The Portland Trail Blazers need a team Chiropractor with expertise in posture now more than ever.
3/8/2010
Joel Przybilla ruptured his right patellar tendon. Joel’s salary is $6,857,725.
Marcus Camby sprained his right ankle. Marcus’ salary is $7,650,000.
Greg Oden fractured the patella in his left knee. Greg’s salary is $5,361,240.
Brandon Roy has a right hamstring strain. Brandon’s salary is $3,910,816.
Jerryd Bayless has an aggravated left ankle sprain. Jerryd’s salary is $2,143,080.
The above injured 5 players’ salaries sum up to $25,922,861. The Portland Trail Blazers roster of salaries adds up to $55,834,419 for the 2009/2010 season. These 5 players only represent 33.3% of the 15 total players on the team yet their salaries represent 46.4% of the team’s total salaries. These 5 athletes are obviously highly valued by the Portland Trail Blazers organization.
If you ran the Portland Trail Blazers organization, what would you do to get these athletes optimally healthy and prevent future injuries? Long hours of rehabilitation and training, yes; nutritional support, yes, then what?
The above 5 injuries share some commonalities. These 5 injuries will all affect the athletes’ posture (how they stand) and gait (how they walk and run). The majority of these injuries are secondary to old injuries of the same region.
• We now know that better than 90% of the brain's output is directed toward maintaining your body in its gravitational field through posture and gait.
• You can’t have normal gait without first having normal posture. Abnormal posture and gait affect the alignment and function of the spine.
• The spine protects the lower brain stem, spinal cord, and nerve roots.
• When the spine is not aligned or functioning optimally (vertebral subluxation) it can interfere with the function of the nervous system.
• The nervous system controls the health and function of the entire body.
• Chiropractors are the only physicians licensed to detect and correct non-allopathic subluxations (abnormal alignment and/or function of joints) of the spine and extremities.
The Trail Blazers do not currently have a “posture expert” physician on their team, neither DC nor MD. With a third of their roster injured can they really afford to lose any more players to injuries affecting and affected by gait and posture?
Poor posture has plagued our society especially with the increase in computer use. How is your posture as you read this now? If you have children, how is their posture? Knowing that 90% of your brain’s output is for posture related activities wouldn’t you personally like to have more energy for things like thinking, emotions, healing, and the function of the 10 organ systems in your body?
About the author:
Dr. Christopher Pierce has practiced Chiropractic in Portland, Oregon since 2001. He is currently serving on the Oregon Board of Chiropractic Examiners (OBCE) Rules Advisory Committee. He has been studying the Clinical Biomechanics of Posture since 1998. He received his Doctorate in Chiropractic from New York Chiropractic College in 2001. In 2004 Dr. Pierce became a distinguished Fellow of Clinical Biomechanics of Posture (CBP). Prior to his Chiropractic studies he performed his pre-med studies at the State University of New York, Brockport, where he received his Bachelor’s of Science degree in Physical Education and with a concentration in Exercise Physiology. His previous studies and/or degrees include athletic training, coaching, teaching physical education and martial arts.
To schedule a Chiropractic exam for your self, a loved one or your entire basketball team call 503-626-5761 and ask to see Dr. Pierce.
Yours in health,
Dr. Christopher Pierce
Chiropractor
Chiropractic First, llc
222 SE 8th Ave, Portland, OR 97214
12820 SW Second St, Beaverton, OR 97005
503-626-5761
www.c1pdx.com
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Monday, March 8, 2010
Monday, February 15, 2010
Got enough Vitamin D? I bet not. Part 1/2
Got enough Vitamin D? I bet not.
85% of Americans are deficient in Vitamin D as are 95% of American seniors.
Facts:
Vitamin D is classified as a group of fat soluble phormones. The two major types are vitamin D 3 or cholecalciferol and vitamin D2 ergocalciferol. Vitamin D has been proven to influence over 2,000 of the 30,000 genes in your body.
Vitamin D Recipe:
Cholesterol often gets a bad rap in the world of layman’s nutrition so here is its moment to shine. This is how our bodies make vitamin D in a nutshell. Cholesterol (90% of our cholesterol is produced by our liver) flows through your bloodstream and sunlight’s UV B rays penetrate the thinner areas of your skin with the greatest concentration of blood vessels and begin the conversion of cholesterol into Vitamin D.
Tips:
Check your cupboard, if you are consuming any supplement with vitamin D 2, stop taking it and toss it out because it will interfere with vitamin D 3 conversion. If you are taking any supplement with D 3 that is not natural vitamin D 3, stop taking it and toss it out. Find a good sublingual natural vitamin D 3 spray.
