Hey everybody, it's Doctor Blake Kalkstein, and I'm here with Rebecca.
Rebecca has neck pain.
And first of all happy Friday everybody.
And so we're going to show you here, been doing a lot of stuff with the staff, we're
going to show you an actual treatment of neck pain of someone who's under active care in
our office.
So Rebecca has neck pain on the right side, and she started coming in a couple of weeks
ago.
You felt, you were starting to feel really good with some of the treatment...
Better ya.
A lot better, how long will you have a headache sore?
About two, three years.
Three years of headaches.
And so now the headaches are off and on now, right?
They're much better with headaches.
And when she does have a headache she comes in right away, we treat her, we do some active
release, we're just her and she starts to feel a lot better.
And so, woke up this morning with some neck pain.
It's greater on the right side, kind of gradually got worse as the day went on.
So turn your head this way for me.
And she starts to feel some neck pain right here.
She goes about five0 degrees.
Now go this way for me.
And then she moves a lot better going that way, but she got some pain down between her
shoulder blades.
So we are going to show you active Release on the upper cervical, we're going to adjust
your neck, we're going to adjust her mid-back, and then we're going to check that range of
motion again.
Okay?
So glasses off, stand on the platform for me.
So if I look at Rebecca's chart real quick, this is your fifth, your fourth time.
So she's only been coming in three times, headache for three years.
In three treatments we've reduced her headaches from constantly for three years down to, how
many headaches have you had since we started working?
I had one, and I came in with it, and that it was gone after.
Immediately after we adjusted you right?
Ya.
So three years of headaches gone.
Woke up one day, had a headache, we adjusted her, we brought her back in the next day,
that it was gone.
So we're working on some posture strengthening exercises for her, we're working on some neck
strengthening exercises, but today we're going to show you how we are just her, how we do
soft tissue treatment with her.
So a lot of things that people miss when they're doing headaches, a lot of clinicians they
don't look for, I’m going to doctors will say take a muscle relaxer, or work on your
posture, or stretch things.
But a lot of you know, eye doctor will address the joints in the neck and the suboccipital
muscles.
You know you take a muscle relaxer, it helps for a little bit but if the joints are really
locked up, you're still going to have pain.
What's your experience with headache?
How many doctors did you go to?
I've gone to three.
I've gotten MRIs and everything done.
Taking medicine every night for it, and still...
Still having headaches.
So when we examined her we noticed a little tender over here.
So just relax your head I'm just going to do some soft tissue work here.
So if you're dealing with headaches, you've been to three doctors, you're taking medication,
you're still not having.
I mean it's so common in the office, we have someone come in and say: I've had headaches
for three years, but after I got your adjustments for a couple weeks my headaches have been
gone, stay gone.
And I work on some posture and stuff.
And so you made the right choice to come over here to get worked on.
The right now we're just doing an Active Release Technique on her suboccipital.
It's real tight right there.
There you go.
But the right shoulder drop for me.
There you go.
Let's next roll over on your stomach.
So next, we did Active Release which is a just her neck.
We're going to adjust her mid-back next, kind of weird she was feeling that pulling sensation
when she would turn her head.
And come down here, that we're going to stand her back up, and we're going to look at a
range of motion again.
Headaches or so common out there the research of what America spends money on when it comes
to Health Care needs, lower back pains is obviously number one.
It affects 80% the population at least once in their lives, where they've got to miss
work.
So it's so common, that's why we're so good at it because everyone has it.
Headaches is number five.
Until the problem is a lot of people just throw medication at it, throw muscle relaxers
have it, they don't really go at it, you can't treat the root cause of it.
You know, if it's a joint dysfunction, if it's migraine headache, you know there's a
big type of migraine headache, there's cluster headache, and then the big thing is people
miss a lot is cervicogenic headaches, which is headache caused by neck pain or neck problem,
and that's what's going on here here.
And boom we found what was wrong with her and boom the headache started to go away.
Now she's been having the headaches for three years, and her next been stuck probably for
like five years.
The joint's been irritated or locked up for a long time.
So it's going to take a couple of treatments to really release the joints and get them
to stabilize and calm down.
And so that's what we're doing here with Rebecca.
So she's a little locked up right here.
Take a deep breath in, and out.
Let that loose.
There you go.
That was a good one huh?
And so she has limited range of motion to the right, put your glasses back on for me
so you can see.
Let's see you turn your head to the right now.
Oh look, that's just phenomenal.
Any pain?
No.
And now come towards me.
And so perfect range of motion both ways.
Now is that still pulling down here?
No.
And neck pains better.
Ya.
So there you go, that's awesome.
That's incredible, so, combine this with some posture exercises that we're doing in the
office, and stretches that you're doing at home, some ice therapy, and we get results.
So if you have any questions about headaches or neck pain, a comment to this video and
we'll see everybody next week.
Thanks, bye.