The importance of chiropractic care and massage therapy for overall health and wellness. Explaining how these practices go beyond mere relaxation, Role in maintaining proper neurological function, reducing inflammation, and enhancing physical performance. Insights into personalized treatment plans and debunking common misconceptions, The significance of finding the right practitioner to support individual needs and goals.

Highlights of the Podcast

00:41 - The reason that chiropractic actually works

02:16 - The chiropractic thing to two degree

03:19 - The sludge out of your muscle tissues

05:14 - A pediatric chiropractor to take care of my wife and to take care of my kids

07:46 - The medical industry about how

09:52 - Massages are really, really important

11:20 - How is your body functioning?

12:29 - Three times a week for the rest of your life

Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:00:04] I want to talk to you about chiropractic massage first. I want to make sure that. I don't say this very often, but this is not an advertisement for me. I want you guys to understand that the vast majority of you live too far away for you to go and come see me for chiropractic. But I wanted to make sure that you guys understood how important this was. One of the most important things as you're training is you're lifting is you have kids who are in sports. As you sit, as you stare at computer screen, as you sleep on your side, as you go through life. The. The body needs maintenance. It needs physical maintenance. The the reason that chiropractic actually works. Not because the joints pop. It's actually because of the way that the brain and the body work together, communicate together. So when the adjustment is given, the audible popping sound is technically called a cavitation. Is great. Release releases pressure. It feels good. And to be honest with you, if you didn't have cavitation, I probably wouldn't do this because I love that sound and that's fine. But it's 20% of the real reason we're doing the adjustment.

Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:01:15] The reason we're trying to do the adjustments to stretch the is to activate the neurology. So there's little receptors inside the muscles and inside the little ligaments and tendons called muscle spindle fibers, or in the muscles and Golgi tendon organs. Those are in the ligaments and tendons. And those tell the brain different things. And as you give a quick stretch to them and they freak out, they see this giant barrage of information of the brain. The brain has to take all the information in and go, okay, what's going on? And it has to send signals back down to that joint, that muscle, that joint muscle complex and assess tone or how hard it's pulling, function, whether or not the joints are moving properly. And if the joints are doing just do and then relaxing the musculature and changing the way that all that stuff holds itself. That's super critical. So, you know, I get a job, I try to get adjusted 2 or 3 times a week. Again, I'm training at a very high level. And I try to get at least two hours massage a week. Now, the massage thing and the chiropractic thing to two degree. I think a lot of times people look at chiropractic and they specifically look at massage as frou frou luxury things you do because you want to pamper yourself. Okay. That's fine. That's that's the thing, you know, it's comfortable. It feels good. Yeah, yeah. But they're just because you enjoy something doesn't mean it's not critically beneficial to your body. I like to suggest they do feel good, but they also move all the waste out of my muscle tissues.

Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:02:48] They help get all that nasty lactic acid and, you know, all the stuff from its bound up and all the, you know, goo that's in there. It helps move it out, helps move it into my lymphatics. It helps move my lymphatics through. It helps clean all the inflammation that's in my body. And one of the major pieces of recovery is decreasing your total inflammation. So, you know, making sure your liver and kidneys are open so that your your body can detox. The exit portals are open is great. And it's super important. I we talk about that a lot. But physically moving the sludge out of your muscle tissues, out of your lymphatics, moving that stuff out so you it, you know, get rid of it easier and faster. Super important, massage that can help break up muscle spasms, you know, as well or better than anything else. So, you know, having somebody stick their elbow into a knot and workout and break it up so relaxed and then allowing even more waste and lactic acid stuff to get out and nutrients and oxygen to get in. Super duper important. So I don't want people to think that, you know, a massage or an adjustment is something they do. You know, for luxury it is 100% means you're gonna have to do for maintenance.

Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:03:58] Like if you sleep on your side, what's going to happen is you're going to compress your hips as you compress your hips the size that where your sacrum is, the tailbone, a little triangle, but in your back right, right below your spine that we call it the keystone of the spine. That piece. You see it jammed up against your ilium, or what you think is your hip, and it's going to get moved. And as you compress it and compress it, compress it, it's going to start destabilizing the pelvis, giving you a back pain, give you hip pain. If you're a woman getting knee pain, changing the way you walk, weakening, you know, changing the muscular function of the hip and leg. So there's lots of things like that that you just need work on. You need to get those things put back together. So if you don't have a good chiropractor, find one. Not all of them are great. Not all of them are great for you. So, for instance, I'm. I'm really good at what I do. However, if you have a baby that needs its head reshaped like mine, like. So Zane, my oldest, had a really, really prominent friend, Ridge. He literally looked like a Klingon. Like, if I got to find these pictures because, like, his, they were shoved together into this massive cranial ridge, and his head was all lumpy. And so I hired a pediatric chiropractor to take care of my wife and to take care of my kids. Her name is doctor Kelly Byrne. She's at. Forever Young Chiropractic. She's phenomenal. And when people call me, they go, hey, I've got a kid who's got a lumpy head. Then he cranial reshaping or they need a helmet and, you know, uneven head.

Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:05:34] Can you work on that? And I tell them I can. However, the best person for that is not me. It's Doctor bear. Go see Doctor Beer dashes enterprise. So she's phenomenal at this as well. But they specialize in that. And so I would try to get people to go see them because they're the very best at that. You know, you might you know, I have a lot of small women who come see me because they like a deep physical osseous adjustment. I have older people who come in and I use the activator on. So like that different techniques, different styles for that individual person. So you might come see me and go, not not my style. You know Bethany, my associates. Fantastic. Two. Maybe that's more your style or, you know, we can find somebody who, you know, upper cervical is a technique that I do, but I don't specialize in. And so if you need that, we can find the person who does that. So you might not have you might know a chiro and you might be okay. Maybe they're not the best for you. Maybe they're just not very good. So shop around and find the doctor, the cat, the the guy, the woman. Doesn't matter who's really good at working on you, because that's going to be important for your health long term, especially if you're in sports, especially if you're training. I always make the joke that CrossFit was secretly designed by chiropractors to say to ensure a steady flow of patients forever. Because people who enjoy CrossFit, they get to they get to know their chiropractors really well, or they get to realize that they don't get to compete very often cause they're always injured.

Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:07:02] So it's a really, really important thing. And I want to make sure that I, you know, mention it because I don't think I have to degree it wants it. So if you're not getting adjusted on a regular basis for your wellness, for your health, super critical, keeping those in from it, the information from the body to the brain and from the brain to the body, flowing is super important. The the research shows the weight of a dime or ten millimeters of mercury is enough to start interfering with nerve flow. And that's not just pain. That's. Are my joints moving properly? Is my organs functioning properly is, you know, low fat. It's working like it's all that, all that stuff. So that's what the adjustments are really important for. Now, I know that we get a lot of flak from the medical industry about how, you know, no one should come see us and we're quacks, and that doesn't help. But remember, their primary mission in life is also you drugs daily. They want you on a daily drug, if not certain daily drugs. If you get adjusted and your lymphatics work, you have less fibromyalgia, you have less pain. You don't need inflammatories, you don't need muscle relaxers, you don't need a lot of that stuff. You know, you can get out in, you exercise, you can move. You don't need the surgeries and injections and things like that. So, you know, we're counterproductive to.

Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:08:17] The medical, not the individual medical doctors, but the medical industry's goal of getting everybody on all the drugs they can all the time. So of course, they're going to be taught that what we do doesn't help, but they're also taught that diet isn't important and that exercise isn't important. And if you say no, my doctor says diet and exercise is important. What have they told you to do diet and exercise wise? That was accurate. If they haven't given you accurate, functional information on how to make your life better with diet and exercise, then they haven't been telling you to do diet and exercise. Everybody who comes in, I give exercises for your hamstrings, for your neck. I tell you, sit properly. I tell you how to move around so that you can conform your workstation to your life, not your life or your body to your workstation. So things like that. We talk about glycemic function. We talk about, you know, all the things we talk about here. So that's one of those things. But the adjustment is actually very neurologic. It's very important. So, you know, and again, most of you don't live within 15 minutes of my office. So this isn't a for me, this is a for you thing finding in Cairo and finding a massage therapist. I know it feels good. I know you guys like massages. And so you think, oh, this is luxury. This is, you know, something I don't need, but I enjoy. No, you need it. Especially if you're training, if you've got teenagers, if you've got kids who are working out, you are training hard, who are volleyball, softball, soccer, football does. Gymnastics doesn't really matter. Getting that lymphatics flushed out, getting all the goo flushed out is super rewarding. Those massages are really, really important and it will help in performance and it'll help them stay healthier. It's going to do tons of things that are beneficial for them.

Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:09:59] So get your kids adjusted. Get your kids in to see the massage therapist you guys need to get and do it. So you know that's going to help tremendously. So I want to make sure that we pointed out how actually important the chiropractic and massage piece of this is. So if you guys aren't seeing in Cairo, I would start trying to find one, because there's a lot of little things that nag and this and that and cause irritation here and there that if we can get maintained, dealt with on a more regular basis, they don't become a bigger issue later. So, for instance, I see people in here all the time and they didn't want to come in for this reason or that. Have they come in with the problem with starting? It would have taken 2 or 3 adjustments and then they could have called. They could have come back in next month for 2 or 3. But because they way they waited to it's, you know, every day this week and two, three days the next week and you got to wait 3 or 4 days. And so they end up going 10 or 12 adjustments in a month instead of three. So that's what happens quite often. So if you guys do kind of recognize that your body needs a little bit more physical maintenance and get in to get adjusted labor, often it'll help you long term, both in the amount of adjustments you actually need and, and, how your body functions. So I can't comment on how other people run their practices. I don't unless it's a decompression plan. I don't put people on these. You know, you have to come in three times a week for three weeks for, you know, the rest of your life type of thing. It's how is your body functioning? How is it responding? You know, I'll tell people, you know, we've just today come back in tomorrow and we just you again, we should say 30 to 40%.

Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:11:30] The problem gone. As we get to the point where you start feeling better, we start spreading you out. So yeah, you might come in for like a herniation or something like that frequently at the beginning. And then if you're like, hey, I felt good today. And we went two days and you still felt good. Okay, let's see if we can go three, see if we can go five. So we can go two weeks. We have to figure out where your body needs it depending on. So for instance I need a lot more adjusting because I'm putting a lot more force and pressure in my body. So I need more maintenance. You know, the harder you push a machine, the more maintenance it requires. That's just how it is. And that's psychological stress. It's physical stress. Solid. So but on the other side, you know, we know that there's going to a maintenance thing needed. I've got people who come in twice a month, people who come in twice a week. It just depends on what their body needs. So I'm not going to try to comment on the best treatment plan that other docs are putting together or that you need. So having evaluated you, but you know, that's one of those things not everybody dictates you come in three times a week for the rest of your life. So, find the doc, find the program, find the thing that fits you, your lifestyle and your body better. Again, what are your goals and how do we apply the tools we have to better suit your goals? That's the biggest thing. So, you guys have any questions? Heads up. Questions at Chalmers. Welcome. Drop in the comments. And, or these things knocked out. It's a good time. You. Thanks for your time.

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