Dr. Joe Strauss, DC is a personal friend and mentor to me, and thousands of chiropractic students and practitioners world wide. Joe ran a chiropractic school and was personally taught by Reggie Gold. Joe today maintains a large volume membership practice office, similar to mine outside of Philadelphia. All audios below are used with his permission. Click and you will be direct to Joe’s website to download.
Almost Everything You Need to Know to Be Healthy – A 31-minute talk on MP3 by Dr. Joe Strauss. It covers the following topics: What is Health?, Listen to Your Body, No One Has all the Answers, Chiropractic for Life, and It’s Your Life -Take Responsibility.
Empower Your Children – Give your children the best opportunity to be all that they can be by keeping them functioning normally.
Getting the Most Out of Life – Having a properly functioning nerve system is vital to a healthy, productive life.
Reaching Your Potential – Learn how chiropractic can do much more for you than you ever imagined.
The Secret Ingredient in Your Recipe for Health – An 18-minute talk on CD by Dr. Joe Strauss. It educates your practice members about the innate intelligence and its important role in every aspect of health.
There’s a Miracle in You - Understand how wonderful your body is and appreciate its’ self-healing abilities.
For more information on chiropractic and to learn how to become a member, please contact your chiropractor in Encintas.
Dr. Gohl is a legend in chiropractic. For over 60 years he’s been taking care of clients in Glendale, CA. He interned at the BJ Palmer clinic and graduated in 1949. He studied with Gonstead, but saw the system was too complicated. He simplified Gonstead’s work by focusing on posteriority and creating a simplified marking system for spinographs. Gohl is also know for his use of pre- and post instrumentation. We also use instrumentation like Gohl at the office.
Here’s a video of Dr. Gohl demonstrating cervical adjusting. Videos were taken during various seminar and office visits from 2004 thru 2009. Thanks for all you’ve given to the profession Dr. Gohl!
Reggie & Me - Oct. 2008 - Atlanta, GA
I remember back in 6th quarter (out of 14), I had my first experience with Dr. Reginald R. Gold, DC, PhC, better known as just plain ole ‘Reggie.’ He talked about chiropractic like I had never heard. I, like most of you reading this, thought that chiropractic was for bad backs, headaches, and stiff necks. But Reggie said that was just 2% of chiropractic. So what was the other 98%? Potential. The potential for your body physically to be its best, not just sickness and disease!
Reggie said, “Tie a piece of string around the aorta. I’m going to suggest that the heart will function better if you take off the string.” That made perfect sense. “Now tie a piece of string around the nerve going to the heart. I’m going to suggest the heart will function better if you take off the string.” This is a subluxation, the only reason for chiropractic’s existence. Hence the idea of non-symptomatic chiropractic was born in my mind. More than that, it made more sense that chiropractic for back pain.
It’s a damn shame that people should have to be sick, suffering, and in pain before they hear about chiropractic. By that time, it could be too late. Instead of listening to me talk about chiropractic, why not listen to Reggie first hand. Some may think he’s a bit abrasive, but his points are valid. Enjoy this. RIP Reggie. Love ya.
CLICK HERE –> The Great Chiropractic Debate – 1979 – St. Louis, MO
If you’d like to learn more about chiropractic, your chiropractor in Encinitas could help.
Chiropractic is very simple to understand. Here are some basic tenets from a high-level philosophical view.
Life Flows from Above-Down Inside-Out
This means Life is spiritual in nature and not understood by purely mechanistic means. In other words, life is necessarily defined in metaphysical concepts. Example: You cannot cut off an arm, leg, head, etc. and reattach them without the person dying. The parts are not the sum of the whole. Nor can you give the best scientists all the elements of a single cell and ask them to create life.
Additionally, nothing added from the outside can enhance nature (life). By this I mean, if you give shots, vitamins, drugs to a corpse, it will not come back to life. Life flows from within and mother nature needs no help.
Life Flows from the Brain thru the Spinal Cord
The brain is the generator for the transmission of life. Cut off the head, it stops the transmission of life, the body dies.
Life Is Expressed thru the Body
Life flows from within-out, from the brain thru the spinal cord and nerves, to the cells, tissues, organs, glands, muscles, etc. What would you be without your arms, lets, heart, etc.? You need “matter” to express life.
