How Dr. Skrien helps people to Naturally Good Health with the Gonstead Technique of Chiropractic Care

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good morning everybody today I just want

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to talk a little bit about you what is

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chiropractic care so what I'm going to

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read off here is actually the statute in

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Minnesota and what it reads is

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chiropractic means the healthc care

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discipline that recognizes the innate

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recuperative power of the body to heal

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itself without the use of drugs or

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surgery by def identifying and caring

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for vertebral subluxations and other

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abnor articulations by emphasizing the

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relationship between structure and

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function as coordinated by the nervous

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system and how that relationship affects

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the perseverance and restoration of the

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health so a lot of big words in there

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and what does that mean and how do we do

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that here in Scrin Chiropractic Clinic

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well for me personally I was helped

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through chiropractic care as I noted in

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a previous video uh arm and leg had gone

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numb had headaches kind of always

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struggled with attention deficits my

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immune system was knocked down but we

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found a chiropractor that did the

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Gonstead system of chiropractic so today

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I'm going to spend a little bit of time

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about that and how I got trained in it

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and what's it entailing um Dr godstead

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he developed this technique years ago

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and he had a system that he used in

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order to find these vertebral

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subluxations so we'll kind of go through

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all of that with you in a little bit now

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for myself I got training actually by Dr

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proxil at the Troxel Chiropractic Clinic

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and down in

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1993 I was an intern there and what was

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involved is that we ran classes for

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other students and in order to do that

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we had to take those classes to start

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with and this was on top of our

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schoolwork and we would do this after

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school before school and we had to pass

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some tests and once we took those tests

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we got interviewed by Dr trox if

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accepted we could be in the intern

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program and we got to teach the other

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students plus got to follow him around

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in his clinic and kind of be the exam

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doctor so we got to be hands on learn

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how to find and take x-rays uh how to

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use surface EMGs and just how to operate

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the clinic it was a very valuable

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service and I know I came out being a

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good adjuster understanding how the body

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worked and how chiropractic could

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actually help people in their health now

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besides being an intern I also took a

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number of seminars in the advanced

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Johnstead system and I was recognized in

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1993 before I even graduated that I had

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completed the prescribed studies that

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worked on for the Gonstead system of

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chiropractic i had um got this award

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right before I graduated graduated in

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July of

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1993 so what are the processes that as a

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GSTA doctor that I'm looking for when

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I'm treating a patient first off we're

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going to do a detailed history we want

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to find out what's bringing our patients

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in what symptoms they have and that way

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that's going to help us kind of hone in

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on where we're going to want to look as

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far as where these subluxations are

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so as you can see on this chart it does

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a good job in showing you know we've got

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the spine back down in here but then if

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we follow it over here you can see the

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different areas how it's going to affect

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our body and then over here kind of the

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symptoms that our patients can be coming

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in so that way we can show the patients

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you know is out how is it going to

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affect their body now also we can see on

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this you got the nerves here and not

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only do they go you know and cause pain

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but it can affect your nervous system

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and how it affects your body your heart

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your lung your intestines of health care

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and how can we remove that interference

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to allow the body to work the way it

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should now one of the steps that we're

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going to do that to help locate that is

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we'll take X-rays the X-rays it's going

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to allow us to see you know any

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misalignments in the body if the curves

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aren't the way they should be how thick

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the discs are if there's damage being

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done to those that we're going to do

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then we also want to do

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instrumentation now in the Godstead

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system we use a

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nervoscope and this little device here

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will run down the back of the spine

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coming down and through there and it

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just helps us where there can be some

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nerve interference now besides that I

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also do a couple scans and I'll show you

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the instrument in just a minute here i'm

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going to pause the vid so here I am i'm

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back in my exam room and in the exam

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room I actually a computer system and

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what this is it's got actually a couple

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different sensors that will roll one is

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a temperature sensor and then one's a

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surface EMG now these are going to give

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me some readings it's going to show me

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how the nervous system is working if

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it's outside the normals if there's

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imbalance going back and forth how the

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temperature is affecting getting

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affected and lets me get information on

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the nervous system now some patients uh

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we have to document for accidents and

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stuff like that so we've got

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computerized range of motion compare

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them to a normal compare them as we're

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progressing through getting that range

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of motion back we've got our X-ray

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machine right here and it's a digital m

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able to develop the X-rays and get them

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developed and it comes right over into

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the computer over here and computer

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screen within a few seconds and we can

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start to take hey everybody I'm back and

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what I want to explain next is kind of

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when the patients come in on each visit

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we're going to be checking a couple

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other things i'm going to watch how

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they're walking we're check their

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visualization see if there's any

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imbalances in the level like the ears

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the shoulders the hips how are they

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walking do they have a toe in a toe out

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um is there problems with the knees and

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then also we're going to do some static

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palpation where we're going to be able

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to see the skin in the back see if

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there's any swelling some edema

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uh any areas on the skin that look a

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little bit different maybe they got some

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pimples along some areas maybe there's a

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rash in some area but just anything

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that'll visually give us a tone that hey

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that nervous system's under attack next

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thing I'm going to look for is we're

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going to do some stat mo motion

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palpation and I'm going to be moving the

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patients back and forth going to be

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feeling for the tone of the muscles

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we're going to see if there's any

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swelling see if there's any restriction

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of motion and how that is on each level

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of the vertebraes after we've done our

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scoping so we know where to pinpoint

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that way it's going to help us find

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where that subluxation is then we'll

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correlate it see what it is if it's

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correlating with what we're seeing on

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x-rays and then we'll go ahead and give

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the patients the adjustment the

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treatments for the day then kind of

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explain to them hey what to expect what

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the next steps are and when we'll see

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them again so hopefully that's a little

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bit helpful you understand a little bit

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more about the Gonstead system and how

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we treat our patients here and we

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hopefully see you

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