Ladies..
just wanted to introduce myself...
I'm a chiropractor and I found this site while doing some research for my scoli patient's tx options...
I was looking into spinecor and the thread title caught my attention...
I've followed through some of your posts and must say I'm impressed and will recommend my patient for this brace..
BTW, I noticed some of you mentioned vestibular testing device. Since I do not do that in my office and I do not have Dimplomate of Neurology (3 additional post doctorate education) I can't say I know exactly how it works..but I could shed some principles since some of the technique I use is based on the same principle..and alot of sports rehab does now...the knowledge of human body has been so limited up until past decade and all the new studies pouring out are making big changes in the way we think of the body...the seemingly weirdest and most complex area would be the neurology lol..
Anyway, let me give you a simple example of what I do and perhaps you'll get the gist of the device. When a patient complains of spinal muscle spasm or contraction, there are several ways to lengthen the shortened muscles...one of the ways is what's called muscle energy technique...you have the patient move as far as he/she can to the restricted side, then have them do isometric contraction on that spasmodic muscle, relax..and you can move a little further...and you keep doing it until you achieve optimal results...and it works quite good...now...there is a procedure that actually helps this process along and that's using eye muscles...when patient is doing isometric contraction, patient rolls eyes towards the contracted side..and when they relax and it's time to stretch, eyes are rolled to the side the neck is being stretched to...
Eye muscles seem to be connected to your skeletal muscles (the pathway is too complicated to explain here...and most doctors cannot recite this anyway lol) and do effect their actions...I could give you a simple demonstration right now...
Now..it's pretty simple...so try it right now...
Roll your eyes to far right wall...stare at it...roll it all the way to right and keep it there...do not move it...while you have your eyes there, try rotating your head to left...you'll find it a bit challenging..
Now, roll your eyes to left all the way and rotate to left..same side...you'll find it much easier and you can rotate quite farther...
Muscles contract and relax with different cues from your brain and many things effect your brain...eye muscles are one of the primary ones..
I think there was a study that scoli patients always have eye muscle imbalance...dont' quote me on that...I'll have to look that up myself...
Dr. Deutsch (SP?) some of you mentioned is a Diplomate of Neurology and teaches this...
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Oh..I also noticed some of you mentioned Dr. Ron out in CA...that's the doc i'll be referring my patients to for bracing...he's the only guy out here...i'm looking into accreditation for spinecore fitting myself...I can't believe some of you are flying to different states or countries to get this done...hopefully, spinecor will be the standard for bracing and more Dr's will offer the fitting service...the process is quite rigorous...probably one of the reason why there aren't too many centers at this point...
anyway...thanx for all the good info..i've learned so much from this thread...Now i can let my patients know all the pros and cons of spinecor from patient point of view...
I'll be lurking around to learn more from you guys so if you have any questions regarding chiropractic aspect of tx, I could certainly share some input..
just wanted to introduce myself...
I'm a chiropractor and I found this site while doing some research for my scoli patient's tx options...
I was looking into spinecor and the thread title caught my attention...
I've followed through some of your posts and must say I'm impressed and will recommend my patient for this brace..
BTW, I noticed some of you mentioned vestibular testing device. Since I do not do that in my office and I do not have Dimplomate of Neurology (3 additional post doctorate education) I can't say I know exactly how it works..but I could shed some principles since some of the technique I use is based on the same principle..and alot of sports rehab does now...the knowledge of human body has been so limited up until past decade and all the new studies pouring out are making big changes in the way we think of the body...the seemingly weirdest and most complex area would be the neurology lol..
Anyway, let me give you a simple example of what I do and perhaps you'll get the gist of the device. When a patient complains of spinal muscle spasm or contraction, there are several ways to lengthen the shortened muscles...one of the ways is what's called muscle energy technique...you have the patient move as far as he/she can to the restricted side, then have them do isometric contraction on that spasmodic muscle, relax..and you can move a little further...and you keep doing it until you achieve optimal results...and it works quite good...now...there is a procedure that actually helps this process along and that's using eye muscles...when patient is doing isometric contraction, patient rolls eyes towards the contracted side..and when they relax and it's time to stretch, eyes are rolled to the side the neck is being stretched to...
Eye muscles seem to be connected to your skeletal muscles (the pathway is too complicated to explain here...and most doctors cannot recite this anyway lol) and do effect their actions...I could give you a simple demonstration right now...
Now..it's pretty simple...so try it right now...
Roll your eyes to far right wall...stare at it...roll it all the way to right and keep it there...do not move it...while you have your eyes there, try rotating your head to left...you'll find it a bit challenging..
Now, roll your eyes to left all the way and rotate to left..same side...you'll find it much easier and you can rotate quite farther...
Muscles contract and relax with different cues from your brain and many things effect your brain...eye muscles are one of the primary ones..
I think there was a study that scoli patients always have eye muscle imbalance...dont' quote me on that...I'll have to look that up myself...
Dr. Deutsch (SP?) some of you mentioned is a Diplomate of Neurology and teaches this...
_________________________
Oh..I also noticed some of you mentioned Dr. Ron out in CA...that's the doc i'll be referring my patients to for bracing...he's the only guy out here...i'm looking into accreditation for spinecore fitting myself...I can't believe some of you are flying to different states or countries to get this done...hopefully, spinecor will be the standard for bracing and more Dr's will offer the fitting service...the process is quite rigorous...probably one of the reason why there aren't too many centers at this point...
anyway...thanx for all the good info..i've learned so much from this thread...Now i can let my patients know all the pros and cons of spinecor from patient point of view...
I'll be lurking around to learn more from you guys so if you have any questions regarding chiropractic aspect of tx, I could certainly share some input..
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