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01/15/2026

You can imagine an ankle that is chronically injured is likely going to end up being a bit UNstable.

Spraining or lengthening of the ankle ligaments will allow greater movement of joints.

Also to add, there will less proprioceptive input with chronic sprained ankles. AKA less muscle activity allowing support.

So what happens is somewhat of a “sloppy” foot and arch collapse. Long term can certainly contribute to a multitude of foot issues, bunions included.

Big picture is to improve ankle stability and “coordination” to ankle stabilizers.

They need more input and activation to do what they’re supposed to do, including support the natural ARCHES of the foot 🦶

I mention the peroneals as a big contributor. These muscles do eversion (the opposite of the direction of most ankle sprains).

Peroneus longus also depresses the first big toe joint which helps in overall ankle and medial arch stability 👏

There’s plenty of balancing exercises that can improve ankle stability. Just need to find a provider to help you along.

You dealing with this? I am too to an extent from a past ankle injury that I don’t think I properly rehabbed (now causing foot issues).

I’m happy to help 🤝 chiropractor with a heavy rehab emphasis. Call in or DM to get on the books. 2026, time to prioritize your health 🫡 😉

01/08/2026

It’s wintertime which means more slips and falls for us northerners. 🧊 ❄️

It’s natural to want to brace your fall by using an outstretched hand.

Unfortunately, we see a lot of wrist injuries because of this.

2 of the more severe injuries would be fracture or dislocation.

The most commonly fractured wrist bone (carpals) is the scaphoid. This carpal bone unfortunately has poor blood supply and is at risk for non-union (harder time healing together properly).

Bracing is important in the case of a fracture to the scaphoid. There are other measures you can take to ensure proper healing. Modalities (laser or acoustic compression), and supplementing for proper bone healing.

A dislocation is most common to the lunate bone. These carpal bones are connected by ligaments, so if there’s a dislocation, you can imagine there had to be some sort of injury sustained to ligaments as well.

As mentioned in the video, a ligamentous sprain (even if minor) is likely the most common issue I would see with a foosh injury.

No worries, give it time. Limit activities that hurt. Bracing may be appropriate for 2-4 weeks pending the severity of injury.

However, I don’t want to downplay an injury. If it’s significant, it may require surgery or advanced treatment 🤝

01/06/2026

I found myself scrolling through a page where the general population was commenting on giving suggestions for a certain issue someone was dealing with, let’s just call it back pain.

“Chiropractor fixed my back pain.”

Next person, “Do NOT see a chiropractor. Quacks, pseudoscience. All they want to do is sell you long treatment packages.”

Next person. “Try physical therapy, helped me!”

“Pelvic floor therapy REALLY helped with my back pain.”

“Steroid injection fixed mine!”

“Did injections, and physical therapy, nothing helped so far.”

“My chiro helped me tremendously!”

“Massage did the trick!”

“Saw a chiropractor who insisted on x-rays and 36 visits. No thanks.”

“Muscle relaxers didn’t touch it. Ended up doing physical therapy with relief.”

“Saw a chiropractor one time. No relief.”

“Physical therapy wasn’t for me, I just opted for an injection. Helped a bit, but still in pain.”

I made all of these up, but these are the types of responses I read or hear all the time.

*By the way, back pain could be: muscle strain, facet syndrome, discitis, disc bulge, disc herniation, muscle spasm, thoracolumbar fascia tear, facet cyst, central canal stenosis, fracture, cancer, lateral canal stenosis, scoliosis, facet arthrosis, facet tropism, spinal ligament sprain, SI joint fixation, referral from GI issues…etc. get my point, I wouldn’t treat all these the same way.

Yes, you should absolutely take into consideration what has helped you or friend/family member in the past.

Maybe it didn’t help completely, but that doesn’t mean it’s totally useless for everyone.

People too often label certain therapies as “bad” just because it may not have cured them instantly 🤷‍♂️ wink wink…

Careful with the latest trends too that will claim to cure things quickly and easily. Easy to get roped into trying something new, not saying don’t do it but do your research 🤝

Bottom line is you can’t really compare your health and clinical experience with someone else’s. Everyone presents differently with different histories that us providers need to take into consideration.

01/05/2026

Magnesium has been widely recognized in its importance for having a calming effect. Muscle soreness, stress, and can acts as a sleep aid.

