When I first came to the Spinal Wellness Center, I had the following health concerns:

Chronic back pain on a single point for 10 years, following a diving accident.

Pain is gone, I’m standing straight and I feel much more energized.

While under care at this office, I have also noticed the following changes in my quality of life and/or my ability to function and perform:

I feel that I am standing stronger on my feet. Combined with the core-strengthening exercises, chiropractic care has provided me with a healthy spine and energy to push through my academic studies.

I am a medical doctor who is interested in complementary medical therapies. In the long run, I would like to establish a wellness center, which will include the best modalities of eastern and western medicine, and chiropractic will be a fundamental part of it.

In a world where we are constantly bombarded with marketing and quackery, Dr. Pierre’s practice has opened my eyes to the possibility of other modalities of medicine, even more effective than traditional medicine on some aspects.

I definitely will continue to receive chiropractic care as long as I find the chance and will recommend my patients to do the same.

Aras Erekul, M.D.
April 21, 2009

I was recently asked to give some tips when buying new shoes, so here you go…

You don’t need to spend a lot of money. Many of the best shoes I have seen for biomechanics were purchased at discount stores (even most ‘flip-flops’ are good for you). The fluff and cushion in more expensive shoes might make them unfixable.

The first thing to do is remove the insoles to see if they are flat inside. Then, find a mirror and test your body while barefoot before testing it with the shoes on. Simply breathe in and out, relax and then observe by looking and feeling for differences in your inspiration and stability.

If wearing the shoes makes your body less stable or if you find it more difficult to breathe in fully, then the shoes are making your body worse and they most likely cannot be improved.

Once you find a pair of good shoes then you can build them up a bit with our heel lifts and/or “heel chips” . The supports we use were designed by chiropractors specifically to assist the posture and structure of the whole body.

It may not seem like it is that big of a deal but the shoes that you choose are more important for your health and well being than you could possibly imagine.

First, you need a little background as to what we want to accomplish by fixing your shoes. The basics are this: the insoles needs to be flat, the toe box wide and the heel raised up. You can get the reasoning behind this at this link new-chiropractic-solutions.com/archsupports.html

The issue I want to bring up is that many running and walking shoes have fancy plastic or rubber molding at the instep of the shoes. I am not sure of the purpose of the molding here but some shoes have it and some do not. However, it will cause problems if present with the stability of your whole body by pushing upward into your arch. The first picture shows this area in a shoe that is problematic. The second picture shows a shoe with this molding absent.

Keep in mind that all of the problems with shoes that are discussed in these e-zines and on our website are problems because of the abnormal stresses and pressures they exert on your entire body. Likewise the advice offered for correcting your shoes, by using our products, is for the overall effect on your whole body.

Many other problems with shoes can be fixed to make them better with the products we offer but unfortunately not if the instep is molded. If your shoes are molded like those above then you will need to replace them for your body to do better.

Yours in Health, Naturally
Jerry Porter, D.C.

(Also of note,  Dr. Janet Brown, a nationally recognized authority on the natural reversal of osteoporosis who is cited in this article, is based in Syracuse and also sees clients weekly in Ithaca.)

——Dr. Pierre

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