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- Hi everybody, it's Dr. Blake from Kalkstein Chiropractor,
Baltimore area chiropractor, and I've got Ted in the office,
the Fourth. - The Fourth.
- Yes, Ted's a firefighter in Maryland, coming up to see us
for trigger-point, left shoulder-blade, neck pain,
we found some other stuff on exam...
This is your first visit. - Yes.
- And you found us on YouTube, so thank you YouTube for
keep promoting us, and getting guys like him
to come in and see us, what were you expecting
when you came into the office,
what was your expectations of the visit like?
- Uh, professional, kind of more of like, sports medicine
recovery-based medicine, as opposed to,
"we're gonna adjust you and send you on your way,
"and see you in two weeks."
- Gotcha.
So, was there a lot of paperwork that you had to fill out?
- Two packets of paperwork, pretty simple.
- Normal for going to the doctor's office--
- For a first visit. - Yeah,
normal for a first-time visit.
Did you have to wait long?
- Nope.
Filled out my paperwork, sat on the table
and before I could even sit back down, they're like,
"hey, come on back."
- Cool.
Everyone friendly, or were they rude to you?
- Very friendly, very professional, just, five stars.
- Five stars, awesome.
So, when we examined you, we looked at your posture,
we looked at range of motion in your neck,
we test some orthopedic tests
and we tested some muscle strength.
Did this find some things on you
that you didn't know existed?
- Yeah.
- So, it was good to get checked out.
- Absolutely. - He said,
coming in to see us, I thought it would get better on my own
and it wasn't getting better,
I wanted to come get checked out.
- Right.
- So, when we examined you, we know that knot's back
behind your left shoulder blade on top of your trap,
we also found some, a little bit of weakness in your arm,
that can be coming from some pressure in his neck,
but also can be coming just from like,
the muscles are tight, so we wanted to find that,
and we wouldn't have known that if we hadn't examined you,
right? - Absolutely.
- The good news is we're gonna check him after we adjust him
and he'll probably get strong again, that's how good it is.
So we said, "are you afraid of needles?"
- Nope.
- We dry-needled you today? - Yep.
- How'd that feel?
- Felt great, I mean, a little sore afterwards, but--
- Sure. - There's definitely relief.
- Is this the first time you've been needled?
- Yes.
- Was it scary?
- Little apprehension, you know,
you don't know what it's gonna feel like,
- Sure, right. - But it's just like
the first one goes in, it's "oh, that wasn't that bad,
"I mean, this is easy." - Yeah.
So we dropped about 20 needles
into your neck and upper back...
You didn't know that number, did you?
- Didn't know that that was that many.
- So, couple sore spots, couple spots you didn't feel,
it's pretty benign I think, you know,
we couldn't help but cause sore spots, you're like,
"oh, I can feel that, or that's a good one,"
we put some ultrasound, and stem on you afterwards.
How did that feel?
- That felt great
- Yeah.
We like doing the office as doing a dry needle, and
then doing a heat therapy right afterwards as really
effective for bringing fresh blood to the area and
speeding up the healing process. So, ultrasound,heat and
stem therapy, uh, depending on the region a class four
laser is really powerful too.
Um, we kinda use that for achilles tendenitis, wrist stuff,
its not so great on the neck cause of the depth of tissue
we gotta do through, the ultrasound goes down deeper
than the laser. So, uh, that felt good.
So now we're gonna adjust you.
You've been adjusted before, its just been a while?
- Yes.
- At least ten years?
- Yes.
- Okay, stand on that black platform for me.
- Back?
- On your back please.
Go, lean in.
So, before we adjust him, he could turn his head left,
this way about fifty degrees, pain started to feel kinda
behind that shoulder blade, right?
- Yeah.
- Then he went right, and he'd go sixty degrees a little
bit more, but his pain was more In his left neck.
And we brought him back here, he could go to about here.
Again pressure here.
He'd go to about here, he moved pretty well going forward.