These are just a few examples, but what I deal with everyday is tight or guarded tissues ❌

Whether from an injury, or chronically tight muscles…

While there are plenty of treatments or therapies can I and you can do, topical magnesium seems to prove to be very effective and fast acting 👍

Magnesium CHLORIDE seems to be the best option for topical use.

* if you are not aware, there are about 10-15 forms of magnesium that are commonly used. Top 4 you may have heard are magnesium glycinate, citrate, malate, and threonate.

So if you are taking any, make sure you’re taking the proper form based on what it is you’re looking to target.

As always, this is just one little piece of the puzzle of “fixing or correcting” an issue that is creating someone’s symptoms.

Bottom line, if it works for you, go for it 🤝

12/29/2025

Saw this one this morning ☝️the pectineus muscle is a small muscle in the front/inside part of the groin.

It’s a muscle that is part of the adductors that function to adduct (bring leg toward midline) as flex the hip.

Why do I see this strained in runners + athletes? 🤷‍♂️

Well when the affect leg is planted, you need good stability of the pelvis. The glutes are a big part of providing this stability, so hopefully they are activating properly ✅

The adductors in general tend to overwork due to lack of pelvic stability by the glutes.

Lack of glute/pelvic stability will create internal rotation of the hip, SHORTENING the pectineus.

An anterior pelvic tilt will also create excessive internal rotation and likely overload the adductors with LESS glute activation.

Try it out! I play around with this all the time when I’m working out on my own. Various positions of the pelvis will affect which muscles are activated. It’s very hard to get good glute activation when it an anteriorly tilted pelvis.

These are just some findings associated with strained adductors. I’m generalizing obviously, but you need to address tight muscles as well as strengthen the weak ones.. big picture, work on proper mechanics through your activity or sport 🤝

12/10/2025

You ever feel that grinding sensation in your neck?!

Well, good news is it’s not really anything to be majorly concerned about. 👍

There will likely be various thoughts on the cause of this, but this is what makes the most sense to me ☝️ (compared to gas bubbles, tissues snapping..)

We need to look at 2 main things with crepitus.
1. The facet joints (cartilage)
2. The synovial fluid

As mentioned, cartilage thinning or damage will not allow as smooth of a gliding surface area. This is to be expected as we age. Some “damage” worse than others…

The synovial fluid, hyaluronic acid, and overall hydration decreases as we age. This = less slippery joints.

More “sticky” joints and less surface area for the synovial fluid to actually move through motion is likely the cause of the “slushing or grinding” feeling.

There may be advanced ways to improve the actual cartilage (another future post), but more MOVEMENT actually helps production of the synovial fluid!

You notice the more you move, the less sandpaper feeling in the joints? 🙋‍♂️

So as always, and for MULTIPLE reasons, keep moving 🤝

Is this news to you? Share with someone who you think would like to know 🤝

12/08/2025

Here are the 3 most common muscles than can create headaches ☝️

The upper traps, suboccipitals, and the SCM.

ALL of which can be affected by a prolonged forward posture. Not saying that is the sole reason for headaches, but the tone of these muscles will be affected negatively with a forward posture…

I mention other things like stress and water + nutrient intake, for example, in relation to the tissues causing symptoms.

*there’s multiple potential reasons for a headache obviously…

Trigger points are often developed by LACK of blood flow and oxygen. This is the reason to try to increase localized blood flow through manual techniques 👍

Heating the tissues is also something I commonly recommend to improve trigger points/hypoxic tissues.

I also recommend MOVEMENT! What do you know 😉 movement will improve blood flow and get muscles to contract/relax.

Are you getting headaches and think it’s from tight muscles? I’m happy to help. Don’t let the DC scare you from someone touching your neck…Gentle, easy movements in effort to free up trigger points and improve joint mobility 🤝 pretty straight forward and easy to work on 👍

12/05/2025

Had an interesting case of RIB pain recently…

As a “rehab” doctor, I’m used to primarily working with muscles, bones, joints and exercise, movement mechanics, injuries, etc..

I’m not a gut specialist, but this case ☝️I thought was interesting as it MIMICS what I would normally see on a weekly basis.