Benefits:
Vitamin D acts as an antibiotic by increasing antimicrobial peptides. Vitamin D can be helpful in preventing colds and influenza. Vitamin D helps prevent age related DNA damage (aging) and lowers inflammatory responses helping to prevent chronic pain.
Vitamin D plays a central role and strong correlation with auto immune diseases. RA, MS, Chron’sDz, Diabetes Type 1 & 2.
Vitamin D also helps to treat or helps to prevent: Psoriasis, eczema, some types of hearing loss, some types of muscle pain, cavities, athletic performance, blindness (age related macular degeneration), reducing the risk of autism, pre eclampsia, improved fertility, depression, myopia, seizures, asthma, cystic fibrosis, migraines, depression, schizophrenia and migraines. As if that were not enough vitamin D also helps to prevent heart disease, cancer (vitamin D acts as a chemotherapy agent), diabetes, Alzheimer’s and Influenza. The #1, #2, #6, #7, and #8 most common causes of death in the USA.
The Big C … Cancer:
Cancer is one of the scariest words there is, especially when your doctor brings it up. Well, I am a doctor and this paragraph had better shed some light on the mistakes that the medical community has been making since the early 1980’s with regard to the use of sunscreen. For every one death from skin cancer due to excess UV exposure, there are 200 deaths from cancer related to insufficient UV exposure and vitamin D deficiency. Simply put, UV A contributes to skin cancer. UV B helps make vitamin D3 from cholesterol which helps prevent many cancers. Sunscreen blocks UV B not UV A. Therefore sunscreen contributes to cancer formation and vitamin D deficiency with sun exposure. Most car and home windows also block out UV B. Normal sunlight has a 20:1 ratio of UV A to UV B. Optimal vitamin D levels can cut the risk of 16 types of cancer by 30-60%. Because UV A does not cause reddening of the skin (erythema) it cannot be measured in SPF testing. UV B causes some damage to collagen but at a very much slower rate than UVA.
***Please re-read the previous paragraph until you can explain it by memory so that you can educate others especially your family and loved ones.
To schedule a Chiropractic exam for your self or a loved one call 503-626-5761 and ask to see Dr. Pierce.
Yours in health,
Dr. Christopher Pierce
Chiropractor
Chiropractic First, llc
222 SE 8th Ave, Portland, OR 97214
12820 SW Second St, Beaverton, OR 97005
503-626-5761
www.c1pdx.com
85% of Americans are deficient in Vitamin D as are 95% of American seniors.
Facts:
Vitamin D is classified as a group of fat soluble phormones. The two major types are vitamin D 3 or cholecalciferol and vitamin D2 ergocalciferol. Vitamin D has been proven to influence over 2,000 of the 30,000 genes in your body.
Vitamin D Recipe:
Cholesterol often gets a bad rap in the world of layman’s nutrition so here is its moment to shine. This is how our bodies make vitamin D in a nutshell. Cholesterol (90% of our cholesterol is produced by our liver) flows through your bloodstream and sunlight’s UV B rays penetrate the thinner areas of your skin with the greatest concentration of blood vessels and begin the conversion of cholesterol into Vitamin D.
Tips:
Check your cupboard, if you are consuming any supplement with vitamin D 2, stop taking it and toss it out because it will interfere with vitamin D 3 conversion. If you are taking any supplement with D 3 that is not natural vitamin D 3, stop taking it and toss it out. Find a good sublingual natural vitamin D 3 spray.
Benefits:
Vitamin D acts as an antibiotic by increasing antimicrobial peptides. Vitamin D can be helpful in preventing colds and influenza. Vitamin D helps prevent age related DNA damage (aging) and lowers inflammatory responses helping to prevent chronic pain.
Vitamin D plays a central role and strong correlation with auto immune diseases. RA, MS, Chron’sDz, Diabetes Type 1 & 2.
Vitamin D also helps to treat or helps to prevent: Psoriasis, eczema, some types of hearing loss, some types of muscle pain, cavities, athletic performance, blindness (age related macular degeneration), reducing the risk of autism, pre eclampsia, improved fertility, depression, myopia, seizures, asthma, cystic fibrosis, migraines, depression, schizophrenia and migraines. As if that were not enough vitamin D also helps to prevent heart disease, cancer (vitamin D acts as a chemotherapy agent), diabetes, Alzheimer’s and Influenza. The #1, #2, #6, #7, and #8 most common causes of death in the USA.