What really bothered him was moving back like this, and
down. That's where you got that really, that big
discomfort in the lower shoulder blade, right?
- Yes.
- So, just remember those numbers in your head.
So we're just gonna adjust him, we're gonna bring him
back up, this is one take, we're gonna check his
strength again, we're gonna look at his range of motion.
So, c'mon over to this side liam.
When you called to schedule the appointment, did
you go online and do an email, or did you give us ring?
- Phone call
we pick up right away?
- Absolutely.
- Did you get the appointment you wanted?
- Yup.
- Did we take your insurance?
- Yes.
- Was that important for you?
- Yes.
- Yeah, so let that left shoulder drop.
(neck snaps)
- Wow.
- So we adjusted on ya, C six, that's where, when we
examined you and we looked at all those symptoms that were
going on, C five, C six, that's where the most
lock joint was going on.
So, um, the nice thing about coming to a professional
who adjusts people is that we find the most
restricted joint, and we treat the most restricted joint.
When someone cracks their own neck, they're getting the
easiest joint to move, which not necessarily is the one
you need the most.
Does that make sense?
So, you're gonna turn your head this way, this hands
gonna come here, this is our first rib adjustment we do.
I take my pieza form, and put it right on that first rib.
His head is rotated away, and laterally flex down.
That pops that first rib up into my hand.
Reach this arm around, and grab my opposite shoulder.
Just hold on, and I'm gonna lift you up.
So, I lean back, and I pull his shoulder blade out
of the way.
I'm gonna come down like this.
That was so easy.
- Oh god.
- Did you feel that one?
- Oh yes.
- Yeah.
- That felt great.
- Yeah.
So, lets stand up.
When it goes so smooth I just get a big smile on my face.
Its such an easy adjustment.
Go and step on off for me here.
Good.
We've done a lot of work on you here today.
- Yeah.
- Just coming off the table, how does it feel right now?
- Good.
- Yeah, are you...
- Almost immediate relief.
- Yeah.
- That was fantastic.
- Now turn your head that way, please.
- Pain about right here.
- You saw the first exam, right?
How much better is that from a range of motion?
He went about...
- At least twenty degrees better.
- Yeah, twenty degrees range of motion.
Now go this way, please.
- Pain about here.
- Yeah.
And that's seventy, right there, and that's probably
uh, so right away you got fifty percent better range of
motion in your neck.
Bend your head backwards.
Less pressure?
- Yes.
- Try take you back over like this.
Does that feel better than it did the first time?
- Yes.
- Yeah, good.
All right, arms up like this.
I'm gonna push down.
Good.
Arms in here.
I'm gonna pull don't let me pull.
- You got it.
(grunts)
- Any of that discomfort back there?
- No.
- Strengths back?
- Yup.
- Just a little bit, there's just a little bit left
that I can see if I can go full effort on you.
Just to get a little bit of movement.
So, probably at ninety five percent better.
I'm gonna push in here, don't let me push.
Good.
So, still collapses a little bit, but when we first
did it for you, it was like...
- It was..
- It went right away.
- It was almost immediate pain, and pressure.
- Pressure, pain back here, weakness.
- Yeah.
- Any pressure here now?
Weakness here?
- Little bit.
- Just smidge right?
But a lot better from our first visit, right?
And so we got a student doc over there, I don't think
she wants to be on camera, Liam, but she, her voice does.
Was that better from exam we looked at?
- [Student] It was much better.
- Yeah.
So, what can you expect your first visit when you
come to us?
Quick and easy paper work, right?
- Yeah.
- You get seen right away.
- Yup.
- Friendly staff.
- Absolutely.
- Treatment on your first visit, and its effective.
- Yes.
Visible results.
- Mhm.
- So you guys have any questions about how we take care
of patients in our office, leave a comment below,
be happy to answer it as soon as I can.
Um, and if your in the Baltimore, D.C., Maryland area,
you wanna come up and see us, we'd be happy to see you
as well.
- Well worth it.
- There ya go.
Thanks for watching.
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