Dr. Sean Fryer

Having your weight balanced over both feet equally is critical to your body's function, how you walk, how you hold yourself up, the stress on your joints and literally whether you are susceptible to wearing down prematurely.

Here are a couple of examples of some of the body imbalance issues that show up in my office:

A patient with right knee pain that has not responded to other treatments but shows up in my office with 30% more weight on the right foot when standing still. What this means is that their postural breakdown is contributing directly to their knee problem and often re-balancing their body over center allows the right knee to heal.

A patient post left hip replacement surgery with 20% more weight bearing down on their left foot and has struggled to respond as suspected post surgery and even post rehab. What happens to all trauma to the body is that it goes into contraction and a surgery is a trauma regardless of whether it is necessary or not. Contraction and gravity work together to cause compression and compression of a post hip replacement joint is not what you want in order for it to heal.
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Bulgings discs in the lower back can be extremely painful. Lumbar bulging discs can cause lower back pain, sciatica, numbness and tingling in the leg, weakness in the leg, foot drop and much more.

I have a lot of patients with bulging discs that have come to me for help and as long as I can help them get down on my adjusting table I can work with them. The care that I deliver is designed to decompress the entire body and by releasing the tension in the spine and pelvis is often very effective at giving patients relief even on their first visit when they come in with a bulging disc.
This is not to say that all bulging disc problems can be helped completely by the care I deliver, however due to the gentle nature of what I do and the worries that many patients have about surgery, drug therapy and injections they often want to try the most non-invasive work first.
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This is a classic chiropractic quote from The Developer of Chiropractic BJ Palmer. It is as true today as when he first said it in the early days of Chiropractic. Why does one person get sick and another does not. What is the difference between two people that are exposed to the same environment yet have very different health outcomes. All the best scientific journals in the world agree that a huge majority of our disease and death are related to our lifestyle. Heart disease, stroke, most cancers, and almost all chronic diseases have a massive lifestyle component to them.
This is excellent news though as we are able to control our environment by changing our lifestyle. We can drink more water if we don’t get enough, we can start to walk every day if we sit too much. We can stop smoking, we can stop eating junk food and we can take measures to minimize our mental and emotional stresses.

If you don’t know where to start, comment on this post and I can help!
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