Today at Titan

I don’t know who produced this video, but it is a great outlook on what and why a sports chiropractor does for the athletes, especially during competitions. Oregon chiropractor, Dr. Ted Forcum, treats US athletes in the Olympics as part of USOC medical staff, and without doubt is in Vancouver keeping our athletes performing, and is also probably burning the candle at both ends making that happen until this Sunday, February 28th, when the 2010 Winter Olympics come to a close.

I love this piece because it shows how much Dr. Forcum loves the athletes not only for what they do for our country in their respective sport, but for them as people. The key phrase of his very small narrative that I cued into right away was the phrase “performance enhancement”. It is quite often that chiropractic gets misunderstood for just being pain relief for neck and back pain, but Dr. Forcum does a short, but sweet delivery of what we really do for all of our patients, and how it is beneficial in the athletic realm.

For serving our country by treating the greatest athletes in the world, we salute you and say thank you, Dr. Ted Forcum.

I’m sorry for the super late post, I am currently recovering from a dislocated thumb this weekend during a rugby match vs. Gainesville, and this seems like the most appropriate post at the most appropriate time.

I’m typing this post as we speak with the newest and latest therapy that athletes are using to stabilize injuries and continue performing at their highest potential. It’s called Kinesiotaping and it was developed by Dr. Kenzo Kase, a chiropractor in Japan over 25 years ago, and now is being used by college, professional, and olympic athletes all around the world, including yours truly.

The most notable olympians fashioning kinesotape were Kerry Walsh and Serena Williams in Beijing during the 2008 Summer Olympics. I’m sure there are athletes from many of the countries in the current 2010 Winter Olympics kinesotaped under all of their snow gear, but it’s almost warm enough in Vancouver to wear a swimsuit, and it’s been freezing in Florida. Weird…

I also have just registered for the classes that will certify me in Kinesiotaping in April, so look out for us to add that to our list of services that we will be offering you very soon!!!

Vitamin D and it’s benefits have been researched and documented for many years. In a recent paper I read published by Mayo clinic, 150 patients with persistent non-specific musculoskeletal pain, 93 percent were vitamin D deficient. And there are new studies out there that are now showing not only adults, but children are deficient in vitamin D. The National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey published that 70 percent of young Americans under 21 and 73 percent of adults had low vitamin D levels.

In our clinic, we see more cases of chronic pain, fatigue and sickness during the first quarter of any year because of a very stressful last quarter with Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year’s eve. Just think, we eat worse, we stress ourselves with mass travel and annoying family visiting, and don’t even get me started on the financial stress of Black Friday or Christmas…

So what’s the point? Well, if you want to keep yourself and your family healthy year round, start supplementing with vitamin D, it’s a small investment for the only thing you can’t trade in life, your health. duh.

There must be something in the water here in Tampa, because we are having more new and current patients pregnant anywhere from just found out to about to pop. That’s why I thought this news segment would be encouraging for our new moms to not only continue with chiropractic care but to introduce their babies to care.

And yes, it is safe. I really think that Dr. Hewitt does a great job explaining what we do and how it benefits the little people of this world, but the best part of the segment was the last final comment from the newscaster around the 1:50 mark that didn’t even make any sense.

According to a safety review, children got hurt and one was killed, but there was no proof that spinal manipulation caused the injuries. My first question would be, “What was the safety review of?”

Hmmmmm…I smell propoganda.