We have our patient here and he has been a patient for a little bit I'm Dr. David
Warwick Warwick Chiropractic in Lacey Olympia Washington and the purpose of
doing this particular video is I have already adjusted him almost like
almost halfway through and that he had mentioned to me hey the gastric reflux a
hiatal hernia the GERD the gerd that you'll see a lot of times when they look
it up on the Internet can be been helped and benefited by utilizing chiropractic
and so one of the things that I do is I help show patients things that you guys
can do at home with someone else assisting in it to help reduce some of
the gastric reflux and that I just want to check just a couple areas of the
spine he's been laying here and relaxing and we're gonna just double check so one
of the primary areas where we have the gastric nerve that goes in to and toward
the stomach that can affect it so typically middle of the back and I
just want to make sure that's cleared out right through there a little bit
more breath in and there was just a little bit more in that area you could
feel it as it moved so I went just down alright lift your head for me and back
down good lift your head back down and just a little traction
and here's what you guys do at home so go ahead bend your knees put your feet
on the table for me just like that it relaxes the abdomen area so I want you
to take your fingertips now the stomach area in the diaphragm the diaphragm is a
dome shaped muscle right here it helps with breathing and respiration but it
also can affect the muscle area so that when you have a pinched nerve the muscle
the sphincter of the muscle goes around and if it's not functioning what caused
gastric juices to come up into the esophagus area and so that's another
area working the diaphragm pulling down on it and adjusting the mid spine right
around t6 sometimes t5 t7 those are the primary areas that will be affected most
chiropractors will look to that so what you do when the patient and is laying on
their back floor or a bed place your hands just like this one over the other
slightly angle them and you'll go right across so point the fingers almost
toward the shoulder just like this and I want you to take a deep breath all the
way in release it out and what I'm doing is just notice how I went gently in like
that and I'm going to do like a scooping motion breath in and so I'm gonna get in
feel out how I'm going a little deeper breath in
okay he just resisted I went a little deeper but I'm pulling down and doing a
scoop breath in and in that pulling down it's not very often someone goes into
that stomach area and you slowly come off of that area right through here take
a breath and just really easy so guys the motion is like a scoop motion like
this with a breath you go in and scoop let them rest with that for a little bit
breath in have them take a breath in scoop some more breath in
scoop some more so you can do that like three or four breath sets a breath the
thing that you want to be careful of because this area can be really
sensitive on the ribs you want to get out far enough away from the ribs
initially so big breath in and blow it out big breath in and blow it out
big breath in and blow out and pulling toward me and then I slowly come off it
everything's really slow and deliberate and you don't want to go hard and fast
on them you can even do are you ticklish here no sorry you can even do a slight
you know where it's pointed straight toward the sternum and then a chest area
to pull it down as well but of course you got to be really careful at the tip
here of the sternum is a xiphoid very sensitive for people so if there's
nauseousness you got to be really careful but you can pull down there as
well so the pull is gently right across
through this area how does that feel on you a little bit better on there so your
significant others or a good friend hopefully can help you doing that now
remember everybody's pain tolerance is a little bit different and sensitivity to
that area so just be mindful about your what you're doing be slow and controlled
with that if you're not getting improvement or results with that or some
kind of changes with the gastric reflux I would say come into your local
chiropractor and most of them are trained to do that kind of technique
especially than adjusting which is where it originates from or where most of the
problem is is coming from the spine that's where we see it so that should
help especially when you're not seeing me a lot of patients report as you will
too I think in the past we've done this in the past or I feel like we have did
you have some improvement when we did this okay so the purpose of this video
was to share with you guys out there so you can do it on your own it's not
difficult it's just knowing what to do with it my patients have that but I
would say there's still an underlying cause in it there's usually a spinal
misalignment associated with it because of the tension in the back so I'm Dr.
David Warwick of Warwick Chiropractic and Lacey Olympia Washington
you feelin okay yes good all right guys I'll see you later
Oh during plenty of water too after doing something like that all right be
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you later bye now