because the omar bone
is from this point to this point over here.
So from these two points, if one side's stuck,
the other side will move a lot more to compensate.
So since this is moving way too much,
the problem is actually here, even though
you don't experience any pain here whatsoever.
That's where the problem is, tender right there?
- [Patient] Yeah, I feel it in my fingers actually.
- [Dr] Exactly, this is swelling right over here.
Right on this spot, this is between your humorous
and the omar, okay, your radio head's right over here.
So this omar over here is misaligned.
- [Patient] Oh yeah, it's tender there.
- Exactly whereas over here, see, it's nice and flat.
I don't see any swelling, not as tender, not even close
other than my finger pressure in there, right?
So we identified it so this is the one we need to correct.
Right there. - Oh yeah.
- Feel that difference now, it's not as hyper mobile
as much, the left foot, you have some flat feet over there.
What I noticed, it's not as bad as your other foot.
This one over here, when I noticed more importantly is
the toe is over here, it's a little bit elevated this way.
So this one anti superior, this is what we need to correct
and that's why you see all the other structures in your
medial arch has collapsed, that's why this, you see
over here has sunken in, I wanna see this nice and level
like this, see this ditch going on over here?
All collapsed from this so that's what we need to correct.
Now with your right foot, okay, this one, we got
other things going on, the torus is not too bad.
There's some compromise but what I notice here more
is your inferior navicular, this is the navicular bone.
I want to see it again as straight.
However with this bone, what it did was it swivels downwards
and that's what we see here, it's much more protuberance
on the bottom part, more sticking out here.
And also the first canaliform, same deal over here as well.
You want downwards, okay, that's why you feel this one
more fixated and more stuck, there's more there.
So these two, I'm gonna take a closer look, see what's
going on, see what needs to be corrected in that one.
Feel the difference over here, okay.
This is the navicular and this is first canaliform.
Feel that bony part over there, feel it over here.
It's not as pronounced verses your right.
- Oh wow, yeah. - Feel the difference,
now, right, this one over here, these two we need corrected.
But I want to correct this navicular first before
we go after the first canaliform, okay.
That's it, walk around.
- [Patient] Yeah, it feels like the left foot.
- [Dr] Feel the difference in that arch now?
- Yeah, yeah, it's all in the arch.
It feels like I have more space in the arch.
- Good.
There it is.
What's different do you notice in your feet right now?
- Well my right arch doesn't feel like there's
something hard in it, like I guess the bone was there.
And the left food feels the ankle feels like
I have more mobility flexing and pointing.
- This is not an overnight thing.
In order to restore your arches, in those,
especially with severe arches like I seen in that one,
this is approximately nine to 12 month project.
That's exactly right so not only do we need to correct this
fifth lumbar, the low back, we'll have to restore the
nerve function to both of your feet and at the same time,
correct the feet, while we're at it, you give your body
the time it needs to rebuild those arches.
So it can be done, it just needs time.
- So it's a little better, I feel like at least my lower
back is more relaxed, especially if I concentrate on
relaxing it, I feel like it relaxes more than it used to.
My neck isn't shaking too much anymore, still slightly.
But not as much as before.
- So those neuro ticks is not as pronounced
and as bad as it used to.
- Yeah and I do feel more space in my right foot arch.
I don't feel bone sticking out.
So the neuro ticks are basically gone.
I'm a lot more relaxed in my shoulders.
And my elbow and my wrist feel a lot better.
At the beginning, I was having trouble like opening doors,
it really hurt and twisting jars.
And I feel like I can straighten my arms a little bit
better, still not completely
but a lot more than I could before.