The Big C … Cancer:
Cancer is one of the scariest words there is, especially when your doctor brings it up. Well, I am a doctor and this paragraph had better shed some light on the mistakes that the medical community has been making since the early 1980’s with regard to the use of sunscreen. For every one death from skin cancer due to excess UV exposure, there are 200 deaths from cancer related to insufficient UV exposure and vitamin D deficiency. Simply put, UV A contributes to skin cancer. UV B helps make vitamin D3 from cholesterol which helps prevent many cancers. Sunscreen blocks UV B not UV A. Therefore sunscreen contributes to cancer formation and vitamin D deficiency with sun exposure. Most car and home windows also block out UV B. Normal sunlight has a 20:1 ratio of UV A to UV B. Optimal vitamin D levels can cut the risk of 16 types of cancer by 30-60%. Because UV A does not cause reddening of the skin (erythema) it cannot be measured in SPF testing. UV B causes some damage to collagen but at a very much slower rate than UVA.
***Please re-read the previous paragraph until you can explain it by memory so that you can educate others especially your family and loved ones.
To schedule a Chiropractic exam for your self or a loved one call 503-626-5761 and ask to see Dr. Pierce.
Yours in health,
Dr. Christopher Pierce
Chiropractor
Chiropractic First, llc
222 SE 8th Ave, Portland, OR 97214
12820 SW Second St, Beaverton, OR 97005
503-626-5761
www.c1pdx.com
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
My son Aiden's story.
My son Aiden's story.
In my last 9 years in practice as a Chiropractor in Portland and Beaverton, Oregon I have performed as many as 5,000 to 10,000 adjustments per year to Oregonians and Washingtonians of nearly all ages. My most impressive adjustment was the one that may have save my newborn son's life by allowing him to clear his lungs of meconium and take his first full clear breath after the medical staff at our local hospital had run out of treatment options for him and they told me there was nothing they could do. (No offense to the hospital, I still believe to this day, that they are the finest hospital in Oregon or I wouldn't have gone there in the first place for this emergency situation.) Fortunately I rejected their diagnosis and prognosis and came up with my own treatment plan and prognosis. Their plan was to wait for him to maybe live or die. They never checked his neck to see that they had subluxated or dislocated it during the birthing process causing not to be able clear his lungs of aspirated meconium. Essentially his neck was stuck, misaligned and rotated fully to the left. Try turning your own neck all the way to one side and you will see that you throat begins to close as you approach 90 degrees of cervical rotation. His neck was beyond that. The doctors and nurses didn't seem to think that was a problem or there was anything that could be done about it. They took an X-ray and showed me that his lungs were indeed full of meconium. They hooked him up to a breathing and heart rate monitor and placed him under a heat lamp and then left us. They left one nurse in the room to take notes. I was watching my son drown in his own poop and die right in front of me. He simply couldn't get any air in his lungs. I placed my hands gently around his head and tried to gently turn his head toward mine so I could see his eye. I wanted to get a feel for what he needed to get through this urgent situation. As I tried to turn his neck and his whole body went into full convulsions and his heart rate maxed out above 220 BPM (normal 100-160) his respiratory rate was also around 220 (normally 40). In that very moment I went from exhausted, worried new father to a Chiropractor on a mission. I experienced complete clarity of what the problem was, and what the situation needed to resolve it. I immediately adjusted his neck with a swift upper cervical adjustment using both hands. I heard a cavitation or popping noise come from his neck. He turned his head fully to the right then fully to the left. He arched his tiny chest upwards and proceeded to "poop" meconium out of his mouth and nose simultaneously in one explosive thrust (if flew up nearly 2 feet). And then like angels singing, he took in a huge breath and began to cry. He was breathing. His cries were the most beautiful sound I had ever heard. Immediately his breathing and heart rate normalized. And then it hit me, I realized the greatness and importance of this situation and opportunity. My whole life, all of my education and experience, all of the thousands of people I had adjusted prior to my son on his day of birth had led me to this one moment, this one test. This one act of faith that his life literally laid in my hands when the medical system had literally walked out of the door on him in his greatest time of need. All of my Chiropractic training and experience was meant for this one moment. He not only survived but thrived from that moment forward. He was released from care & observation in less than 3 days. The doctors said that if he survived he would need at least a month of observation. I'm glad they were wrong.
How is Aiden doing today?
Today Aiden is 4 years old and soon to be 5. He is healthy, happy, loving and smart. He is as normal as I think a boy should be when given every opportunity to be healthy and thrive. He is and has always been drug and medicine free, including vaccines. He studies immersion Japanese at school and Urdu and Arabic with grandma. He is teaching himself Spanish via the TV and summer school and wants to start learning Mandarin soon. He loves swimming in the ocean, kayaking, boating, fishing, swinging from ropes and gathering eggs from our chickens. He has never passed up jumping in a puddle of water. He loves to paint with his hands or a brush. He loves playing on our iPhones. He loves to draw hearts and give them to both mom and dad. He eats his liquid vitamins and Omega-3 rich fish oils most days. His favorite foods are tobiko, onigiri, seaweed, most sushi, anything chocolate, mangos, madelins, buffalo jerky and olives. He enjoys reading before bed and staying up later than he should. He loves his karate lessons and playing in the park. His favorite places in the world are the beaches in St. Lucia, followed by Kauai and then St. Thomas. I love my son and I cherish every moment we are together. He is more than a miracle, he is my purpose.