The Flow of Life Over the Nerves Can Be Interfered With
The nerves which transmit life energy can be interfered with (subluxation) by the bones of the spine, easily understood as a pinched nerve. This cuts off life energy to the cells, tissues, organs, muscles, glands, etc.
Life Expression Is Decreased
Life energy to the body is decreased. The organs and muscles at the end of the nerves malfunction. Potential is decreased. Health is lost. You’ll never have be all you can be.
Chiropractors Reconnect
Chiropractors reconnect the body to the brain via the spinal cord. Chiropractors give adjustments to the bones to take the pressure off the nerves.
Life is Restored
Chiropractors give inherent life back to the body, interfered with by a vertebral subluxation.
Chiropractic is as simple as that. Health is as simple as that. Potential is as simple as that. Performance is as simple as that.
For students and doctors:
Gonstead Lumbar L5: Here are some basics for the adjustment. You’ll never learn adjusting by listening to someone tell you where to stand, how to hold your arm, how to laterally flex and rotate the neck. You need to practice and practice. There are a few principles to keep in mind. Stabilization, getting the slack out, and direction of thrust.
Check the stabilization of the pelvis. If you are setting only one segment, you need to stabilize the base, so you can push the bone on top of it. I lock the pelvis by leaning on it and the bent leg of the client. Once I get the specific contact on L5, I take out the slack. The slack is taken out by pushing forward on L5, not by rotating the back. My front knee locks his bent leg, so his body can’t move forward (stabilized) while I take out the slack. So push forward on the L5 and take out the slack. The reason I roll him is so I can get my body on top of his to stabilize the pelvis. The other key here is to be behind the segment. This is really the only good reason to roll a client. Careful, you may need to move your bench away from the wall so you don’t hit your head while taking out the slack or thrusting. For as big as my client here is, he’s pretty flexible. Now right before the thrust, you can see my body rise a bit. I do that to put a little force behind the thrust. Notice in the slow motion though, I keep the joint at tension while I rise before I thrust. For students, this is a tough thing to learn based on my experience as a student, that being how to maintain pressure at that joint while rising up to get a bit of force. Then comes the thrust which is dropping your body through the segment. Try to use your body weight as much as possible here. Notice even though I raise off the pelvis a bit before the thrust, the clients superior leg is still locked preventing that pelvis from moving during the thrust.
Notice the direction of the thrust. It is straight thru the spine, and not into the table. This is the most difficult thing to learn in Gonstead side posture: how to thrust thru the spine and not into the table. Remember the first listing in the segment is P, and that is the most important part of the listing. Also, the elbow must be kept as solid as possible. Often times if it collapses, the elbow I mean, the thrust is going into the table. This is a pretty solid thrust, straight thru, on just the spinous of L5. Also, notice the shoulder stabilization. You don’t want to push back, just hold the shoulder in position. Otherwise, you get a twisting motion.
One difficult thing to learn as a student, for me, was how to stabilize the pelvis. You learn this by doing it over and over, so don’t be discouraged. Remember all our body types are different so we’ll all be a bit differently stabilizing. That “art” of chiropractic is specific to you, not a technique.
To critique myself, and it’s hard in the video because you can’t “feel” a spine by watching it on video, it would be to roll less, ensuring you get no twist in the spine. I don’t know if it was possible, he’s a pretty big, flexible dude, and I rolled him just enough so I could put my body weight on him and behind him..
So the things to remember as a student. Lock the pelvis. I lay on the pelvis with my pelvis and lock his superior knee with my superior knee. Take the slack out by pushing the L5 forward till it won’t move anymore. Make sure you’re line of drive is as parallel to the table as possible to make sure the thrust isn’t into the table. Don’t push the shoulder backwards on the thrust.
Don’t worry about the cracking. This one got a good clunk, though it’s obscured by the table creaking, but even if it didn’t, you’re just trying to push the bone in the right direction. It’ll get the pressure off the nerve little by little.
Call or email your Encinitas chiropractor for more details, or check out one of Dr. Gohl’s videos and seminars!