Important to note… questions. I take time and ask a lot of questions, as a good history should tell you most of what you need to know/treat 👍

12/03/2025

If someone is presenting with low back pain, I need to know what structures are involved.

Unfortunately, there’s not ONE way to treat back pain. One stretch, one movement, one exercise, one adjustment, one supplement…etc. that’s not to say those things won’t work, but it’s not universal for everyone’s pain 🤷‍♂️

So is it the soft tissue? The joints? The intervetebral discs? Nerve involvement?

You can have multiple structures involved as well, and in fact I would expect it (think of muscle guarding with a disc injury).

Joint vs. disc issues would likely require different stretches/movement and suggestions for at home.

Certain positions may feel better/worse when comparing these two, for example.

So the next time you see “THE stretch to cure low back pain,” just know there’s not one particular thing that works for everyone. You need to understand the anatomy, movement mechanics, and how to treat whatever you’ve got going on 🤝

12/01/2025

Anyone else bust out the shovel over the weekend? 🙋‍♂️😅

Here are 2️⃣ easy cues for shoveling I like to keep in mind.

1. Lift with your legs, duh… pretty straight forward but you’ll notice if you ONLY hinge or bend through the spine, that’s likely where you’ll feel it.

I’m obviously not saying you’ll for sure get hurt or feel sore, but you’ll be using some smaller muscles that are *more easily* strained 🤝

So to me it makes sense to do your best to use larger and likely stronger muscles to help move weight around!

2. Play around with your hand position. You’ll notice a closer grip is much harder to hold heavier snow than a wider grip. More leverage..

So use larger muscles, which requires your movement mechanics to be on point 👌 and play around with your grip and hand position.

An extra tip: take more steps if you’re just throwing snow over your shoulder. I’d normally say rotate through your hips not your back, but to simplify, just take a few more steps and actually FACE the direction you’re throwing the snow. This takes away the need to twist in the back 🤝

11/19/2025

You notice just about everything we do with our arms is IN FRONT of us…? Hence, try this stretch reaching behind you ☝️ 🤝

Tightness in the front of the shoulder is very common. In fact, I expect chronic tightness to this area in just about everyone I assess 🤷‍♂️

Pec stretches are often then recommended in effort to lengthen the chest muscles. However, I find that adding this stretch in ☝️ really helps target the front of the shoulder.

In particular, the anterior deltoid, coracobrachialis, biceps, and the anterior part of the shoulder capsule are lengthened when doing this stretch.

Reach arm back WITHOUT compensating. Compensation would likely look like a trunk bend forward in effort to get more range of motion, or a shoulder hike ❌

Don’t compromise quantity of motion with quality 👌

A little cue is to keep arms close to body and internally rotate the arm so palms face upward. This will allow for the greatest stretch anteriorly at the shoulder 👍

Just an easy tip and stretch to try out. If you’re dealing with ongoing shoulder issues, I’d be happy to assess it. Therapy is very hands on with a lot of soft tissue treatment likely followed by exercise prescription 🤝

Call in or DM to schedule ☎️

11/03/2025

The tibialis anterior is a muscle on the front side of the shin that functions to lift your ankle upward (dorsiflexion).

Weakness here is very COMMON, and unfortunately can put increased load and stress through the knee over time.

Since this muscle brings the ankle upward, you can expect to see a “slapping” of the foot on the ground if this muscle is fatigued or WEAK. 👎

It helps to “decelerate” and bring the foot in contact with the ground in a smooth fashion. Remember our normal gait pattern of walking should be heel to toe.

Two common compensations for weakness here, or lack of ankle dorsiflexion are:

•swinging the leg in a circular motion to clear the ground (circumduction)
•bringing foot out (external rotation), which won’t require as much ankle mobility (kind of a cheat…)

Especially important in RUNNERS, or athletes ☝️☝️ do not WAIT until you get shin splints or knee pain. Test the strength and endurance of this muscle and motion 🤝

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I am happy to be transitioning to Holland, MI (from Grand Rapids) and offer my services to this community. My effort is get patients out of pain as soon as possible, but truly go after their root cause of discomfort. Many, if not most of the time, symptoms arise due to muscular imbalances through the body. My job is to find these imbalances, treat the dysfunction, and strengthen muscles where necessary. I do not only treat athletes or sports injuries, but I believe in restoring movement and mobility through the body in order to function properly.