Yours in health,
Dr. Christopher Pierce
Chiropractor
Chiropractic First, llc
222 SE 8th Ave, Portland, OR 97214
12820 SW Second St, Beaverton, OR 97005
503-626-5761
www.c1pdx.com
In my last 9 years in practice as a Chiropractor in Portland and Beaverton, Oregon I have performed as many as 5,000 to 10,000 adjustments per year to Oregonians and Washingtonians of nearly all ages. My most impressive adjustment was the one that may have save my newborn son's life by allowing him to clear his lungs of meconium and take his first full clear breath after the medical staff at our local hospital had run out of treatment options for him and they told me there was nothing they could do. (No offense to the hospital, I still believe to this day, that they are the finest hospital in Oregon or I wouldn't have gone there in the first place for this emergency situation.) Fortunately I rejected their diagnosis and prognosis and came up with my own treatment plan and prognosis. Their plan was to wait for him to maybe live or die. They never checked his neck to see that they had subluxated or dislocated it during the birthing process causing not to be able clear his lungs of aspirated meconium. Essentially his neck was stuck, misaligned and rotated fully to the left. Try turning your own neck all the way to one side and you will see that you throat begins to close as you approach 90 degrees of cervical rotation. His neck was beyond that. The doctors and nurses didn't seem to think that was a problem or there was anything that could be done about it. They took an X-ray and showed me that his lungs were indeed full of meconium. They hooked him up to a breathing and heart rate monitor and placed him under a heat lamp and then left us. They left one nurse in the room to take notes. I was watching my son drown in his own poop and die right in front of me. He simply couldn't get any air in his lungs. I placed my hands gently around his head and tried to gently turn his head toward mine so I could see his eye. I wanted to get a feel for what he needed to get through this urgent situation. As I tried to turn his neck and his whole body went into full convulsions and his heart rate maxed out above 220 BPM (normal 100-160) his respiratory rate was also around 220 (normally 40). In that very moment I went from exhausted, worried new father to a Chiropractor on a mission. I experienced complete clarity of what the problem was, and what the situation needed to resolve it. I immediately adjusted his neck with a swift upper cervical adjustment using both hands. I heard a cavitation or popping noise come from his neck. He turned his head fully to the right then fully to the left. He arched his tiny chest upwards and proceeded to "poop" meconium out of his mouth and nose simultaneously in one explosive thrust (if flew up nearly 2 feet). And then like angels singing, he took in a huge breath and began to cry. He was breathing. His cries were the most beautiful sound I had ever heard. Immediately his breathing and heart rate normalized. And then it hit me, I realized the greatness and importance of this situation and opportunity. My whole life, all of my education and experience, all of the thousands of people I had adjusted prior to my son on his day of birth had led me to this one moment, this one test. This one act of faith that his life literally laid in my hands when the medical system had literally walked out of the door on him in his greatest time of need. All of my Chiropractic training and experience was meant for this one moment. He not only survived but thrived from that moment forward. He was released from care & observation in less than 3 days. The doctors said that if he survived he would need at least a month of observation. I'm glad they were wrong.
How is Aiden doing today?
Today Aiden is 4 years old and soon to be 5. He is healthy, happy, loving and smart. He is as normal as I think a boy should be when given every opportunity to be healthy and thrive. He is and has always been drug and medicine free, including vaccines. He studies immersion Japanese at school and Urdu and Arabic with grandma. He is teaching himself Spanish via the TV and summer school and wants to start learning Mandarin soon. He loves swimming in the ocean, kayaking, boating, fishing, swinging from ropes and gathering eggs from our chickens. He has never passed up jumping in a puddle of water. He loves to paint with his hands or a brush. He loves playing on our iPhones. He loves to draw hearts and give them to both mom and dad. He eats his liquid vitamins and Omega-3 rich fish oils most days. His favorite foods are tobiko, onigiri, seaweed, most sushi, anything chocolate, mangos, madelins, buffalo jerky and olives. He enjoys reading before bed and staying up later than he should. He loves his karate lessons and playing in the park. His favorite places in the world are the beaches in St. Lucia, followed by Kauai and then St. Thomas. I love my son and I cherish every moment we are together. He is more than a miracle, he is my purpose.
Yours in health,
Dr. Christopher Pierce
Chiropractor
Chiropractic First, llc
222 SE 8th Ave, Portland, OR 97214
12820 SW Second St, Beaverton, OR 97005
503-626-5761
www.c1pdx.com
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